Reforming punishment : psychological limits to the pains of imprisonment / Craig Haney.

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2006.

59871

Imprisonment -- United States.

Punishment -- United States.

1. Humane values, psychology, and the pains of imprisonment

2. Human nature and the history of imprisonment

3. Spreading pain: the punitive state and the state of prisons

4. Attribution error as crime control and prison policy

5. Context matters: social history, circumstance, and crime causation

6. Surviving the social context of prison measuring prison pain

7. Overcrowding and the situational pathologies of prison

8. Special needs prisoners in extremis

9. Prison law and the disregard of context

10. Limiting prison pain: a psychologically informed corrections agenda

11. Toward a rational prison policy.

Craig Haney uses modern psychological theory to examine issues at the heart of American prison systems and to argue that current prison policies are ineffective and harmful.

Inlcudes bibliographical references and index.

9781591473176

xxii, 385 p. ; 26 cm