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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465548103321

Autore

Johnson Robert

Titolo

Hard time : a fresh look at understanding and reforming the prison / / Robert Johnson, Anne Marie Rocheleau, Alison Brooks Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Sussex, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-119-08282-X

1-119-08281-1

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (435 p.)

Disciplina

365.973

Soggetti

Prisons - United States

Prison administration - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Crime, Prison, and the Case for Corrections; 2 Modern Prisons in Historical Context; 3 The Pains of Modern Imprisonment; 4 Prisoner Deficits and Immature Coping; 5 The Public Culture of the Prison: Violence; 6 The Private Culture of the Prison: Living in Prison; 7 Correctional Officers Public Custodial Agenda; 8 Prison Officers Private Correctional Agenda; 9 Supermax and the Overuse of Solitary Confinement; 10 Reform; Afterword; Index; EULA; A Predilection for Prisons

A Case for Decent PrisonsNotes; References; American Prisons before the Penitentiary; Penitentiaries; Reformatories; The Big House; The Correctional Institution; Notes; References; Pain Amelioration in Prisons: Three Stages; Living with Deprivation; Pain and Harm; Notes; References; Immature Coping; Prisoner Types; Dysfunctional Adaptations to Imprisonment; Reconciling Public and Private Inmate Cultures; Notes; References; The Nature of Violent Prisoners; The Nature of Violent Prisons; Situational Violence; A Note on Violence in Womens Prisons; Notes; References; Living in Prison

The Ecology of Prison SurvivalPrison Life, Prison Niches; Coping



Strategies for Living in Prison; More Than Survival; Notes; References; Correctional Officer as Hack; Stress, Alienation, and Burnout; Notes; References; Providing Human Service; Human Service Activities; Rule Enforcement as Human Service Work: Developing Relationships and Legitimacy; Collaboration in Helping; Human Service in Perspective; Notes; References; Living and Working in Supermax; Assessing the Efficacy of the Supermax Experiment; Some Failures of Supermax; Moving Forward: The Devil Is in the Details; Notes; References

Smarter Punishment, Better PrisonsGetting Out and Staying Out; Notes; References; Prison America; Incarcerating men and women of color; No escaping prison; The goals of prison punishment; Decent prisons and mature coping; General dynamics of adjustment; Decent prisons as a human right; Models of reformative penitentiary quarantine; Women and minorities in the penitentiary; The southern plantation prison; Women and minorities in the Big House; The Big House: Repression and its discontents; The decline of the Big House; Models of correctional facilities; Prison violence

Deinstitutionalization and the increase in mentally ill inmatesSupermax prisons; Loss of liberty; Deprivation of autonomy; Deprivation of goods and services; Boredom; Deprivation of heterosexual contact; Missing family; Disrespect; Deprivation of security; Limited cognitive and interpersonal skills; Denial; Poor self-control; Defective socialization; Lack of empathy; Predatory convicts; State-raised convicts; Institutionalized inmates; The mentally ill; Exceptions to immature coping: Square johns and long-termers; Predatory convicts and state-raised youth; Gang violence

Hypermasculinity in prisons