Penology

Committing Journalism collects more than fifty essays by famed convict-writer Dannie Martin, a.k.a. "Red Hog" -hard-hitting, eloquent reports on the racism, brutality, inadequate health care, harassment, and other conditions of life behind the...

VOLUME 27, NUMBER 2 (2018) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons marking the 20th anniversary of Convict Criminology (CC) edited by Andreas Aresti and Sacha Darke. Drawing on auto-ethnographic, action research and other approaches to...

Volume 20, Number 2 is dedicated to the life and contributions of Liz Elliott, who was an active member of the JPP Editorial Board in the formative years of the Journal, and a passionate advocate for prisoners' rights, restorative and social justice. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780776609461Author Justin PicheFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint University of Ottawa PressPublisher University of Ottawa PressWeight(grams) 142g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578742601Author Sarah HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Community RenewalPublisher Community RenewalWeight(grams) 152g

Most Americans readily support rehabilitation for convicted offenders_after all, on the face of it, many of these people have been dealt a bad hand, or at least have made poor choices, and surely would mend their ways if only they had access to...

For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh...

The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of “law and order,” referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons. As important as this system...

Brian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class at the jail for the foreseeable future was mid-March 2020, right before the COVID-19 lockdown; the virus is...

In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings. Lee Bernstein explores the forces that...

Fresh out of college, David Stuart put off graduate school to take a job close to his West Virginia home as a counselor at the Youth Development Center at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Known locally as the Morganza, the facility was founded in the nineteenth...

The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll that incarceration takes on inmates, their...

Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. In Laboratories of Virtue, he interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that...

Women 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979167034Author David H LukenbillFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Lampstand FoundationPublisher Lampstand FoundationWeight(grams) 168g

The haunting specter of hanging trees holds a powerful sway on the American imagination, conjuring images of rough-and-tumble frontier towns struggling to impose law and order in a land where violence was endemic. In this thoughtful study, former New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979645532Author Eastern Kentucky University Rick RuddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Newgate PressPublisher Newgate PressWeight(grams) 229g

Brian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class at the jail for the foreseeable future was mid-March 2020, right before the COVID-19 lockdown; the virus is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979645549Author Joseph F FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Newgate PressPublisher Newgate PressWeight(grams) 229g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979645525Author Noelle E FearnFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Newgate PressPublisher Newgate PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979645501Author Eastern Kentucky University Rick RuddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Newgate PressPublisher Newgate PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971033207Author Dianne Beacher PerfitFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Pelican Island PublishingPublisher Pelican Island PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996844604Author Sheena EizmendizFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Sheena EizmendizPublisher Sheena EizmendizWeight(grams) 236g

This work features writings by death-row inmates, family members of victims and perpetrators, religious and political figures, journalists, criminologists, and legal experts, along with information on programs designed to help young people who have gone...

This timely series is based upon 15 years of experience and work of trainers and researchers in the field of criminal justice. Each book is filled with the practical skills and actual techniques and methods. The focus is on how to communicate and get...

This general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Piche and Kevin Walby features articles by current and former prisoners documenting the latest trends in penal policy and practice in the United States. The issue also features an...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780776609478Author Justin PicheFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University of Ottawa PressPublisher University of Ottawa PressWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595200535Author Luis F GomezFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 191g

It is, in the words of the noted Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, "a passionate, heroic effort to fathom the nature of a phenomenon that all too often drains us emotionally and incapacitates us intellectually." Millett analyzes the individual's monumental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345435538Author Daniel BergnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590517277Author Baz DreisingerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 598g

A first-hand account of the death penalty's wholly destructive nature. In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique of shifts in sentencing laws, prison policies that ensure recidivism, and classic "tough on crime" views that don't make society...

Volume 21, Number 1 & 2 is a special double issue commemorating the 15th anniversary of Convict Criminology, which "represents the work of convicts or ex-convicts, in possession of a Ph.D. or on their way to completing one, or enlightened...

Volume 18(1&2) is a special double issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. Edited by Mike Larsen and Justin Piche, and dedicated to the memory of Louk Hulsman, the articles examine a range of topics, including how language structures relations...

In "Punishment in Disguise", Kelly Hannah-Moffat presents a look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women's prisons. Hannah-Moffat uses women's imprisonment to theorize the complexity of penal power and to show how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947597105Author T. Carlos AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Walnut Street BooksPublisher Walnut Street BooksWeight(grams) 442g

The United States has by far the world’s largest population of incarcerated people. More than a million Americans are imprisoned; hundreds of thousands more are held in jails. This vast system has doled out punishment—particularly to people from...

The United States has by far the world’s largest population of incarcerated people. More than a million Americans are imprisoned; hundreds of thousands more are held in jails. This vast system has doled out punishment—particularly to people from...

Sharing experiences of 15 inmates and their battle for care, the author uncovers the truth about capital punishment and what goes on in our prison system. As an experienced physician, Paul Singh, MD, DO, Ph.D., was stunned by the cruelty that inmates...