TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walsh,John P.
TI  - The culture of urban control: jail overcrowding in the crime control era 
SN  - 9780739174654
AV  - HV9471 
U1  - 365/.34 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Jails
KW  - Overcrowding
KW  - United States
KW  - Corrections
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Surpopulation
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Services correctionnels
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Penology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index; From past to present: correctional system overcrowding and institutional reform -- Conditions of confinement: the social reality of the jail inmate -- The city within the city: altering population and space -- Expanding the jail into the community: growth, development and mutual interest -- Constructing the jail within local media: presenting expansion to the public -- The politics of local level punishment: presiding over the culture of control
N2  - Through an analysis of a federal consent decree and media representation related to overcrowding within the largest single-site jail facility in the United States, the incarceration binge of the 1990's is explored at the local level in The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era. Analysis of jail conditions, expansion, the inmate experience and changing correctional populations provide a narrative of the culture of control within the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago, Illinois.>
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