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Introduction to Corrections
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Introduction to Corrections

Fourth Edition


December 2022 | 696 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Introduction to Corrections provides students with a comprehensive foundation of corrections that is practitioner-driven and grounded in modern research and theoretical origins. Experienced correctional practitioner, scholar, and author Robert D. Hanser shows students how the corrections system works, from classification, security, and treatment, to demonstrating how and why correctional practices are implemented. The Fourth Edition includes a special emphasis on the role of technology in each chapter; new topics on medical care in jail, female drug offenders, and controversies around the death penalty; and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on correctional practices. Data and examples drawn from federal government documents, along with exercises that reinforce concepts in the text, further aid student learning.

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PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF CORRECTIONS
 
Chapter 1: Early History of Punishment and the Development of Prisons in the United States
 
Chapter 2: Ideological and Theoretical Underpinnings to Sentencing and Correctional Policy
 
Chapter 3: Correctional Law and Legal Liabilities
 
PART II: CORRECTIONAL PRACTICES
 
Chapter 4: Jail and Detention Facilities
 
Chapter 5: Probation
 
Chapter 6: Intermediate Sanctions
 
Chapter 7: Facility Design to Meet Security and Programming Needs
 
Chapter 8: Classification and Custody Levels
 
Chapter 9: Prison Subculture and Prison Gang Influence
 
Chapter 10: Immigration Detention Centers
 
Chapter 11: Female Offenders in Correctional Systems
 
Chapter 12: Specialized Inmate Populations
 
Chapter 13: Juvenile Correctional Systems
 
Chapter 14: Correctional Administration
 
Chapter 15: Prison Programming
 
Chapter 16: Parole, Reentry, and Case Management
 
PART III: ISSUES AND TRENDS IN CORRECTIONS
 
Chapter 17: The Death Penalty
 
Chapter 18: Program Evaluation, Evidence- Based Practices, and Future Trends in Corrections
 
Glossary
 
References
 
Index

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