Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences

The Second Edition of Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences continues to identify and evaluate the major competing theories used to guide the goals, policies, and practices of the correctional system. Authors Francis T. Cullen and Cheryl Lero Jonson demonstrate that changes in theories can legitimize new ways of treating and punishing offenders, and they help readers understand how transformations in the social and political context of U.S. society impact correctional theory and policy. Designed to motivate readers to become sophisticated consumers of correctional information, the book emphasizes the importance of using evidence-based information to guide decisions, rather than relying on nonscientific commonsense or ideology-based beliefs.

• Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
• American Corrections
• Criminological Theory (7th Edition)
• Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
• Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
• The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Correctional Administration: Integrating Theory and Practice (3rd Edition)
• Corrections in the Community
• Prison Writings in 20th Century America
• Corrections: A Text/Reader (SAGE Text/Reader Series in Criminology and Criminal Justice)