By Paul Blumberg

FROM THE PREFACE: “The reader will not find herein a model of value-free sociology. I have become increasingly convinced that the best sociologists among us are not those who artificially excise the moralcomponent from their works, who attempt to play God and raise themselves above their fellows, or who invoke the old dogma that because science cannot establish the validity of values, that values, insofar as possible, should be excluded from science. Much of this, of course, is sham…”

NY. Schoken. 281p. CONTAINS MARKUP

By Thomas O. Murton

From the Preface: “One might reasonably ask, "Why study the prison?" Most penologists would respond with statistics indicating that 95 percent of prison inmates ultimately return to the street. The more astute observer would avow that all inmates except those who die in the prison system will return one day to the free society. Self- preservation would dictate that concern for oneself should inspire the citizen to take a personal interest in reforming the prison.

Furthermore, perhaps one should examine the quandary in which the penologists find themselves in attempting to implement the various mandates imposed on the prison administrator. The warden is charged with the responsibility of concurrently instituting the philosophies of punishment, deterrence, retribution, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. But there may be an even more basic reason to become informed about the prison: if one wishes to study a culture and to understand it, attention should be focused on the manner in which that society deals with its deviants. The prison is the American society in microcosm.”

USA. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1976. 296p. CONTAINS MARK-UP.

By Carol Tavris.

FROM THE COVER: "[This] book is not only the best of its kind ever written, but really delightful as well as the most helpfully enlightening I have ever read."*-D.r Ashley Montagu, author of The Nature of Human Aggression.

“Tavris has deftly demolished the contemporary pop mythology of anger and shown how glib and facile apologias for childish rage and rotten manners have been dissolving the glue of marriage, friendship and society. She beautifully clarifies the difference between moral, useful anger and mere incivility or self-gratifying bad temper. She has written a book I would wish any enemies I have and my friends- would read forthwith." -Morton Hunt, author of The Universe Within

NY. Touchstone. 1992. 290P. CONTAINS MARK-UP

By Sidney Dillick

From the introduction: “VARIOUS cLaIMS have been made for the neighborhood approach to some of the problems of living in large cities. Some persons have said that strong local neighborhood associations

or councils will help to decentralize authority and bring it closer to the people. Specialists in adult education see merit in neighborhood organization for citizenship education. Settlement leaders feel it will help develop the friendliness and neighborliness that is lacking in urban communities. City planners see in neighborhood organization an effective means by which local community consciousness can be aroused to put life into plans for clusters of neighborhoods in large cities. Social workers think of it as enabling a community to tackle some of its own problems directly.

Woman's Press. Whiteside, Inc. And William Morrow & Company. New York • 1953. 191p. CONTAINS MARK-UP.

By Robert Johnson

“The man on the steel table was mine, my client. I work for the dead. I bring them justice. When someone in prison is murdered, I take the case. I'm a murder cop, detailed from the inner city of Baltimore to the cell blocks of the state penitentiary. That's my beat--the prison, the pen, the house, call it what you like. Just be glad you're not there….”

You might not live to tell about it.

Brown Paper Publishing. 2010. 140p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

By Jimmy Boyle

From the Introduction: “…In writing the book in a manner thatexpresses all the hatred and rage that I felt at the time of the experiences,especially the latterpart, I have been told that I lose the sympathy of the reader and that this isn't wise for someonewho is stillowned by the State anddependent on the authorities for a paroledate. The book is a genuine attempt to warn young people that there si nothing glamorous about getting in- volvedincrimeand violence. Ifeel that the only way any real progress can be made in this direction is through havinga better understanding ofit and the only way this will be achieved si by putting our cards on the table, and this I've tried hard to do. Idon'tfeel that sympathy or popularity contests have anything to do with it.”

London. Cannongate Publishing. 1977. 258p. Book contains mark-up

By David Fogel

From the foreword: “A rising tide of criticism challenges the prevailing policies and practices of criminal justice agencies throughout the United States. Public disillusionment and professional cynicism is wide-spread, fueled by the constantly rising crime rates which large, new appropriations of government funds seem unable to curb. These criticisms focus most sharply on the failure of the correctional agencies to reduce recidivism among convicted offenders. The climate of public opinion lends itself most readily to new demands for more repressive measures to increase the punitive and deterrent effect of correctional decisions. Advocates of more punitive sanctions are convinced that only more certain, more visible and more severe sentences of imprisonment for offenders will provide an adequate measure of deterrence and public protection.

Anderson Publishing. 1979. 346p.

NOTE: This file is heavily marked up but legible.

By Robert B. Levinson

From the Foreword: “In Unit Management in Prisons and Jails, Robert Levinson describes unit management's humble beginnings at the National Training School ni Washington, D.C., and recounts its rise to becoming a system that revolutionized prison management. Dr. Levinson introduces readers to the concept of unit management and carefully walks them through each step involved with implementing this method. The appendices include a sample manual and unit plan to assist individuals with the details of unit management. Aside from prisons, jails also have adopted this idea (unit management is called "direct supervision" in a jail setting). This book includes a chapteron these types of jails by Kenneth Kerle.”

American Correctional Association Lanham, Maryland. 1999. 274p.

Note: This book is marked up in a number of places.

By Board Of Corrections

“Recent years have brought an increased impetus to thinking about typologies of criminals and delinquents. Of the many forces contrib- uting to this development, two stand out. The first has come with the switch from custody to treatment emphasis in handling offenders along with the disappointments regarding the total effectiveness of some attempted treatment programs.”

Board Of Corrections. State Of California. Monograph No. 2. July 1961. 46p.

By .J Robert Weber and Carson Custer.

“A curious feature of the literature on youth involvement is that most of it is an exhortation to involve youth and very little deals with description of actual practice or an evaluation of the effectiveness of youth involvement in relation to goal achievement. It is almost as if youth ought to participate because it would be "good" for them. Sometimes it is implied that youth involvement would be "good" for adults. At other times youth involvement sounds like a strategy to shift decision-making power in such a manner that would enhance the writer's viewpoint.

Information Review on Crime and Delinquency. NCCD Vol.1. No.9. 1969. 39p.

By Katherine Koller. Edmonton Police Service. (1990) 72 pages.

By Leslie T. Wilkins. Research Professor, University at Albany. Cambridge U.K. (1999) 245 pages.

David Lovell, Christin Cloyes, David Allen and Lorna Rhodes. December (2000) 5 pages.

By Warden G. Berge. November (2000) 19 pages.

By Leonard V. Gordon, Ohio State University. (1950) 39 pages.

The Albany Conference on Violence. Conference papers. University at Albany, Sociology Department. April 5-6 (1991) 202 pages.

Draft by unknown author. January 15 (1980) 17 pages.

By Carol Spencer. Department of Corrections,Youth and Adult Corrections Agency, State of California. Septrmber (1966) 98 pages

By Carol Spencer. Department of Corrections,Youth and Adult Corrections Agency, State of California. Septrmber (1966) 7 pages.

By Leslie T. Wilkins. Hastinge Centre Report 5. February (1975) 14 pages.