Revolution in Penology
Title | Revolution in Penology PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce A. Arrigo |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0742563626 |
A critique of penal harm, the recursive pains of the imprisonment cycle, and the normalization of violence. The authors deconstruct the human agency/social structure duality that sustains the prison form, its parts and segments understood as correctional principles/practices, and the prison industrial complex that is informed by and stands above them all.
Exploring Green Criminology
Title | Exploring Green Criminology PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Lynch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 131713740X |
Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology. Others have suggested that green crimes present the most important challenge to criminology as a discipline. This book argues that criminology needs to take green harms more seriously and to be revolutionized so that it forms part of the solution to the large environmental problems currently faced across the world. It asks how criminology should be redesigned to consider green/environmental harm as a key area of study in an era where destruction of the earth and the world’s ecosystem is a major concern and examines why this has remained unaccomplished so far. The chapters in this book apply an environmental frame of reference underlying a green approach to issues which can be addressed from within criminology and which can encourage criminologists and environmentalists to respond and react differently to environmental crime.
Laboratories of Virtue
Title | Laboratories of Virtue PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Meranze |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780807822777 |
Laboratories of Virtue investigates the complex and contested relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. Using Philadelphia as a case study, Michael Meranze interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterized the early American republic. Laboratories of Virtue demonstrates the ramifications of the history of punishment for the struggles to define a new revolution order. By focusing attention on the system of public penal labor that developed in the 1780s, Meranze effectively links penal reform to the development of republican principles in the Revolutionary era. In addition, Meranze argues, the emergence of reformative incarceration was a crucial symptom of the crises of the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary public spheres.
Discipline and Punish
Title | Discipline and Punish PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Foucault |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2012-04-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307819299 |
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails
Title | Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Tartaro |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2010-07-12 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1461634245 |
Police and corrections personnel must always be mindful of the possibility that those in their custody may attempt suicide or commit an act of self-mutilation. Persons housed in prisons, jails, and police lockups tend to be at a higher risk for such destructive behavior than members of the general population. Reasons for this can be found by examining the mental health, substance abuse, and physical/sexual abuse histories of inmates in addition to deficits in their coping skills and the stress and uncertainty generated by incarceration. This book explores several topics pertaining to suicide and deliberate self-harm in the corrections setting, including who tends to commit these acts; where, when, and how these incidents occur; screening mechanisms; the role of environmental stimuli in facilitating or preventing acts of self harm; interpersonal relations among inmates and between inmates and staff; and the role of the courts in setting and ruling on suicide prevention policies. The authors discuss the role of prevention techniques that offer a balance between strict opportunity-reduction and softer motivation-reduction strategies. The book also includes suggestions for diversion programs that can keep mentally ill inmates out of prisons and jails and transition planning programs to better prepare outgoing inmates for their re-entry into the community.
The Prison Reform Movement
Title | The Prison Reform Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Larry E. Sullivan |
Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Traces the history of prison reform in the United States, as the reformers attempt to set up a system that would deter further crime and rehabilitate convicts come into conflict with the need to punish and the inherent character of imprisonment.
A Just Measure of Pain
Title | A Just Measure of Pain PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ignatieff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Convicts |
ISBN | 9780333258088 |