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John Keith Irwin

Sociology

#479

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#584

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John Keith Irwin's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, John Keith Irwin was an American sociologist and criminologist who was known internationally as an expert on the American prison system. He published dozens of scholarly articles and seven books on the topic.

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John Keith Irwin's Published Works

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Thieves, Convicts and the Inmate Culture (1962) (874)
Hacks, Blacks and Cons: Race Relations in a Maximum Security Prison.@@@Chicano Prisoners: The Key to San Quentin.@@@Convicts, Codes and Contraband: The Prison Life of Men and Women. (1976) (67)
Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison (2009) (48)
America's One Million Nonviolent Prisoners (2000) (43)
The March of Folly (1996) (41)
HOME INSECURITY The State of Social Housing Funding in BC (2004) (12)
Donald Cressey and the Sociology of the Prison (1988) (6)
RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGYTHE NEW CRIMINAL: A VIEW OF THE CONTEMPORARY OFFENDER (1965) (3)
Transnational and Cross-Cultural Approaches in Undercover Police Work (2019) (2)
Indonesian Art. A Loan Exhibition from the Royal Indies Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands@@@Indian Art (1950) (1)
Book Review: Committing Journalism: The Prison Writing of Red Hog (1997) (0)
Book Reviews : The Fence: In the Shadow of Two Worlds by Darrell J. Steffensmeier. Totawa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1986. 291 pages, paperback (1987) (0)
Nga taniwha a te Maori (the Maori Leviathan) (1983) (0)
College Students' Sense of Belonging. Reviewed by Eunyoung Kim and John Irwin (2013) (0)
Presenting oral history (1992) (0)
Introduction (1982) (0)
The treaty of Waitangi (1984) (0)

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