The Modern Prison Paradox
Politics, Punishment, and Social Community
- Author: Amy E. Lerman, Princeton University, New Jersey
- Date Published: August 2013
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107041455
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In The Modern Prison Paradox, Amy E. Lerman examines the shift from rehabilitation to punitivism that has taken place in the politics and practice of American corrections. She argues that this punitive turn has had profoundly negative consequences for both crime control and American community life. Professor Lerman's research shows that spending time in America's increasingly violent and castigatory prisons strengthens inmates' criminal networks and fosters attitudes that increase the likelihood of criminal activity following parole. Additionally, Professor Lerman assesses whether America's more punitive prisons similarly shape the social attitudes and behaviors of correctional staff. Her analysis reveals that working in more punitive prisons causes correctional officers to develop an 'us against them' mentality while on the job, and that the stress and wariness officers acquire at work carries over into their personal lives, straining relationships with partners, children, and friends.
Read more- Engages theoretical questions about the role of the state in shaping social and civic life
- Makes use of two novel research designs to go beyond a purely descriptive argument about the effects of prison
- Shows how features of the prison environment work to create fragmented social groups and breed inter-group hostility and distrust
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- Date Published: August 2013
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107041455
- length: 308 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- contains: 31 b/w illus. 3 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The modern prison paradox
2. Symbolic politics, crime control, and the punitive team
3. Public policy, punishment, and the creation of fractured community
4. The culture and consequence of prison institutions: the case of California
5. The social effects of incarceration
6. The social effects of prison work
7. From individuals to communities
8. Criminal justice, community, the road to reform
9. Epilogue (or: how I went to Berkeley and wound up in prison).
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