Lifers Seeking Redemption in Prison

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
John Irwin
ISBN:
9781135966294
Related ISBNs:
9780415801683
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2018-01-17
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2009
Copyright by:
Taylor 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology