{"product_id":"the-jail-john-irwin-9780520277342","title":"The Jail: Managing the Underclass in American Society","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, \u003ci\u003eThe Jail \u003c\/i\u003eremains an extraordinary account of the role jails play in America's crisis of mass incarceration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Irwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520277341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520277342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"John Irwin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946700046591,"sku":"9780520277342","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_993eec64-a0ac-4e65-affa-491f3c4e31e4.jpg?v=1681514634","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-jail-john-irwin-9780520277342","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}