From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
Punishment in the New World
The Reformatory Movement
The Medical Treatment Model
Community Involvement
The Prisoners' Rights Movement

Corrections Today

Types of Incarceration
The Size and Cost of the Correctional Enterprise
The Problem of Overcrowding
Prison Culture and Society
Correctional Officers
Programs in Penal Institutions
Evaluation of Rehabilitation
Medical Problems: AIDS, TB, and Mental Illness
The Elderly Inmate
Women in Prison
Privatization of Corrections

Community Alternatives

Probation
Parole
The Search for Cost-Beneficial
Alternatives
Evaluation of Community
Alternatives

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