Imprisonment

This text is part of a publishing initiative that aims to bring together the most significant contemporary published journal essays in criminology, criminal justice and penology. The series aims to make available to researchers and students of criminology an extensive range of essays which provide an overview of theories and findings in this developing field. The topics addressed in this book include, the characteristics of total institutions, thoughts on the sociology of criminal justice, the problem of prison overcrowding, questions of prison reform and whether prison works, and the racial disproportion in prisons.