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Author Walsh, John P., 1966-

Title The culture of urban control : jail overcrowding in the crime control era / John P. Walsh
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

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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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Subject Jails -- Overcrowding -- United States
Corrections -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Corrections
Jails -- Overcrowding
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021675710
ISBN 9780739174654
0739174657