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A groundbreaking guide to the correctional system′s present and future goals, policies, and practices

This accessible book identifies and evaluates the major competing theories used to guide the goals, policies, and practices of the correctional system. The authors demonstrate that changes in theories can legitimize changing ways of treating and punishing offenders, and they help readers understand how changes in the social and political context of U.S. society impact correctional theory and policy. Designed to motivate readers to become sophisticated consumers of correctional information, the book emphasizes the importance of using evidence-based information to guide decisions, rather than relying on nonscientific commonsense or ideology-based beliefs.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Preface
• 1 From Theory to Policy: Evidence-Based Corrections
• 2 Correctional Theory in Crisis: America's Changing Context
• 3 Just Deserts: Doing Justice or Getting Tough?
• 4 Deterrence: Scaring Offenders Straight
• 5 Incapacitation: Locking Up the Wicked
• 6 Restorative Justice: Reintegrative Shaming
• 7 Rehabilitation: What Works to Change Offenders
• 8 Early Intervention: Saving Children From a Life in Crime
• 9 Four Correctional Lessons: Choosing Our Future
• References
• Index
• About the Authors

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Francis T. Cullen is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, where he also holds a joint appointment in sociology. He received a Ph.D. (1979) in sociology and education from Columbia University. Professor Cullen has published over 275 works in the areas of criminological theory, corrections, white-collar crime, public opinion, and the measurement of sexual victimization. He is author of Rethinking Crime and Deviance Theory: The Emergence of a Structuring Tradition and is coauthor of Reaffirming Rehabilitation , Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond , Criminology ,

Combating Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work , Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women , and Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences . He also is coeditor of Contemporary Criminological Theory , Offender Rehabilitation: Effective Correctional Intervention , Criminological Theory: Past to Present--Essential Readings , Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory , The Origins of American Criminology , and the Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory . Professor Cullen is a Past President of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Cheryl Lero Jonson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Northern Kentucky University. She received a Ph.D. (2010) in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. She is co-editor of The Origins of American Criminology . Her published work has appeared in Criminology and Public Policy , Crime and Justice: A Review of Research , and Victims and Offenders. Her current research interests include the impact of prison on recidivism, sources of inmate violence, the use of meta-analysis to organize criminological knowledge, early intervention and crime prevention, and work-family conflict among law enforcement officials