Penology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898754308Author Anton Semenovich MakarenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759987Author John HubnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227g

Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to the endeavors of those who have concerned themselves with the criminal and the prevention of crime, that...

In this, the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, Professors Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance of restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature on incapacitation effects, review the existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888394316Author Norman DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

This book examines case studies of recent prison riots in five states, including the 1971 radical uprising in Attica, New York, and the infamous 1981 bloodbath at the New Mexico Penitentiary. The most extensive and detailed work yet written on US prison...

Are advantaged offenders defenseless against the harshness of prison life? Based upon a qualitative study of the prison adjustment of advantaged offenders-those who, prior to prison, possessed college degrees and held high status occupations with...

"The Big House" is America's idea of the prison- a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American...

Based on a two-part study, this book examines the courts' interpretation of murder and the management of those serving life sentences for murder. It discusses the law, legal reforms, life imprisonment and the possibilities for releasing "lifers" without...

Punishing Criminals is about sentencing theory and policy and the attempt to identify punishments other than imprisonment. Davies argues for the need to develop more credible and effective community-based intermediate sanctions that have the confidence...

This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date study of how inmates and their wives cope with incarceration and to what extent conjugal visit programs help their marriages. The findings of a family support program in upper New York State compares...

Sentencing matters. Life, liberty, and property are at stake. Convicted offenders and victims care about it for obvious reasons, while judges and prosecutors also have a moral stake in the process. Never-the-less, the current system of sentencing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791448625Author Patricia O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus. With a particular focus on women's penal policy, Birkett uncovers how reform strategies have augmented and developed under...

Crazy in America shows how people suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and other serious psychological illnesses are regularly incarcerated because alternative care is not available. Once behind bars, they are frequently...

This comprehensive examination of the effectiveness of prisons is virtually alone in showing that prisons are moderately effective in achieving specific and general deterrence and collective and selective incapacitation. Wright provides evidence which...

After decades of the American "war on drugs" and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788422942Author Mary C ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915950812Author Frank HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Bull Publishing CompanyPublisher Bull Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 430g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773407961Author Robert B EdgertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 200g

This book addresses the role of victims in our criminal justice system and the shortcomings they perceive in the way they are treated. It examines whether restorative justice can offer them more justice than they receive from the formal court-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807042236Author Sasha AbramskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading-more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prison terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France and Germany, by contrast, are systematically mild. European offenders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369380975Author Maya SchenwarFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820417912Author Richard Mowery AndrewsFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 455g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258569Author Lisa BiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

The United States leads the world in incarceration, and the United Kingdom is persistently one of the European countries with the highest per capita rates of imprisonment. Yet despite its increasing visibility as a social issue, mass incarceration - and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898755084Author Anton Semenovich MakarenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837163994Author Edith MartindaleFormat HardbackPage Count 235Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985849443Author Harding McRaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Harding McRae PressPublisher Harding McRae PressWeight(grams) 699g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802839985Author Virginia Stem OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

This volume brings together articles on sentencing reform in the United States, other English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada, England, Wales, New Zealand, South Africa), and Western Europe, by leading national and international authorities on...

America is fascinated with murder, as evidenced by the media's elaborate and often sensational coverage of homicides, the plethora of recreated television crime programs-such as America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries-and the number of high-grossing...

Life after Death Row examines the post-incarceration struggles of individuals who have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes, sentenced to death, and subsequently exonerated. Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook present eighteen exonerees'...

After decades of the American "war on drugs" and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837171319Author Vernon FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 317Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837183114Author John A. ReskoFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814250013Author Martha A. MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

"Supermax" prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and for other inmates who are considered to pose a serious ongoing threat to the wider...

"Supermax" prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and for other inmates who are considered to pose a serious ongoing threat to the wider...