Author: Robert Johnson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111908282X
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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
Language: de
Pages: 480
Pages: 480
Seit Annie Goodhouse ihren gewalttätigen Exfreund verlassen hat, muss man ihr wirklich nicht zweimal sagen, dass sie sich von Bad Boys fernhalten soll. Doch als sie einen Job als Bibliothekarin in einer Strafvollzugsanstalt annimmt, zieht sie die Aufmerksamkeit eines Insassen auf sich. Eric Collier ist zwar nicht stolz darauf, was
Language: en
Pages: 339
Pages: 339
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Language: en
Pages: 432
Pages: 432
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
Language: en
Pages: 432
Pages: 432
While driving home after celebrating friend Murray Ryerson's big break into TV hosting, V.I. almost collides with a fatally wounded woman lying in the street. The deceased is Nicola Aguinaldo, former employee of security giant B.B. Baladine and recent prison runaway. Taking on the case, V.I. finds herself plunged into
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Using a golf pencil sharpened on a cell wall, Shaun Attwood wrote one of the first prison blogs, Jon's Jail Journal, excerpts of which were published in The Guardian and attracted international media attention. Brought up in England, Shaun took his business degree to Phoenix, Arizona, where he became an
Language: en
Pages: 215
Pages: 215
Love isn't always responsible. After Micky O'Neill is remanded in custody for breaching his court order, his already tempestuous relationship with Dan Peters is tested to the limits. Having to battle their way through a court case that could end with Micky in jail, social workers breaking up the family
Language: en
Pages: 766
Pages: 766
Doing Hard Time is written to facilitate the daunting process of developing real-time systems. It presents an embedded systems programming methodology that has been proven successful in practice. The process outlined in this book allows application developers to apply practical techniques - garnered from the mainstream areas of object-oriented software
Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
In September 1996, fifty-three year old heroin addict Billy Ochoa was sentenced to 326 years in prison. His crime: committing $2100 worth of welfare fraud. Ochoa was sent to New Folsom supermax prison, joining thousands of other men who will spend the rest of their lives in California's teeming correctional
Language: en
Pages: 184
Pages: 184
* HARD TIMES * TOUGH CHURCHES * AWESOME GOD! 13 Churches that faced losing almost...Everything! Miami * Detroit * Orlando * San Diego Jacksonville * New Orleans * Mobile Springfield * Oklahoma City * Birmingham