Subject Guide
Natalie Borisovets
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John Cotton Dana Library
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John Cotton Dana Library
Newark, N.J. 07102
Subjects: American Studies, Communication, Criminal Justice, History - Global & Eurasian, History - North America, Journalism & Media Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Literatures in English, New Jerseyana, Political Science, Social Work, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, Women's & Gender Studies
Getting Started: Some Books
- American Prisons and Jails: An Encyclopedia of Controversies and Trends Vidisha Barua Worley and Robert M. Worley, editors. Santa Barbara, California, ABC-CLIO, 2019
- 230 alphabetical entries, with lists of further readings, focusing on U.S. correctional systems and practices. A good starting point for research. Rutgers-restricted Access
- The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison
- Greasham M. Sykes. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007.
- First published in 1958, this is a seminal ethnographic study of the New Jersey State Prison, one of the oldest correctional facilities in the United States and New Jersey's only completely maximum security prison. Rutgers-restricted Access
- Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
- Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar. New York, The New Press, 2020. Rutgers-restricted Access
States of Incarceration
- States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2021
- Graph showing the incarceration rates of every U.S. state alongside those of the other nations of the world. From the Prison Policy Iniative.