University Publishing Association / American University Press
Pages: 270
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-879383-27-2 • Hardback • September 1994 • $115.00 • (£88.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
John Roberts is the Historian and Archivist for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Norval Morris is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology and a former Dean at the University of Chicago Law School.
Wonderful book! Must reading for not only criminologists but for people both in the physical and social sciences.
— Julius Debro, University of Washington
This history is of tremendous social interest...The authors have told their stories with clarity and enlivened them with anecdotes and contemporary quotations. The book has an accessible style; it is illustrated and presented well.
— Julius Debro, University of Washington; Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
This book will be of value to policy analysts and correctional administrators as well as sociologists and prison historians...its value is in the demand that it places on the reader and on government to define a mission for federal corrections distinctfrom the states, free of moral trendiness, and sensitive to the expenditure of scarce public resources.
— Julius Debro, University of Washington; Criminal Justice Review
The contributing authors have accurately captured the spirit and style of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
— W. Hardy Rauch, American Correctional Association
The contributing authors have accurately captured the spirit and style of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
— W. Hardy Rauch, American Correctional Association
Wonderful book! Must reading for not only criminologists but for people both in the physical and social sciences.
— Julius Debro, University of Washington
This history is of tremendous social interest...The authors have told their stories with clarity and enlivened them with anecdotes and contemporary quotations. The book has an accessible style; it is illustrated and presented well.
— Julius Debro, University of Washington; Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
This book will be of value to policy analysts and correctional administrators as well as sociologists and prison historians...its value is in the demand that it places on the reader and on government to define a mission for federal corrections distinct from the states, free of moral trendiness, and sensitive to the expenditure of scarce public resources.
— Julius Debro, University of Washington; Criminal Justice Review