Anne S. Douds, Eileen M. Ahlin

Rethinking America's Correctional Policies

Commonsense Choices from Uncommon Voices

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. The authors examine how these two seemingly disparate perspectives complement each other to provide straightforward, commonsense solutions to address the current state of the corrections system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9781498530408
• ISBN-10: 1498530400
• Artikelnr.: 47880475

Autorenporträt

Anne S. Douds is lecturer of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg and former trial lawyer. Eileen M. Ahlin is assistant professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Section I: Pre-Incarceration Chapter One: Plea Bargaining and
Using Children to Coerce Cooperation Chapter Two: Children at Arrest
Chapter Three: An Alford Plea Conundrum Section II: Incarceration Chapter
Four: Time Fades to Grey Chapter Five. The Yard Ball Paradox - Before Time
Turns Grey Chapter Six. Vernon Can't Read: Prison Education Chapter Seven:
Doing the Schizophrenic Shuffle: Mental Health and Psychopharmacology
Chapter Eight: Abe's Abscess Chapter Nine: Deliberate Indifference or
Indifferently Deliberate: How the Slow Pace of Prison Health Care Killed
Matthew Chapter Ten: End of Life Care Section III: Post-Incarceration
Chapter Eleven: Walking Around Money and the Bus to Nowhere Chapter Twelve:
Get a J-O-B Chapter Thirteen: Burned Bridges Conclusion: RAP'ing Up