The Dilemmas of Corrections : Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Preface ix PART I PHILOSOPHICAL JUSTIFICATIONS FOR CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT 1(24) 1 Punishment as Healing for the Soul 4(7) Plato 2 The Paradox of Punishment 11(14) Alan H. Goldman PART II HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PUNISHMENT AND IMPRISONMENT 25(50) 3 Throwing Away the Key: Imprisonment 34(14) Lewis Lyons 4 Philadelphia, and Its Solitary Prison 48(11) Charles Dickens 5 The Birch and the Lash on Sakhalin Island 59(16) Anton Chekhov PART III WHO GOES TO PRISON AND WHY 75(72) 6 Comparative International Rates of Incarceration: An Examination of Causes and Trends 79(11) Marc Mauer 7 The Criminal Type 90(8) Jessica Mitford 8 Racial Disparity and the Criminal Justice System: An Assessment of Causes and Responses 98(22) Marc Mauer 9 The War on Drugs and the Incarceration of Mothers 120(10) Stephanie Bush-Baskette 10 The Politics of Punishment: Evaluating Political Explanations of Incarceration Rates 130(17) Kevin B. Smith PART IV THE REALITIES OF PRISON LIFE 147(126) 11 Target Violence 153(18) Daniel Lockwood 12 Prowling the Yard: The Public Culture of the Prison 171(40) Robert Johnson 13 Women's Accounts of Their Prison Experiences: A Retrospective View of Their Subjective Realities 211(20) Mark R. Pogrebin & Mary Dodge 14 "Opening a Vein": Inmate Poetry and the Prison Experience 231(22) Robert Johnson & Nina Chernoff 15 On Psychological Experiments 253(20) Erich Fromm PART V THE COURTS, THE CONSTITUTION, AND CORRECTIONS: COMMENTARY AND KEY CASES 273(110) 16 Ewing v. California 303(21) 17 Hudson v. McMillian et al. 324(11) 18 Bounds, Correction Commissioner, et al. v. Smith et al. 335(10) 19 Thornburgh, Attorney General of the United States, et al. v. Abbott et al. 345(15) 20 Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole v. Hill et al. 360(8) 21 Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole v. Scott 368(15) PART VI REHABILITATION PROGRAMS BEHIND BARS AND IN THE COMMUNITY 383(110) 22 "What Works?" Revisited: New Findings on Criminal Rehabilitation 390(14) James Q. Wilson 23 From Nothing Works to What Works: Changing Professional Ideology in the 21st Century 404(25) Francis T. Cullen & Paul Gendreau 24 Correctional Boot Camps: Lessons from a Decade of Research 429(10) Dale G. Parent 25 The Effectiveness of Prison-Based Therapeutic Communities for the Treatment of Drug Involved Offenders 439(14) James A. Inciardi 26 Probation and Cognitive Skills 453(8) Frederick R. Chavaria 27 Prisoner Reentry: Public Safety and Reintegration Challenges 461(15) Joan Petersilia 28 The Impact of Victim-Offender Mediation: Two Decades of Research 476(17) Mark S. Umbreit, Robert B. Coates, & Betty Vos PART VII CRITICAL PROBLEMS AND ISSUES IN CORRECTIONS 493(78) 29 The Disturbed Disruptive Inmate: Where Does the Bus Stop? 498(15) Hans Toch 30 Older Inmates: Special Programming Concerns 513(13) Peter C. Kratcoski 31 Prisons for Profit 526(12) Eric Bates 32 The Trouble with "Scarlet Letter" Punishments 538(11) Douglas Litowitz 33 To Kill or Not to Kill... For and Against the Death Penalty: The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense 549(8) Ernest van den Haag 34 Why Conservatives Should Oppose the Death Penalty 557(14) Kenneth C. Haas About the Editors 571