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 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.
Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
176 pages
Language
English
Published
Sep 14, 2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Editions
3 editions
ISBN-10
0520957458
ISBN-13
9780520957459