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Its Always Possible: Transforming One of the Largest Prisons in the World by Kiran Bedi
RRP: €17.84€11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120728868Author Kiran BediFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd -
Punishment and Culture by Philip Smith
RRP: €95.20€91.17From the chain gang to the electric chair, the problem of how to deal with criminals has long been debated. What explains this concern with getting punishment right? And why do attitudes toward particular punishments change radically over time? In... -
Race To Incarcerate: The Sentencing Project by Marc Mauer
RRP: €19.03€13.14In this revised version of his seminal book on race, class and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look at three decades of prison... -
Security, with Care: Restorative Justice and Healthy Societies by Elizabeth M. Elliott
RRP: €34.51€27.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552664254Author Elizabeth M. ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Fernwood Publishing Co LtdPublisher Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd -
Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia by Judah Schept
RRP: €34.50€29.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479858972Author Judah ScheptFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Prison Food: Identity, Meaning, Practices, and Symbolism in European Prisons by An-Sofie Vanhouche
RRP: €130.89€118.65This book examines the significance of food within prison, arguing that it acts as a means of normalization, autonomy, identity construction, power and hierarchies, group formation, and even security. It focusses on prison foodways in Belgium as a... -
The Political Economy of Punishment Today: Visions, Debates and Challenges by Dario Melossi
RRP: €47.59€41.72Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the evolution of penality from different standpoints, focusing particularly on the... -
Beyond Incarceration: Safety and True Criminal Justice by Paula Mallea
RRP: €16.65€11.02A call to replace Canada's incarceration model, which has proven destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and - most of all - unnecessary. Imprisonment developed in the Western world as the punishment to suit all offences, from... -
Offender Reentry by Matthew S. Crow
€103.42An Innovative New Text That Addresses a Critical Issue Nearly 2,000 people are released from prison every day in the United States, many of whom face significant barriers to re-entry into the civilian population. Within three years, two-thirds of them... -
The International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment, Volume 2: Abolition and Alternatives to Capital Punishment by Peter Hodgkinson
RRP: €57.11€49.75The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is understood and posited. Of particular interest is the attention given to an integral but often forgotten element... -
Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science by Alfonso Morales
RRP: €160.65€139.56Pragmatism is experiencing a resurgence in law, philosophy and social science, with pragmatists seeking a consistent, comprehensive and productive understanding of social life. In its four sections Renascent Pragmatism aids the reinvigoration of... -
The Prison: Policy and Practice by Gordon Hawkins
RRP: €35.70€34.81Despite lethal explosions of violence from within and critical assaults from without, it seems certain that prisons will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. Gordon Hawkins argues that certain key issues which attend the use of imprisonment as a... -
I Refuse For The Devil To Take My Soul: Inside Cook County Jail by Holzer-Glier Lilli
RRP: €45.21€29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878880Author Holzer-Glier LilliFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S. -
On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria
RRP: €54.73€47.75Cesare Beccaria's influential treatise On Crimes and Punishments is considered a foundational work in the field of criminology. Three major themes of the Enlightenment run through the treatise: the idea that the social contract forms the moral and... -
The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration by Franklin E. Zimring
RRP: €35.09€30.37The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery. While there is unanimous condemnation of the practice, there is no consensus on the causes nor any persuasive... -
Capital Punishment: Theory and Practice of the Ultimate Penalty by Virginia Leigh Hatch
€120.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190212681Author Virginia Leigh HatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams)... -
The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives by Austin Sarat
RRP: €33.31€28.16How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity?After centuries during which capital... -
Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation by Traci Burch
RRP: €29.75€28.49The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1.5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented. What's more, they tend... -
Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization by Elizabeth Comack
RRP: €23.74€19.09Published some two decades ago, Elizabeth Comack's Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women's abuse histories and their law violations as well as their experience of imprisonment in an aged facility. What has changed for incarcerated... -
The Politics of the Prison and the Prisoner: Zoon Politikon by Susan Easton
RRP: €160.65€140.04In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the role of the prison as a source of political ideas and site of political engagement, as well as in the prisoner's quest for citizenship. The rising number of prisoners has increased fiscal... -
Selective Incapacitation and Public Policy: Evaluating California's Imprisonment Crisis by Kathleen Auerhahn
RRP: €30.36€26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791457986Author Kathleen AuerhahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Punishment and Process in International Criminal Trials by Ralph J. Henham
RRP: €160.65€139.56International 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... -
Previous Convictions at Sentencing: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives by Andrew von Hirsch
€109.33This latest volume in the "Penal Theory and Penal Ethics" series addresses one of the oldest and most contested questions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence? This question provokes... -
English Society and the Prison - Time, Culture and Politics in the Development of the Modern Prison, 1850-1920 by Alyson Brown
RRP: €83.30€80.02Prison disturbances during the period reveal inadequacies of the practice and philosophy of custodial sentencing. This social history analyses a period in which the modern prison experienced some of its most serious challenges both on a practical and... -
Home Free: Prisoner Reentry and Residential Change after Hurricane Katrina by David S. Kirk 9780190841232
RRP: €39.26€33.83Each year in the United States, more than 625,000 individuals are released from prison. Half will be back in prison within just three years. Many former prisoners who reoffend return home to their old communities, where the same family, friends, drugs,... -
Cheshire's Execution Files by Derek Yarwood 9781859839386
RRP: €15.46€10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859839386Author Derek YarwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
African Penal Systems Alan Milner 9781032798424
RRP: €160.65€139.56First published in 1969, African Penal Systems is the first book to explore the problems of African criminology. Sixteen distinguished contributors- sociologists, lawyers, and psychiatrists- each an authority on some aspect of African penal problems,... -
Out of Care: The Community Support of Juvenile Offenders D. H. Thorpe 9781032818542
RRP: €101.15€85.98The late 1970s saw the emergence of a heated debate on the treatment of juvenile delinquents. The argument was usually presented as being between the exponents of ‘law and order’ and punishment on the one hand, and the ‘soft’ advocates of social work and... -
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition Ruth Wilson Gilmore 9781642594140
RRP: €20.22€17.18Racial, gender, and environmental justice. Class war. Militarism. Interpersonal violence. Old age security. This is not the vocabulary many use to critique the prison-industrial complex.But in this series of powerful lectures, Ruth Wilson Gilmore shows... -
Social Policy and the Young Delinquent Peter Boss 9781032824765
RRP: €101.15€85.98Originally published in 1967, Social Policy and the Young Delinquent is an account of a process: of the way in which the treatment of the child delinquent has developed from the days when a boy of nine could be sentenced to be hanged for stealing two... -
Youth Justice: Towards a Contextualised Understanding of Policy-Making Stephen Case 9781447369660
RRP: €95.20€72.44Policy development and implementation has a pivotal role in the youth justice system, profoundly impacting professionals and the children they work with. This imaginative book challenges limited explanations of policy-making as linear and... -
Probation and Re-Education Elizabeth R. Glover 9781032804729
RRP: €124.95€108.12Elizabeth Glover had a wide knowledge of Club work, to which she gave seven years’ service at the beginning of her career. This was followed by a period of voluntary work in the Metropolitan Juvenile Courts. She joined the Probation Service in 1931 and... -
Incarceration and Older Women: Giving Back Not Giving Up Regina Benedict 9781529231656
RRP: €33.31€28.31Generativity 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...