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A condensed but equally compelling version of the best-selling corrections book on the market, AMERICAN CORRECTIONS IN BRIEF, 3rd Edition, introduces you to the dynamics of corrections in a way that captures your interest and encourages you to enter the field. Complete with valuable career-based material, insightful guest speakers who share their frontline perspectives, illuminating real-world cases, and uniquely even-handed treatment of institutional and community sanctions, the text examines the U.S. correctional system from the perspectives of both the corrections worker and the offender, providing you with a well-rounded, balanced introduction to corrections.

American Corrections in Brief

Part I: CORRECTIONAL CONTEXT.

1. What Is Corrections?

2. Punishment of Offenders.

Part II: CORRECTIONS IN THE COMMUNITY.

3. Jails.

4. Probation and Intermediate Sanctions.

5. Probation Supervision.

Part III: INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTIONS.

6. Prisons.

7. Prison Experience.

8. Management and Staffing.

9. Special Populations.

Part IV: CORRECTIONAL ISSUES.

10. Reentry and Community Supervision.

11. Legal Issues and the Death Penalty.

12. Juvenile Corrections.

13. Corrections Today and Tomorrow.