TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thompson,Joel A.
AU  - Mays,G.Larry
ED  - Policy Studies Organization.
TI  - American jails: public policy issues
SN  - 083041262X (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HV9469 .A774 1991
U1  - 365/.973 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Nelson-Hall
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - Local
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Prison administration
N1  - "Published in conjunction with the Policy Studies Organization"--P. ii; Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-275) and indexes; The political and organizational context of American jails / G. Larry Mays and Joel A. Thompson -- Competing ideologies of jail confinement / Patrick G. Jackson -- Disaggregating jail use : variety and change in local corrections over a ten-year period / John M. Klofas --Exploring suicides and deaths by natural causes in America's large jails : a panel study of institutional change, 1978 and 1983 / L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., and John D. Wooldredge -- Mental health services for jail inmates : imprecise standards, traditional philosophies, and the need for change / David Kalinich, Paul Embert, and Jeffrey Senese -- Public policy issues in the delivery of mental health services in a jail setting / Jeanette M. Jerrell and Richard Komisaruk; AIDS in jail / James E. Lawrence and Van Zwisohn -- The politics of jail overcrowding : public attitudes and official policies / Wayne N. Welsh ... [et al.] -- The expansion of jail capacity : makeshift jails and public policy / Michael Welch -- Changing jail organization and management : toward improved employee utilization / Eric D. Poole and Mark R. Pogrebin -- The new generation jail : an overview / Linda L. Zupan and Ben A. Menke -- Jail inmate litigation in the 1990s / Dean J. Champion -- Removing juveniles from adult jails : the unfinished agenda / Ira M. Schwartz -- Managing the crisis in local corrections : a public-private partnership approach / Norman R. Cox, Jr., and William E. Osterhoff; Paying the piper but changing the tune : policy changes and initiatives for the American jail / Joel A. Thompson and G. Larry Mays
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