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Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R Fleetwood
RRP: £33.95£24.20Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardA Smithsonian Book of the YearA New York Review of Books "Best of 2020" SelectionA New York Times Best Art Book of the YearAn Art Newspaper Book of the YearA powerful document of the inner lives and... -
Hanged at Crumlin Road Gaol: The Story of Capital Punishment in Belfast by Steven Moore
£13.62Seventeen men, who paid the ultimate price for their crimes on the gallows, have been lowered into the earth deep within the walls of Crumlin Road Gaol in plain wooden coffins. The first was in 1854, the last in 1961. This is the story of execution in... -
Barlinnie Story by Robert Jeffrey
RRP: £9.99£7.11Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world and for a hundred years it has held Glasgow's toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets. Ten men died on its gallows in the infamous Hanging Shed, including serial killer... -
Youth Crime and Justice by Barry Goldson
RRP: £37.99£30.50Building upon the success of the first edition, this second - and substantially revised - edition of Youth Crime and Justice comprises a range of cutting-edge contributions from leading national and international researchers. The book: Situates youth... -
Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard
RRP: £17.99£12.30A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of... -
Hell's Prisoner: The Shocking True Story Of An Innocent Man Jailed For Eleven Years In Indonesia's Most Notorious Prisons by Christopher V.V. Parnell
RRP: £10.99£7.77Prepare yourself for a journey into the indonesian penal system, a world where murder, torture and fights to the death are the norm.Hell's Prisoner is the powerful story of one man's battle to survive in some of the world's cruellest and most inhumane... -
Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain by Simon Webb
RRP: £16.99£12.64Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death... -
Captive In Iran by Anne Grahamrostampour, Lotz 9781414371214
RRP: £14.99£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414371214Author Maryam RostampourFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers -
Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice by Kevin Albertson 9781447345817
RRP: £28.99£22.29This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the criminal justice system. Leading academics and researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal... -
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
RRP: £13.99£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780735223608Author Shane BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice... -
Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction by Dan Stone 9780198723387
RRP: £8.99£6.45Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the... -
A Guide to Prisons and Penal Policy: Prisons Unlocked by Rachel Vipond
RRP: £21.99£17.21Understanding prisons and the policies surrounding them is of fundamental importance to students and practitioners of criminology and related fields. This concise and accessible guide offers a compendium of key information, theories, concepts, research... -
Escape From Alcatraz by J.Campbell Bruce
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580086783Author J. Campbell BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition by Michael J. Coyle 9780367693299
RRP: £43.99£39.44The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition provides an authoritative and comprehensive look at the latest developments in the 21st-century penal abolitionism movement, both reflecting on key critical thought and setting the agenda for local... -
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct: Theory, Research and Practice by Ronald Blackburn
RRP: £51.95£45.56Taken from published reviews: " Dr Blackburn has written a remarkably good book; indeed, the best book on the topic from either side of the Atlantic I have read. the breadth of the author s knowledge is nothing short of encyclopaedic. Not only psychology... -
Transforming Environments and Rehabilitation: A Guide for Practitioners in Forensic Settings and Criminal Justice by Geraldine Akerman
RRP: £43.99£38.84How can environments play a role in assisting and sustaining personal change in individuals incarcerated within the criminal justice system? Can a failure to address contextual issues reduce or undermine the effectiveness of clinical intervention?... -
Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg 9781903155967
RRP: £16.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155967Author Eugenia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
The Art of Crime: Diary of A Prison Art Tutor by Steve Wheeler 9781913406943
RRP: £8.99£6.45As an Art Tutor working in Britain's jails, Steven Tafka's job was to teach the supposedly unteachable. The longer he did the job, the more it seemed like it was him that was serving a sentence. Writing this darkly comic book gave him a release and... -
The Penal System: An Introduction by Mick Cavadino 9781526460691
RRP: £37.99£30.90Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice. Fully updated... -
Prisons & Punishment: The Essentials by David K. Scott
RRP: £30.99£24.38Covering all the key topics across the subject of Penology, this book gives you the tools you need to delve deeper and critically examine issues relating to prisons and punishment. The second edition: explores prisons and punishment within national,... -
Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice: Broadening Mindsets and Skill Sets by David B. Moore 9781032123233
RRP: £32.99£29.56Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice is a practical guide to using restorative processes, both in justice systems, to provide a healing response to harm, and in broader community contexts, to help people co-exist peacefully. Restorative... -
Rethinking What Works with Offenders by Stephen Farrall
RRP: £37.99£33.38This important and original new book reports on a major investigation of the outcomes of probation supervision, is concerned with the key question of what works in probation, and comes at an important moment of change and development for the probation... -
Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell by Stephen Halliday
RRP: £12.99£9.37There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during the twelfth century, it became a legendary place - the inspiration of more poems, plays and novels than any... -
The Journey from Prison to Community: Developing Identity, Meaning and Belonging with Men in the UK by Jo Shingler 9781032311159
RRP: £32.99£29.16The Journey from Prison to Community: Developing Identity, Meaning and Belonging with Men in the UK provides a practical guide for practitioners working with men to successfully make the transition between prison and the community. This transition... -
Prison Medicine and Health by Emily Phipps 9780198834533
RRP: £36.99£36.04There are almost 86,000 people in the prison system in the United Kingdom, held in 118 prisons and nine immigration removal centres. People in the carceral system have some of the most complex health and social care needs in all of society. They have... -
The Prison Officer by Alison Liebling
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer. It incorporates the significant increase in knowledge about the work of prison officer since the first edition was published and provides a live account of... -
Hanged at Manchester by Steve Fielding
RRP: £17.99£13.33For decades the high walls of Manchester's Strangeways Prison have contained some of England's most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main centre of execution for convicted murderers from all parts of the north... -
Screwed by Ronnie Thompson
RRP: £10.99£7.40'My name is Ronnie Thompson. Being a prison officer was something I used to be proud of. I soon realised the truth of what its like working as a screw, though.It's afucking headache. Corruption, danger, violence. Welcome to my world.'Ronnie Thompson was... -
Peterhead Porridge: Tales from the Funny Side of Scotland's Most Notorious Prison by James Crosbie
RRP: £9.99£7.33James Crosbie was Britain's most wanted man in 1974. With a successful business and an enviable lifestyle, he seemed to have everything going for him - until he got bored with his life and turned to armed robbery. He ended up in Peterhead Prison, doing... -
Beyond Violence: A Prevention Program for Criminal Justice-Involved Women Participant Workbook by Stephanie S. Covington 9781118657102
RRP: £30.95£20.38Beyond Violence: A Prevention Program for Women is a forty-hour, evidence-based, gender-responsive, trauma-informed treatment program specifically developed for women who have committed a violent crime and are incarcerated. This program offers... -
The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail by Mary Jordan 9780143037170
RRP: £24.00£16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037170Author Mary JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 136mm *... -
Hate Crime and Restorative Justice: Exploring Causes, Repairing Harms by Dr Mark Austin Walters 9780199684496
£76.60The product of an 18 month empirical study which examined the use of restorative justice for hate crime in the United Kingdom, this book draws together theory and practice in order to examine the causes and consequences of hate crime victimisation. Hate... -
Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace: A Memoir by Michael Morton 9781476756837
£11.94On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the day, his wife Christine had been savagely bludgeoned to death in the couple's bed-and the Williamson County Sherriff's... -
Send Them to Hell: The Brutal Horrors of Bangkok's Nightmare Jails by Sebastian Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.09Send Them to Hell is a horrifying, authentic chronicle of life as lived by foreign inmates over the past two decades in Bangkok's notorious prison system.Murder, human-rights abuse, drugs, blackmail, extortion, extreme violence, medical maltreatment and... -
The Gulag Archipelago: v. 1: Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780061253713
RRP: £21.99£12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061253713Author Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Tall Man: A Death in Aboriginal Australia by Chloe Hooper 9781416561613
RRP: £17.99£13.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416561613Author Chloe HooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang 9780393249224
RRP: £21.99£18.55Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household-her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. But it was the beginning of a chaotic... -
Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba by Stephen Purvis
RRP: £9.99£6.80WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make Hemingway proud' Daily TelegraphFor over a decade Stephen Purvis had... -
Youth Offending and Youth Justice by Monica Barry 9781843106890
RRP: £21.99£20.62How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justice services working? With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book offers an... -
Hanged at Pentonville by Steve Fielding
RRP: £14.99£11.28The history of execution at Pentonville began with the hanging of a Scottish hawker in 1902. Over the next sixty years the names of those who made the short walk to the gallows reads like a who's who of twentieth-century murder. They include the...