Frank Schmalleger,
University of North Carolina, Emeritus John Smykla,
University of South Alabama---Mobile
ISBN: 0072968354 Copyright year: 2005
New to this Edition
A completely revised Table of Contents. The 16 chapters were reordered and grouped into five thematic parts to better reflect the flow of events through the corrections subsystem and to give students and instructors five readily identifiable subject areas for study.
Feature articles provided by the Corrections Connection News Network (CCNN) exclusively for this textbook and "Reflections on the Future" essays written specifically for this edition by well-known corrections practitioners and scholars.
A new chapter: "Special Prison Populations: The Elderly, HIV/AIDS and the Mentally Challenged." This chapter brings focus to the discussion of special populations in corrections.
Updated material. Updates address the goals of punishment, the impact of terrorism on facility management, criminal sentencing, jails, prison classification systems, prison reform, professional credentialing, ethics, prisoner re-entry, mentoring services for parolees, correctional technologies, prison security threat groups (gangs), social diversity in corrections (including the imprisonment of women and minorities), capital punishment, and faith-based correctional programs. The discussions dealing with sentencing reform and restorative and retributive justice have been significantly expanded.
High-profile events and cases from today’s headlines used to introduce each chapter. They include John Walker Lindh’s trial and imprisonment; actor Charlie Sheen’s drug convictions and resulting court-ordered probation; the arrest and sanctioning of actress Winona Ryder for shoplifting; and the release from death row of Kirk Bloodsworth--the first person in the U.S. to be cleared of a capital murder charge after DNA testing proved his innocence.
A number of recent court decisions. These include Apprendi v. New Jersey (U. S. Supreme Court, 2000), which brought into question the fact-finding authority of judges in making sentencing decisions; Atkins v. Virginia (U. S. Supreme Court, 2002), which held that executing mentally retarded persons violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments; Booth v. Churner (U.S. Supreme Court. 2001), which upheld a requirement under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) that state inmates must “exhaust such administrative remedies as are available” before filing a suit over prison conditions; Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko (U.S. Supreme Court, 2001), which limited the applicability of federal civil liability standards to private corporations acting under color of federal law; and more.
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