Reddit mentions of Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences

I have three recommendations for you.

The first is Counterfeit Community: The Exploiation of our Longings for Connectedness, its a fantastic book which looks at how our culture has veered away from tangible community, and how our 'innate' need for community as social animals has become a tool for marketing and exploitation. Its a fascinating read and I think you'll enjoy it. It is worth noting that the book is a little bit dated at this point, it was published before social media or texting really took off, and I think both of those things would have made an excellent chapter in this particular work.

The second isn't an academic work or a sociology text, but it is a famous work in early Feminism and one of the most interesting works to fall under the umbrella of Sociology of Gender. It's a short story called The Yellow Wallpaper and offers an abstract look at Charlotte Perkins Gilman's experience with postpartum depression in a male dominated society. Alone it offers little of sociological value obvious at first glance, but if you look at it through a lens of how being a woman in a male-centric society shapes ones individual psyche you'll start to see how its a unique glimpse into how society can force a person in one direction over those others available. If you have Amazon Prime, its available for free as a Kindle edition.

The final book, and probably my favorite out of these three (I'm biased though, as a criminology student) is Cullen and Johnson's Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences. It covers the history of correctional theory and how its related to outside forces and how it has effected individuals throughout time not only while they're in prison, but after they leave. It gets especially interesting once you add a Sociology of Ethics class and a Rural Sociology class alongside the book.