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Prisons and prison systems : a global encyclopedia

Author

Roth, Mitchel P., 1953-

Title

Prisons and prison systems : a global encyclopedia / Mitchel P. Roth.

Format

Book

Published

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.

Description

xxxv, 351 p. ; 27 cm.

URL

<Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005018722.html

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p.[337]-343) and index.

Contents

• Alphabetical list of entries
• Topical list of entries
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chronology
• The encyclopedia
• Appendix A: Prison museums
• Appendix B: Some famous prisoners and their prison history
• Appendix C: Writings by prisoners
• Appendix D: Writings by prison employees
• Appendix E: Prison architects and visionaries
• Appendix F: United States Federal correctional institutions (FCIs)
• Appendix G: Standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners
• Appendix H: Selections from Alcatraz Prison regulations
• Appendix I: National Prison Congress Declaration of principles (1870)
• Appendix J: The Mutual Welfare League
• Appendix K: Plan for a penitentiary inspection house, by Jeremy Bentham
• Appendix L: General prison argot and slang
• Appendix M: French prison slang from Devil's Island
• Appendix N: Soviet slang from the gulags.

Subject headings

Prisons--Encyclopedias. Imprisonment--Cross-cultural studies--Encyclopedias. Prisons--History--Encyclopedias. Prisoners--Biography--Encyclopedias. Prisons--Officials and employees--Biography--Encyclopedias.

ISBN

0313328560 (alk. paper) 9780313328565 (alk. paper)