Corrections Today,
5th Edition

Part I: THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM: HOW AND WHY WE CORRECT.
1. The Correctional System.
2. Sentencing and the Correctional Process.
Part II: TYPES OF CORRECTIONAL SANCTIONS.
3. Community Corrections: Diversion and Probation.
4. Intermediate Sanctions and Restorative Justice.
5. Jails and Houses of Correction.
6. Prisons.
Part III: LIVING IN AND LEAVING THE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION.
7. The Prison Experience: Gender in Prisons.
8. Prisoners' Rights.
9. Correctional Programs and Services.
10. Parole and Release to the Community.
Part IV: ISSUES IN CORRECTIONS.
11. Special Prison Populations.
12. Capital Punishment and the Death Row Inmate.
13. The Juvenile Offender.

• Rimonda Maroun

  Rimonda R. Maroun, Ph.D., completed her doctoral work at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and is currently a faculty member in the criminal justice department at Endicott College. Her primary research interests include evidence-based treatment modalities in corrections, juvenile justice policy and practice, and race and ethnicity across the justice system from initial contact to sentencing and correctional treatment. Her recent monograph, Contextual Characteristics in Juvenile Sentencing, examines the impact of community characteristics, specifically concentrated disadvantage, on juvenile court outcomes. Dr. Maroun has a passion for challenging students to think critically about how they can have a positive effect on the criminal justice system, no matter what career path they take.

• Larry J. Siegel

  Larry J. Siegel was born in the Bronx, New York. While living on Jerome Avenue and attending City College in the 1960s, he was swept up in the social and political currents of the time. He became intrigued with the influence contemporary culture had on individual behavior: Did people shape society or did society shape people? He applied his interest in social forces and human behavior to the study of crime and justice. After graduating from CCNY, he attended the newly opened program in criminal justice at the State University of New York at Albany, where he earned both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. After completing his graduate work, Dr. Siegel began his teaching career at Northeastern University, where he was a faculty member for nine years. After leaving Northeastern, he held teaching positions at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire and the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where he taught for 27 years; he is now a professor emeritus. Dr. Siegel has written extensively in the area of crime and justice, including books on juvenile law, delinquency, criminology, criminal justice, courts, corrections and criminal procedure. He is currently completing a book on policing in America. He is a court-certified expert on police conduct and has testified in numerous legal cases. The father of four and grandfather of three, he and his wife, Terry, now live in Naples, Florida, where he continues to write on various topics and issues in crime and justice.

• Clemens Bartollas

  Clem Bartollas, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at the University of Northern Iowa. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Davis and Elkins College, a Bachelor of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, a Master of Sacred Theology from San Francisco Theological Seminary, and a doctorate in sociology with a special emphasis in criminology from Ohio State University. He has taught at Pembroke State University, Sangamon State University and the University of Northern Iowa, where he has received a number of honors, including Distinguished Scholar, the Donald McKay Research Award, and the Regents' Award for Faculty Excellence. Dr. Bartollas is the author of numerous articles and more than 30 texts.

• New and expanded coverage of hot topics includes discussions of the following: the increase in the use of private prisons and new policies to reduce privatization in the field of corrections, restorative justice programs, re-entry programs, alternatives to incarceration, the effect of correctional technologies on recidivism, prison overcrowding, special offender populations, mental health issues, COVID-19, changes in sentencing guidelines, policies to protect incarcerated transgender individuals and more.

• Consolidation of the previously separate chapters on male and female prisons to encompass gender in prisons makes the 5th Edition more inclusive and more focused. The text features 13 chapters organized into four logical parts.

• The "Voices Across the Professions" feature showcases experiences and profiles of current working corrections professionals who discuss what it's like to work in the field of corrections. This feature, which presents interviews with the professionals, is now more thoroughly integrated throughout the text, and most are completely new to this edition. Profiles include a juvenile probation/parole specialist, a correctional officer at a large jail, a housing unit correctional officer at an all-female prison and a parole officer/former hostage negotiator.

• The new MindTap for the text offers customizable content, course analytics, an eBook and an applied learning experience -- all within your current learning management system. MindTap prepares students to make the kind of reasoned, real-world decisions they will need to make as future professionals. With an array of assets, including concepts clearly linked to learning objectives and Bloom's Taxonomy levels, MindTap is perfectly suited for today's criminal justice students -- engaging them, guiding them toward mastery of basic concepts and advancing their critical thinking abilities.

• Gripping, current high-profile cases are the subject of the text's real-life chapter opening vignettes, which capture student interest and encourage reading. Chapter six, for example, depicts a recent high-profile prison escape in which a man serving life for killing someone with a bomb explosion uses battery acid to deteriorate the window-frame of his cell.

• "TechnoCorrections" boxes provide comprehensive information about the latest technologies in corrections. Topics include using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to mimic the capabilities of human beings and the use of electronic monitoring to reduce the recidivism of individuals involved in gang-related crime, sex offenses or intimate partner violence.

• "Evidence-Based Corrections" boxes highlight evidence-based policies and practices in the field of corrections. For example, chapter one highlights Project BUILD, a violence prevention curriculum designed to help youth in detention overcome problems they may face in their communities, such as gangs, crime and drugs.

• Careers in corrections are highlighted in every chapter with such features as "Voices Across the Professions," which includes interviews of working professionals, and "Thinking Like a Corrections Professional" activities that challenge students to think critically and solve problems about dilemmas a corrections professional is likely to face on the job.

• "Correctional Life" inserts give students a firsthand glimpse of what it is like "inside" prisons of the past or the present. Provocative "Myth/Fact" boxes present popular myths (i.e., prison rehabilitation efforts are a failure) followed by a fact that has been supported by research in the field. These features are designed to generate lively discussion and debate in the classroom.

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