Reforming punishment psychological limits to the pains of imprisonment
Craig Haney.
- 1st ed.
- Washington, DC American Psychological Association c2006.
- xxii, 386 p. ill. 26 cm.
- The law and public policy .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Humane values, psychology, and the pains of imprisonment -- Human nature and the history of imprisonment -- Spreading pain : the punitive state and the state of the prisons -- Attribution error as crime control and prison polict -- Context matters : social history -- Surviving the social context of prison -- overcrowding and the situational pathologies of prison -- Special needs prisoners in extremis -- Prison law and the disregard of context -- Limiting prison pain : a psychologically informed corrections agenda -- Toward a rational prison policy.
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Imprisonment--United States. Punishment--United States. Prisons--United States Imprisonment--Psychological aspects.