A dictionary of United States military terms; prepared for joint usage of the Armed Services.

1. The corrections system -- 2. The early history of correctional thought and practice -- 3. The history of corrections in America -- 4. The punishment of offenders -- 5. The law of corrections -- 6. The correctional client -- 7. Jails: detention and short-term incarceration -- 8. Probation -- 9. Intermediate sanctions and community corrections -- 10. Incarceration -- 11. The prison experience -- 12. Incarceration of women -- 13. Institutional management -- 14. Institutional programs -- 15. Release from incarceration -- 16. Making it: supervision in the community -- 17. Corrections for juveniles -- 18. Incarceration trends -- 19. Race, ethnicity, and corrections -- 20. The death penalty -- 21. Surveillance and control in the community -- 22. Community justice -- 23. American corrections: looking forward.

"This two-volume encyclopedia provides a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the history and current character of American prisons and jails and their place in the U.S. corrections system. Topics include sentencing norms and contemporary developments; differences between local jails and prisons and regional, state, and federal systems; violent and nonviolent inmate populations; operations of state and federal prisons, including well-known prisons such as ADX-Florence, Alcatraz, Attica, Leavenworth, and San Quentin; privately run, for-profit prisons as well as the companies that run them; inmate culture, including prisoner-generated social hierarchies, prisoner slang, gangs, drug use, and violence; prison trends and statistics, including racial, ethnic, age, gender, and educational breakdowns; the death penalty; and post-incarceration outcomes, including recidivism."--Publisher's description.

Few topics are as controversial as capital punishment. Capital punishment has been debated in the United States since the colonial period and is currently a worldwide issue. This book includes the history of capital punishment plus discussions of numerous court cases, legal decisions, and historical statistics. Also included is information about execution methods, minors and the death penalty, public attitudes, and capital punishment around the world.