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Legal Executions in Tennessee: A Comprehensive Registry, 1782-2009 by Lewis L. Laska 9780786459759
RRP: $87.71$71.43This 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... -
Campaigns Against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, Women, and Children in Antebellum America by Myra C. Glenn 9780873958134
RRP: $32.91$28.66Apologies 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... -
The Death Penalty in Missouri: A History by Harriet C. Frazier 9780786427192
RRP: $69.65$56.59This 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... -
Executing Justice by Lloyd H Steffen 9781597525978
RRP: $28.38$21.22Apologies 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)... -
Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement by Angela J. Hattery 9781978823785
RRP: $36.11$26.50Apologies 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 -
Prison Torture in America: Shocking Tales from the Inside by Paul Singh 9781949454048
RRP: $96.69$64.51Apologies 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 -
Eternity at the End of a Rope (Softcover) by Clifford R Caldwell 9781632930880
RRP: $46.44$36.88Apologies 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 -
Circle of Conviction by B. Scott Gallie 9781585009862
RRP: $14.94$14.67Apologies 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 -
Legal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah: A Comprehensive Registry by R. Michael Wilson 9780786463268
RRP: $87.71$71.43Since 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,... -
A Home for Wayward Boys: The Early History of the Alabama Boys' Industrial School by Jerry Armor 9781603063456
RRP: $29.61$19.89Apologies 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 -
Lost souls behind broken walls by Eric I Bundy 9781935721185
RRP: $11.75$10.11Apologies 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 -
Women and Capital Punishment in America, 1840-1899: Death Sentences and Executions in the United States and Canada by Kerry Segrave 9780786438235
RRP: $37.40$30.16Perhaps 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... -
Thwarting Death: A Legal Culture of Resistance Among Colorado Death Penalty Defense Lawyers by Matthew J. Greife 9783031461323
RRP: $38.69$28.34This 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... -
Strategies of Control by Sheldon L Messinger 9781610273527
RRP: $41.59$32.02Apologies 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 -
Penology For Profit: A History of the Texas Prison System, 1867-1912 by Donald R. Walker 9781585440436
RRP: $25.74$23.45Apologies 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 -
Beveridge: 1942-1992 by John Jacobs 9781871177558
RRP: $109.65$98.32Apologies 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 *... -
These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails by Eva Fedderly 9781638089537
RRP: $51.54$40.20Apologies 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 -
Rue Rilke by Daniel Joseph Polikoff 9781630513597
RRP: $83.85$67.66Apologies 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 -
Within Prison Walls by Thomas Mott Osborne 9781604447309
$17.14Apologies 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 -
Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900 by Mary Ellen Curtin 9780813919843
$49.85In 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: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates by Jorge Antonio Renaud 9781574411539
RRP: $24.45$17.79Behind 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... -
Over the Wall: The Men behind the 1934 Death House Escape by Patrick M McConal 9781571683656
RRP: $32.19$20.02Apologies 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 *... -
Guantanamo Bay and the Judicial-moral Treatment of the Other by Clark Butler 9781557534279
RRP: $24.45$18.05Neither 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... -
‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 by Ben Bethell 9781032064277
RRP: $51.59$45.23This 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... -
Death Row: Interviews with Inmates, Their Families and Opponenets of Capital Punishment by Shirley Dicks 9780786469437
RRP: $19.34$16.19I 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... -
The Treatment of Criminal Offenders: A History by Michael Dow Burkhead 9780786430208
RRP: $37.40$30.16As 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,... -
Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America by Kyle Swenson 9781250120250
RRP: $30.96$18.36Apologies 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 -
Central Prison: A History of North Carolina's State Penitentiary by Gregory S. Taylor 9780807174333
$48.17Gregory 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... -
From the Courtroom to the Boardroom: Privatizing Justice in the Neoliberal United States by Deena Varner 9780700636594
RRP: $42.51$35.35The 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... -
Decades Behind Bars: A 20-Year Conversation with Men in America's Prisons by Gaye Holman 9781476669236
RRP: $28.37$23.18More 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... -
Environmental Corrections: A New Paradigm for Supervising Offenders in the Community by Lacey Schaefer 9781506323282
RRP: $98.04$86.74In 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... -
Community Corrections by Robert D. Hanser 9781452256634
RRP: $156.09$137.55More 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... -
Notes on the Institution of Punishment and Corrections by Monica Solinas-Saunders 9781524978341
$129.17Apologies 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... -
Prison Pedagogies: Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers by Joe Lockard 9780815635635
$92.47In 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... -
Ill-equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness by Sasha Abramsky 9781564322906
RRP: $19.29$16.20Apologies 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: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration by Deborah E. McDowell 9780813951478
RRP: $38.64$26.52The 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... -
Bureau of Prisons: Risk and Needs Assessment to Reduce Recidivism by Rachel Rowe 9781536151282
RRP: $109.64$88.89The 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... -
Prison Conditions in Mexico by Nan Aron 9780929692715
$6.64Apologies 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 -
Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs 9781469675114
RRP: $38.64$35.67Every 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... -
The Human Rights Watch Global Report on Prisons by 1010 Hrw 9781564321015
RRP: $19.29$16.20Apologies 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