This is the first of three papers reporting the results of the MacArthur Treatment Competence
Study, a project designed to develop reliable and valid information with which to address …

In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state
prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

The Culture of Control charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that
have occurred in Britain and America over the last 25 years. It then explains these …

From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact
of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities …

As historians of crime and violence have largely come to agree, urban life in the past was
more rather than less violent. Imprisonment rates in the United States fluctuated within a …

The thesis of this paper is that the most important and interesting aspects of community life
are by their very nature paradoxical; and that our task as researchers, scholars, and …

The first edition of Sexual Conduct, published in 1973, swiftly became a landmark text in the
sociology of sexuality. It went on to profoundly shape the ideas of several generations of …

The new penology is found among criminal justice practitioners and the research
community. Even the seemingly coherent command of legislatures and governors to" …

Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society.
Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison …