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The Abolition of Prison by Jacques Lesage de la Haye
RRP: £11.00£7.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354202Author Jacques Lesage de le HayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore 9780520242012
RRP: £25.00£19.18Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called 'the biggest prison building... -
Young People, Stalking Awareness and Domestic Abuse by Maria Mellins 9783031323782
RRP: £39.99£33.99This book addresses domestic abuse and stalking among young people in the UK and Ireland, with a focus on intersectionality and lifestyle settings. In partnership with the Alice Ruggles Trust, this book draws on a wealth of expert contributions including... -
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
RRP: £19.95£16.17Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Publishers Weekly... -
Untitled Jltm by Anonymous 9781250205797
RRP: £29.00£23.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250205797Author Anthony Ray HintonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
Banged Up: Doing Time in Britain's Toughest Jails by David Leslie
RRP: £9.99£7.11The wartime double agent with a transmitter in his cell to contact suffragettes; the doctor hanged as he smiled to the farewells of lovers on the scaffold; the con who defied a gangland godfather and escaped the bromide in the prison tea; aristocrats and... -
Solitary by Albert Woodfox
RRP: £13.99£11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pulitzer Prize (Nonfiction) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780802148308Author Albert WoodfoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
Criminalising Coercive Control: Challenges for the Implementation of Northern Ireland’s Domestic Abuse Offence by Vanessa Bettinson 9781032384870
RRP: £49.99£43.50Drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which may be faced in implementing Northern Ireland's new domestic abuse offence.A specific offence of domestic... -
A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617 by Franz Schmidt 9781629144801
RRP: £10.99£9.96Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason... -
Tyburn Tales: The Criminal Chronology of York Castle by William Knipe 9780752455372
RRP: £12.99£9.37'Carefully compiled' in 1867 'from prison documents, ancient papers, and other authentic sources,' this extremely rare book contains the full details of the crimes, trials and executions of every murderer, highwayman, rogue and rebel ever to swing from... -
Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer by David Canter 9781804364192
RRP: £12.99£8.18What makes a serial killer? How do you spot one? Is there any way of truly knowing?David Canter asked the same questions whilst developing the new science of criminal profiling, a revolutionary approach to violent crime investigations.In this highly... -
Prison Life in Victorian England by Michelle Higgs 9780752442556
RRP: £16.99£12.64It is a commonly held assumption that all Victorian prisons were grim, abhorrent places, loathed by their inmates. This is undoubtedly an accurate description of many English prisons in the nineteenth century However, because of the way in which prisons... -
Corrections in Ink: Dispatches from an American Prison by Keri Blakinger 9781785789380
RRP: £10.99£7.32An electric memoir that follows a young woman from chasing Olympic dreams on the ice rink, through addiction and prison, to finally discovering her voice as a journalist. Keri Blakinger had always lived at full throttle. Whether flying through the air,... -
The Gaol by Kelly Grovier
RRP: £12.99£8.60For over 800 years Newgate was the grimy axle around which British society slowly twisted. This is where such legendary outlaws as Robin Hood and Captain Kidd met their fates, where the rapier-wielding playwrights Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe... -
Positive Youth Justice: Children First, Offenders Second by Kevin Haines 9781447321712
RRP: £23.99£18.66This topical, accessibly written book moves beyond established critiques to outline a model of positive youth justice: Children First, Offenders Second. Already in use in Wales, the proposed model promotes child-friendly, diversionary, inclusive,... -
Tazmamart: 18 Years in Morocco's Secret Prison by Aziz BineBine 9781912208883
£15.83This is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found himself locked in a small, underground cell in a prison thought to be a mere horror story: Tazmamart. For 18 years, no one knew where the... -
Parole Board Hearings: Law and Practice by Hamish Arnott 9781908407283
£39.50Parole Board Hearings: law and practice continues to be the only book dedicated to covering the decision-making powers and procedures of the Parole Board It provides practical and detailed guidance on representation, challenging decisions, risk... -
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn 9781616209353
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip." --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of... -
British Concentration Camps: A Brief History from 1900 1975 by Webb, Simon 9781399011402
RRP: £14.99£10.95For many of us, the very expression Concentration Camp is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a strange and unsettling one. It was however the British, rather than the Germans,... -
French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony by Patrick Chamoiseau 9780819579300
RRP: £11.95£9.68Hailed by Milan Kundera as "an heir of Joyce and Kafka," Prix Goncourt winner Patrick Chamoiseau is among the leading Francophone writers today. With most of his novels having appeared in English, this book opens a new window on his oeuvre. A moving... -
Family Criminology: An Introduction by Amanda Holt
RRP: £39.99£35.21This textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life. In doing so, it proposes a brand new sub-discipline of Criminology that places the family at the heart of its analysis,... -
Pregnancy and New Motherhood in Prison by Lucy Baldwin 9781447363385
RRP: £47.99£37.05Incorporating the authentic voices and real-life experiences of women, this ground-breaking book focuses on pregnancy and new motherhood in UK prisons. The book delves critically and poignantly into the criminal justice system's response to pregnant and... -
Reimagining Probation Practice: Re-Forming Rehabilitation in an Age of Penal Excess by Lol Burke
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book provides a comprehensive and positive reimagining of probation practice in England and Wales across all the key settings in which work with people subject to supervision takes place. Bringing together chapters co-authored by academics and... -
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
RRP: £18.95£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bancroft Prize 2017 and Pulitzer Prize (History) 2017. Short-listed for National Book Award 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781400078240Author Heather Ann... -
The Maze Prison: A Hidden Story of Chaos, Anarchy and Politics by Tom Murtagh 9781909976504
£40.50The Maze Prison shows how an establishment built to hold those involved in terrorism, atrocities, murder and allied crimes became a pawn in the partisan conflict that was Northern Ireland. There followed a breakdown of norms, values and control as the... -
American Prison by Shane Bauer
RRP: £24.99£16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735223585Author Shane BauerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Hanged at Durham by Steve Fielding
RRP: £12.99£9.37For decades the high walls of Durham gaol have contained some of the countrys most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main centre of execution for convicted killers from all over the north east. The history of... -
New Bones: Abolitionism and the Captive Maternal by Joy James 9781942173748
£14.16New Bones Abolition addresses "those of us broken enough to grow new bones" in order to stabilize our political traditions that renew freedom struggles. Reflecting on police violence, political movements, Black feminism, Erica Garner, Mumia Abu-Jamal,... -
Punishment: The Supposed Justifications Revisited by Ted Honderich 9780745321318
RRP: £29.99£23.02Ted Honderich's Punishment is the best-known book on the justifications put forward for state punishment. This enlarged and developed edition brings his writing to a new audience. With new chapters on determinism and responsibility, plus a new... -
Auld Stirling Punishments by David Kinnaird 9780752460192
RRP: £14.99£11.28From the murder of James I and the brutal torture of his betrayers to the beheading of Radical Weavers Baird and Hardie, the history of crime and punishment in Stirling's Royal Burgh has reflected the passions and prejudices of the Scottish nation. Here... -
Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution by Tea Fredriksson
RRP: £75.00£61.81Through a study of ten commercially published prison autobiographies, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution unveils how prison is narrativized and socially represented as an abject and uncanny institution, shedding... -
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard 9780830845293
RRP: £14.99£11.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845293Author Dominique Duboi GilliardFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)... -
“Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?”: Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848–1920 by The Indiana Women’s Prison History Project
RRP: £21.99£14.83A groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the first women's prisonWhat if prisoners were to write the history of their own prison? What might that tell them-and all of us-about... -
A Reader on Punishment by R. A. Duff
RRP: £63.99£59.61Why we punish, who we punish and how we punish are central elements of any discussion of the role of law in modern society. In this impressive and timely collection, two leading experts on the theory of punishment have selected a range of articles... -
Hot House by Pete Earley
RRP: £7.99£6.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553560237Author Pete EarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Spirituality and Abolition by Ashon Crawley
RRP: £14.99£9.88Abolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual commitment. What does abolition mean and how can we get there as a collective and improvisational project?To posit the spirituality of abolition, is to consider the ways... -
Suicide in Prisons: Prisoners' Lives Matter by Graham Towl
RRP: £22.50£22.38The definitive guide from two leading authors central to developments in the field. An invaluable book which covers everything from theoretical and community research to precisely what is known about prisoners and the risk of their committing suicide... -
The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement by Eric Cummins
RRP: £29.99£25.99This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area's San Quentin State Prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology in those... -
Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault
RRP: £13.95£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679752554Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America's Death Row by Lynden Harris 9781478014119
RRP: £21.99£18.29Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: "All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that's love." Right Here, Right Now...