Convict Criminology

, by Ross, Jeffrey Ian; Richards, Stephen C.

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CONVICT CRIMINOLOGY is a collection of chapters written by criminologists, half of whom are ex-convicts. The book includes provocative discussions of rehabilitation, recidivism, drug addiction, life inside different prison systems, transincarceration, discrimination against felons, fathers in prison, and children in adult jails. The book merges autobiographical stories with criminological research to introduce a convict perspective that includes new ideas, vocabulary, and policy recommendations. CONVICT CRIMINOLOGY is a comprehensive text that covers all major topics related to prison life, prisoner reentry to the community, and research on prisons, in an engaging, thought-provoking style.

Foreword

xiv

Todd R. Clear

Preface

xvii

John Irwin

Acknowledgments

xxiii

Contributors

xxiv

Introduction: What is the New School of Convict Criminology?

(1)

Jeffrey Ian Ross

Stephen C. Richards

Theoretical and Historical Grounding

(1)

Theoretical Developments in Criminology

(1)

Victimology and Constitutive Criminology

(1)

The Failure of Prisons

(1)

Prisoners' Rights Movement

(1)

Inside Perspective

(1)

Centrality of Ethnography

(1)

Current Initiatives

(1)

Defining the New School of Convict Criminology

(1)

Collaborative Nature

(1)

Inclusion Criteria

(1)

Who Are the Convict Authors?

(2)

The Preeminence of John Irwin

(1)

Criminologists Commit Crime Too

(1)

Objectives of Convict Criminology

(1)

Issue-Based Nature of Convict Criminology

(1)

Questions Asked and Answered by This Book

(1)

Conclusion: Development and Support of Critical Criminological Perspectives

(3)

I WHAT'S WRONG WITH CORRECTIONS?

(62)

The Use of Science to Justify the Imprisonment Binge

(20)

James Austin

The Role of Science in Advocating Criminal Justice Policy

(1)

Research-Based ``Think Tanks''

(1)

Federal Control of Research Dollars

(1)

Criteria for Assessing Research

(1)

The Major Studies

(10)

The Numbers Do Not Add Up

(1)

Conclusion: Who's Afraid of the Bogeyman?

(3)

(Mis) Representing Prisons: The Role of Our Cultural Industries

(22)

Jeffrey Ian Ross

The Importance of Mythmaking about Crime, Criminal Justice, and Corrections

(4)

Why Are Myths about Corrections Successful?

(2)

The Contribution of Cultural Industries

(11)

Conclusion

(4)

Why I Study Prisons: My Twenty-Year Personal and Professional Odyssey and an Understanding of Southern Prisons

(18)

Marianne Fisher-Giorlando

Introduction: A White Female Yankee Ph.D. in Prison

(1)

Early Biographical History

(1)

College, Graduate School, and Divorce between 40 and 42

(1)

Teaching in Prison, the End or the Beginning?

(1)

Prisoners Teach the Teacher

(1)

A Gift from Prisoners: My Dissertation

(2)

Research in Prison

(1)

Women in the Louisiana State Penitentiary: The Road to the Angolite Office

(1)

Brief History of Southern Prisons

(2)

Angola and Two Days in the Angolite Office

(2)

Invitation to Corrections Professionals

(1)

Opportunities in Prison: Visitation and Support

(1)

Guest Lecturers

(1)

Community Service

(1)

Traditional Prison Volunteer Groups

(1)

Conclusion: An Invitation

(3)

II CONVICT EXPERIENCE AND IDENTITY

(150)

Comments and Reflections on Forty Years in the American Criminal Justice System

(14)

Edward Tromanhauser

The Criminal Act in Perspective

(1)

American Criminologists

(1)

Theories about the Origins or Etiology of Criminal Behavior

(1)

Why Did I Become a Criminal?

(1)

Crime and the Law

(1)

Corrections in America

(1)

Does Sending More People to Prison Reduce Crime?

(1)

Criminologists and Public Policy

(1)

Prison as a Black Box

(2)

Why Do People Return to Prison?

(1)

A Typical Parole Story

(1)

Reentry Problems: Three Basic Needs

(1)

Conclusion: What I Have Learned

(2)

From C-Block to Academia: You Can't Get there From Here

(25)

Charles M. Terry

Prison Social Worlds, Meanings, and Reference Groups

(1)

My Life before Prison

(1)

My Early Years in Prison

(1)

Early Years on Parole

100

(1)

Move to Oregon

101

(1)

The Oregon State Penitentiary: My Last Prison Sentence

101

(1)

Personal Transformation through College Education

102

(3)

My Last Parole

105

(1)

Narcotics Anonymous

106

(1)

Employment? Before School Ordeals

107

(1)

Starting Community College

108

(1)

A Convict Goes to University

109

(1)

Graduate School: ``Making It'' with a Little Help from My Friends

110

(1)

Attending Criminology and Criminal Justice Conferences

111

(2)

Assistant Professor

113

(1)

All in a Day's Work: From the Belly of the Ivory Tower to the Heart of the Inner City

114

(1)

Insidious Consequences of the Prison Experience: Cohorts as Evidence

115

(2)

Conclusion

117

(3)

My Journey Through the Federal Bureau of Prisons

120

(30)

Stephen C. Richards

Prison Education

122

(1)

University Education

122

(1)

Introduction: Journey through the Federal Gulag

123

(2)

The Federal War on Drugs

125

(1)

Take Down: Catching a Federal Case

125

(1)

Conspiracy Convictions

126

(1)

Sting Operations

127

(1)

Exorbitant Bail Is Used to Force Cooperation

127

(1)

Informers

128

(1)

Standing Up to Federal Prosecution

129

(1)

Doing Federal Jail Time

130

(3)

Transport to and within the Federal Gulag

133

(2)

Federal Bureau of Prisons

135

(1)

Brief Description of Federal Prison Institutions

136

(2)

Prisoner Classification and Demographics

138

(1)

BOP Central Inmate Monitoring System

139

(2)

Federal Prisoner Typology

141

(1)

Heroes or Criminals?

142

(2)

Doing Time as a Prisoner of the U.S. Government

144

(1)

Federal Convict Perspective

145

(2)

A Few Stories of Prisoner Resistance

147

(1)

Conclusion: Enemies of the State

148

(2)

Rehabilitating Criminals: It Ain't that Easy

150

(20)

Greg Newbold

``Nothing Works''

152

(1)

New Zealand: A Case Study in Liberalism

152

(1)

Doing Time at Paremoremo

153

(2)

The Modern Correctional System

155

(1)

Comparing New Zealand with the United States

156

(1)

The Effectiveness of New Zealand's Correctional Measures

157

(2)

Why Do Corrections Fail?

159

(5)

So Why Have Prison Programs?

164

(3)

Example of Humane Treatment

167

(1)

Conclusion

168

(2)

``Who's Doing the Time Here, Me or My Children?'' Addressing the Issues Implicated by Mounting Numbers of Fathers in Prison

170

(21)

Charles S. Lanier

Genesis

172

(1)

From Questions to Questionnaires

173

(1)

Importance and Scope

174

(1)

``What'' Do We Know and ``When'' Did We Know It

175

(6)

New Directions, New Inspiration

181

(1)

Future Study

182

(2)

The Eastern Fathers' Group: Mugged by the System

184

(2)

The Easy Part

186

(5)

Excon: Managing a Spoiled Identity

191

(18)

Richard S. Jones

Exconvict

192

(1)

The Making of an Inmate

193

(2)

From the Inside Looking Out

195

(3)

Problems of Reentry

198

(1)

My Experience with Reentry

198

(1)

Employment?

199

(1)

Graduate School

200

(2)

Assistant Professor

202

(1)

Associate Professor

203

(1)

Convict Criminology Authors in This Volume

203

(5)

Conclusion: The Moral of This Story

208

(1)

Convict Criminology: The Two-Legged Data Dilemma

209

(18)

Alan Mobley

Northeast Ohio Corrections Center, Youngstown, Ohio

210

(3)

CCA Therapeutic Community

213

(4)

College Educated in Federal Prison

217

(1)

Back to CCA Youngstown

218

(1)

Criminology and ``The White Man's Burden''

218

(1)

The Power to Name

219

(1)

Shifting Paradigms: Abstract Empiricism

220

(1)

Sound Bite Scholarship and the Court of Public Opinion

220

(1)

Doing Something about Crime

221

(1)

Privatization and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Prisons

221

(2)

Conclusion

223

(4)

III SPECIAL POPULATIONS

227

(120)

Understanding Women in Prison

231

(16)

Barbara Owen

Feminist Criminology

235

(1)

Women and Imprisonment in the 1990s

236

(2)

The Context of Women's Lives

238

(1)

The Contemporary Women's Prison: Problems and Unmet Needs

239

(2)

Studying Women's Prison Culture

241

(4)

Conclusion

245

(2)

Aspirin Ain't Gonna Help the Kind of Pain I'm in: Health Care in the Federal Bureau of Prisons

247

(20)

Daniel S. Murphy

Methodology

248

(1)

The Right to Timely and Adequate Medical Care

248

(2)

U.S. DOJ Policy Statements: Medical Care in the FBOP

250

(1)

Symbolic Medical Care

251

(2)

Reality of Medical Care at Federal Medical Centers: Voices from Within

253

(1)

Politically Rationed Health Care in the FBOP

254

(3)

Guerilla Health Care Techniques: Self-Survival

257

(2)

The (Un)Compassionate Release Process

259

(1)

Prison Population Explosion: Strains on the FBOP Health Care Delivery System

260

(4)

Conclusion and Recommendations

264

(3)

Convict Criminology and the Mentally Ill Offender: Prisoners of Confinement

267

(20)

Bruce A. Arrigo

Constitutive Criminological Theory: An Overview

269

(5)

Three Case Studies on Confinement: An Ethnography

274

(6)

Constitutive Theory, the Mentally Ill Offender, and Convict Criminology: An Application

280

(4)

Implications, Future Research, and Conclusions

284

(3)

Soar Like an Eagle, Dive Like a Loon: Human Diversity and Social Justice in the Native American Prison Experience

287

(22)

William G. Archambeault

Human Diversity among America's Indigenous Peoples

289

(1)

Ethnic Legal Labels and Their Effects

290

(3)

Criminological Research on Native Americans

293

(2)

Native American Prison Experiences

295

(4)

Native American Prisoner Role Schema

299

(4)

Conclusion

303

(6)

Twenty Years Teaching College in Prison

309

(16)

William S. Tregea

Many Prisoners Are Ready for College

310

(2)

Prison College Is a Program That Works

312

(1)

A Teacher's Reflections on a Prison Career

313

(4)

Adjunct Teaching Conditions in Prison College Programs

317

(1)

Winning Battles, but Losing the War: Prison College Undercut by ``Big Politics''

318

(1)

Convict Perspectives on Issues in Prison Higher Education

319

(1)

Prisoner Graduation Ceremonies Reflect Crises

319

(2)

Quality Prison College Includes Mechanisms Proven to Lower Recidivism

321

(1)

Toward Funding Quality Prison Postsecondary Programs

321

(2)

Conclusion

323

(2)

Kids in Jail: ``I Mean You Ain't Really Learning Nothin [Productive]''

325

(22)

Preston Elrod

Michael T. Brooks

The Research Methodology

327

(1)

The Research Setting

328

(1)

An Examination of the Social World of Adolescent Prisoners

329

(1)

The Control of Prisoners

330

(2)

Chickenshit Rules

332

(1)

Prisoner Resistance

333

(1)

Inconsistency in Prisoner Management

334

(1)

Conflict within the Jail

335

(3)

Disoriented and Disconnected

338

(3)

Rehabilitation and Debilitation

341

(2)

Conclusion

343

(4)

CONCLUSION: AN INVITATION TO THE CRIMINOLOGY/CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY

347

(7)

Stephen C. Richards

Jeffrey Ian Ross

Authors in this Book

347

(1)

Paying Our Respects to the Convict Authors Still in Prison

348

(1)

Reforming Criminology and Criminal Justice

349

(1)

An Invitation to Join Us: Changing Corrections

350

(4)

References

354

(31)

Index

385

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