John Keith Irwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 9323213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Keith Irwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Irwin |
| SIGNATURE | IRWIN J K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society’s purposes of imprisonmen…
Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society’s purposes of imprisonmen…
Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society’s purposes of imprisonmen…
Attitudes (1 works) · conduct of life (1 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (1 works) · Criminals (1 works) · Geography (1 works) · Morale pratique (1 works) · Penology (1 works) · Prisoners (1 works) · Prisonniers (1 works) · Prisons (1 works)