Penology

This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area's San Quentin State Prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology in those...

From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday lifePrison Land offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social...

This textbook examines prisons and imprisonment. Historically, prisons and prisoners have been a source of interest to the general public. However, despite near universal acceptance of imprisonment as a feature of society, we know relatively little about...

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...

Beyond Transitional Justice reflects upon the state of the field (or non-field) of transitional justice in the current conjuncture, as well as identifying new possibilities and challenges in the fields with which transitional justice overlaps (such as...

Beyond Violence: A Prevention Program for Women is a forty-hour, evidence-based, gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program specifically developed for women who have committed a violent crime and are incarcerated. This program offers...

This "Essential Handbook" provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment, it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312680473Author Robert PerkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 658g

"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip." --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of...

Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern...

While the use of imprisonment continues to rise in developed nations, we have little sociological knowledge of the prison's inner world. Based on extensive fieldwork in a medium-security prison, The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250309471Author Anthony Ray HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams)...

With a foreword by Bruce WesternNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRThe most comprehensive critique of probation and parole-and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both-from the former Probation Commissioner of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590518991Author Baz DreisingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

In the last decade there has been growing international concern about the increasing numbers of women in prison, the effects that imprisonment has on their children, the realisation that gaoled women have different criminal profiles and rehabilitative...

This new and important title explores one of the most contentious and sensitive topics in criminal justice: the release and resettlement of life-sentenced offenders. Life after Life Imprisonment provides an in-depth analysis of the post-prison...

An electric memoir that follows a young woman from chasing Olympic dreams on the ice rink, through addiction and prison, to finally discovering her voice as a journalist. Keri Blakinger had always lived at full throttle. Whether flying through the air,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593080900Author Kristin HenningFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926958378Author Justin PicheFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Red Quill BooksPublisher Red Quill BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

On 11 September 2001, in a cafe in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn't possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day.In a...

Prisons systematically dehumanise the imprisoned. Visualised through mugshots and surveillance recordings, the incarcerated lose control of their own image and identity. The criminal justice system in the United States does not only carry out so-called...

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 9781416561613Author Chloe HooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354202Author Jacques Lesage de le HayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Cundill History Prize 2017. Short-listed for Wolfson History Prize 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780307949264Author Daniel BeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (Grand Prize) 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780684830957Author David M. OshinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Prentice Hall &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826310620Author Roger MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263805Author Leonard PeltierFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved? In Contradictions...

Hanging in the Balance traces the history of capital punishment in the United Kingdom from ancient times to the modern day-through periods of reform until hanging for murder was finally abolished by Parliament in 1969. It describes in detail the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771432054Author Virginia GrahamFormat PaperbackImprint CCB PublishingPublisher CCB PublishingWeight(grams) 381g

A collection of writings by Dr David Scott which build on his work teaching criminology for over 20 years. Against Imprisonment includes topics such as `The Changing Face of the Prison', justifications of punishment, prison violence and the shortcomings...

Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice is a practical guide to using restorative processes, both in justice systems, to provide a healing response to harm, and in broader community contexts, to help people co-exist peacefully. Restorative...

Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains the political and...

The product of an 18 month empirical study which examined the use of restorative justice for hate crime in the United Kingdom, this book draws together theory and practice in order to examine the causes and consequences of hate crime victimisation. Hate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780375726620Author Ted ConoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred...

On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the day, his wife Christine had been savagely bludgeoned to death in the couple's bed-and the Williamson County Sherriff's...

Children in Police Custody shines a light on the hidden experiences of children in police detention in England and Wales. An episode in police custody is the single most common sustained experience of the criminal justice system for children. Yet child...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380792467Author Robert J LiftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

"The Uninnocent is so elegantly crafted that the pleasure of reading it nearly overrides its devastating subject matter. Blake is an investigator of heartbreak, turning a critical eye on the ways our systems have failed us, and how we fail each other...