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What is a Criminal?: Answers From Inside the US Justice System by Katherine S. Gaudet 9780367770297
RRP: $243.75$210.33Bringing together a collection of essays by writers with diverse knowledge of the US criminal justice system, from those with personal experience in prison and on patrol to scholarly researchers, What is a Criminal? explores the category of... -
What is a Criminal?: Answers From Inside the US Justice System by Katherine S. Gaudet 9780367770273
RRP: $70.18$61.80Bringing together a collection of essays by writers with diverse knowledge of the US criminal justice system, from those with personal experience in prison and on patrol to scholarly researchers, What is a Criminal? explores the category of... -
A Wall Is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the Twentieth-Century United States by Reiko Hillyer 9781478030133
RRP: $50.68$42.98Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly released from prison for Christmas holidays; the wives of incarcerated men could visit for seventy-two hours... -
A Wall Is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the Twentieth-Century United States by Reiko Hillyer 9781478025870
RRP: $191.10$163.51Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly released from prison for Christmas holidays; the wives of incarcerated men could visit for seventy-two hours... -
Arts in Corrections: Thirty Years of Annotated Publications by Grady Hillman 9781032310923
RRP: $70.18$57.72In 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... -
Doing Indefinite Time: An Ethnography of Long-Term Imprisonment in Switzerland by Irene Marti 9783031125898
RRP: $87.73$87.69This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as 'dangerous' and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners' manifold ways of... -
Justice and Legitimacy in Policing: Transforming the Institution by Miltonette Craig 9781032258447
RRP: $243.75$210.33Justice and Legitimacy in Policing critically analyzes the state of American policing and evaluates proposed solutions to reform/transform the institution, such as implementing body-worn cameras, increasing diversity in police agencies, the problem of... -
Justice and Legitimacy in Policing: Transforming the Institution by Miltonette Craig 9781032258430
RRP: $70.18$61.80Justice and Legitimacy in Policing critically analyzes the state of American policing and evaluates proposed solutions to reform/transform the institution, such as implementing body-worn cameras, increasing diversity in police agencies, the problem of... -
Six By Ten: Stories From Solitary by Taylor Pendergrass 9781608469567
RRP: $38.98$26.44An estimated 80,000 Americans are held in solitary confinement in prisons across the US. Solitary confinement, often in cells no bigger than six-by-ten-feet, means twenty-four hours per day with little or no meaningful human contact. Six By Ten explores... -
Making Of Captains Of Lives, The: Prison Reform In Singapore: 1999 To 2007 by Chin Kiat Chua
RRP: $33.15$29.48This book tells a story of successful prison reform that brought the recidivism rate of prisoners down from 44% to 24%. In the process of this reform, the entire Prison Service was transformed from a custody focused mindset to a rehabilitation centred... -
These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails by Eva Fedderly 9781982193911
RRP: $54.60$34.26A deeply reported work of narrative nonfiction that takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most consequential decisions of our time—the closure of Rikers Island—and what it could mean for the future of prison reform and restorative justice.For... -
Improving Interagency Collaboration, Innovation and Learning in Criminal Justice Systems: Supporting Offender Rehabilitation by Sarah Hean
RRP: $68.23$54.17This Open Access edited collection seeks to improve collaboration between criminal justice and welfare services in order to help prepare offenders for life after serving a prison sentence. It examines the potential tensions between criminal justice... -
After Prison: Navigating Employment and Reintegration by Rose Ricciardelli
RRP: $70.10$57.66Employment for former prisoners is a critical pathway toward reintegration into society and is central to the processes of desistance from crime. Nevertheless, the economic climate in Western countries has aggravated the ability of former prisoners and... -
Incarceration and Older Women: Giving Back Not Giving Up by Regina Benedict
RRP: $156.00$118.70Generativity or ‘giving back’ is regarded as a common life stage, occurring for many around middle age. For the first time, this book offers qualitative research on the lives and social relationships of older imprisoned women. In-depth interviews with 29... -
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law
RRP: $37.03$25.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604865837Author Victoria LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 352g -
Counties In Court by Wayne N. Welsh
RRP: $159.90$136.58A systematic analysis of court-ordered jail reform with a pragmatic model for changeBook InformationISBN 9781566393409Author Wayne N. WelshFormat HardbackPage Count 319Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. -
Parole in Canada: Gender and Diversity in the Federal System by Sarah Turnbull
RRP: $173.55$148.80Scholars and upper-level students in the fields of law, criminology, sociology, gender studies, and Aboriginal studies will appreciate this analysis of diversity initiatives in parole policy and practice.Book InformationISBN 9780774831932Author Sarah... -
Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law by Ellie Brown
RRP: $243.75$210.33Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is used and experienced, and how human rights are upheld. It draws on empirical research, through interviews with staff and prisoners, to... -
The Politics of Redress: Crime, Punishment and Penal Abolition by Willem De Haan
RRP: $179.38$155.61First published in 1990, The Politics of Redress is a product of and commentary on significant developments in critical criminology. It shifts the emphasis from the criminologist as a police agent to a fighter for social justice. The author focuses on... -
Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom: Options and Opportunities by Anna Plemons
$63.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814134658Author Anna PlemonsFormat PaperbackImprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English -
Crime and Its Correction: An International Survey of Attitudes and Practices by John Conrad
RRP: $81.90$63.24This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Punishment and Process in International Criminal Trials by Ralph Henham
RRP: $97.48$84.83International sentencing has become significant given the numerous events on the world stage which have focused attention on the justifications and adequacy of punishment for heinous crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity. In addition to... -
Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America's Prisons by Anna Curtis
RRP: $56.53$47.70For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Prison rules and staff regulate phone privileges, access to writing materials, and visits. Perhaps even more important are the ways in which the penal system shapes... -
Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement by Angela J. Hattery
RRP: $136.50$115.56Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between those locked... -
Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States by Daniel Lachance
RRP: $46.80$44.91In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless... -
Prisons, Politics and Practices in England and Wales 1945-2020: The Operational Management Issues by David J. Cornwell
RRP: $214.48$194.43This book presents both a survey of and commentary upon the penal process of England and Wales between 1945 and 2020 from the primary perspective of prisons and their operational management. Part I focusses on the extent to which governmental polities,... -
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935 by Carlos Aguirre
RRP: $48.73$41.40The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is the first major historical study of the creation and development of the prison system in Peru. Carlos Aguirre examines the evolution of prisons for male criminals in Lima from the conception-in the early 1850s-of... -
Wild Arabs and Savages: A History of Juvenile Justice in Ireland by Paul Sargent
RRP: $68.25$48.17This book is the first history of the Irish juvenile justice system. It charts the emergence of the system from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. From the beginning, the system was dominated by a large network of reformatory and industrial... -
Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America by Brett Story
RRP: $140.40$118.79From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life Prison Land offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social... -
The International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment, Volume 1: Justice and Legal Issues by Peter Hodgkinson
RRP: $93.58$81.53This 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... -
For the Children?: Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State by Erica R. Meiners
RRP: $44.83$38.22"Childhood has never been available to all." In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in... -
Gulag: A History by Ms Anne Applebaum
RRP: $42.90$30.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Duff Cooper Prize 2003 and Pulitzer Prize 2004. Short-listed for Mark Lynton History Prize 2004 and National Book Awards 2004 and Samuel Johnson Prize for... -
Out There/In Here: Masculinity, Violence and Prisoning by Elizabeth Comack
RRP: $33.05$26.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552662588Author Elizabeth ComackFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 227g -
Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail by Michael L. Walker
RRP: $51.66$43.66An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it. Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial... -
Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons by Dr Mary Bosworth
RRP: $105.28$91.40This book explores how power is negotiated in women's prisons. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in three penal establishments in England, it analyses how women manage the restrictions of imprisonment and the manner in which they attempt to resist... -
Doing Harder Time?: The Experiences of an Ageing Male Prison Population in England and Wales by Natalie Mann
RRP: $97.48$84.83In his seminal text Society of Captives, Gresham Sykes discusses the general pains of imprisonment to which all prisoners are subjected: the deprivation of liberty, the deprivation of heterosexual relationships, and the deprivation of autonomy. Sykes... -
Hard Time at Tehachapi: California's First Women's Prison by Kathleen A. Cairns
RRP: $50.60$41.03The California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, once stood in the stark and windswept Cummings Valley, 130 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The state's first prison for female inmates, the facility served, between 1933 and 1952, as a 'laboratory' where... -
Metamorphosis: How to Transform Punishment in America by Robert A Ferguson
RRP: $63.38$62.36In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus. We agree that many prison terms are too long, especially for nonviolent drug offenders; that long-term isolation is a bad idea; and that basic psychiatric... -
Private Prisons in America: A Critical Race Perspective by Michael A. Hallett
RRP: $46.78$42.06The role of for-profit prisons in the history of oppression and legal discrimination aimed primarily at African American menBook InformationISBN 9780252073083Author Michael A. HallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Illinois... -
An Ideal Prison?: Critical Essays on Women's Imprisonment in Canada by Kelly Hannah-Moffat
RRP: $40.95$32.84Exploring the effects of punishment and penality on women's lives, the impact of feminist reforms on the lives of women in prison, and the systemic barriers that limit change in the context of both provincial and federal prisons, these essays question...