The jail : managing the underclass in American society / / John Irwin ; with a new foreword by Jonathan Simon

• Autore: Irwin John
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 365/.6/0979461
• Soggetto topico: Jails - Social aspects - California; Prisoners - California; Prison psychology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Managing Rabble -- 2. Whols Arrested? -- 3. Disintegration -- 4. Disorientation -- 5. Degradation -- 6. Preparation -- 7. Rabble, Crime, and the Jail -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, indoctrinating new recruits to the rabble class. In a forceful conclusion, Irwin addresses the issue of jail reform and the matter of social control demanded by society. Reissued more than twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Jonathon Simon, The Jail remains an extraordinary account of the role jails play in America's crisis of mass incarceration.
• Titolo autorizzato: The jail
• ISBN: 0-520-95745-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452483003321
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