Lifers
Download or Read eBook Lifers PDF written by John Irwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : John Irwin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2010-03-17 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781135966294 |
| ISBN-13 | : 113596629X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Lifers by : John Irwin
Book excerpt: 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.
