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Halperin, Ronnie, Suzanne Kessler, and Dana Braunschweiger. “Rehabilitation Through the Arts: Impact on Participants’ Engagement in Educational Programs.” Journal of Correctional Education 63, no. 1 (2012): 6–23.
Jamaica Constabulary Force. “Jamaica Constabulary Force.” March 2012. jcf.gov.jm
Jarjoura, Roger G., and Susan T. Krumholz. “Combining Bibliotherapy and Positive Role Modeling as Alternative to Incarceration.” Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 28, nos. 1–2 (1998): 127–39.
Kidd, David C., and Emanuele Castano. “Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind.” Science, n.s., 342.6156 (2013): 377–80.
Matshili, Edna. “Jailhouses: Life in Ugandan Prisons.” Consultancy Africa Intelligence. September 2, 2011. Accessed March 5, 2015. http://consultancyafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=842:jailhouses-life-in-ugandan-prisons&catid=91:rights-in-focus&Itemid=296
Mendonca, Maria. “Prisons, Music, and Rehabilitation Revolution: The Case of Good Vibrations.” Journal of Applied Arts & Health 1, no. 3 (2010): 295–307.
Prison Arts Coalition. Prison for Arts Coalition Music. 2008. Accessed April 5, 2015. theprisonartscoalition.com
Salzman, Mark. True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.
Sarkin, Jeremy, ed. Human Rights in African Prisons. Vol. 10. New York: HSRC Press, 2008.
Schonteich, Martin. “Hidden Cruelties: Prison Conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa.” World Politics Review, 2015. Accessed April 30, 2015. worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/15366/hidden-cruelties-prison-conditions-in-sub-saharan-africa
Silber, Laya. “Bars Behind Bars: The Impact of a Woman’s Choir on Social Harmony.” Journal of Education Research 7, no. 2 (2005): 251–71. Song of Redemption. Film produced by Fernando Garcia-Guereta, directed by Amanda Sans Miquel Galofré, 2013.
Soundcheck. “Blending Music with Rehabilitation.” February 5, 2010. WNYC. Accessed March 10, 2015. soundcheck.wnyc.org/story/43147-blending-music-with-rehabilitation/Feb52010
4. Women and Drama: Thailand
D’Arcy, Anne Jeanne. “Power Points: Battered Women as Authors.” In Anne D’Arcy: Domestic Violence Research Publications. Oakland: University of California Press, 2008.
Enos, Sandra. Mothering from the Inside: Parenting in a Women’s Prison. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.
Kalyanasuta, Kanokpun, and Atchara Suriyawong. “Testimonies of Women Convicted of Drug-Related Offenses: The Criminal Justice System and Community-Based Treatment of Offenders in Thailand.” Resource Material Series 61 (2002): 265–93.
Kristof, Nicholas. “Serving Life for This?” New York Times, November 13, 2013. Accessed January 2014. nytimes.com/2013/11/14/opinion/kristof-serving-life-for-this.html?_r=0
Moller, Lorraine. “Project Slam: Rehabilitation through Theatre at Sing Sing Correctional Facility.” International Journal of the Arts in Society 5, no. 5 (2011): 1–60.
Napaporn, Havanon, et al. Lives of Forgotten People: Narratives of Women in Prison. Office of the Affairs, under the Royal Initiative of HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha, 2012.
Osler, Mark. “We Need Al Capone Drug Laws.” New York Times, May 4, 2014.
Richie, Beth. Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation. New York: NYU Press, 2012.
Sudbury, Julia, ed. Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Talvi, Silja J. A. Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System. Emeryville: Seal Press, 2007.
United Nations Economic and Social Council. “United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders” (the Bangkok Rules). July 22, 2010. Accessed January 12, 2015. penalreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/PRI-Short-Guide-Bangkok-Rules-2013-Web-Final.pdf
Women’s Prison Association. April 10, 2015. Accessed April 10, 2015. wpaonline.org
5. Solitary and Supermaxes: Brazil
American Civil Liberties Union. “Alone and Afraid: Children Held in Solitary Confinement and Isolation in Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities.” New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2014. aclu.org/files/assets/Alone%20and%20Afraid%20COMPLETE%20FINAL.pdf
Bazelon, Emily. “The Shame of Solitary Confinement.” New York Times Magazine, February 19, 2015.
Binelli, Mark. “Inside America’s Toughest Federal Prison.” New York Times Magazine, March 29, 2015.
Briggs, Chad. “Effect of SuperMaximum Security Prisons on Aggregate Levels of Institutional Violence.” Criminology 41, no. 4 (2003): 1341–76.
Brown, Ian, and Frank Dikotter. Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Davidai, Shai, and Thomas Gilovich. “Building a More Mobile America—One Income Quintile at a Time.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 10, no. 1 (2015): 60–71.
Dwyer, Jim. “Mentally Ill, and Jailed in Isolation at Riker’s Island.” New York Times, November 19, 2013.
Economist / The Americas. “Race in Brazil: Affirming a Divide.” January 28, 2012.
Gawande, Atul. “Hellhole.” New Yorker, March 30, 2009.
Guenther, Lisa. Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Kiernan, Paul. “U.N. Human-Rights Body Expresses Concern Over Brazil’s Prisons.” Latin America Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2014.
Kluger, Jeffrey. “Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad?” Time, January 26, 2014.
Kraus, Michael W., and Jacinth J. X. Tan. “Americans Overestimate Social Class Mobility.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 58 (2015): 101–11.
Murray, Joseph, et al. “Crime and Violence in Brazil: Systematic Review of Time Trends, Prevalence Rates and Risk Factors.” Aggression and Violent Behavior 18, no. 5 (2013): 471–83.
Ross, Jeffrey Ian. The Globalization of Supermax Prisons. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Salvatore, Ricardo D., and Carlos Aguirre. The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Salvatore, Ricardo D., Carlos Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph, eds. Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
Skarbek, David. The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Wacquant, Loïc. Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
______. “Toward a Dictatorship over the Poor? Notes on the Penalization of Poverty in Brazil.” Journal of Punishment and Society 5, no. 2 (2003): 197–205.
Waxler, Robert P., and Jean R. Trounstine, eds. Finding a Voice: The Practice of Changing Lives Through Literature. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.
6. Private Prisons: Australia
American Civil Liberties Union. “Private Prisons.” Accessed June 1, 2015. aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/privatization-criminal-justice/private-prisons
Bernstein, Nina. “Companies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit.” New York Times, September 28, 2011.
Bogle, Michael. Convicts: Transportation and Australia. Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2009.
Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice. “Justice Reinvestment Initiative.” January 2015. Accessed March 2015. bja.gov/programs/justicereinvestment/index.html
Cantu, Aaron. “4 Disturbing Reasons Private Prisons Are So Powerful.” Salon, May 3, 2014. salon.com/2014/05/03/4_disturbing_reasons_private_prisons_are_so_powerful_partner/
Goulding, Dot, Gu
y Hall, and Brian Steels. “Restorative Prisons: Towards Radical Prison Reform.” Current Issues of Criminal Justice 20, no. 2 (2008): 231–42.
Kirkham, Chris. “How Corporations Are Cashing In on the Worldwide Immigration Crackdown.” Huffington Post, May 3, 2014.
Mason, Cody. “International Growth Trends in Prison Privatization.” The Sentencing Project, August 2013. Accessed March 3, 2014. sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_International%20Growth%20Trends%20in%20Prison%20Privatization.pdf
New South Wales Law Reform Commission. “Sentencing—Patterns and Statistics.” In Companion Report. Sydney: New South Wales Law Reform Commission, 2013.
Schiraldi, Vincent. “Juvenile Crime Is Decreasing—It’s Media Coverage That’s Soaring.” Los Angeles Times, November 22, 1999.
Simon, Jonathan. Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Takei, Carl. “Prisons Are Adopting the Walmart Business Model.” Huffington Post, September 29, 2014.
7. Reentry: Singapore
Gonnerman, Jennifer. Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett. New York: Macmillan, 2005.
Lee Kuan Yew. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965–2000. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
Low, Donald. “How Not to Relapse.” OZY, February 1, 2015. Accessed February 11, 2015. ozy.com/acumen/how-not-to-relapse/38931
National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders (NICRO) Web site. Accessed March 28, 2014. nicro.org.za
Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski. “Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment.” Journal of American Sociological Review 74 (2009): 777–99.
Petersilia, Joan. “Prisoner Reentry: Public Safety and Reintegration Challenges.” Prisoner Journal 81, no. 3 (2001): 479–529.
_____. When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Pieris, Anoma. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A Penal History of Singapore’s Plural Society. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009.
Prisoner Reentry Institute. “Three-Quarter Houses: The View from the Inside.” New York: John Jay College, 2013.
Schmitt, John, and Kris Warner. Ex-Offenders and the Labor Market. Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2010.
Seiter, Richard P., and Karen R. Kadela. “Prisoner Reentry: What Works, What Does Not, and What Is Promising.” Crime and Delinquency 49, no. 3 (2003): 360–88.
Singapore. “Ministry of Law: Singapore.” 2015. Accessed April 1, 2015. mlaw.gov.sg/content/minlaw/en.html
Stillman, Sarah. “Get Out of Jail Inc.” New Yorker, June 23, 2014.
Travis, Jeremy. But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Reentry. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 2005.
Travis, Jeremy, and Christy Visher, eds. Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Travis, Jeremy, Bruce Western, and Steve Redburn, eds. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2014.
Visser, Jaco, Timothy Williams, and Tanzina Vega. “A Plan to Cut Costs and Crime: End Hurdle to Job After Prison.” New York Times, October 23, 2014.
Winerman, Lea. “Breaking Free from Addiction.” Monitor on Psychology 44, no. 6 (2013): 30.
8. Justice? Norway
Adams, William L. “Norway Builds the World’s Most Humane Prison.” Time, May 10, 2010.
Christie, Nils. Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in the Penal Policy. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2007.
_____. A Suitable Amount of Crime. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Davis, Angela Y. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011.
Erlanger, Steven. “Amid Debate on Migrants, Norway Party Comes to Fore.” New York Times, January 23, 2014.
Fisher, Max. “A Different Justice: Why Anders Breivik Only Got 21 Years for Killing 77 People.” Atlantic, August 2012. Accessed January 15, 2015. theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/a-different-justice-why-anders-breivik-only-got-21-years-for-killing-77-people/261532/
Frankl, Viktor E., Ilse Lasch, and Harold S. Kushner. Man’s Search for Meaning. Translated by Ilse Lasch. New York: Beacon, 2006.
James, Erwin. “The Norwegian Prison Where Inmates Are Treated Like People.” Guardian, February 25, 2013.
Larson, Doran. “Why Scandinavian Prisons Are Superior.” Atlantic, September 2013.
Lewis, Jim. “Behind Bars … Sort Of.” New York Times, June 6, 2009.
Mathiesen, Thomas. The Politics of Abolition. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Minnesota Department of Corrections. “The Effects of Prison Visitation on Offender Recidivism.” St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Corrections, 2011.
New York Times. “Shrinking the Prison Population.” Editorial. May 10, 2009.
Parens, Erik. “The Benefits of Binocularity.” New York Times, September 28, 2014.
Pratt, John, and Anna Eriksson. “Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism.” NY: Routledge, 2013.
______.“Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess.” British Journal of Criminology 48, no. 3 (2008): 119–37.
Schenwar, Maya. Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better. Oakland: Berrett-Koehler, 2014.
Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York: Random House, 2014.
Subramanian, Ram, and Ruth Delaney. Playbook for Change? States Reconsider Mandatory Sentences. New York: Vera Institute of Justice, 2014.
Subramanian, Ram, and Alison James. Sentencing and Prison Practices in Germany and the Netherlands: Implications for the United States. New York: Vera Institute of Justice, 2013.
Ward, Katie, et al. “Incarceration within American and Nordic Prisons: Comparison of National and International Policies.” International Journal of Research and Practice on Student Engagement, 2013, 10–50.
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