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Subject(s)

• Corrections [Browse]
• Prison administration [Browse]
• Correctional institutions—Administration [Browse]

Author

• Walsh, Anthony, 1941- [Browse]

• Walsh, Anthony, 1941- [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Foundations of corrections
• The philosophical and ideological underpinnings of corrections
• Early corrections : ancient times to colonial jails and prisons
• Correctional history : first early prisons through to corrections today
• Ethics and corrections
• The correctional system
• Sentencing: the application of punishment
• Jails and detention centers
• Special problem-solving courts in corrections
• Probation and intermediary sanctions
• Prisons and the correctional client
• Classification and assessment of offenders
• Correctional programming and treatment
• Parole and prisoner reentry
• Correctional administration
• Correctional organizations and their management
• The corrections experience for staff
• Correctional clients
• Women and corrections
• Minorities and corrections
• Juveniles and corrections
• Special topics in corrections
• Legal issues in corrections
• The death penalty
• Comparative corrections: punishment in other countries
• Corrections in the 21st century
• Glossary
• References
• Index
• About the authors.

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ISBN

• 9781483373379 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 1483373371 (paperback : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2016036987

OCLC

957133662

Other standard number

• 99971982520

RCP

C - S

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