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Introduction -- Public punishment in Colonial America (1600-1790) -- Penal code reform in the period of transition (1790-1830) -- Age of the penitentiary in nineteenth-century America (1830-1870s) -- Progressivism and reformatory, parole, and probation (1880s-1920s) -- Progressivism and the juvenile court (1900-1960s) -- Twentieth-century rehabilitative ideal and "correctional" system (1900-1960s) -- Prison subcultures (1950s-1960s) -- Prisoner rights in age of discontent (1960s-1970s) -- Decentralizing corrections (1960s-1970s) -- Conservatism and law-and-order punishment (1980s-1990s) -- Penal system as surrogate institution for special populations -- Punishment in millennial age -- Conclusion.

"Becoming Deviant describes a process by which people move from an affinity for certain prohibited behaviors to full-blown deviance. This process includes affiliation with circles and settings that include or sponsor offenses, followed by understanding and identification of the offenses as prohibited behavior by the transgressor. The process can be summarized as affinity, affiliation, and signification. The sequential process Matza describes allows for non-recurrent offending behavior, recidivism, and offending again. His perspective is motivated by the view that criminological theories do not explain a number of the fundamental empirical features and nuances known to be associated with delinquency. This includes the frequent termination of delinquent behavior at the onset of adulthood, the often conformist nature of delinquent behavior, and the large numbers of non-delinquents that are often found in otherwise "high-delinquency areas." In Becoming Deviant Matza reasons that most, though not all, delinquent behavior constitutes relatively uniform phenomena that is developmental in character. Individuals proceed from trivial to more serious infractions. He argues that delinquent behavior represents youths searching for adventure and is accompanied by withdrawal from conventional values and associated behavior. Matza further claims that many delinquents are not fully committed to a delinquent lifestyle, and this explains why delinquent behavior often ends with adulthood. Matza's compelling and integrated theoretical explanation makes this a classic in the increasingly sophisticated criminological literature. Thomas Blomberg's new introduction shows why Becoming Deviant remains of central importance to the field."--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- 1 Natural Deviation -- 2 Correction and Appreciation -- 3 Pathology and Diversity -- 4 Simplicity and Complexity -- Part II -- 5 Affinity -- 6 Affiliation -- 7 Signification -- Index

This article discusses the role of politics in the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program's effort to use evaluation research data to inform Florida's juvenile justice education policies and practices. Through consideration of the Juvenile Justice Education Enhancement Program's experiences with privatization and the tough love and economy of scale rationales for larger and more custodial juvenile institutions, the variable role of politics is examined. Although the two examples are different, the discussion demonstrates that by maintaining an overriding commitment to its evaluation research purpose, the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program has been able to continue its data-driven policy efforts despite operating in a politically charged environment.

This article provides an overview of the history and context leading to Florida's efforts to implement an evaluation-driven research and associated quality assurance system for its juvenile justice education policies and practices. The Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program began implementing Florida's evaluation research and quality assurance system to juvenile justice education in 1998. The article includes a brief summary of articles comprising this special issue of Evaluation Review that address the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program's various functions, methodological components, data, preliminary findings, continuing evaluation research efforts, and impediments.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: PUNISHMENT AND SOCIAL CONTROL: THEORIES AND TRENDS -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. State Punishment in Advanced Capitalist Countries -- 2. Penal Modernism and Postmodernism -- 3. The Form and Limits of the New Penology -- 4. Virginia, Criminology, and the Antisocial Control of Women -- 5. Controlling Drug Use: The Great Prohibition -- PART II: POLICING AND SURVEILLANCE -- Introduction to Part II -- 6. Staffing and Training Problem-Oriented Police -- 7. Developments in Undercover Policing -- 8. Surveillance and Social Control in Postmodern Life -- 9. On Controlling Torture -- PART III: PUNISHMENT: MEASURING AND JUSTIFYING -- Introduction to Part III -- 10. Statistical Assumptions as Empirical Commitments -- 11. Stability of Punishment: What Happened and What Next? -- 12. The Future of the Proportionate Sentence -- 13. Constricted Rationality and the Limits of General Deterrence -- 14. Tinkering with the Machinery of Death: The Failure of a Social Experiment -- PART IV: THE EXPANDING PRISON: LIFE INSIDE, POLICY, AND REFORM -- Introduction to Part IV -- 15. The Structural-Functional Perspective on Imprisonment -- 16. Women and Imprisonment: A Case Study of Two California Prisons -- 17. Judicial Impact on Prison Reform -- 18. The Crime of Punishment -- 19. Penal Reform and the Fate of "Alternatives" -- 20. It's About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge -- 21. America's New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto -- 22. Of Punishment and Crime Rates: Some Theoretical and Methodological Consequences of Mass Incarceration -- Contributors -- Index