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Jail : Managing the Underclass in American Society by John Irwin (1985, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520055632

ISBN-139780520055636

eBay Product ID (ePID)4462841

Product Key Features

Book TitleJail : Managing the Underclass in American Society

Number of Pages168 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1985

TopicDiscrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Criminology

GenreSocial Science

AuthorJohn Irwin

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.2 in

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LCCN85-001155

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal365/.6/0979461

SynopsisCombining 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberHV8324.I79 1985