Hard Time

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A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison

By Robert Johnson and Ann Marie Rocheleau and Alison B. Martin

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Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, offers a comprehensive examination of the American prison system, its history, and ongoing challenges. Combining ethnographic and professional insights, it presents first-person accounts from inmates and staff, shedding light on the realities of prison life. The book covers diverse topics such as punishment, prisoner psychology, gang violence, and rehabilitation programmes, while introducing new chapters on prison reform and supermax facilities.
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This book is suitable for students, educators, policymakers, and anyone interested in the criminal justice system and prison reform.

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.

Description

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 programmes.

Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119082774

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 August 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 4th edition

Contributors:

Foreword by Francis T. Cullen
Afterword by Alison Liebling

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 635g

Pages: 432

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Alison B. Martin Ann Marie Rocheleau Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Robert Johnson

About the Author

Robert Johnson is a Professor of Justice, Law and Criminology at American University, Washington, D.C., and Editor and Publisher of BleakHouse Publishing. His publications include Death Work: A Study of the Modern Execution Process, which won the Outstanding Book Award of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Ann Marie Rocheleau is an Associate Professor at Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts. She collaborated on research studies on adult and juvenile corrections, community policing, and drug purchase for the National Institute of Justice and the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Alison B. Martin is a Policy Analyst with the Council of State Governments Justice Center. She is the co-author of Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship the World Over and Gay and Lesbian Communities the World Over.

The book includes a Foreword by Francis T. Cullen, Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology at the University of Cincinnati and an Afterword by Alison Libeling, University Lecturer and Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology.