In this Book
- The Jail: Managing the Underclass in american society
- Book
- 1985
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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 jail disorients and degrades and instead of controlling the disreputable, actually increases their number of helping to indoctrinate 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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Tables
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-17
- 1 Managing Rabble
- pp. 1-17
- 2 Who Is Arrested?
- pp. 18-41
- 3 Disintegration
- pp. 42-52
- 4 Disorientation
- pp. 53-66
- 5 Degradation
- pp. 67-84
- 6 Preparation
- pp. 85-100
- 7 Rabble, Crime, and the Jail
- pp. 101-118
- Bibliography
- pp. 135-140
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520908406
Related ISBN(s)
9780520055636
MARC Record
OCLC
45730728
Pages
168
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No