Lawful Order : A Case Study of Correctional Crisis and Reform

Name: Lawful Order
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
SKU: 9780815316176
Price: 33850 KES
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ISBN: 9780815316176

by Leo Carroll

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Format Hardback

Book Series Current Issues in Criminal Justice

ISBN-10 0815316178

ISBN-13 9780815316176

Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 1st, 1998

Print length 370 Pages

Weight 542 grams

Product Classification: Political science & theory Political science and theory

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An analysis of the evolution of a prison system as it has adapted to the myriad influences impinging upon in it the last half of the twentieth century. Includes discussions of the attempt to implement the rehabilitative ideal in the 1950s and 1960s and the abandonment of that attempt in the subsequ

Prisons remain a controversial topic for debate in our society. While few doubt the necessity of their existence, there is considerable debate over their purpose, organization, and processes. Do prisons exist to rehabilitate, punish, or simply incarcerate? How do we judge prison conditions? If those conditions are found to be unacceptable, how do we change them? What are a prisoner''s rights? This book charts the history of Rhode Island''s Adult Correctional Institutions over the past 40 years. Professor Carroll examines the radical transformation of Rhode Island prisons in response to changes in their external environment, and determines that the transformation can be seen to manifest five distinct stages: patriarchy, anarchy, restoration, threat, and consolidation.

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