New to the Second Edition: Up-to-date coverage of today’s key issues reflects the latest developments in corrections, including the fiscal impact of corrections, reforms in corrections, and an expanded use of alternatives to incarceration ...
For instance, in 2006, Martin Lee Anderson, a 14-year-old boot camp inmate, died, allegedly at the hands of eight correctional staff members who were later charged with manslaughter. According to reports, Anderson collapsed while ...
The twelfth edition provides a complete update on the facts and figures of correctional policy and practice in the United States.
"It is a thorough and focused work on American corrections providing a solid opportunity for students to learn not only how the correctional system works but also to understand its ever increasing complexities." —Dorie Astle, Southwestern ...
By demonstrating that correctional systems balance public safety with providing treatment and supervision to offenders, American Corrections: Theory, Research, Policy and Practice tells the story of corrections within a coherent, ...
Complete with valuable career-based material, insightful guest speakers, illuminating real-world cases, and uniquely even-handed treatment of institutional and community sanctions, the text examines the U.S. correctional system from the ...
A comprehensive look at all areas of corrections as a system of interconnected organizations. Contains extensive pedagogical features to aid student understanding. Includes the most recent research findings and implications...
Take a look at the American corrections system from the perspective of the corrections worker and the offender in AMERICAN CORRECTIONS, Eighth Edition.
Todd R. Clear, one of the country's leading experts in the study of corrections, George F. Cole, considered by many as the 'founding father' of modern criminal justice study, and new co-author Michael D. Reisig, combine talents for the new ...
American Corrections
... American Corrections , Sixth Edition , CD - ROM The CD - ROM that accompanies this text provides easy access to Web - based resources , including Tutorial Quizzing , In- ternet Activities , InfoTrac College Edition Exercises , Web Links ...
Todd R. Clear, one of the country's leading experts in the study of corrections, and George F. Cole, considered by many as the "founding father" of modern criminal justice study, have combined talents once again for the new Sixth Edition of ...