The culture of urban control : jail overcrowding in the crime control era / John P. Walsh.

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Walsh, John P, 1966-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 185 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780739174654
0739174657

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture of urban control.DDC classification:

365/.34 23

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HV9471

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.

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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.>

English.

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