Penology

The Politics of Imprisonment seeks to document and explain the chronic long-term differences in American crime policy. It argues that the American states responded in radically different ways to rising crime, social upheaval, war, and declining trust in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195330489Author James A PaluchFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Roxbury Publishing CompanyPublisher Roxbury Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 358g

The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have become worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years...

In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death...

An unrelenting prison boom, marked by stark racial disparities, pulled a disproportionate number of young black men into prison in the last forty years. In Children of the Prison Boom, Sara Wakefield and Christopher Wildeman draw upon broadly...

The four most popular restorative justice books in the Justice & Peacebuilding series-The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated, The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing, The Little Book of Family Group Conferences, and The...

In Criminals, Nazis, and Islamists, Vera Mironova examines conflicts and cooperation between inmates in male prisons in the former Soviet Union. She begins by focusing on the earliest prisoner groups, in particular the Vory criminal organization, which...

This wide-ranging study provides the first comprehensive account of the forms, functions, and significance of punishment in modern society. Arguing that penal institutions are social and cultural artefacts as well as techniques of crime control, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802062239Author John HogarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

The United States is the world leader in incarceration; 707 people out of every 100,000 are imprisoned. If the US prison system were a country, it would be the 143rd most populated nation in the world. Aside from looking at the numbers, if we could look...

Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of...

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison. Through harnessing material and emotional support offered through family, prisoners can have a stronger commitment to move...

Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy tells the story of how first-generation Americans coupled their legacy of liberty with a penal philosophy that promoted patriarchy, especially for marginal Americans. American patriots fought a revolution in the name...

Generation after generation has come up with new forms of punishment to inflict on those guilty (and sometimes innocent) of crimes against property and person. From the stocks and pillory, to flogging, ducking and transportation to foreign lands, this...

Each year in the United States, more than 625,000 individuals are released from prison. Half will be back in prison within just three years. Many former prisoners who reoffend return home to their old communities, where the same family, friends, drugs,...

Most of the studies that discuss offender rehabilitation focus on the debate over whether prison-based education programs work, ignoring the important issues that these programs undertake. Using a critical approach, Offender Rehabilitation Issues:...

Children in Police Custody shines a light on the hidden experiences of children in police detention in England and Wales. An episode in police custody is the single most common sustained experience of the criminal justice system for children. Yet child...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802065148Author Michael JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 508g

In a liberal democracy, theory suggests that the political order and character of a civil society are closely connected: the political order allows for a dynamic and pluralistic civil society, and people's civic participation encourages support for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814134658Author Anna PlemonsFormat PaperbackImprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487526146Author Jason HaslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791454046Author Bruce A. ArrigoFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The probation service has committed itself to anti-racist initiatives and those promoting equal opportunities for some time. However, the experiences of black people, whether as workers or 'clients' indicates that the realities of day-to-day practice...

Social workers have their hands in a lot of big sociopolitical issues. When it comes to the death penalty, their involvement is especially crucial. Social workers might support those receiving the sentence, engage with the families of those sentenced,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595588791Author Ernest DruckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 313g

The Prison system is widely believed to be an immutable element of contemporary society. Many criminologists and sociologists of deviance believe that decarceration movements have failed to yield progressive reform, and that feasible alternatives to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190212681Author Virginia Leigh HatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams)...

America's incarceration rate was roughly constant from 1925 to 1973, with an average of 110 people behind bars for every 100,000 residents. By 2013, however, the rate of incarceration in state and federal prisons had increased sevenfold to 716. Compared...

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous. The moral cost is greater: countless individual injustices, mass incarceration, the world's highest...

This exciting new book brings together the experiences and expertise of a range of practitioners who work within criminal justice and provides a broad and informative account of a variety of intervention techniques. From pharmacological approaches,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841741901Author David WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Blackstone Press LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 670g

A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France's inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970-71, the Prisons Information Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590518991Author Baz DreisingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies 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)...

From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday lifePrison Land offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610273794Author David GarlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In the early twenty-first century, juvenile crime has become a matter of widespread social and political concern and debate. Young Offenders examines the way in which attitudes - and the law itself - have evolved in dealing with juvenile wrongdoing from...

'Revolutionises our understanding of the carceral state' - Fidelis Chebe, Director of Migrant Action During 2019-20 in England and Wales, over 17 million hours of labour were carried out by more than 12,500 people incarcerated in prisons, while many...

"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...

A collection of writings by Dr David Scott which build on his work teaching criminology for over 20 years. Against Imprisonment includes topics such as `The Changing Face of the Prison', justifications of punishment, prison violence and the shortcomings...