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The Prison Officer by Gen Glaister 9781804992784
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.26Honest, heartfelt and moving. ***** The SunThe Prison Officer challenges everything you thought you knew about people in prison.Becoming a prison officer was Gen's burning ambition despite her background making this an unlikely career choice.At... -
Eye for An Eye: The brand-new book club thriller that will get everyone talking by M. J. Arlidge 9781398708204
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $12.81OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.UNTIL NOW...'Emily' is a devoted single mother.'Jack' starts a new job in a new town.They both share the same secret: neither of them are who they say they are.They are among only nine criminals in... -
A Prayer Before Dawn: My Nightmare in Thailand's Prisons by Billy Moore 9781510702141
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $32.11Now a major motion picture The first time Billy Moore walked into his cell packed with seventy prisoners, the floor resembled a mass grave, with intertwined arms and legs, and the smell of human feces was so strong he almost vomited. That night,... -
Marching Powder by Rusty Young
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas found himself in... -
The Spinning House: How Cambridge University locked up women in its private prison by Caroline Biggs 9781803995700
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.90"Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life." - The New StatesmanCambridge University is renowned worldwide for its academic prowess, but below the surface lurks a murky past. During... -
Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story by Neil Samworth
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.72This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country's most notorious jails.'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places and hilarious in others . . . the author's honesty and... -
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.11WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life... -
The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison W Fellows 9781840182750
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $12.92Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big chunk. In... -
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault 9780241386019
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.03'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?In his... -
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Joy James 9780312294502
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $68.84The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are... -
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.68An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian... -
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.68'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life... -
Sticks and Stones by Paul Scrase
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993526541Author Paul ScraseFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint ArkboundPublisher Arkbound -
Behind these Doors: As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week by Alex South 9781399707596
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.49*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Powerful' Observer 'Superb' Daily Mail 'Brilliant' Radio Times __________Few people leave prison unchanged. It's a place heavy with suffering, a place where you will find dangerous, vulnerable, and forgotten people. But for... -
Justice on Trial: Radical Solutions for a System at Breaking Point by Chris Daw
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.75'Chris is a powerful force for good in the national debate on criminal justice.' -The Secret Barrister 'Extraordinary' - Krishnan Guru-Murthy Chris Daw QC has been practising criminal law for over 25 years, navigating Britain's fractured justice... -
Parole Rob McKeon 9780711297289
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.26AS SEEN ON TV.'For too long, the work of the Parole Board has been shrouded in secrecy. This book provides a detailed view of how decisions are reached.'--Martin Jones CBE, HM Chief Inspector of... -
The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence by Dr Amanda Brown
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $10.06From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown In The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence, Dr Amanda Brown reveals stories of her time spent with foreign national prisoners. DANGER... -
Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons by Megan Sweeney 9780807871003
Booksplease Price: $76.57Women prisoners gain insight and inspiration through their creative reading practices. Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with... -
The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better by Abdi Aidid 9781487529413
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $49.04Law today is incomplete, inaccessible, unclear, underdeveloped, and often perplexing to those whom it affects. In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie argue that the proliferation of artificial intelligence-enabled technology - and... -
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $33.50Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Publishers Weekly... -
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.83The iconic New York Times bestseller that 'struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter' (Ibram X. Kendi)Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of... -
Just Mercy (Film Tie-In Edition): a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.91NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN, JAMIE FOXX, AND BRIE LARSON. A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, ESQUIRE, AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR. A #1 New York Times bestseller, this is a powerful, true story about the... -
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loic Wacquant
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $38.49The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial... -
Escape: The true story of the only Westerner ever to break out of Thailand's Bangkok Hilton by David McMillan 9781912049967
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.02Klong Prem prison, Thailand. The "Bangkok Hilton", where 600 foreigners among the 12,000 inmates of this walled prison city also wait and rot. Among the tragic, ruthless and forgotten, one man resolves to do what no other has done: escape. This is the... -
Sex Crimes: Research and Realities by Donna Vandiver
RRP: $132.28Booksplease Price: $113.25Sex Crimes: Research and Realities, 2nd edition, provides succinct overviews and details of the research regarding sex crimes and the persons who commit them, dispelling common myths related to sex crimes that have been contradicted in the scientific... -
A Prison Diary Volume I: Hell by Jeffrey Archer 9781509808878
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.26Hell is the haunting first volume in Jeffrey Archer's The Prison Diaries, the author's daily record of the time he spent there.'The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five... -
A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven by Jeffrey Archer 9781509820795
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.60The final volume of Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries, A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven, covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the... -
Inside Siglo XXI: Inside Latin America's Largest Immigration Detention Center Beln Fernndez 9781682193556
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.07Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United States. But this account, by the itinerant, effervescent and highly original journalist Belen Fernandez,... -
Redeemable by Erwin James
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.77Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His petty crime turned increasingly violent, culminating in... -
Youth Justice: Ideas, Policy, Practice by Roger S. Smith 9780415626514
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $88.18The exciting new edition of this well-loved textbook offers a fully expanded and revised account and analysis of the youth justice system in the UK, taking into account and fully addressing the significant changes that have taken place since the second... -
Prison Break: True Stories of the World's Greatest Escapes by Paul Buck 9781843589600
Booksplease Price: $21.08'These men for whom there is little else that life has to offer, little or nothing to lose; these are men who are at the limits; these are men who might walk on hot coals without burning their feet.' In the folklore of World War II, the memory of those... -
Youth Offending and Restorative Justice Adam Crawford (University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK) 9781843920113
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $74.32This book provides an empirically grounded, theoretically informed account of recent changes to the youth justice system in England and Wales, focusing on the introduction of elements of restorative justice into the heart of the criminal justice system,... -
Mr Nice: 21st Anniversary Edition by Howard Marks
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.0321ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him.During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and... -
No Friend but the Mountains: The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee by Behrouz Boochani
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.84The Award-winning International Bestselling Story of One Man's Six Year Detention in Australia 'A powerfully vivid account of the experiences of a refugee: desperation, brutality, suffering, and all observed with an eye that seems to see everything and... -
A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory by Jeffrey Archer 9781509808885
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.26On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in... -
Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $11.51'I loved this book ... a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, LoveWith her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the... -
Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail by Kathryn Bonella
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.49THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the... -
Eye for An Eye: The Richard & Judy Winter 2024 Book Club thriller that will get everyone talking M. J. Arlidge 9781398708181
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $18.67OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. UNTIL NOW... 'Emily' is a devoted single mother. 'Jack' starts a new job in a new town. 'Russell' may be falling in love. They all share the same secret: none of them are who they say they... -
The Big Book of Pain: Torture & Punishment through History by Mark P. Donnelly 9780752459479
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.53For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of... -
Broadmoor: My Journey into Hell by Charlie Bronson 9781784181178
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $24.95Broadmoor: My Journey into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told. In the winter of 1979, aged just...