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The Politics of Imprisonment: How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way America Punishes Offenders by Vanessa Barker 9780195370027
RRP: $92.38$81.75The 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... -
A Life for a Life: Life Imprisonment: America's Other Death Penalty by James A Paluch 9780195330489
$112.20Apologies 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 Future of Imprisonment by Michael Tonry 9780195161632
$126.65The 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... -
Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty by Frank Baumgartner 9780190841539
RRP: $246.75$205.86In 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... -
Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality by Sara Wakefield 9780190624590
RRP: $74.53$46.98An 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 Big Book of Restorative Justice: Four Classic Justice & Peacebuilding Books in One Volume by Howard Zehr 9781680997637
RRP: $41.98$26.10The 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... -
Criminals, Nazis, and Islamists: Competition for Power in Former Soviet Union Prisons by Vera Mironova 9780197645659
$138.81In 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... -
Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory by David Garland 9780198762393
$226.63This 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... -
Sentencing as a Human Process by John Hogarth 9780802062239
RRP: $73.50$64.55Apologies 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 -
A Country Called Prison: Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation by Mary Looman 9780190211035
RRP: $68.23$57.54The 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... -
The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia by David T. Johnson 9780195337402
RRP: $119.70$106.81Today, 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... -
The Impact of Youth Imprisonment on the Lives of Parents by Daniel McCarthy 9780367185848
RRP: $283.50$246.29It 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: Liberty and Power in the Early Republic by Mark E. Kann 9780814747834
RRP: $155.40$136.19Punishment, 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... -
Olde Nottinghamshire Punishments by Ian Morgan 9780752455310
RRP: $27.28$20.20Generation 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... -
Home Free: Prisoner Reentry and Residential Change after Hurricane Katrina by David S. Kirk 9780190841232
RRP: $73.48$63.19Each 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,... -
Offender Rehabilitation Issues: Critical Lessons for Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Policy by Charles B.A. Ubah 9781666922790
RRP: $153.30$134.78Most 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: Adversity and Adversariality Behind Closed Doors by Dr Miranda Bevan 9780192855497
RRP: $231.00$209.60Children 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... -
Prisoners of Isolation: Solitary Confinement in Canada by Michael Jackson
RRP: $62.98$55.65Apologies 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 -
The Liberal State and Criminal Sanction: Seeking Justice and Civility by Jonathan A. Jacobs
RRP: $161.70$112.88In 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... -
Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom: Options and Opportunities by Anna Plemons
$66.09Apologies 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 -
Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century by Jason Haslam
RRP: $52.48$45.51Apologies 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 -
Punishing the Mentally Ill: A Critical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry by Bruce A. Arrigo
$61.05Apologies 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... -
Anti-Racist Probation Practice Lena Dominelli 9781857422801
RRP: $98.68$86.04The 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 Work, Criminal Justice, and the Death Penalty by Lauren A. Ricciardelli
RRP: $97.63$78.29Social 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,... -
A Plague Of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America by Ernest Drucker
RRP: $31.48$20.75Apologies 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 Persistent Prison?: Rethinking Decarceration and Penal Reform by Maeve McMahon
RRP: $65.10$59.33The 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... -
Capital Punishment: Theory and Practice of the Ultimate Penalty by Virginia Leigh Hatch
$204.56Apologies 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)... -
Serving the Stigmatized: Working within the Incarcerated Environment by Wesley T. Church
RRP: $153.30$113.72America'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... -
Doing Justice, Preventing Crime by Michael Tonry
RRP: $71.38$46.98Punishment 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... -
Interventions in Criminal Justice: A Textbook for Working in the Criminal Justice System by Peter Jones 9781908993113
$66.34This 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,... -
Probation: Working for Justice by David Ward 9781841741901
$175.22Apologies 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 -
Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) by Michel Foucault
RRP: $58.78$50.69A 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... -
Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz Dreisinger
RRP: $37.78$24.09Apologies 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 *... -
Hot House by Pete Earley
RRP: $16.78$12.71Apologies 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)... -
Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America by Brett Story 9781517906887
RRP: $33.58$29.90From 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... -
Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies by David Garland 9781610273794
RRP: $69.80$54.10Apologies 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 *... -
Young Offenders: Juvenile Delinquency from 1700 to 2000 by Pamela Horn 9781848688803 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50$6.20In 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... -
Work and the Carceral State Jon Burnett (University of Swansea) 9780745340166
RRP: $39.88$26.78'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... -
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn 9781616209353
RRP: $27.28$20.90"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... -
Against Imprisonment: An Anthology of Abolitionist Essays by David Scott
$53.47A 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...