Corrections in the United States

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Corrections

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Further Reading

• Three strikes and you're out': Are repeat offender laws having their anticipated effects?, Clark, John, Austin, James, and Henry, D. Alan, 81: 144-149 (Jan.-Feb. '98, AJS Judicature)
• ABA commission to review sentences, prison conditions (brief), Richert, David, 87: 193 (Jan.-Feb. '04, AJS Judicature)
• AIDS in Prisons: One Correctional Administrator's Recommended Policies and Procedures, Coughlin, Thomas A., III, 72: 63-67 (Jun.-Jul. '88, AJS Judicature)
• Author's Response (letter), Folz, David H. and Scheb, John M., II, 73: 290 (Feb.-Mar. '90, AJS Judicature)
• Author's Response (letter), Brakel, Samuel Jan, 70: 260, 312 (Feb.-Mar. '87, AJS Judicature)
• Author's Response (letter), Snellenburg, Sidney C., 71: 133 (Oct.-Nov. '87, AJS Judicature)
• Can Pretrial Release Programs Provide Help for Overcrowded Jails? (query), Mahoney, Michael J., 67: 110-111, 151-153 (Sep. '83, AJS Judicature)
• Community Sentencing Lets Offenders Repay Society (focus), Abrahams, Steven, 65: 378-380 (Feb. '82, AJS Judicature)
• Correction (letter), Hallock, Walter E., Jr., 64: 4 (Jun.-Jul. '80, AJS Judicature)
• Corrections, Author, No, 64: 252 (Dec.-Jan. '81, AJS Judicature)
• Creating juvenile justice Models for Change, Johnson, LaWanda, 93: 22-25 (1, AJS Judicature)
• Crime and incarceration (brief), Richert, David, 84: 103 (Sept.-Oct. '00, AJS Judicature)
• Criminal Sentencing in Transition, Gottfredson, Don M., 68: 125-127 (Oct.-Nov. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Critical Issues In The Courtroom: Exploring a Hypothetical Case, Author, No, 72: 12-22 (Jun.-Jul. '88, AJS Judicature)
• Do Sex Offender Treatment Programs Work? (focus), Finn, Peter, 78: 250-252 (Mar.-Apr. '95, AJS Judicature)
• Electronic Monitorning and Recidivism (letter), Clarke, Stevens H., 76: 213 (Dec.-Jan. '93, AJS Judicature)
• Electronic Monitorning of Drug Offenders on Probation, Glaser, Daniel and Watts, Ronald, 76: 112-117 (Oct.-Nov. '92, AJS Judicature)
• The extravagance of imprisonment revisited, Vuong, Linh, Hartney, Christopher, Krisberg, Barry, and Marchionna, Susan, 94: 70-80 (sep-oct '10, AJS Judicature)
• Federal Judges' Role in Prisoner Litigation: What's Necessary? What's Proper?, Smith, Christopher E., 70: 144-150 (Oct.-Nov. '86, AJS Judicature)
• Glaser and Watts Respond (letter), Glaser, Daniel and Watts, Ronald, 76: 213-214 (Dec.-Jan. '93, AJS Judicature)
• Hard time: Reflections on visiting federal inmates, Bennett, Mark W., 94: 304-305 (may-june '11, AJS Judicature)
• How Restitution Works In Georgia, Read, Bill, 60: 322-331 (Feb. '77, AJS Judicature)
• Improving collection of court-ordered restitution, Davis, Robert C. and Bannister, Tanya M., 79: 30-33 (July-Aug. '95, AJS Judicature)
• Inside China's Prisons, Crockett, George W., Jr. and Gleicher, Morris, 61: 409-415 (Apr. '78, AJS Judicature)
• Is Determinate Sentencing An Illusory Reform?, Orland, Leonard, 62: 381-389 (Mar. '79, AJS Judicature)
• Is There A Reasonable Alternative to the Death Penalty? (query), Snellenburg, Sidney C., 71: 5-6 (Jun.-Jul. '87, AJS Judicature)
• It is time to end the war on drugs (editorial), no, author, 93: 48, 83 (1, 2, AJS Judicature)
• Judicial Responses to Prison Crowding, Finn, Peter, 67: 318, 325 (Feb. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Judicial Sentencing Guidelines: Hazards of the Middle Ground, Carrow, Deborah M., 68: 161-170 (Oct.-Nov. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Justice, Not Therapy: A New Mission for Corrections, Fogel, David F., 62: 372-380 (Mar. '79, AJS Judicature)
• The Lima Rehab Project: A Program That Benefits All, Snellenburg, Sidney C., 72: 251-252 (Dec.-Jan. '89, AJS Judicature)
• Local Response to Prison Crowding (letter), Cramer, Judith A., 68: 4-5 (Jun.-Jul. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Making Criminals Pay (letter), Brown, Ray C., 64: 299, 336 (Feb. '81, AJS Judicature)
• Maryland's Sentencing Guidelines – A System By and For Judges, Levin, Marshall A., 68: 172-180 (Oct.-Nov. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Mediation: Is It An Effective Alternative to Adjudication In Resolving Prisoner Complaints?, Cole, George F., Hanson, Roger A., and Silbert, Jonathan E., 65: 481-489 (May '82, AJS Judicature)
• Minnesota Expands Restitution But Closes Its Residential Center (news), Author, No, 60: 405 (Mar. '77, AJS Judicature)
• A New Look At Restitution: Recent Legislation, Programs and Research, Chesney, Steve, Hudson, Joe, and McLagen, John, 61: 348-357 (Mar. '78, AJS Judicature)
• North Carolina's Determinate Sentencing Legislation, Clarke, Stevens H., 68: 140-152 (Oct.-Nov. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Not Persuaded (letter), Paternoster, Paul F., 71: 132-133 (Oct.-Nov. '87, AJS Judicature)
• Outdated Facts (letter), Cooper, Linda G., 73: 289-290 (Feb.-Mar. '90, AJS Judicature)
• Part-Time Imprisonment: The Legal and Practical Issues of Periodic Confinement, Parisi, Nicolette, 63: 385-395 (Mar. '80, AJS Judicature)
• Preventing Prison Crowding (letter), Lipscher, Robert D., 68: 208-209 (Dec.-Jan. '85, AJS Judicature)
• Prison Reform Litigation (letter), Koren, Edward I., 70: 260 (Feb.-Mar. '87, AJS Judicature)
• Prison Reform Litigation: Has the Revolution Gone Too Far? (query), Brakel, Samuel Jan, 70: 5-6, 64-65 (Jun.-Jul. '86, AJS Judicature)
• Prison, Profits and Politics: The Tennessee Privatization Experiment, Folz, David H. and Scheb, John M., II, 73: 98-102 (Aug.-Sep. '89, AJS Judicature)
• Prisoners By Day: A Proposal to Sentence Non-Violent Offenders to a Non-Residential Work Facility, Balkin, Steven, 64: 154-164 (Oct. '80, AJS Judicature)
• Privatization of Corrections: Defining the Issues, Robbins, Ira P., 69: 324-331 (Apr.-May '86, AJS Judicature)
• Public Policy and Prison Populations: Measuring Opinions About Reform, Gottfredson, Stephen D. and Taylor, Ralph B., 68: 190-201 (Oct.-Nov. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Race and Crime: What Evidence Is There That Race Influences Results in the Criminal Justice System?, Morris, Norval, 72: 111-113 (Aug.-Sep. '88, AJS Judicature)
• Report and recommendations issued in “Kids for Cash” scandal (focus), Gray, Cynthia, 93: 255, 260 (6, AJS Judicature)
• Restitution Succeeds (letter), Keldgord, Robert E., 61: 248 (Dec.-Jan. '78, AJS Judicature)
• Selective Incapacitation: A Sheep In Wolf's Clothing?, Forst, Brian, 68: 153-160 (Oct.-Nov. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Sentencing Alternatives: Development, Implementation Issues and Evaluation, Harris, Philip W. and Harland, Alan T., 68: 210-219 (Dec.-Jan. '85, AJS Judicature)
• Sentencing Conference Examines Reform Impact (focus), Krasno, Miriam R., 67: 409-411 (Mar. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Sentencing Reforms: Impacts and Implications, Blumstein, Alfred, 68: 129-139 (Oct.-Nov. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Should Judges Go To Jail? (query), Douglas, Charles G., III, 62: 421, 452 (Apr. '79, AJS Judicature)
• State Sentencing and Corrections Program provides peer assistance (focus), Darnton, Liz, 83: 315 (May-June '00, AJS Judicature)
• A Two-Tier System of Justice? (letter), Bramwell, Henry, 64: 5 (Jun.-Jul. '80, AJS Judicature)
• Understanding the United States' incarceration rate (viewpoint), Pizzi, William T., 95: 207-211 (Mar.-Apr. '12, AJS Judicature)
• The Use of Fines in England: Could the Idea Work Here?, Carter, James A. and Cole, George F., 63: 154-161 (Oct. '79, AJS Judicature)
• What Sentencing Reform in Minnesota Has and Has Not Accomplished, Knapp, Kay A., 68: 181-189 (Oct.-Nov. '84, AJS Judicature)
• Wha
  t Should Be Done When Prisoners Want To Take The State To Court?, Hanson, Roger A., 70: 223-227 (Dec.-Jan. '87, AJS Judicature)
• When Criminals Repay Their Victims: A Survey of Restitution Programs, Hudson, Joe, Galaway, Burt, and Chesney, Steve, 60: 312-321 (Feb. '77, AJS Judicature)
• Why Illinois Adopted Determinate Sentencing, Bagley, James J., 62: 390-397 (Mar. '79, AJS Judicature)

• Resources

  See Also

• Legal Topics.

Criminology; Delinquency.

Further Reading (Books)

American Journal of Correction. _ Published since 1939. Formerly published as Prison World. Official publication of the American Correctional Association (formerly the American Prisons Association).

Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana (1764) 1953 An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. Stanford, Calif.: Academic Reprints. _ First published in Italian as Dei delitti e delle pene. A paperback edition was published in 1963 by Bobbs-Merrill.

California Youth Authority Quarterly. _ Published since 1948.

Clemmer, Donald (1940) 1958 The Prison Community. New York: Holt. _ The pioneer sociological study of a prison.

Conference Group on Correctional Organization 1960 Theoretical Studies in Social Organization of the Prison, by Richard Cloward et al. Social Science Research Council, Pamphlet 15. New York: The Council. _ Six essays by leading sociologists and a political scientist on the social structure of prisons and the relationship of prisons to society.

Cressey, Donald R. (editor) 1961 The Prison: Studies in Institutional Organization and Change. With contributions by Johan Galtung and others. New York: Holt. _ Sociological essays on prisons in the United States.

Freeman, Linton C ; and Winch, R. F. 1957 Societal Complexity: An Empirical Test of a Typology of Societies. American Journal of Sociology 62:461-466; 63:78-79. _ Objective evidence on the place of penal agencies on a scale of societal differentiation.

Giallombardo, Rose 1966 Society of Women: A Study of a Women’s Prison. New York: Wiley. _ One of the most systematic sociological analyses of a woman’s prison.

Glaser, Daniel 1964 The Effectiveness of a Prison and Parole System. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill. _ A major study of U.S. federal prisons and parole operations, with some comparative data from state systems.

Howard Journal. _ Published in Great Britain since 1921 by the Howard League, a pioneer penal reform organization.

Further Reading (Books 2)

International Review of Criminal Policy. _ Published annually since 1952 by the United Nations in English, French, and Spanish editions. Each issue generally deals with a specific problem in penology, with contributors from many countries. There are also detailed reports on international or regional meetings dealing with aspects of penology.

Mccorkle, Lloyd W.; Elias, Albert; and Bixby, F. Lovell 1958 The Highfields Story: An Experimental Treatment Project for Youthful Offenders. New York: Holt. _ An analysis of the Highfields innovation by its founders.

Mathiesen, Thomas 1965 The Defences of the Weak: A Sociological Study of a Norwegian Correctional Institution. London: Tavistock.

Prison Journal. _ Published since 1921. Official journal of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, an organization founded in 1787 and historically important for fostering the “Pennsylvania system” of prison management.

Rubin, SOL 1963 The Law of Criminal Correction. St. Paul, Minn.: West. _ A pioneer compilation and commentary on law regarding imprisonment, probation, fines, and parole.

Rusche, George; and Kirchheimer, Otto 1939 Punishment and Social Structure. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. _ A scholarly history stressing economic explanations for changes in penal policy.

Street, David et al. 1966 Organization for Treatment. New York: Free Press. _ An analysis of inmate and staff attitudes as functions of their social organization and of staff leadership goals, based on data from six youth correctional institutions.

Sykes, Gresham M. 1958 The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison. Princeton Univ. Press. _ A brilliantly written sociological analysis of a maximum-security prison, from the perspectives of the types of inmates most readily available as key informants.

Ward, David A.; and Kassebaum, Gene G. 1965 Women’s Prison: Sex and Social Structure. Chicago: Aldine. _ A penetrating study focusing especially on relationships between homosexual roles and social structure.

Weeks, H. Ashley (editor) 1959 Youthful Offenders at Highfields: An Evaluation of the Effects of the Shortterm Treatment of Delinquent Boys. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. _ The report of an evaluative study of Highfields conducted by a sociologist, with commentaries by two other sociologists, a psychiatrist, and a leader in correctional reform organizations.

Further Reading (Articles)

Canadian Journal of Corrections. _ Published since 1958 by the Canadian Welfare Council. Includes articles on a wide variety of criminological topics, including reports on probation and parole in Canada and elsewhere.

Chute, Charles L.; and Bell, Marjorie 1956 Crime, Courts and Probation. New York: Macmillan. _ The first half of this book is an authoritative history of the probation movement in the United States, in which the authors played leading parts. The remainder primarily states norms for various probation tasks.

Crime and Delinquency. _ Formerly published as the National Probation and Parole Association Journal. Published since 1955 by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Includes, in addition to articles and book reviews on aspects of probation and parole, annual reviews of “Developments in Correctional Law” and a synopsis of “Annual Reports” of probation and parole agencies.

Federal Probation. _ Published since 1937. Includes contributions to knowledge and opinion related to probation and parole by persons from many disciplines, digests of relevant articles in other periodicals, and a survey of news in corrections.

Glaser, Daniel 1964 The Effectiveness of a Prison and Parole System. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill.

Great Britain, Home Office 1963 The Organisation of After-care. London: H.M. Stationery Office. _ A critical account of British field services for parolees and probationers, including divergent views on their optimum administrative organization.

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Corrections in the Criminal Justice System

This section covers the topics below related with Corrections:

Detention

Corrections in relation with Corrections

Juvenile Justice

Corrections

Detention

Corrections in the Criminal Justice System

Corrections Background

Resources

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• Detention
• Corrections
• Juvenile Justice
• Corrections
• Detention