American prisons and jails : an encyclopedia of controversies and trends / Vidisha Barua Worley and Robert M. Worley, editors.
Series: Gale eBooksPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (2 volumes (xviii, 793 pages)) : color illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781610695015
- 365/.97303 23
- KF9730.A68 A44 2019
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Ebook | NMC Library | Gale Virtual Reference Library | Online | KF9730.A68 A44 2019 EBOOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available online - NMC Login required | 507039 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
v. 1. A-M -- v. 2. N-Z.
This encyclopedia provides a summary of correctional systems and practices and their evolution throughout US history and includes contributions from leading scholars of correctional systems and practices. Topics include sentencing norms and contemporary developments; differences between local, regional, state, and federal systems; violent and nonviolent inmate populations; operations of state and federal prisons; privately run, for-profit prisons; and much more.