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Legal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah: A Comprehensive Registry by R. Michael Wilson 9780786463268
RRP: $87.71$71.43Since statehood was achieved in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, 321 men and 2 women have been executed. The first of these post-statehood executions took place in Nevada on October 30, 1868, and the last took place in Utah on June 18,... -
A Home for Wayward Boys: The Early History of the Alabama Boys' Industrial School by Jerry Armor 9781603063456
RRP: $29.61$20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603063456Author Jerry ArmorFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth BooksWeight(grams) 277g -
Prison 101: A Tutorial for the Uninitiated by Paul L Martin M Sc 9781519693754
RRP: $17.42$14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519693754Author Paul L Martin M ScFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Lost souls behind broken walls by Eric I Bundy 9781935721185
RRP: $11.75$10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935721185Author Eric I BundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Eric BundyPublisher Eric BundyWeight(grams) 59g -
Eyes Within: A tale of a prison guard by Vye Carlile Ph D 9781479133253
RRP: $19.34$16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479133253Author Vye Carlile Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Nu Society in a Nu Age: Creating the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth by Walker Thomas 9781482590821
RRP: $32.25$31.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482590821Author Walker ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Women and Capital Punishment in America, 1840-1899: Death Sentences and Executions in the United States and Canada by Kerry Segrave 9780786438235
RRP: $37.40$30.16Perhaps the single medium in which women have been consistently treated as equal to men is the American judicial system. Although the system has met with enormous public condemnation, equality under the law has justified the legal execution of nearly six... -
Unlocking the Prison Muse: The Inspirations and Effects of Prisoners' Writing in Britain by Julian Broadhead 9781903499269
$43.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903499269Author Julian BroadheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Liverpool Academic PressPublisher Liverpool Academic PressWeight(grams)... -
Thwarting Death: A Legal Culture of Resistance Among Colorado Death Penalty Defense Lawyers by Matthew J. Greife 9783031461323
RRP: $38.69$29.28This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty. It argues that an important social component of death penalty abolition in the state of Colorado was due to... -
Bleak Walls Bright Minds: In their own words by Sue Hutchins 9798571105996
RRP: $12.90$10.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798571105996Author Sue HutchinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g -
Strategies of Control by Sheldon L Messinger 9781610273527
RRP: $41.59$33.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610273527Author Sheldon L MessingerFormat PaperbackImprint Quid Pro, LLCPublisher Quid Pro, LLCWeight(grams) 327g -
Penology For Profit: A History of the Texas Prison System, 1867-1912 by Donald R. Walker 9781585440436
RRP: $25.74$24.24Before the discovery of oil and the advent of Progressivism to Texas, the state dealt with prison overcrowding by leasing convicts and their labor to private industry and funneling the profits into the state's coffers. In this book, Donald R. Walker... -
Beveridge: 1942-1992 by John Jacobs 9781871177558
RRP: $109.65$101.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871177558Author John JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Whiting & Birch LtdPublisher Whiting & Birch LtdWeight(grams) 480g -
Capital Punishment Pathology: : The Case for Restorning Hanging as the Method of Execution by Rhett Torr Rique 9781530796984
RRP: $21.78$17.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530796984Author Rhett Torr RiqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails by Eva Fedderly 9781638089537
RRP: $51.54$41.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638089537Author Eva FedderlyFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Center PointPublisher Center Point -
Rue Rilke by Daniel Joseph Polikoff 9781630513597
RRP: $83.85$70.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630513597Author Daniel Joseph PolikoffFormat HardbackImprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 540g -
Within Prison Walls by Thomas Mott Osborne 9781604447309
RRP: $19.29$17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604447309Author Thomas Mott OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 272g -
Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900 by Mary Ellen Curtin 9780813919843
$49.85In the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most horrendous conditions imaginable. Black Prisoners and Their World draws on a variety of sources,... -
Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates by Jorge Antonio Renaud 9781574411539
RRP: $24.45$18.47Behind the Walls is a detailed description of the world's largest prison system by a long-time convict trained as an observer and reporter. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice_what's good, what's bad, which... -
Over the Wall: The Men behind the 1934 Death House Escape by Patrick M McConal 9781571683656
RRP: $32.19$20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571683656Author Patrick M McConalFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 330g -
Guantanamo Bay and the Judicial-moral Treatment of the Other by Clark Butler 9781557534279
RRP: $24.45$18.89Neither journalistic nor sensationalistic eye-witness accounts, this is the first book of serious reflection on the moral background and issues of internal legality surrounding the events of Guantanamo Bay.Book InformationISBN 9781557534279Author Clark... -
A Convict's Perspective: Critiquing Penology and Inmate Rehabilitation by T Lamont Baker 9781491242322
RRP: $14.25$12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491242322Author T Lamont BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 152g -
Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails by Christine Tartaro 9781498558747
RRP: $45.15$41.13The second edition of Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails provides a comprehensive exploration of how the stress associated with arrest, sentencing, and incarcerated life can contribute to the onset of a suicidal crisis even among those who never... -
Innocent: Wrongfully Accused on Death Row: 12 Death Row Inmates Who May Have Been Wrongfully Accused by Roger Harrington 9781549842740
RRP: $14.50$12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781549842740Author Roger HarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 127g -
Hidden Barriers in the Setup by Sam Oputa 9781535164207
RRP: $20.58$18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535164207Author Sam OputaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Real Men Wear Beige: One Man's Jailhouse Journey Through the Chaotic Realm of Concrete and Steel by Donato Alfredano 9781516920884
RRP: $10.97$10.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516920884Author Donato AlfredanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Wrongfully Accused: 15 People Sentenced to Prison for a Crime They Didn't Commit by William Webb 9781490907963
RRP: $9.02$8.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 by Ben Bethell 9781032064277
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ‘star men’, convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms. ‘Star Men’ in... -
Death Row: Interviews with Inmates, Their Families and Opponenets of Capital Punishment by Shirley Dicks 9780786469437
RRP: $19.34$16.19I don't know when we will stop murdering people whether randomly on the streets or systematically in our death chambers. The only way to prevent continuation of the suffering and grief murder occasions in to prevent murder. I have worked with eighteen... -
The Treatment of Criminal Offenders: A History by Michael Dow Burkhead 9780786430208
RRP: $37.40$30.16As of mid-2004, American prisons and jails housed 2.1 million inmates, or one out of every 138 people in the United States. When these prisoners are released, the majority will be arrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within three years. Clearly,... -
Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America by Kyle Swenson 9781250120250
RRP: $30.96$19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250120250Author Kyle SwensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 145mm * 23mm -
Prison Etiquette: The Convict's Compendium of Useful Information by Lowell Naeve 9780809323753
RRP: $30.90$25.14Of the 50,000 Americans who declared themselves conscientious objectors during World War II, nearly 6000 went to prison, many serving multi-year sentences in federal lockups. Some conscientious objectors, notably Robert Lowell, William Everson and... -
Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A Penal History of Singapore's Plural Society by Anoma Pieris 9780824833541
RRP: $36.06$29.64During the nineteenth century, Singapore was established as a free port of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported... -
Central Prison: A History of North Carolina's State Penitentiary by Gregory S. Taylor 9780807174333
RRP: $45.09$37.13Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison: A History of North Carolina's State Penitentiary is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Taylor... -
Critical Issues in Restorative Justice by Howard Zehr 9781881798514
RRP: $36.06$29.64In a mere quarter century restorative justice has grown from a few scattered experimental projects into a social movement, and then into an identifiable field of practice and study. It has been a story of success, but reform movements can get sidetracked... -
Prison Life in Popular Culture: From The Big House to Orange Is the New Black by Dawn K. Cecil 9781626372795
RRP: $33.48$27.14Through the centuries, prisons were closed institutions, full of secrets and shrouded in mystery. But modern media culture has opened the gates. Dawn Cecil explores decades of popular culture-from Golden Age Hollywood films to YouTube videos, from... -
Cashing In on Crime: The Drive to Privatize California State Prisons by Karyl Kicenski 9781935049616
RRP: $82.56$66.83What explains the boom in private prisons-especially since the record of privatisation for rehabilitating prisoners and saving taxpayer dollars is, at best, mixed? Karyl Kicenski examines the privatisation of California state prisons to illuminate the... -
From the Courtroom to the Boardroom: Privatizing Justice in the Neoliberal United States by Deena Varner 9780700636594
RRP: $42.51$35.08The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of “law and order,” referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons. As important as this system... -
Enforcing the Convict Code: Violence and Prison Culture by Rebecca Trammell 9781588268082
RRP: $82.56$66.83Is it possible that a prison's gangs, racial tensions, and underground economy may actually serve to make it a less dangerous place? In this examination of violence behind bars, Rebecca Trammell illuminates the social code that prisoners enforce - in... -
The Promise of Restorative Justice: New Approaches for Criminal Justice and Beyond by John P. J. Dussich 9781588267238
RRP: $82.56$66.83The increasing popularity of restorative justice has prompted new and varying applications of its core principles. The authors of The Promise of Restorative Justice highlight the ways that these new ideas now spark innovations both throughout the...