NCJ Number
107479
Date Published
1988
Length
243 pages
Annotation
This text provides an overview of corrections, including strategies, ideologies, sentencing, facilities, and research.
Abstract
Following a review of corrections in America, correctional strategies and structures are discussed in terms of constraint, the principle of emergence, and social process. An examination of correctional ideologies (conservative, liberal, and radical) precedes a discussion on adult and juvenile sentencing, including an assessment of sentencing reforms. Jails, juvenile detention centers and training schools, and men's and women's prisons are discussed in terms of inmate characteristics, historical development, programs, and inmates' daily experiences. Additional topics examined are use patterns and trends in probation and parole; conservative, liberal, and radical perspectives regarding correctional change; correctional standards in terms of humaneness, legality/due process, and effectiveness; correctional evaluation research and its implications for policy and practice; and future trends in corrections. Figures, tables, subject and name indexes, and approximately 525 references.