Why American prisons fail: how to fix them without spending more money (maybe less)
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENT S XI
INTRODUCTION
XIII
NOTES
XV
CHAPTE R 1
MASS
INCARCERATION 3
CAUSES
OF
MASS
INCARCERATION 3
THE
BABY
BOOM 5
GIVING
UP ON REHABILITATION 9
THE WAR ON DRUGS 12
MANDATORY
MINIMUMS
16
THE GET TOUGH MOVEMENT 18
CRIME DECLINED BUT INCARCERATION CONTINUED TO
RISE
19
INCAPACITATION 20
END OF THE
BABY
BOOM 20
MORE
EFFECTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT 21
ABORTION
ON DEMAND 21
LESS
LEAD IN THE ENVIRONMENT 22
DECLINING
CRACK
COCAINE
USAGE
23
CRIME IS GOING
DOWN;
DOES
THE PUBLIC KNOW
THAT?
24
THE END OF
MASS
INCARCERATION? 24
RECIDIVISM: THE ULTIMATE METRIC 26
CONCLUSION 27
WHERE DO WE GO FROM
HERE?
28
NOTES 28
CHAPTER 2
GEORGE
GOES
TO
JAIL
35
NOT
YOUR TYPICAL JAILBIRD 35
A
KNOCK AT THE DOOR 37
ACCUSED 39
UNITED
STATES
V.
GEORGE
H.
WATSON
42
PREPARING FOR PRISON 44
V
VI
CONTENT S
GEORGE
GOES
TO JAIL 45
WATSON
GOES
TO CAMP 55
WATSON
GOES
TO WORK 61
KEEPING BUSY 66
WATSON LEARNS PRISON CULTURE 67
BUREAUCRACY BEHIND
BARS
70
REAL
MEN
STAY
IN PRISON 72
GEORGE
GOES
HOME 74
CONCLUSION 76
NOTES 77
CHAPTER 3 WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? WHY
PEOPLE
COMMIT
CRIMES AND
HOW
AMERICA PUNISHES THEM 79
WHY
DO
PEOPLE
COMMIT CRIMES? 79
CRIMINOLOGY
101 80
PRECLASSICAL
THEORY 81
CLASSICAL THEORY 81
CLASSICAL THEORY AND RATIONAL CHOICE 82
POSITIVIST
THEORY 84
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES 86
SOCIAL CONFLICT THEORIES 87
STRAIN THEORY 87
SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY 88
INTEGRATIVE
THEORIES 89
MULTIFACTOR
THEORY 90
LIFE
COURSE THEORY 90
WHY
DO WE
INCARCERATE?
91
INCAPACITATION 91
DETERRENCE 93
RETRIBUTION
94
REHABILITATION,
REFORMATION, AND REENTRY
WITH
REINTEGRATION 96
REHABILITATION
96
REFORMATION
97
REENTRY
WITH
REINTEGRATION 98
RESTORATIVE
JUSTICE
100
A
HISTORY OF U.S. PRISONS 101
THE PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEM 102
THE
AUBURN
SYSTEM 102
SOUTHERN PRISONS IN THE
SECOND
HALF
OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 104
CONTENTS
VI I
THE NATIONAL PRISON ASSOCIATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF
PRISON REFORM 105
THE REFORMATORY 106
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY S BIG HOUSE 107
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 109
PRISONS EVOLVE INTO CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS 110
NOTHING
WORKS AND
MASS
INCARCERATION 110
PRISONS TODAY 110
CONCLUSION 112
NOTES 112
CHAPTER 4 IS THERE A
BETTER
WAY IN NORWAY? THE U.K.? 117
UNITED
STATES
AS OUTLIER 117
AMERICANS LIKE TO PUNISH 120
PUNITIVITY
IS PARTLY POLITICS 121
PUNITIVITY
IS PARTLY SOCIOLOGICAL 123
COMPARING
APPLES AND ORANGES: DEFINITIONAL PROBLEMS 124
DEFINITIONAL
PROBLEM #1: DEFINING CRIME AND MEASURING
ITS OCCURRENCE 124
DEFINITIONAL
PROBLEM # 2: INCARCERATION
RATES
126
LOOKING
ELSEWHERE 131
NORWAY:
21
YEARS
FOR
MASS
MURDER 132
THE UNITED KINGDOM: CAUTIONING 132
SPAIN: FAMILY SOLUTIONS 133
DENMARK:
LEAST POSSIBLE
INTERVENTION 133
RECIDIVISM, THE ULTIMATE PRISON METRIC 134
INCARCERATION AS DETERRENT TO CRIME 134
THE DUTCH WAY 134
NORWAY,
AGAIN 136
GERMANY: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION 138
ENGLAND AND WALES: INDEPENDENT
MONITORING
BOARDS 138
FRANCE:
CORRECTIONS
JUDGES
139
SCOTLAND: SHORT-TERM
SENTENCES
VERSUS COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS 139
THE U.S. VS. OTHER WESTERN DEMOCRACIES: LOCK EM UP VERSUS
LET EM OUT 140
TOCQUEVILLE REVISITED 141
CONCLUSION 141
NOTES 143
VIII
CONTENT S
CHAPTE R 5 POLITICS AND PRISONS 147
THE
ROLE
OF
FEAR
147
OVERLAPPING
LAWS 148
OVERCRIMINALIZATION
151
OVERCRIMINALIZATION:
DRUG-FREE
SCHOOLS
152
OVERCRIMINALIZATION:
HABITUAL OFFENDER
STATUTES
153
LACK OF INTENT 154
VOID
FOR
VAGUENESS
158
SENTENCING
CONCERNS
160
MANDATORY
MINIMUMS
161
PAROLE 165
THE SIXTH AMENDMENT S RIGHT TO
TRIAL
BY JURY: WHAT HAPPENED? 166
GRAND
JURIES
169
CONCLUSION 172
NOTES 172
CHAPTER 6 AS
PROSECUTORS
SAY, FOLLOW THE MONEY :
PRISONS AND PROFITS 177
PRIVATE PRISONS AND INCARCERATING FOR PROFIT 177
FAILURE IS THE
BEST
OPTION: RECIDIVISM DRIVES PRIVATE
PRISON PROFITS 180
RECIDIVISM ISN T ENOUGH; THEY NEED MORE CRIMINALS 182
PREYING ON THE WEAK 183
CHERRY PICKING: OPTIMAL CONDITIONS MEAN MAXIMUM PROFITS 184
PRISONS ARE ALSO
REVENUE
STREAMS
FOR GOVERNMENT ENTITIES 186
PRISONS AS EMPLOYERS 187
PLENTY OF PRISONERS MEANS JOB SECURITY 188
PRISONS AND
JAILS
AS PROFIT CENTERS: VENDORS 190
SUPPORTING
CRIMINALIZATION
AS A
BUSINESS
STRATEGY 193
ALEC
194
CONCLUSION 195
NOTES 196
CHAPTER 7 LET S FIX THE PROBLEM 203
OVERCRIMINALIZATION
203
WE CALL OUR LEGISLATORS LAWMAKERS FOR A
REASON;
BUT DO
WE NEED
ALL
THESE
LAWS?
204
THE COLORADO MODEL 206
DECRIMINALIZATION
207
DRUG
LAWS 209
CONTENTS
IX
MANDATOR Y
MINIMUMS
211
LIFE
SENTENCES 211
DIVERSION
FROM
PRISON
213
COMMUNITY
CORRECTIONS
214
INTENSIVE SUPERVISED PROBATION
215
DRUG
COURTS
215
MENTAL
HEALTH COURTS
216
VETERANS
TREATMENT COURTS
217
PRISONS
218
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
220
PROGRAMMING
220
CHOICE
ARCHITECTURE
221
SUBSTANCE
ABUSE TREATMENT
222
COGNITIVE
BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
222
EDUCATION
223
LITERACY
224
ADULT
BASIC
EDUCATION
224
SECONDARY
EDUCATION
224
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
AND JOB READINESS
TRAINING
224
ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING
225
COLLEGE
225
PRISONS
AND
PROFITS:
A
HORRIBLE IDEA
227
JUVENILES:
ALMOST
ALL
OF
THEM
WILL
GET OUT 229
LIFE
AFTER PRISON
232
REINTEGRATION
232
EARNING
A
LIVING
233
CONCLUSION
235
NOTES
235
BIBLIOGRAPHY
243
INDEX
245
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