| Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison Contributor(s): Irwin, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415801680 ISBN-13: 9780415801683 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Social Science | Criminology - Social Science | Research |
| Dewey: 365.4 |
| LCCN: 2009008560 |
| Series: Criminology and Justice Studies (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.83 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment - an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society's purposes of imprisonment, and offenders' reformability. Through the lifers' stories, he reveals what happens to prisoners serving very long sentences in correctional facilities and what this should tell us about effective sentencing policy. |