Penology

This work documents the lives, crimes and deaths of 487 people, including nine women, who were legally executed on Tennessee soil. These include horse stealers, slaves, wife killers, cop killers and rapists. The book includes fascinating cultural details...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873958134Author Myra C. GlennFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This chronological discussion of the death penalty in Missouri covers those executed from 1803 through 2005. Sources include newspapers, county histories, prison records, Union Army records, pardon papers and appellate court cases. Chapters discuss such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597525978Author Lloyd H SteffenFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978823785Author Angela J. HatteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949454048Author Paul SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 490Imprint Singh Global InitiativesPublisher Singh Global InitiativesWeight(grams) 821g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632930880Author Clifford R CaldwellFormat PaperbackImprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 1139g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585009862Author B. Scott GallieFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 249g

Since statehood was achieved in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, 321 men and 2 women have been executed. The first of these post-statehood executions took place in Nevada on October 30, 1868, and the last took place in Utah on June 18,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603063456Author Jerry ArmorFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth BooksWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935721185Author Eric I BundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Eric BundyPublisher Eric BundyWeight(grams) 59g

Perhaps the single medium in which women have been consistently treated as equal to men is the American judicial system. Although the system has met with enormous public condemnation, equality under the law has justified the legal execution of nearly six...

This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty. It argues that an important social component of death penalty abolition in the state of Colorado was due to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610273527Author Sheldon L MessingerFormat PaperbackImprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585440436Author Donald R. WalkerFormat PaperbackImprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas A & M University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871177558Author John JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Whiting & Birch LtdPublisher Whiting & Birch LtdWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638089537Author Eva FedderlyFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Center PointPublisher Center Point

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630513597Author Daniel Joseph PolikoffFormat HardbackImprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604447309Author Thomas Mott OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 272g

In the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most horrendous conditions imaginable. Black Prisoners and Their World draws on a variety of sources,...

Behind the Walls is a detailed description of the world's largest prison system by a long-time convict trained as an observer and reporter. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice_what's good, what's bad, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571683656Author Patrick M McConalFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Neither journalistic nor sensationalistic eye-witness accounts, this is the first book of serious reflection on the moral background and issues of internal legality surrounding the events of Guantanamo Bay.Book InformationISBN 9781557534279Author Clark...

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ‘star men’, convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms. ‘Star Men’ in...

I don't know when we will stop murdering people whether randomly on the streets or systematically in our death chambers. The only way to prevent continuation of the suffering and grief murder occasions in to prevent murder. I have worked with eighteen...

As of mid-2004, American prisons and jails housed 2.1 million inmates, or one out of every 138 people in the United States. When these prisoners are released, the majority will be arrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within three years. Clearly,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250120250Author Kyle SwensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 145mm * 23mm

Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison: A History of North Carolina's State Penitentiary is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Taylor...

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...

More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons - one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours state budgets, adversely affects community well-being and skews our collective moral compass. This study...

In this book, the authors articulate an innovative approach to offender supervision that moves beyond previous debates which have focused on whether offenders under community supervision should receive rehabilitation or intensive control The growing...

More discussion of community corrections practices in other countries, more coverage applying theory, and more on the use of technology in community corrections sets this book apart from competitors. Additionally, the treatment orientation and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524978341Author Monica Solinas-SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S...

In a time of increasing mass incarceration, US prisons and jails are becoming a major source of literary production. Prisoners write for themselves, fellow prisoners, family members, and teachers. However, too few write for college credit. In the dearth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564322906Author Sasha AbramskyFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint Human Rights WatchPublisher Human Rights Watch

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...

The number of people incarcerated in federal prisons increased dramatically over the past three decades. While research indicates that the expanded use of incarceration during the 1980s and 1990s contributed to the declining crime rate, the effect was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929692715Author Nan AronFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Human Rights WatchPublisher Human Rights WatchWeight(grams) 159g

Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564321015Author 1010 HrwFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint Human Rights WatchPublisher Human Rights WatchWeight(grams) 454g