Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more troubling considering that its correctional population is overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans, and Latinos.
Not only throwing crucial light on matters involving race and social class, this book also identifies and examines the key social forces shaping penal practice in the US - politics, economics, morality, and technology. By attending closely to historical and theoretical development, the narrative takes into account both instrumental (goal-oriented) and expressive (cultural) explanations to sharpen our understanding of punishment and the growing reliance on incarceration.
Covering five main areas of inquiry - penal context, penal populations, penal violence, penal process, and penal state - this book is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate students interested in undertaking a critical analysis of penology.
- ISBN10 129999377X
- ISBN13 9781299993778
- Publish Date 20 May 2014 (first published 14 October 2013)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 767
- Language English