Correctional Contexts: Contemporary and Classical Readings

A comprehensive and critical review of corrections, Correctional Contexts: Contemporary and Classical Readings, Fifth Edition, traces the history and development of corrections and punishment as it has evolved in the U.S. over the past few centuries. This text presents both classical and contemporary articles that cover the history of corrections in the U.S.; discusses how various facets of the system operate today; and considers where we as a country may be headed regarding the confinement, control, and treatment of our correctional populations. Each chapter opens with an introduction and concludes with study questions.

• Criminological Theory: Past to Present: Essential Readings
• Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison
• Understanding Police Culture, Second Edition
• Corrections
• A Woman Doing Life: Notes from a Prison for Women
• Addicted to Incarceration: Corrections Policy and the Politics of Misinformation in the United States
• The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
• Critical Issues in Police Training
• American Corrections in Brief
• Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology