Patuxent Institution: An American Experiment in Corrections (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820457673)

Vendor: Christina Dejong
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Format: Paperback
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Patuxent Institution: An American Experiment in Corrections

$44.00

Patuxent Institution: An American Experiment in Corrections

$44.00
Format: Paperback
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Is rehabilitation dead in American corrections? This socio-political analysis of the fifty-year history of Patuxent Institution, a treatment-oriented maximum security prison in Maryland, studies the organizational challenges faced by this unique American prison, and the social and political forces that work to ensure its survival.

Author: Christina Dejong,Coldren
ISBN-10: 0820457671
ISBN-13: 9780820457673
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2004
Pages: 219
Format: Paperback
By Christina Dejong
By Christina Dejong
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The Author: James R. Coldren, Jr. is the sixth president of the John Howard Association in Chicago, Illinois, a 103-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to improving the conditions of confinement in corrections facilities, as well as to fair, humane, and effective sentencing and correctional policies. Dr. Coldren received his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago, and his B.A. in sociology from Rutgers University. He is an applied researcher in criminal and juvenile justice, and has worked in numerous research and educational capacities for the past several decades.

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