Incarcerating Criminals

This text is part of the Readings in Crime and Punishment series, a line of readers covering many aspects of the criminal justice, police, and correctional systems. Incarcerating Criminals look at our prisons and jails, situating them in their social and institutional environments. It will be an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in criminal justice and criminology, sociology, public policy, and other disciplines looking at our
correctional institutions.