Jeffreys Derek S. America`s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration 9781479838622

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Автор: Jeffreys Derek S.
Название: America`s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration
ISBN: 9781479838622
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Пенология и наказание

ISBN-10: 1479838624
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.49 кг.
Дата издания: 05.06.2018
Серия: Alternative criminology
Язык: English
Размер: 180 x 237 x 20
Ключевые слова: Prisons, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
Подзаголовок: The search for human dignity in an age of mass incarceration
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates

Twelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an annual basis. Jails, which differ significantly from prisons, are designed to house inmates for short amounts of time, and are often occupied by large populations of legally innocent people waiting for a trial. Jails often have deplorable sanitary conditions, and there are countless records of inmates being brutalized by staff and other inmates while in custody. Local municipalities use jails to institutionalize those whom they perceive to be a threat, so hundreds of thousands of inmates suffer from mental illness. People abandoned by families or lacking health insurance, or those who cannot afford bail, often cycle in and out of jails.

In Americas Jails, Derek Jeffreys draws on sociology, philosophy, history, and his personal experience volunteering in jails and prisons to provide an understanding of the jail experience from the inmates perspective, focusing on the stigma that surrounds incarceration. Using his research at Cook County Jail, the nations largest single-site jail, Jeffreys attests that jail inmates possess an inherent dignity that should govern how we treat them. Ultimately, fundamental changes in the U.S. jail system are necessary and Americas Jails provides specific policy recommendations for changing its poor conditions.

Highlighting the experiences of inmates themselves, Americas Jails aims to shift public perception and understanding of jail inmates to center their inherent dignity and help eliminate the stigma attached to their incarceration.

America`s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration, Jeffreys Derek S.