Correctional contexts : contemporary and classical readings / Edward J. Latessa, Alexander M. Holsinger.

Includes bibliographical references.

History and purpose of punishment and imprisonment. The spectacle of suffering / Pieter C. Spierenburg -- The discovery of the asylum / David J. Rothman -- A look at prison history / Thorsten Sellin -- Partial justice: women, prisons, and social control / Nicole Hahn Rafter -- Sentencing in the United States / Lawrence F. Travis III -- Assessing the penal harm movement / Francis T. Cullen -- Living in prison. The prison community / Donald Clemmer -- Supermax prisons: panacea or desperation? / Rodney J. Henningsen, W. Wesley Johnson, and Terry Wells -- Relationships between inmates and guards / Victor Hassine -- Working in prison. A-block / Ted Conover -- Prison guard predators: an analysis of inmates who established inappropriate relationships with prison staff, 1995-1998 / Robert Worley, James W. Marquart, and Janet L. Mullings -- Job stress and burnout among correctional officers: a literature review / Wilmar B. Schaufeli and Maria C. W. Peeters -- Correctional policy and offender rights. The past and future of U. S. prison policy: twenty-five years after the Stanford prison experiment / Craig Haney and Philip Somebody -- The Supreme Court and prisoners' rights / Jack E. Call -- Sex offender laws: can treatment, punishment, incapacitation, and public safety be reconciled? / Mary Ann Farkas and Amy Stichman -- Experiences and attitudes of registered female sex offenders / Richard --

Offender programming and treatment. What works? Questions and answers about prison reform / Robert Martinson -- The principles of effective correctional programs / Don A. Andrews -- Recidivism of sex offenders / Tim Bynum, Madeline Carter, Scott Matson, and Charles Onley -- Identifying and treating the mentally disordered prison inmate / Eliot S. Hartstone, Henry J. Steadman, Pamela Clark Robbins, and John Monahan -- Psychopathy: etiology, diagnosis, and treatment / Gary Zajac -- Equal of equitable: an exploration of educational and vocational program availability for male and female offenders / Karen F. Lahm -- Beyond correctional quackery: professionalism and the possibility of effective treatment / Edward J. Latessa, Francis T. Cullen, and Paul Gendreau -- Reentry into the community. How to prevent prisoner reentry programs from failing: insights from evidence-based corrections / Shelley Johnson Listwan, Francis T. Cullen, and Edward J. Latessa -- Halfway houses / Edward J. Latessa, Lawrence F. Travis III, and Christopher T. Lowenkamp -- Welcome home? Examining the "reentry court" concept from a strengths=based perspective / Shadd Maruna and Thomas P. LeBel -- Parole violations and revocations in California: analysis and suggestions for action / Ryken Grattet, Joan Petersilia, Jeffrey Lin, and Marlene Beckman -- Putting public safety first: 13 strategies for successful supervision and reenty / PEW center on the states -- Contemporary issues. One in 100: behind bars in America in 2008 / PEW center on the states -- Social consequences of the war on drugs: the legacy of failed policy / Eric L. Jensen, Jurg Gerber, and Clayton Mosher -- "This man has expired": witness to an execution / Robert Johnson.