Penology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874097716Author J.A.N. BamfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint The Social Market FoundationPublisher The Social Market Foundation

Six-five is a general warning to all inmates that an officer has just entered the area, so beware. Concealed behind tons of concrete, bricks and steel lies a truly bizarre world. A world neither known or understood by most people. This world is called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595584540Author Paul WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 411g

Contributors address a range of themes including prisoner interactions, gender and patriarchal domination in women's prisons, as well as health care and mental health behind bars.Book InformationISBN 9780776624907Author Justin PicheFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999513972Author Barak LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint CT3Media, Inc.Publisher CT3Media, Inc.Weight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998522470Author Ellis AmdurFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint EdgeworkPublisher EdgeworkWeight(grams) 853g

VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1 (2018) is a general issue featuring several articles examining aging, suffering and death behind the walls. This edition of the journal also features a section dedicated to "Continuing the Dialogue on Canada's Federal...

Volume 22, Number 2 of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons is a general issue edited by Professor Susan Nagelsen (New England College) and Charles Huckelbury, who is an award winning author and former prisoner.Book InformationISBN 9780776609430Author...

Edited by Bell Gale Chevigny, this issue of the JPP features non-fiction pieces by winners of the annual PEN American Center's Prison Writing Contest that address issues of punishment and creative resistance. Many contributors describe punishment that...

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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...

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...

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...

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 9780345435538Author Daniel BergnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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 the meaning...

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...