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PATHFINDER: HOT TOPICS:
PRISON REFORM
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals,
Journals & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
Scope: The United States
houses over 2.2 million people in prisons and jails.
Alternative solutions are being investigated for those
prisoners incarcerated for non-violent crimes.
Overcrowding and inhumane conditions are becoming the
norm. There is a definite need for prison reform.
Support is growing for more rehabilitation programs as
well as a bipartisan proposal to help ex-inmates stay
out of prison. (CQ Resarcher April 6, 2007)
There are sources located in the Reference Section of
the Baddour Library that give a general overview or
summary of the topic you are researching. The following
is a list of some of the sources available in the
library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REFHV9471.S54 2003 The Encyclopedia of American Prisons
REF HV7921.E53 2005 Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
CQ Researcher Prison Reform April 6, 2007 (online
database)
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Imprisonment—United States
Prisons—United States
Imprisonment—Social Aspects—United States
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Barman, Donald.
Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Family Life
in Urban
America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
2004.
Gabriel, Craig.
Prison Conversations: Prisons at the Washington State
Reformatory Discuss Life, Freedom, Crime and Punishment.
Arroyo Grande, Calif: Teribooks, 2005.
Jacobson, Michael.
Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass
Incarceration. New York: New York University Press,
2005.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list of full-text journals in our
databases in:
Law Politics & Government
Criminal Law & Procedure-U.S.
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency
WEB SITES
Pace Law School Library
http://www.library.law.pace.edu/research/prison_reform_revisited.html
Updated
06/13/2007
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