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Jail : Managing the Underclass in American Society

By Jonathan Simon , John Irwin

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0520277341, 978-0-520-27734-2, 9780520957459, 0520957458, 9781299841031, 1299841031, 978-0-520-06032-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
42 MB (44321555 bytes)
Edition
First Edition, With a New Foreword by Jonathan Simon
Pages
176\178
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Jails -- Social aspects -- California -- Case stud

Description

Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, indoctrinating new recruits to the rabble class. In a forceful conclusion, Irwin addresses the issue of jail reform and the matter of social control demanded by society. Reissued more than twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Jonathon Simon, The Jail remains an extraordinary account of the role jails play in America’s crisis of mass incarceration.

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