The jail : managing the underclass in American society

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Full Title:: The jail : managing the underclass in American society / John Irwin ; with a new foreword by Jonathan Simon

Related/Included Titles:: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Tables --
Foreword --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
1. Managing Rabble --
2. Whols Arrested? --
3. Disintegration --
4. Disorientation --
5. Degradation --
6. Preparation --
7. Rabble, Crime, and the Jail --
Appendix --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index

Subjects:: Jails--Social aspects--California--Case studies
Prisoners--California--Case studies
Prison psychology

Table of Contents:: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Managing Rabble -- 2. Whols Arrested? -- 3. Disintegration -- 4. Disorientation -- 5. Degradation -- 6. Preparation -- 7. Rabble, Crime, and the Jail -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary:: 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 rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, indoctrinating 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. Reissued more than twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Jonathon Simon, The Jail remains an extraordinary account of the role jails play in America's crisis of mass incarceration.
Language:: English
Language Note:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (177 p.)
General Note:: Description based upon print version of record.