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Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional expose, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The contributors to this volume struggle with this central question and its broader and narrower ramifications. Some argue that despite the problems facing the practice of incarceration as punishment, a professional ethic for prison officers and staff can be constructed and implemented. Others, however, despair of imprisonment and even punishment, and reach instead for alternative ways of healing the personal and communal breaches constituted by crime. The result is a provocative contribution to practical and professional ethics.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics
• Author: John Kleinig, Margaret Leland Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780742501843
• ISBN: 0742501841
• ID: 04903917
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 360 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 154 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. August 2001

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