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Incarcerating Criminals places prisons and jails in the context of their social and organizational environments, examining these modern day correctional institutions and the issues and trends surrounding them. Selections provide historical and contemporary perspectives and data on the institutions themselves, their origins and development, and current controversies such as overcrowding, substance abuse treatment, and health care. Understanding why prisons are built when they are, where they are, and administered as they are requires students to appreciate the inextricable links between these institutions, the rest of the criminal justice system, and the social and political atmosphere that supports them. Incarcerating Criminals offers students a better understanding of the reasons for developing prisons and jails and the premises underlying contemporary correctional operations and crime control proposals. A special section focuses on specific inmate groups, from mentally ill offenders to those suffering from AIDS, to female inmates and gang members, to the correctional staff themselves. The concluding section examines the future of jails and prisons, including such current issues as privatization, risk management, and technological advances that affect corrections. Edited by three of the leading scholars in the field, Incarcerating Criminals is essential for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in criminal justice, criminology, sociology, and public policy, and for those individuals interested in learning more about correctional institutions.

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A most useful section (not often found in books on penality) deals with some of the issues specifically constituted within, and circumscribed by, 'the legal environment of incarceration'. The collection edited by Flanagan et al is important in its own right because of the breadth of the range of prison topics discussed. It should appeal not only to academic students of penality but also to criminal justice and prisons personnel interested in a range of administrative issues ... it could also provide ... students with a convenient collection of some of the most signficant essays on penality by theorists ... as well as giving them a taste of some important perspectives which need to be appreciated because of the ways in which they have influnenced, and continue to influence, the development of both American and British penal institutions and penal politics. Pat Carlen, Brit. Jnl. of Criminology, Vol.40, No.3, 2000.

An excellent collection of classic and current readings on prisons, punishment, and the problems and issues facing corrections. --Richard Lawrence, St. Cloud State University

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