California Correctional System Study
Author : California. Board of Corrections
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Corrections
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Author : California. Board of Corrections
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Corrections
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Author : California. Board of Corrections. Human Relations Agency
Publisher :
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Corrections
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Author : California. State Board of Charities and Corrections
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Prisons
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Author : California. Correctional System Study. Juvenile Institutions Task Force
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Correctional institutions
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Author : California. Board of Corrections
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Prisons
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Author : James Gilligan
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Prison violence
ISBN : 0756706807
Author : California. Board of Corrections
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
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Author : Andrew J Dick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137564695
This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence? In political environments, solutions are typically pre-conceived, which means that the nature of the evidence collected is also preconceived. As a result, key assumptions about outcomes are often wished away to show improvement and be accountable. Through a detailed analysis interspersed with stories from the authors’ experiences “behind the wall” among California’s prison population, the authors challenge the nature of evidence-based research as used in the prison environment. In the process they describe the thorny problems facing reformers.
Author : Public Systems, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Arrest
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Author : Sheldon L. Messinger
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1610273583
This groundbreaking study of transitions and control in the California prison system has been extensively read, cited, and quoted in unpublished form—and is finally easily available worldwide. Already a compelling part of the canon of studies in penology, criminology, sociology, and organizational theory, this new edition of STRATEGIES OF CONTROL adds a 2016 foreword by Howard S. Becker and afterword by Jonathan Simon, both contributing substantive and meaningful views of this important work. Considered influential to two generations of scholars worldwide, Messinger's thesis examining prison systems' organization and reform—or in some ways, regression—is said to anticipate Erving Goffman's and Michel Foucault's writings on "total institutions" by many years, and raised themes that only years later would become influential in criminology and sociology. Its new digital edition features quality formatting, active Contents, linked notes and cross-references, and all of the tables and charts of the original study. Writing in the new foreword, Becker notes that this book is a "a masterful analysis of a systematically connected group of organizations, seeing them not as separate entities, but as a system whose organizational routines and peculiarities we couldn't understand if we didn't know their external connections as well as their internal workings." Its research methodology was painstaking: "The officials of the new system's components, especially the wardens of the individual prisons, had [many] questions on their minds. You couldn’t answer those questions by observing one of those prisons for a year or two." Not so in the author's decade of research leading up to this work. Indeed, Becker concludes, "Messinger's study provides the blueprint for more accurate and persuasive analyses of large organizations of every kind." Simon writes in the new afterword that this book remains "an important contribution to understanding the nature of imprisonment and more broadly to the study of punishment in modern society," providing "a crucial background for rethinking the recent history of prisons and particularly the rise of mass incarceration, which has seen the proliferation of multi-prison systems, extensions of bureaucratic management within prisons, and the abandonment of rehabilitation as a central justification for punishment." Simon adds: "Creating a sociological analysis for such a complex extended network required a break with traditional sociological thinking," and going further in "suggesting another analytic shift from studying the 'prison system' to studying the broad array of agencies and authorities that made up 'the correctional establishment.'" Policymakers, practitioners, and scholars who are interested in a better understanding of the relationship between correctional systems, their comprising organizational components, and practices will learn much from this study. It provides a truly original contribution to our sociological understanding of how formal organizations comprising a correctional system evolve and operate through a series of relationships ultimately producing control of the system itself, its prisons, and its inmates. Given the current focus on evidence-based justice, Messinger's documentation and unique interpretation of the organizational dynamics, interconnections, and dependencies within correctional systems are clearly relevant and crucial to the successful implementation of such “translational criminology” reforms. — Thomas G. Blomberg Dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology College of Criminology and Criminal Justice Florida State University Author, Advancing Criminology Part of the Classics of Law & Society Series from Quid Pro Books, this foundational book is at last available to a general audience, researchers, and students in eBook form. Also available in new paperback and hardcover editions (2016).