| Description |
192 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Current controversies
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index. |
| Contents |
Has society benefited from more prisons? -- Increased incarceration has reduced crime / Ilana Mercer -- Threat of incarceration deters criminal behavior / Morgan Reynolds -- Imprisonment is a socially just response to crime / Lowell Ponte -- Costs of prison expansion are warranted / Gary Aldrich -- Increased incarceration has not reduced crime / Vince Beiser -- Threat of incarceration does not deter criminal behavior / Stuart Henry -- Expanding prison system is socially unjust / Marc Mauer -- Building more prisons in not cost-effective / Cait Murphy -- How should inmates be treated? -- Incarceration should be punitive / John Ensign -- Harsher prisons exacerbate criminal behavior / Kenneth L. McGinnis -- Supermaximum security prisons are necessary for violent offenders / Gerald Berge, Jeffrey Geiger, Scot Whitney -- Supermaximum security prisons are inhumane / Sasha Abramsky -- Inmates will benefit from anti-rape legislation / Robert W. Dumond -- Inmates are not likely to benefit from anti-rape legislation / Robert Weisberg, David Mills -- Inmate health care must be improved / National Commission on Correctional Health Care -- Should prisons use inmate labor? -- Prison labor : an overview / Joseph T. Hallinan -- Prison labor teaches valuable job skills / Morgan Reynolds, Knut Rostad -- Prison labor reduces incarceration costs / Robert D. Atkinson -- Prison labor facilitates inmate rehabilitation / Bob Wignall -- Prison labor takes jobs from American workers / Tom Adkins -- Prison labor does not reduce incarceration costs / Joel Dyer -- Prison labor exploits prisoners / Jane Slaughter -- How should the prison system be reformed? -- Privatization of prisons should continue / Samuel Jan Brakel, Kimberly Ingersoll Gaylord -- Private prisons are poorly run / Jenni Gainsborough -- Nonviolent drug offenders do not belong in prison / Stuart Taylor Jr. -- Drug offenders belong in prison / James R. McDonough -- Prisons should focus more on rehabilitation / Philip Brasfield -- Prisoner education programs will reduce recidivism / Monica Frolander-Ulf, Michael D. Yates -- Released prisoners should be helped to transition into society / Jeremy Travis. |
| Subject |
Prisons.
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Imprisonment.
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| Added Author |
Haley, James, 1968-
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| ISBN |
0737722142 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) |
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0737722150 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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