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38 Crime & Delinquency 3 (1992)

handle is hein.journals/cadq38 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction Jerrald D. Krause The current dramatic increase in incarceration and in the construction of new prisons in the United States is causing increased attention to the nature, importance, and functioning of communities among both criminal justice researchers and practitioners. Undoubtedly the primary source of the heightened interest is practical problems concerning community articulation currently being encountered by the criminal justice system during this time of crisis. For example, despite the seeming public support for increased prison construction, local communities are often resistant to accepting prison sites within their borders. Such resistance makes finding sites to implement the presumed public mandate for construction of new facilities problematic. At the other end of the system, that of offender reintegration, there are also problems. The community adjustment of ex-offenders is often poor. In California, for example, half of the inmates paroled from state prisons fail to adjust to their communities to the extent that they are reincarcerated after only 2 years. The articles in this special issue of Crime & Delinquency are dedicated to improved understanding of communities in relationship to the correctional system, and ultimately to resolution of problems like the two just identified. Farrington's article at the beginning of the issue provides an illuminating analysis of an American cultural myth needing to be corrected if the nature of prison-community relations is to be understood. This is the myth that the prison is a total institution that protects the community from the social disorder of criminal deviants by totally segregating the deviants, and by totally managing, thus reforming, their lives. Farrington extends the work of Erving Goffman, whose analysis stopped at showing that total institutions do not reform inmates. Farrington shows that in many ways the interactions between correctional facility and community contradict the image of a totally segregated institution. Farrington than discusses theoretical and policy im- plications of the fact that modern prisons are less than totally segregated institutions. CRIME & DELINQUENCY, Vol. 38 No. 1, January 1992 3-5 C 1992 Sage Publications, Inc. 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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