Penology

Before the nineteenth century, American prisons were used to hold people for trial and not to incarcerate them for wrong-doing. Only after independence did American states begin to reject such public punishment as whipping and pillorying and turn to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789289051156Author A. B. SmoyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint WHO Regional Office for EuropePublisher WHO Regional Office for Europe

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869583085Author J.-Y. EmpereurFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Ecole francaise d'AthenesPublisher Ecole francaise d'Athenes

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869582934Author T. KozeljFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint Ecole francaise d'AthenesPublisher Ecole francaise d'Athenes

"Stigma, shame and hardship---this is the lot shared by families whose young men have been swept into prison. Braman reveals the devastating toll mass incarceration takes on the parents, partners, and children left behind."-Katherine S. Newman"Doing Time...

Thorough and unbiased, Among the Lowest of the Dead is a gripping narrative that provides an unprecedented journalistic look into the actual workings of the capital punishment system. "Has all the tension of the best true crime stories . . . This is...

Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations. It is incumbent to encourage public awareness of the causes...

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Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario’s nearly 50 heritage jails. Built before the modern era of the OPP, they range in size from single cell lockups to massive monuments such as the Kingston Pen and the Don Jail. Although Spartan inside, many...

Offering a timely reanalysis of the issue of Japan's capital punishment policy, this cutting edge volume considers the de facto moratorium periods in Japan's death penalty system and proposes an alternative analytical framework to examine the policy...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783743118454Author Perry E WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 145g

The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice focuses on the growing worldwide movement aimed at decolonizing state policies and practices, and various disciplinary knowledges including criminology, social work and law. The collection of...

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This unique book explores criminalized identities and the idea of 'viscous culture' to provide new understandings of crime, punishment and justice. It shows that viscous culture encourages some of us to become outlaws, monsters or shapeshifters who...

In Criminals, Nazis, and Islamists, Vera Mironova examines conflicts and cooperation between inmates in male prisons in the former Soviet Union. She begins by focusing on the earliest prisoner groups, in particular the Vory criminal organization, which...

In Arts in Corrections, the author-a poet, translator and teacher-takes readers on a chronological journey through an annotated selection of 24 of his own publications from 1981 to 2014 which recount his experiences teaching, consulting and documenting...

The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have become worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years...

Though institutional care for people suffering from mental illness was phased out in the last century, mentally disordered offenders remain the exception to this rule. The numbers detained in medium secure care have increased and new initiatives in high...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841741901Author David WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Blackstone Press LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 670gDimensions(mm)...

In 2003, well over half a million jailed Americans will leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious...

Combines quantitative and qualitative data in a careful investigation of sentencing processes and context under Pennsylvania's sentencing guidelines.Many states and the federal system have embraced sentencing guidelines as a mechanism of sentencing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945999874Author Alexander TabarrokFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Independent Institute,U.S.Publisher Independent Institute,U.S.Dimensions(mm)...

Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching prison college and volunteer classes in eleven Michigan and California prisons, The Prisoners' World strives to make the "prisoners' voice" come alive for regular college students. The book starts off by tracing...

The book offers an incisive collection of contemporary research into the problems of crime control and punishment. It has three inter-related aims: to take stock of current thinking on punishment, regulation, and control in the early years of a new...

This wide-ranging study provides the first comprehensive account of the forms, functions, and significance of punishment in modern society. Arguing that penal institutions are social and cultural artefacts as well as techniques of crime control, the book...

Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical references for the construction of a transformative justice in Brazil, supporting the claim that justice is a...

Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations. It is incumbent to encourage public awareness of the causes...

People organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of secondhand bookstores for the last seventy years, reading letters written by incarcerated people and sending books in return. This diffuse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611865370Author Stephen J HartnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 331Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950678136Author Ellis AmdurFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Edgework: Crisis Intervention Resources PllcPublisher Edgework: Crisis Intervention...

This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years. Inspired by the travels of the prison reformer John Howard (1726-1790), who visited prisons across Europe in the eighteenth century, it fundamentally reflects on...

This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland. Building on an interdisciplinary conference held in the...

This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services. It also discusses how non-medical practices, such as peer support and prison...

This book explores and addresses body search practices in prison environments from different angles (criminology, sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such practices in different national contexts within Europe. Body searches are widely used in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610273558Author Sheldon L MessingerFormat HardbackImprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 526g

This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years. Inspired by the travels of the prison reformer John Howard (1726-1790), who visited prisons across Europe in the eighteenth century, it fundamentally reflects on...

This volume provides up-to-date and nuanced analysis across a wide spectrum of capital punishment issues. The essays move beyond the conventional legal approach and propose fresh perspectives, including a unique critique of the abolition sector. Written...

More and more women are being sent to prison - 1998 saw the biggest increase since World War II. Though the media focuses on high profile prisoners, most women become "invisible" as soon as they pass through the prison gates and are subsumed...

This book explores the pros and cons of the death penalty and the history of capital punishment. In this context, it puts a special emphasis on the situation in Hungary, where, amongst its neighbors, in recent years the demand for the reestablishment of...