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The two-volume Encyclopedia of US prisons and correctional facilities aims to provide a critical overview of penal institutions, practice and theory in an historical and contemporary framework. Issues of race, gender and class will be fully integrated throughout, in order to demonstrate the complexity of the implementation and goals of punishment. Where possible some comparative data and examples will be used, to place the US in the international context in which it exists. The editor of the encyclopedia is Mary Bosworth, assistant professor of sociology at Wesleyan University. She can be contacted for further information at bosworthencyclo@yahoo.com. Otherwise members of the editorial board may also be contacted. They include Stephanie Bush-Baskette at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) (sbushbask@aol.com); Jeanne Flavin at Fordham University (jflavin@fordham.edu); Esther Heffernan at Edgewood College (heffern@edgewood.edu); and Jim Thomas at Northern Illinois University (jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu). |
Editor-in-Chief: Mary Bosworth |