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The Jail
John Irwin
其他書名
Managing the Underclass in American Society
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2013-09-14
主題
Law / Jurisprudence
Social Science / Criminology
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Penology
Social Science / Discrimination
ISBN
0520277341
9780520277342
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=y7MwDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, indoctrinating new recruits to the rabble class. In a forceful conclusion, Irwin addresses the issue of jail reform and the matter of social control demanded by society. Reissued more than twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Jonathon Simon,
The Jail
remains an extraordinary account of the role jails play in America’s crisis of mass incarceration.