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Rethinking America’s Correctional Policies
Commonsense Choices from Uncommon Voices
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2017
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Commonsense Choices from Uncommon Voices:Rethinking America’s Correctional Policies brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. This work combines a voyeuristic desire to observe “evil” and the consequences of the system of punishment, with detached consideration of what those stories can tell us about who we are as a nation and how we treat those who have betrayed the social trust. The authors simultaneously examine first-person accounts of inmate experiences with the correctional system and what actually, works, in operation, to promote the rehabilitative and restorative models of justice so many of our policymakers espouse. Each chapter opens with a vignette, a recollection of an event or series of events, about an inmate’s experience during the various phases of correctional processing. These first-hand accounts have been collected from men who served time in prison. These men’s stories are examined in their own right, then extrapolated to a broader analysis of the underlying social and policy issues to which that vignette speaks. All chapters follow the same structure: (a) opening vignette about a former inmate; (b) analysis, which includes (i) identification of the underlying issue; (ii) reflection; and (iii) extrapolation to a larger policy issue; and (c) recommendations from the field for enacting practice and crafting policy more responsive to the identified issue.
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Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-3040-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-3041-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
273
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Plea Bargaining and Using Children to Coerce Cooperation No access
Chapter Two: Children at Arrest No access
Chapter Three: An Alford Plea Conundrum No access
Chapter Four: Time Fades to Grey No access
Chapter Five: The Yard Ball Paradox No access
Chapter Six: Vernon Can’t Read No access
Chapter Seven: Doing the Schizophrenic Shuffle No access
Chapter Eight: Abe’s Abscess No access
Chapter Nine: Deliberate Indifference or Indifferently Deliberate No access
Chapter Ten: End of Life Care No access
Chapter Eleven: Walking Around Money and the Bus to Nowhere No access
