Hard time: a fresh look at understanding and reforming the prison

Abstract

"This new edition of a longstanding, successful textbook explores the complex issues necessary to understand and reform the prison system. Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts Features first person accounts from prisoners and staff – both men and women – explaining what it's like to live and work in prison, and in doing so brings the issues alive for students Includes brand new extensive chapters on prison reform, and on supermax correctional facilities – including research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row Explores topics including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and their coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers' public and private custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs offered Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives"--