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A comprehensive overview of American penology covering practices, historical precedents, ideologies, changing attitudes, system descriptions, and trends in prison management, as well as noteworthy penal literature. The entries are alphabetically arranged in a concise dictionary format and are cross-referenced to clarify the more technical penal terminology. There is a brief description of each state prison system and major components of the federal system are discussed. Entries include administrative structure, components of the adult and juvenile inmate populations in their respective institutions, and operating budgets for an indication of current costs and capital expenditure budgets for furture expansion costs to corrections systems.

The dictionary provides an overview of a broad variety of topics in American penology. Each entry is followed by complete references and cross references to clarify technical terminology of penology. The entries give essential information about the administrative structure, adult and adolescent population in respective institutions, and both operating budgets for current costs and capital budgets for future expansion for interstate comparison. Other entries include program description, ideology, techniques, and a historical perspective of American prisons.

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• Preface
• Dictionary of American Penology
• Appendix A Selected List of Prison-Reform Organizations
• Appendix B Prison System Addresses
• Appendix C Selected Statistical Tables from
• United States Justice Department
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Bibliography
• Index

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CHOICE Review

As Williams (criminal justice, Univ. of Alabama) notes, the US prison population has increased fivefold since the original publication of this dictionary in 1979. This edition drops 28 entries (primarily concerned with the currently unfashionable concepts of treatment and rehabilitation) and adds more than 40 entries reflecting contemporary issues in penology: AIDS, legal rights of inmates, house arrest, etc. Entries retained from the first edition have been revised (too often only minimally) and their brief bibliographies updated. Coverage of the federal correctional system (overview, prison camps, etc.) is expanded, and Williams provides concise information on the correctional system of each state, drawn from the American Correctional Association's annual directory of juvenile and adult institutions. Noteworthy are the absence of entries on prison gangs and the controversial notion of parole (dropped from this edition). Appendixes include a select list of prison-reform organizations, prison systems addresses, and some 212 pages of tables lifted from publications of the US Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics. Libraries holding the 1979 edition may wish to replace it with this revision. D. K. Frasier; Indiana University-Bloomington

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VERGIL L. WILLIAMS is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama.