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Aftermath by Preti Taneja 9781913505462
RRP: £12.00£8.30Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offences at age 20, and sent to high-security prison. He was released eight years later, and allowed to travel to London for one day, to attend an event marking the fifth anniversary of a prison education... -
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II by Danzig Baldaev
RRP: £24.95£16.35'A unique social document recording a now disappearing sub-culture. The criminals inhabit as desperate a nether world as you are likely to come across. A hipnotic aspect of art and words. ' - Index This second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo... -
Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier
RRP: £18.99£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263805Author Leonard PeltierFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Beyond Transitional Justice: Transformative Justice and the State of the Field (or non-field) by Matthew Evans 9780367770259
RRP: £39.99£35.06Beyond Transitional Justice reflects upon the state of the field (or non-field) of transitional justice in the current conjuncture, as well as identifying new possibilities and challenges in the fields with which transitional justice overlaps (such as... -
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036661Author Hugh RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 560gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 156mm *... -
Mr Nice: 21st Anniversary Edition by Howard Marks
RRP: £12.99£9.0921ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him.During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and... -
Working with Sex Offenders in Prisons and through Release to the Community: A Handbook by Alec Spencer
RRP: £39.99£37.70Working with Sex Offenders in Prisons and through Release to the Community is the first study of its kind to look at a wide range of issues and problems relating to the management of sexual offenders in prisons and their reintegration into the community... -
Working With Adults with Communication Difficulties in the Criminal Justice System: A Practical Guide for Speech and Language Therapists by Jacqui Learoyd 9781032265322
RRP: £34.99£30.85This book offers guidance for speech and language therapists and other professionals who are working in a criminal justice setting or who are interested to know more about this dynamic and rewarding client group.The criminal justice system (CJS) includes... -
Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders: An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing by Anne Aiyegbusi
RRP: £39.99£37.70Working in any area of mental health nursing presents complex issues regarding the nurse-patient relationship. For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, relationships with patients and colleagues can be particularly emotionally... -
Life in Strangeways: From Riots to Redemption, My Thirty-Two Years Behind Bars by Alan Lord 9781784186012
RRP: £9.99£6.65A key player in the worst prison riot in British history at Strangeways Prison in April 1990, Alan Lord was always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was drawn to trouble like water to a sponge. After experiencing a troubled childhood during which... -
The Devil's Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising by Roger Morris
RRP: £21.95£17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826310620Author Roger MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press -
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me by Joseph Martin Bauer
RRP: £11.99£8.00Originally published in 1955, this must be one of the most dramatic adventures of our time. Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after the Second World War. Rebelling against the brutality... -
Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners by Steve Fielding
RRP: £11.99£10.95Between them, the three men in the fearsome Pierrepoint dynasty executed over 800 people during a career spanning more than half a century. Henry, his brother Thomas, and his son Albert, dispatched some of the most infamous criminals of the 20th century,... -
Hanged at Birmingham by Steve Fielding 9780752452609
RRP: £14.99£11.28For decades the high walls of Birmingham's Winson Green Gaol have contained some of the country's most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main centre of execution for convicted killers from all parts of the... -
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh 9781859845769
RRP: £30.99£26.79Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors.Rather it evidently served... -
A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven by Jeffrey Archer 9781509820795
RRP: £10.99£7.71The final volume of Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries, A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven, covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the... -
Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir by Paddy Armstrong
RRP: £17.99£13.35Looking back over the last six, almost seven decades, the images that flash through my mind are hardly believable - sometimes, it feels like I'm remembering someone else's life. The truth is, I've lived three very different lives: the one before prison;... -
When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zeran 9781913505264
RRP: £11.99£8.29Winner of the 2022 British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Novelist Alia Trabucco Zeran has long been fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women, but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and... -
Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications by Lorenn Walker 9781452219912
RRP: £76.00£56.01Restorative Justice Today: Applications of Restorative Interventions takes a hard look at the issues and concepts surrounding restorative justice and current restorative practices used in a broad range of areas today. In a time when the cost of prisons... -
Banged Up Abroad: Hellhole: Our Fight to Survive South America's Deadliest Jail by James Miles
RRP: £16.99£12.28'There are 3,000 drugged-up psychopaths, armed to the teeth with blades, shooters and bombs. That's the only way I can describe Yare. It's a murderous viper's nest of assassins, cut throats and killers.'When James Miles and his best friend Paul Loseby... -
A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective by Francoise Verges
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words... -
Mr Nice by Howard Marks 9780749395698
RRP: £12.99£11.46The incredible story of an unconventional life During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to... -
Broadmoor: My Journey into Hell by Charlie Bronson 9781784181178
RRP: £17.99£12.10Broadmoor: My Journey into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told. In the winter of 1979, aged just... -
Nursing in Prison by Joanne Brooke 9783031306624
RRP: £24.99£21.04This Textbook addresses a gap in the market, as currently there are no contemporary books exploring nursing within a prison setting. The main focus is the provision of healthcare in the Prison Service of England and Wales, although examples will also be... -
Hanged at Norwich by Neil Storey 9780752458656
RRP: £17.99£13.33This is the story of those who ended up on the end of the hangman's rope at Norwich Castle Prison, Norwich City Prison on Earlham Road and the later Victorian Norwich Prison on Knox Road. The executions included in this book range from some of the... -
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017, THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2017THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Masterful, ... -
Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action by David V. Canter 9780470023976
RRP: £43.95£38.82This ground-breaking text is the first to provide a detailed overview of Investigative Psychology, from the earliest work through to recent studies, including descriptions of previously unpublished internal reports. Crucially it provides a framework for... -
Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit by Kerry Max Cook
RRP: £11.99£11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060574659Author Kerry Max CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
If They Come in the Morning by Angela Davis
RRP: £10.99£7.25The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals... -
Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus
RRP: £7.99£5.79'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out'Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert... -
The Governor by John Lonergan
RRP: £15.99£11.61In his talks to communities throughout the length and breath of Ireland, John Lonergan finds himself coming back to one theme: the importance of kindness. It is an unexpected theme for the former boss of Ireland's biggest and toughest prison, Mountjoy,... -
Understanding Criminal Careers by Keith Soothill
RRP: £37.99£33.38The study of criminal careers is of increasing interest in criminology. It is now generally recognised that it is important to try to understand criminal behaviour across the life-course rather than focusing on fragmented incidents which provide only a... -
Penology: Theory, Policy and Practice by Karen Harrison 9781137607836
RRP: £32.99£27.38This textbook considers the full breadth of the criminal justice system, going beyond prisons to cover other punishments such as out-of-court disposals and community penalties, as well as issues around rehabilitation and reintegration. It offers a... -
For Abolition: Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics by David Scott 9781909976825
RRP: £25.00£21.79According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.' Connecting the politics of abolition to wider emancipatory struggles for liberation and social justice, this book... -
Child First: Developing a New Youth Justice System by Stephen Case
£40.09This book explores the development and implementation of Child First as an innovative guiding principle for improving youth justice systems. Applying contemporary research understandings of what leads to positive child outcomes and safer communities,... -
Eyewitness Account of the Dea by Dead Man Walking
RRP: £17.00£10.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679751311Author Helen PrejeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Women and Punishment by Pat Carlen
RRP: £37.99£33.38In the last decade there has been growing international concern about the increasing numbers of women in prison, the effects that imprisonment has on their children, the realisation that gaoled women have different criminal profiles and rehabilitative... -
Behind the Granite Walls: Back Inside America's Toughest Prisons by Jamie Morgan Kane 9781913406493
RRP: £8.99£6.45Prison is a word which conjures up different things to the people who hear it. To some, it is a place where people are simply locked away for a period of time, away from society. Others may think it is place where torture, fear, violence and hopelessness... -
Your Honour Can I Tell You My Story? by Andi Brierley 9781909976641
£19.95The challenging story of a young person's progress through care, prison and social rejection to youth justice specialist. It charts failures to connect with and modify the author's chaotic early life moving from place to place, school to school,... -
Abbeys and Priories of Britain by Stephen Platten
RRP: £9.99£6.44A guide to over 60 of Britain's most notable abbeys and monasteries. Taking you on a journey that has inspired pilgrims and visitors for centuries, Abbeys and Priories of Britain is the perfect introduction to some of the country's oldest and most...