Call for Chapters: Contemporary Techniques and Technologies in Adult Corrections

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Shalin Hai-Jew, Sedgwick County, United States

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: July 12, 2026
Full Chapters Due: October 25, 2026
Submission Date: October 25, 2026

Introduction

On a very abstract level, modern societies set up various laws that they expect people to live by. Those who fail to do so are retrained, punished, separated from the mainstream population for a time, and ultimately released back into society, as rehabilitated people. That is the idealized and bloodless version. How different societies around the world deal with humanity in their various personalities, situations, and law-breaking…varies.

This collection explores the various techniques and technologies in use in contemporary adult corrections—in detention facilities (jails) and prisons, to address everything from misdemeanors to felonies. Detention and incarceration are critical parts of the legal system, to detain those who have not yet had their day in court (and so are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law), to hold back dangerous individuals from larger society, and to incarcerate and rehabilitate those who have been found to have committed serious misdemeanors and felonies by a court of law.

The detention and incarceration space is a complex one, with serious political and social debates around who is incarcerated and why, and how to ensure a more justice and fair system. Many see the failure of larger society to create a more egalitarian society, with so many who are the have-nots and the dispossessed, in a society of haves. Many see jailings as a substitute for treating mental health, drug addictions, substance abuse issues, and other social challenges. For others, there are issues of safety and security, with various techniques and technologies that are deployed to try to ensure the well-being of the public, staff, and inmates. There are serious efforts at trying to help the incarcerated re-enter society, end the recidivism cycle, and define themselves differently as they move away from criminogenic thinking and practices.

What are some models and frameworks that inform human detainment and incarceration? In regular practice? In transient new practice (such as with immigration policies? wartime practices?)
What techniques are used for inmate housing, medical care, mental health care, co-housing, hygiene, education, corrections employment, and others?
What technologies are used for human incarceration? Fully remote wings of facilities? AI-integrations in surveillance? Surveillance? Education?
What are techniques for inmate re-entry into larger society, given the fact that a majority of the incarcerated will eventually get out? How are their respective needs met? What programs work, and which do not? What about applied models that make measurable constructive differences?

The research in the detention science space is manifold. Even as the incarcerated are a vulnerable population and so protected by a raft of research laws, policies, and ethics, the space is awash in data. The research approaches are quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, and multi-methods. Various computational data analytics tools are used from the quantitative (CDA) and qualitative (CAQDAS) spaces. There have been deep inroads made by some of the more esoteric research and data analytics methods: geographical analysis, social network analysis, computational sentiment analysis, computational linguistic analysis, predictive modeling, spatiotemporal analysis, along with more traditional methods (descriptive statistics of populations, inferential statistics, relational analysis, data visualizations, factor analysis, principal components analyses, exploratory data analysis, and logistic regressions, among many others).

In the literature are scoping reviews, meta-analyses, and reviews of the literature. There are first-hand research studies. There are reports of aggregate data. There are case studies. There are studies based on survey and questionnaire research. There are experimental studies and quasi-experimental studies and observational studies. There are cohort studies, case-control studies, and cross-sectional studies.

This edited collection focuses on how adult jails and prisons are run in terms of leadership, values, policies, techniques, and technologies…to ensure safety and security for the inmate population and for the larger society. This work is necessary and difficult.

Still, such organizations are learning ones even as they are slow-moving. What is the optimal balance between the interests of the state and society and the interests of the individual? Is there an ideal and workable formulation? The focus has long been beyond just getting people “off the streets” with some efforts towards actual problem-solving through programs and social engineering and both public and private funding. This work will examine what works…and what extant research questions are.

Objective

This book will explore a range of topics related to modern detentions and incarcerations of people around the world, what informs this work, and ways that various issues are balanced for law-based societies in alignment with conceptualizations of punishment and rehabilitation. The focus will be on various techniques and technologies.

Target Audience

Target readers are those who work in the sprawling law enforcement complex in their various roles, researchers, academics, and others.

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 12, 2026, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by July 26, 2026 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters of a minimum of 10,000 words (word count includes references and related readings) are expected to be submitted by October 25, 2026, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-anonymized review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Contemporary Techniques and Technologies in Adult Corrections. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-anonymized peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery^® online submission manager.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global Scientific Publishing, an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference", "Medical Information Science Reference", "Business Science Reference", and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global Scientific Publishing specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2027.

Indexing Information for Prospective Authors

IGI Global Scientific Publishing meets the criteria for inclusion in major indexing services such as Scopus; however, it is important to note that all indexing decisions are made independently by these services. IGI Global Scientific Publishing books are selectively indexed by the indexing organization after publication. Indexing cannot be guaranteed for any book prior to publication, and the indexing organization has complete control over the final selection and timeline.

Important Dates

July 12, 2026: Proposal Submission Deadline
July 26, 2026: Notification of Acceptance
October 25, 2026: Full Chapter Submission
December 27, 2026: Review Results Returned
February 7, 2027: Final Acceptance Notification
February 21, 2027: Final Chapter Submission

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Shalin Hai-Jew
Sedgwick County
haijes@gmail.com

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