Penology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610273527Author Howard S BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585440436Author Donald R. WalkerFormat PaperbackImprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas A & M University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871177558Author John JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Whiting & Birch LtdPublisher Whiting & Birch LtdWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638089537Author Eva FedderlyFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Center PointPublisher Center Point

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630513597Author Daniel Joseph PolikoffFormat HardbackImprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604447309Author Thomas Mott OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 272g

In the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most horrendous conditions imaginable. Black Prisoners and Their World draws on a variety of sources,...

Behind the Walls is a detailed description of the world's largest prison system by a long-time convict trained as an observer and reporter. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice_what's good, what's bad, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571683656Author Patrick M McConalFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Neither journalistic nor sensationalistic eye-witness accounts, this is the first book of serious reflection on the moral background and issues of internal legality surrounding the events of Guantanamo Bay.Book InformationISBN 9781557534279Author Clark...

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ‘star men’, convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms. ‘Star Men’ in...

The 34 chapters in this book are largely composed of interviews--with the men on death row, with individuals fighting the death penalty, and with the families of the condemned. Several chapters also cover such topics as the execution of juveniles,...

From drilling holes into the skulls of prisoners, to solitary confinement, to deploying a range of psychological therapies, society has attempted to deal with the problem of criminals in myriad ways over the last few centuries. This analytical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250120250Author Kyle SwensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 145mm * 23mm

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...

More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons - one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours state budgets, adversely affects community well-being and skews our collective moral compass. This study...

A new paradigm for supervising offenders in the community Environmental Corrections is an innovative guide filled with rich insights and strategies for probation and parole officers to effectively integrate offenders back into the community and reduce...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524978341Author Monica Solinas-SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S...

The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll that incarceration takes on inmates, their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536151282Author Rachel RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 193Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 404g

Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through...

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 9780998522470Author Ellis AmdurFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint EdgeworkPublisher EdgeworkWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 14mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595176540Author A CompanionFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 408g

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 prison...

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...

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...

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...