Todd R. Clear
Todd R. Clear is Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. He is currently involved in
studies of religion and crime, the criminological implications of "place," and the concept of "community
justice." He serves as founding editor of the journal Criminology and Public Policy. Previous writing covers
the topics of correctional classification, prediction methods in correctional programming, community-based correctional
methods, intermediate sanctions, and sentencing policy. Clear has been elected to national office in the American
Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He has served as a programming and policy
consultant to public agencies in over forty states and five nations, and his work has been recognized through several
awards, including those of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, The Rockefeller
School of Public Policy, the American Probation and Parole Association, and the International Community Corrections
Association. Clear is the author of three books on community justice: COMMUNITY JUSTICE (Cengage Learning), WHAT
IS COMMUNITY JUSTICE? (Sage), and THE COMMUNITY JUSTICE IDEAL (Westview). He is also author of IMPRISONING COMMUNITIES:
HOW MASS INCARCERATION MAKES DISADVANTAGED PLACES WORSE (Oxford University Press).
George F. Cole
George F. Cole is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He has been recognized
for outstanding teaching and research and in 1995 was named a Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
A specialist in the administration of criminal justice, he has published extensively on such topics as prosecution,
courts, and corrections. He developed and directed the graduate corrections program at the University of Connecticut
and was a Fellow at the National Institute of Justice (1988). Among his other accomplishments, he has been granted
two awards under the Fulbright-Hays Program to conduct criminal justice research in England and the former Yugoslavia.
He is co-author of several other Wadsworth criminal justice titles, including THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE,
Thirteenth Edition (with Christopher Smith and Christina DeJong); AMERICAN CORRECTIONS, Tenth Edition (with Todd
Clear and Michael Reisig); AMERICAN CORRECTIONS IN BRIEF (with Todd Clear, Michael Reisig, and Carolyn Petrosino);
and THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: POLITICS AND POLICIES, Ninth Edition (with Marc Gertz and Amy Bunger).
Michael D. Reisig
Michael Reisig is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. He received his
Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1996. Previously he was faculty member at Michigan State University and
Florida State University. His corrections research has appeared in several leading criminology journals, including
Criminology, Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Punishment and Society.
Summary
Take a look at the American corrections system from the perspective of the corrections worker and the offender
in AMERICAN CORRECTIONS, Eighth Edition. Comprehensive yet not overwhelming, the textbook covers both institutional
and community sanctions in a balanced way. High-profile corrections cases taken from recent headlines dramatize
real-life situations. You'll explore topics such as assisting felons during the re-entry process, reducing recidivism,
the death penalty, surveillance, and careers in corrections.
Table of Contents
Part I: THE CORRECTIONAL CONTEXT.
1. The Corrections System.
2. The Early History of Correctional Thought and Practice.
3. The History of Corrections in America.
4. The Punishment of Offenders.
5. The Law of Corrections.
6. The Correctional Client.
Part II: CORRECTIONAL PRACTICES.
7. Jails: Detention and Short-Term Incarceration.
8. Probation.
9. Intermediate Sanctions and Community Corrections.
10. Incarceration.
11. The Prison Experience.
12. Incarceration of Women.
13. Institutional Management.
14. Institutional Programs.
15. Release from Incarceration.
16. Making It: Supervision in the Community.
17. Corrections for Juvenile Offenders.
Part III: CORRECTIONAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES.
18. Incarceration Trends.
19. Race, Ethnicity, and Corrections.
20. The Death Penalty.
21. Surveillance and Control in the Community.
22. Community Justice.
23. American Corrections: Looking Forward.
Epilogue: American Corrections Today and Tomorrow.
Glossary.
Index.