The jail : managing the underclass in American society

The jail managing the underclass in American society

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 ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Irwin, John (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press [2013]
Subjects:
Jails > Social aspects > California > Case studies.
Prisoners > California > Case studies.
Prison psychology.
alienation.
american class system.
american jails.
american prison system.
american society.
arrested persons.
attorney.
big city jail.
class system.
convicted felons.
convicted.
criminal justice.
criminology.
discrimination.
human condition.
incarceration.
inequality.
inmates.
jail reform.
jails.
lock up.
mass incarceration.
poverty.
prison reform.
prison system.
prison.
prisons.
rabble class.
racism.
social control.
social science.
sociology.
underclass rabble.
united states of america.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798216606719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Managing Rabble
  • 2. Whols Arrested?
  • 3. Disintegration
  • 4. Disorientation
  • 5. Degradation
  • 6. Preparation
  • 7. Rabble, Crime, and the Jail
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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