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Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system.

  • Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts
  • Features first person accounts from male and female inmates and staff, revealing what it’s actually like to live and work in prison
  • Includes all-new chapters on prison reform and on supermax correctional facilities, including the latest research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row
  • Explores a wide range of topics, including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers’ custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs
  • Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives

Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 16/08/2016
    ISBN13: 9781119082774, 978-1119082774
    ISBN10: 1119082773

    Number of Pages: 432

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system.

    • Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts
    • Features first person accounts from male and female inmates and staff, revealing what it’s actually like to live and work in prison
    • Includes all-new chapters on prison reform and on supermax correctional facilities, including the latest research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row
    • Explores a wide range of topics, including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers’ custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs
    • Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives

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