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Record Nr.

UNINA9911090634503321

Autore

Jacobson Michael <1953->

Titolo

Downsizing prisons : how to reduce crime and end mass incarceration / / Michael Jacobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York and London, : New York University Press, c2005

ISBN

9780814743249

0814743242

9780814743805

0814743803

9781429414241

1429414243

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

364.6/0973

Soggetti

Prisons - United States

Probation - United States

Parole - United States

Alternatives to imprisonment - United States

Criminals - Rehabilitation - United States

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

Introduction : bloated prisons -- Mass incarceration -- Unintended consequences -- A new reality for prison systems  -- Why prison growth does not reduce crime -- Why parole and probation policies need to change -- Success stories -- Downsizing prisons.

Sommario/riassunto

Over two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this spectacular rise of the general prison population. After overseeing the largest city jail system in the country, Michael Jacobson knows first-hand the inner workings of the corrections system. In Downsizing Prisons , he convincingly argues that mass incarceration will not, as many have claimed, reduce cri



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Record Nr.

UNINA9911089339903321

Autore

Lichtenberg Joseph D

Titolo

Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2011

ISBN

1-135-46909-1

0-203-92701-X

9780203927014

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

Disciplina

155.3

616.89/17

Soggetti

Interpersonal Relations

Interpersonal relations

Parent-Child Relations

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalytic Theory

Sensuality

Sex (Psychology)

Sexuality

Sexuality - psychology

Shame

Behavioral Sciences

Psychology, Social

Psychological Theory

Sexual Behavior

Reproductive Physiological Phenomena

Family Relations

Guilt

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Family

Psychological Phenomena

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Behavior

Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena

Emotions

Psychology

Psychiatry

Health & Biological Sciences



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Looking at Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame; Chapter 2. The Oedipus Complex in the 21st Century; Chapter 3. Intimacy With the Gendered Self; Chapter 4. Veronica: A Clinical Example of Achieving Intimacy With the Gendered Self; Chapter 5. Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Daughters; Chapter 6. Middle Childhood and Adolescence; Chapter 7. Attachment Love, Romantic Love, Lustful Love, Lust Without Love, and Transference Love; Chapter 8. Coda; References

Index

Sommario/riassunto

Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. The exciting discovery of childhood sexuality filled the literature. Then other discoveries came to the fore until sexuality slipped far in the background. This book evokes the excitement of the original discoveries of childhood sexual experience while linking childhood sensuality and sexuality to adult attachment, romantic, and lustful love. This revised perspective offers the general reader insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and pre