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1.
No Escape: Prisons, Therapy & Politics
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of New South Wales Press 1994
Subjects:
Criminals--Rehabilitation--Australia
Correctional Psychology--Australia
Imprisonment--Australia--Sociological Aspects
Imprisonment--Australia--Psychological Aspects
Prisons--Australia
Social Problems--Australia
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...members of the task force intowomens prisons in New South Wales, discussion of...sentencingprinciples of deterrence, rehabilitation, just retribution, or evencontrol...imprison retard her/hisprospects for rehabilitation.the excessive economic cost of keeping...
2.
Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration
Contributors:
Publisher:
New York University Press 2005
Subjects:
Prisons--United States
Probation--United States
Parole--United States
Alternatives To Imprisonment--United States
Criminals--Rehabilitation--United States
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...majorgoals: they were concerned about rehabilitation and about stabilizingthe size...the official association for prisons and jails in the United States...took issue withthe emphasis on rehabilitation that reigned in the sixties and...
3.
The State of Our Prisons
Contributors:
Publisher:
Clarendon Press 1995
Subjects:
Prisons--Great Britain
Imprisonment--Great Britain
Prison Discipline--Great Britain
Prisoners--Health And Hygiene--Great Britain
Criminals--Rehabilitation--Great Britain
Criminal Justice, Administration of--Great Britain
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...thebelief that more so-called training prisons were needed and thatthey should be protected...possible facilities for effecting the rehabilitation of offenders.The cost of this, however...deliberately con­centrated in local prisons, which as a matter of policy were starvedof...
4.
The State of the Prisons: 200 Years on
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 1991
Subjects:
Prisons--Cross-Cultural Studies
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...being paid to the concept of rehabilitation within prisons, there was little evidence...0028as, I suspect, in most prisons in India) appeared to...facing penal reformers in India. Prisons not only carry the weight of...
5.
Encyclopedia of American Prisons
Contributors:
Publisher:
Garland 1996
Subjects:
Prisons--United States--History--Encyclopedias
Prison Administration--United States--History--Encyclopedias
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...involved the administration of prisons, describing and examining...incarceration; violence in prisons; effects of incarceration...concern with activities and rehabilitation efforts inside prisons. For example, research attention...
6.
Doing Time in American Prisons: A Study of Modern Novels
Contributors:
Publisher:
Greenwood Press 1989
Subjects:
Prisoners' Writings, American--History And Criticism
American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
Prisons In Literature
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...the public's interestin rehabilitation, never overly keen,dissolved. Prisons became a holdingoperation...Two institutions that prisons began toresemble more and...dominant model for later prisons.The goal of prisons shifted...
7.
Prisons and the American Conscience: A History of U.S. Federal Corrections
Contributors:
Publisher:
Southern Illinois University Press 1995
Subjects:
Prisons--United States--History
Corrections--United States--History
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...criminal cases anddevise corrective strategies. It was a time of widespread creativeexperimenting in rehabilitation.4 The Bureau of Prisons was not thefirst to move in innovative directions, and when it finally did, asignificant impetus for...
8.
New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China
Contributors:
Publisher:
M. E. Sharpe 1998
Subjects:
Prisons--China
Forced Labor--China
Human Rights--China
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...populations in the northwestern prisons have declined, thoughlocal...indicated:684 laogai camps, 155 prisons, 492 rehabilitation centers (labor re-educationcamps...internal listings the"155 prisons" were included among the 684...
9.
Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy: Liberty and Power in the Early American Republic
Contributors:
Publisher:
New York University Press 2005
Subjects:
Punishment--United States--History
Prisons--United States--History
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...00ADtitions to pardons was the claim of rehabilitation.Penal reformers agreed that pardons...penal activists took the middle ground: prisons should retainpardons as incentives to rehabilitation but apply them sparingly. Lieberwanted...
10.
Big Prisons, Big Dreams: Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System
Contributors:
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press 2007
Subjects:
Criminals--Rehabilitation--United States
Imprisonment--United States
Criminal Justice, Administration of--United States
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...services the statemay purchase to operate prisons and other correctional services (e.g.,probation, rehabilitation, drug counseling, etc.). Private...the operation or building of entire prisons. Largebusinesses have stepped forward...
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