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Reforming punishment : psychological limits to the pains of imprisonment
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Reforming punishment : psychological limits to the pains of imprisonment / Craig Haney.
ISBN
1591473179
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2006.
Physical Description
xxii, 386 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 09, 2007
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction: Humane values, psychology, and the pains of imprisonment
Human nature and the history of imprisonment
Spreading pain : the punitive state and the state of the prisons
Attribution error as crime control and prison polict
Context matters : social history
Surviving the social context of prison
overcrowding and the situational pathologies of prison
Special needs prisoners in extremis
Prison law and the disregard of context
Limiting prison pain : a psychologically informed corrections agenda
Toward a rational prison policy.
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