Prisons in America: A Reference Handbook

A handy source for basic statistics on prisoners, penal trends, and programs and services in America's prisons. Prisons in America covers such important subjects as punishment in the United States since colonial times; the most critical penal problems today; units for special populations; key penologists, and more. This work is a source for basic statistics on prisoners, penal trends, programs, services, and more. Listings of professional organizations and print and nonprint resources are also included.

• | Author: Nicole Hahn Rafter
• | Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• | Publication Date: Nov 04, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 242 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1576071022
• | ISBN-13: 9781576071021