Corrections (Justice Series), 3rd Edition

Corrections provides a brief, affordable, visual introduction to the field

• Introduce students to evidence-based practices. Evidence-based practices are important to determine what programs are most effective with offenders from a practical standpoint. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based practices in all areas of corrections throughout the text.
• NEW: Offer first-hand accounts of correctional issues. Written by both former correctional practitioners or offenders, seven original Voices in Corrections essays provide readers with a unique viewpoint to various correctional issues (see Chapters 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10).
• Spark interest and promote critical thinking about chapter concepts.
  • UPDATED: Chapter Openers present a current event or story related to chapter content followed by a discussion question. New Chapter Openers connect students with current correctional theory and correctional practice.
    • Chapter 1 examines how recent changes in decriminalization and closing of prisons are reducing prison population numbers.
    • Chapter 4 examines futuristic technology.
    • Chapter 5 explains the overarching goals of community corrections, and the benefits of community supervision over incarceration.
    • Chapter 9 applies the rehabilitation goal of corrections as it relates to special needs offenders.
  • UPDATED: Chapter-opening vignettes keep students apprised of current events and issues. New chapter-opening vignettes are included in:
    • Chapter 1 (California’s attempt to reduce prison populations through realignment and Proposition 47)
    • Chapter 5 (Ethan Couch, affluenza teen who violated probation)
    • Chapter 8 (Inmate escapes aided by correctional officer Joyce Mitchell in New York and a volunteer teacher at the Orange County jail)
    • Chapter 9 (Owen Labrie, a student from a private prep school who was convicted of a sex offense)
• Link theory to practical applications. Theories of punishment are introduced early and connected to correctional policies and best practices. Students can remember theories better when they understand how they are applied to real situations and issues.
• Ground students with historical context. Discussions include the historical foundation for critical thinking on contemporary correctional policy initiatives. Issues include reducing risk, decreasing prison violence, improving prisoner reentry, prisoner rights, and narrowing death penalty discretion.
• Emphasize the similarities and differences of the correctional supervision of men and women. Students learn about the treatment of men vs. women in proper context, with information about women offenders and female correctional staff integrated throughout the book, rather than in one specific chapter.
• Motivate students with engaging writing. The clear, easy-to-read writing style is designed to tell a story about corrections. Students will be interested in the content, motivated to explore the topic further, and apply course content to everyday events.
• UPDATED: Appeal to visual learners. Engaging graphics, tables, charts, and other visual elements flow with the text, provide context, and promote student engagement, recall, and understanding. Over 20 figures and tables are either new or have the most updated information available.

Provide the most current coverage possible. All chapters in the text reflect the most cutting-edge research in the field, including the latest statistics (over 20 figures and tables are either new or updated) and the most current cases available at the time of publication.

• NEW: Chapter 1 includes a separate section on “Preadjudication Diversion” to better differentiate diversion from postsentencing outcomes.
• NEW: The “Corrections in the Twenty-First Century” section in Chapter 3 includes new public opinion data and updated state reforms.
• UPDATED: Chapter 4 expands the section on determinate and indeterminate sentencing to include the concept of structured sentences (and now includes a new figure showing each system by state). It also contains a new section (including a new timeline) on trends in state and federal sentencing–including thousands of federal prisoners being released in 2015.
• UPDATED: Chapter 5 expands the discussion of problem-solving courts to include drug courts and veterans’ courts.
• UPDATED: Statistics and information relevant to jail population characteristics, “Jails in Indian Country,” and “Jailing the Mentally Ill” is updated in Chapter 6. Material on women involved in the criminal justice system has been expanded and a new figure describes “ten things we know about women in jails.”
• NEW: Chapter 7 has a brand new section entitled “Segregation and Solitary Confinement” to allow for extended discussion of special housing units and to explain why this type of confinement is so controversial today. The chapter includes a new figure depicting who spends time in segregation.
• NEW/UPDATED: Chapter 8 has a new section highlighting misconduct behaviors while incarcerated, updated information on the way that security threat groups are structured, an updated table on prison gangs, and a more detailed explanation of the importation model.
• UPDATED: Chapter 9 has updated material on prison visitation.
• UPDATED: Chapter 10 contains completely updated information on reentry programs and the use of education and vocational programs in prison, along with the latest research on community reparation boards.
• UPDATED: To reflect important changes occurring across the country to minimize the collateral impact of a felony conviction, new material has been added in Chapter 11, to include the “Invisible Punishment” section and “Restoring Civil Rights Following a Conviction.” New subsections on individual restoration methods and systemic relief methods have been added. State compliance with the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act as well as state felon voting laws have been updated.
• UPDATED: Chapter 12 includes an expanded discussion of how the Atkins v. Virginia decision has been implemented by states and whether mentally ill persons have been executed. A new Think About It feature has been added to bring attention to how executions may affect prison employees.
• UPDATED: Chapter 13 features information on changes to state juvenile transfer laws and now includes the 2016 USSC decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana in the end-of-chapter Case.
• UPDATED: Chapter 13 reviews research findings on the effects of applying criminal sanctions on juvenile offenders with a new Figure. Figure 13—1 has been updated to include Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire among the states with an upper age of 17. The teen courts section has been considerably expanded and updated. Information has been added on changes to state juvenile transfer laws. The 2016 USSC decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana has been added to The Case at the end of the chapter.
• UPDATED: Chapter 14 expands the performance-based measures and justice reinvestment initiatives, including replacing the case study with more specific details about the justice reinvestment initiative in Kansas. It also includes a new Smart on Crime initiative section that postulates where the corrections system may be headed in the future.

Encourage active participation through critical-thinking features and learning tools

• Help students retain the major ideas of the chapter. Each chapter has 4-7 clearly-identified Learning Outcomes that are directly tied to course content and are summarized at the end of each chapter, making it easy to locate explanations or find review material for a particular topic. Learning Outcomes quickly identify the most important concepts that students will retain long after the course has ended.
• Promote critical thinking with contemporary examples. Think About It features highlight interesting stories or facts, and pose questions related to chapter content, promoting discussion and application.
• Encourage students to apply chapter concepts. Each chapter presents one Case–a story, situation, or program example that poses analytical discussion questions related to chapter content, promoting critical thinking and application of chapter concepts.
• Offer students a helpful, easy-to-use, study and review tool. Review Questions encourage students to discuss topics in small groups. Instructors can also use these as writing assignments.
• Extend learning with chapter-specific resources and links. Media/Interactive Learning Web Links are included at the end of each chapter.
• Support teaching and learning. An author-created instructor’s manual with suggested lecture topics and class activities is available. The PowerPoint lecture and test bank questions highlight key concepts and themes in the text.

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