Includes bibliographical references and index.

Impact of Incarceration on Families and Communities / Nancy Rodriguez, Jillian J. Turanovic -- The Two Cultures / Alison Liebling, Deborah Kant -- Measuring and Explaining Inmate Misconduct / Benjamin Steiner -- Prison Riots / Bert Useem -- Drugs and Prisons / Michael Wheatley, John R. Weekes, Andrea E. Moser, Kathleen Thibault -- A Comparison of British and American Policies for Managing Dangerous Prisoners / Roy D. King -- Adult Offender Assessment and Classification in Custodial Settings / James Bonta Ph.D., J.S. Wormith Ph.D. -- Who Goes to Prison? / Daniel P. Mears, Joshua C. Cochran -- Principles of Effective Intervention with Incarcerated Offenders / Claire Goggin -- Employment and Vocation Programs in Prison / Paula Smith, Lindsey M. Mueller, Ryan M. Labrecque -- Treating Sex Offenders in Prison / Devon L. L. Polaschek, Kristina M. Blackwood -- The Multiple Faces of Reentry / Susan Turner -- Implementing Prison-based Treatment Programs / James McGuire -- Preventing Suicide in Detention and Correctional Facilities / Robert D. Canning, Joel A. Dvoskin -- Offenders with Mental Illness in Prison / Sarah M. Manchak, Robert D. Morgan -- The Problem of Incarcerating Juveniles with Adults / Jodi Lane, Lonn Lanza-Kaduce -- The Effect of Prisons on Crime / Sarah Tahamont, Aaron Chalfin -- Mass Incarceration and Conditions of Confinement / Leo Carroll, Sharon Calci, Amber Wilson -- Private Prisons in a New Environment / Scott D. Camp -- Policy and Program Innovations in Prisons / Faye S. Taxman, Brandy Blasko -- Useful versus Harmful Prison Policies / John Wooldredge -- A General Model of Harm in Correctional Settings / Nancy Wolff -- The Imprisonment Boom of the Late Twentieth Century / Mona Lynch, Anjuli Verma -- Understanding the Contours of Prison Disciplinary Procedures / James Marquart, Chad Trulson -- The Effects of Administrative Segregation / Paul Gendreau, Ryan M. Labrecque -- Exploring Imprisonment across Cross-national Contexts / Paul Mazerolle, John Rynne, Samara McPhedran -- Theories of Mass Incarceration / Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear -- Subcultural Adaptations to Incarceration / Ben Crewe, Ben Laws -- The Real Gangbanging is in Prison / Scott H. Decker, David Pyrooz -- Women in Prison / Emily M. Wright, Calli M. Cain.

The Oxford Handbook on Prisons and Imprisonment provides a rich source of information on institutional corrections around the world, covering the most critical issues facing both inmates and prison staff. The contributors offer theoretically informed and critical discussions of these issues that facilitate more objective and realistic assessments of related problems and their possible solutions. Included are updated discussions of the always popular topics such as conditions of confinement and prisoner subcultures and topics that have taken or are destined to take greater priority in the field such as inmate victimization, special offender populations, prison programs, prisoner re-entry, and privatization.

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