The Prison: Policy and Practice

by Gordon Hawkins

Book Overview

Despite lethal explosions of violence from within and critical assaults from without, it seems certain that prisons will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. Gordon Hawkins argues that certain key issues which attend the use of imprisonment as a penal method must be dealt with realistically. Beginning with a discussion of the ideology of imprisonment and the principal lines of criticism directed at it, Hawkins examines such issues as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226320006
• ISBN13: 9780226320007
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"