The Jail: Managing the Underclass in american society
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0520060326
ISBN 13
9780520060326
Category
Main Library
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Publication Year
1992
Publisher
Pages
168
Description
Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin argues that jail disorients and degrades and instead of controlling the disreputable, actually increases their number of helping to indoctrinate new recruits to the rabble class. In a forceful conclusion, Irwin addresses the issue of jail reform and the matter of social control demanded by society. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
