Table of Contents
The philosophy of punishment / Joycelyn M. Pollock -- Race, gender, and the American prison: historical observations / Robert Johnson -- The crisis and consequences of prison overcrowding / Alida V. Merlo -- The classification of inmates / David Spencer -- Industry, agriculture, and education / William Stone -- Rehabilitation revisited / Joycelyn M. Pollock -- The social world of the prisoner / Joycelyn M. Pollock -- Management and administrative issues / Robert Freeman -- Correctional officers: understudied and misunderstood / Robert Freeman -- Prisoners' rights: the pendulum swings / John McLaren -- The privatization of prisons / Ronald Becker -- Jails / Dennis Giever -- The future / Joycelyn M. Pollock.