American Corrections: Concepts and Controversies
Second Edition
Learning Objectives
- To understand some of the early forms of punishment and see how current forms stem from them.
- To understand how crime control has been rooted in social class and control of the underclasses.
- To grasp some of the penal inventions that have supported economic developments, such as colonization of the New World.
- To be able to discuss how prison labor has supported economic enterprises at various times in Western history.
- To understand the philosophic basis of the Quaker approach to early institutions of confinement in the United States.
- To be able to describe the thinking behind the Auburn System and the ideas of Zebulon Brockway and explain why they represented a departure from the thinking that preceded them.
- To grasp how the civil rights movement of the 1960s affected the criminal justice system.
- To explain the main influences on the demise of the rehabilitative ideal during the 1970s and 1980s.
- To review significant changes in corrections policy in the past two decades.