Description |
1 online resource (ix, 185 pages) |
Contents |
From past to present: correctional system overcrowding and institutional reform -- Conditions of confinement: the social reality of the jail inmate -- The city within the city: altering population and space -- Expanding the jail into the community: growth, development and mutual interest -- Constructing the jail within local media: presenting expansion to the public -- The politics of local level punishment: presiding over the culture of control |
Summary |
Through an analysis of a federal consent decree and media representation related to overcrowding within the largest single-site jail facility in the United States, the incarceration binge of the 1990's is explored at the local level in The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era. Analysis of jail conditions, expansion, the inmate experience and changing correctional populations provide a narrative of the culture of control within the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago, Illinois.> |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
Subject |
Jails -- Overcrowding -- United States
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Corrections -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Corrections
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Jails -- Overcrowding
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021675710 |
ISBN |
9780739174654 |
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0739174657 |
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