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Handbook on Prisons Yvonne Jewkes 9780415745666
RRP: €70.20€61.98The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays on a wide range of topics concerning prisons and imprisonment. Bringing together three of the leading prison scholars in the UK as editors, this... -
An Introduction to Penology: Punishment, Prisons and Probation by Lawrence Burke
RRP: €34.50€27.82An Introduction to Penology is a concise, informative, scholarly guide that will speak to a variety of audiences interested in how the notion of punishment plays out in community and custodial settings with people who have broken the law. With a... -
Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory: Alienation and Power by Stephen C. McGuinn 9780739194355
RRP: €51.17€44.96Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory develops a new conception of prison infrastructure, organization, and policy to explore how workers and administrators are essential in the development of culture and morality within the prison... -
Executions: Explore 700 Years of Public Punishment in London by Jackie Keily
RRP: €20.22€14.05A fascinating record of how London and Londoners were shaped by nearly 700 years of public executions. More frequent in London than in any other city or town in Britain, these morbid spectacles often attracted tens of thousands of onlookers at... -
With In These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain by Carroll Pickett 9781904132745 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904132745Author Carroll PickettFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vision Paperbacks / Satin PublicationsPublisher VISION Paperbacks -
Understanding Restorative Justice: How Empathy Can Close the Gap Created by Crime Pete Wallis (Oxfordshire Youth Offending Service) 9781447317425
RRP: €21.41€17.03This unique book is a clear and detailed introduction that analyses how restorative justice nurtures empathy, exploring key themes such as responsibility, shame, forgiveness and closure. The core notion of the book is that when a crime is committed, it... -
The Panopticon Writings: (Wo Es War) by Jeremy Bentham
€19.81The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best... -
Breaching the Citadel - The India Papers Urvashi Butalia 9789384757786
RRP: €32.13€27.23Breaching the Citadel, part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, puts India in focus, showcasing new and pathbreaking research on sexual violence and impunity... -
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
RRP: €23.74€19.35Co-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... -
Prisons of the World Andrew Coyle (Emeritus Professor, University of London) 9781447362470
RRP: €26.17€20.48How do governments and societies use prison to respond to underlying and fundamental social, economic and political issues? Using data on world imprisonment and numerous international examples from his personal experience, Coyle, a prison practitioner,... -
The General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo by Ahmed Errachidi
RRP: €10.70€7.68On 11 September 2001, in a cafe in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn't possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day.In a... -
Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice: Broadening Mindsets and Skill Sets David B. Moore 9781032123233
RRP: €39.26€35.18Setting 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... -
Eye for An Eye: The Richard & Judy Winter 2023 Book Club thriller that will get everyone talking by M. J. Arlidge 9781398708198
RRP: €17.84€14.76OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. UNTIL NOW... 'Emily' is a devoted single mother. 'Jack' starts a new job in a new town. 'Russell' may be falling in love. They all share the same secret: none of them are who they say they... -
The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison by Gresham M. Sykes
RRP: €33.32€25.94The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison. Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism... -
Hanged at Crumlin Road Gaol: The Story of Capital Punishment in Belfast by Steven Moore
€15.49Seventeen 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... -
The Abolition of Prison by Jacques Lesage de la Haye
RRP: €13.09€8.81Apologies 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 -
Last One Over the Wall: Massachusetts Experiment in Closing Reform Schools by Jerome G. Miller 9780814207581
€32.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814207581Author Jerome G. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Young People, Stalking Awareness and Domestic Abuse Maria Mellins 9783031323782
RRP: €47.59€40.45This 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... -
Newjack: A Year as a Prison Guard in New York's Most Infamous Maximum Security Jail by Ted Conover
RRP: €19.03€13.82After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating... -
Banged Up: Doing Time in Britain's Toughest Jails by David Leslie
RRP: €11.89€8.46The 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... -
Hanged at Leeds by Steve Fielding
RRP: €17.84€13.74For decades the high walls of Leeds's Armley Gaol have contained many infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s Armley was also the main centre of execution for convicted killers from all parts of Yorkshire and the east coast. The... -
The Future of Punishment by Thomas A. Nadelhoffer 9780199779208
RRP: €121.98€108.28Scholars are struggling to come to grips with the picture of human agency being pieced together by researchers in the biosciences. This volume aims at providing philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and legal theorists with an opportunity to... -
Motherhood In and After Prison: The Impact of Maternal Incarceration by Lucy Baldwin 9781914603204
€30.30Motherhood In and After Prison describes the devastating impact of sending mothers to prison, including on the women, their children, wider family and place in society. Using the same lens as for her acclaimed Mothering Justice (Waterside Press, 2015)... -
The Gaol by Kelly Grovier 9780719561337 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73For 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... -
The Gaol Kelly Grovier 9780719561337
RRP: €15.46€10.23For 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... -
Maconochie's Gentlemen: The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform by Norval Morris 9780195169126
RRP: €35.09€23.79In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed... -
Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer by David Canter 9781804364192
RRP: €15.46€9.73What 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... -
Assessing Risk in Sex Offenders: A Practitioner's Guide by Leam A. Craig 9780470018989
RRP: €51.11€44.71Assessing Risk in Sex Offenders: A Practitioner's Guide is a handy resource for forensic practitioners responsible for assessing an managing sexual offenders at risk of recidivism. It covers the risk factors associated with sexual recidivism, evaluates... -
Positive Youth Justice: Children First, Offenders Second Kevin Haines (Swansea University) 9781447321712
RRP: €28.55€22.21This 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,... -
Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty by Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier 9780199967933
RRP: €124.95€111.38In 1987, the United States Supreme Court decided a case that could have ended the death penalty in the United States. Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty examines the long history of the American death penalty and its... -
Corrections in Ink: Dispatches from an American Prison by Keri Blakinger 9781785789380
RRP: €13.08€8.71An 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,... -
Criminal Law by Guyora Binder 9780195321203
RRP: €61.88€41.79Many controversies in American criminal law reflect the tension between older and newer conceptions of the purposes of punishment. The English common law of crimes was centrally concerned with suppressing vengeance and asserting royal authority. Thus it... -
Parole Board Hearings: Law and Practice by Hamish Arnott 9781908407283
€47.86Parole 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... -
Rikers: An Oral History by Graham Rayman
RRP: €28.56€19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593134214Author Graham RaymanFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 782gDimensions(mm)... -
Young People, Crime and Justice Roger Hopkins Burke 9781138776623
RRP: €47.59€42.20In the minds of the general public, young people and crime are intrinsically linked; wide-spread belief persists that such activities are a result of the 'permissive 1960s' and the changing face of the traditional nuclear family. Roger Hopkins Burke... -
The Guv'nor Tapes by Peter Gerrard 9781844543588
€13.03"The Guv'nor" was a classic book that started an entire genre. It was the original and incredible true story of the world's greatest hard man, Lenny McLean. Ever since it was published, fans of Lenny have been clamouring to know more and more about this... -
British Concentration Camps: A Brief History from 1900 1975 by Webb, Simon 9781399011402
€21.23For 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,... -
Hanged at Durham by Steve Fielding
RRP: €19.03€14.58For 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... -
Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment? by Rachel Condry 9780198810087
€113.99Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member. Children of imprisoned parents alone can be counted in millions in the USA and in Europe. It is a bewildering fact that while we have had prisons for centuries, and the... -
Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community by Alec Buchanan 9780198804567
RRP: €79.73€77.14This revised and updated edition of Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community provides a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to theory and practice. The social and clinical context within which mental health care is provided to offenders...