Lifers
Seeking Redemption in Prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19920186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Irwin (0000-0001-9187-7294), J A G Irwin (0000-0002-0489-1045, corresponding author), John Keith Irwin |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 140 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison, Thomas G Blomberg, 2010 |
| Venue | Lifers (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203876220 |
| OpenAlex | W4250179160 |
| Open Library | OL39256439M |
| ISBN | 9780203876220 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
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 imprisonment, and offenders’ reformability. Through the lifers’ stories, he reveals what happens to prisoners serving very long sentences in correctional facilities and what this should tell us about effective sentencing policy
Geography · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Attitudes · conduct of life · Criminals · Morale pratique · Penology · Prisoners · Prisonniers · Prisons · rehabilitation · Réhabilitation · Social Science · united states
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Where "Old Heads" Prevail
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |