Corrections in America: An Introduction

The 10th edition of this book, popular for the last quarter century, continues to explore the cutting edge of the corrections field. Clear, well-designed, and eminently readable, it carefully balances current and past research with practical examples and issues; this book impressively includes dynamic 4-color graphs and photographs that maintain reader interest and ease understanding. It covers the latest hot topics, including incarcerated terrorist offenders, legal issues in imprisoning terrorists, federal legislation to restrict post-conviction conditions as well as conditions of confinement appeals. Other more conventional topics covered are: historical perspectives, the court process, imprisonment alternatives, correctional systems and functions, institutional clients and their rights, reintegration systems, and the future of corrections. For corrections officers, institutional employees, and others in the criminal justice system.

Key Benefit:An ideal desk reference and library resource for correctional institutions and correctional academies, this accurate and interesting introductory survey focuses on how today's correctional subsystems function within the larger criminal justice system, awakening readers to the vast field of corrections and its impact on contemporary society. Key Topics: Explores each element of corrections as an integrated and interrelated series of subsystems of persons, programs, and processes, providing a clear and interesting overview of each of the categories that make up corrections. Divides material into eight parts, with discussions on corrections historical development and present philosophies, the law and legal process, the methods and routes of appeals, the systems correctional "clients", the rights of the convicted offenders, the continual battle between security and treatment of convicts, the function and interaction of correctional systems at the local, state, and federal levels, and the future of corrections in the 21st century. Expands chapter on female offenders to offer a more balanced and substantive treatment of this fast-growing sector of the criminal population, provides a more contemporary view of juvenile offenders, explores the relationship between public and private sectors in depth, and considers such current critical issues as elderly inmates, juveniles treated as adults, gang violence, the increase in sex offenders, home detention, the impact of the ADA on corrections. KEY Market: For experts in crime and criminology, and practitioners in the field of institutional and community corrections.