Reforming punishment : psychological limits to the pains of imprisonment

Reforming punishment : psychological limits to the pains of imprisonment / Craig Haney.

Author/creator	Haney, Craig
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©2006.
Description	xxii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Imprisonment--United States. Imprisonment--Psychological aspects. Prisons--United States. Punishment--United States.

Series	The law and public policy Law and public policy. ^A467900
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN	2005014480
ISBN	1591473179

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HV9471 .H33 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold