Full Description
A condensed but equally compelling version of the best-selling corrections book on the market, AMERICAN CORRECTIONS IN BRIEF, 3rd Edition, introduces you to the dynamics of corrections in a way that captures your interest and encourages you to enter the field. Complete with valuable career-based material, insightful guest speakers who share their frontline perspectives, illuminating real-world cases, and uniquely even-handed treatment of institutional and community sanctions, the text examines the U.S. correctional system from the perspectives of both the corrections worker and the offender, providing you with a well-rounded, balanced introduction to corrections.
Contents
Part I: CORRECTIONAL CONTEXT.
1. What Is Corrections?
2. Punishment of Offenders.
Part II: CORRECTIONS IN THE COMMUNITY.
3. Jails.
4. Probation and Intermediate Sanctions.
5. Probation Supervision.
Part III: INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTIONS.
6. Prisons.
7. Prison Experience.
8. Management and Staffing.
9. Special Populations.
Part IV: CORRECTIONAL ISSUES.
10. Reentry and Community Supervision.
11. Legal Issues and the Death Penalty.
12. Juvenile Corrections.
13. Corrections Today and Tomorrow.
