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Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story by Neil Samworth
RRP: $14.18$8.40This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country's most notorious jails.'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places and hilarious in others . . . the author's honesty and... -
Eye for An Eye: The brand-new book club thriller that will get everyone talking by M. J. Arlidge 9781398708204
RRP: $12.89$8.77OUR 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.They both share the same secret: neither of them are who they say they are.They are among only nine criminals in... -
Marching Powder by Rusty Young
RRP: $15.47$10.51San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas found himself in... -
The Spinning House: How Cambridge University locked up women in its private prison by Caroline Biggs 9781803995700
RRP: $25.80$18.98"Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life." - The New StatesmanCambridge University is renowned worldwide for its academic prowess, but below the surface lurks a murky past. During... -
Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
RRP: $11.60$4.53'I loved this book ... a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, LoveWith her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the... -
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?In his... -
Hanged at Gloucester by Jill Evans
RRP: $23.21$17.20This book gathers together the stories of the 123 prisoners who were executed at Gloucester between 1792, when the first prisoner was hanged on the roof over the entrance gate of the newly-built prison, and 1939, when the last convict was executed within... -
The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
RRP: $11.60$8.32Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big chunk. In... -
No Friend but the Mountains: The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee by Behrouz Boochani
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Award-winning International Bestselling Story of One Man's Six Year Detention in Australia 'A powerfully vivid account of the experiences of a refugee: desperation, brutality, suffering, and all observed with an eye that seems to see everything and... -
Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail by Kathryn Bonella
RRP: $14.18$9.55THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the... -
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: $19.34$14.13An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian... -
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
RRP: $21.92$16.36WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life... -
A Prison Diary Volume I: Hell by Jeffrey Archer 9781509808878
RRP: $14.18$10.02Hell is the haunting first volume in Jeffrey Archer's The Prison Diaries, the author's daily record of the time he spent there.'The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five... -
The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence by Dr Amanda Brown
RRP: $11.60$6.82From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown In The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence, Dr Amanda Brown reveals stories of her time spent with foreign national prisoners. DANGER... -
34 Years in Hell: My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons by Jamie Morgan Kane
RRP: $11.60$8.32In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room.Fearing that he would be held responsible, and sensing that his wife was somehow involved, he wanted to do all he could to protect his young family.Jamie... -
Just Mercy (Film Tie-In Edition): a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
RRP: $14.18$9.79NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN, JAMIE FOXX, AND BRIE LARSON. A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, ESQUIRE, AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR. A #1 New York Times bestseller, this is a powerful, true story about the... -
Behind these Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival by Alex South
RRP: $21.92$12.36*As heard on Radio 4's Book of the Week*'A true, compassionate and honest account of what it is to work in our prisons.' Dr Gwen Adshead, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Devil You Know'A vivid, unsentimental insight into a world that needs to be... -
Justice on Trial: Radical Solutions for a System at Breaking Point by Chris Daw
RRP: $14.18$10.51'Chris is a powerful force for good in the national debate on criminal justice.' -The Secret Barrister 'Extraordinary' - Krishnan Guru-Murthy Chris Daw QC has been practising criminal law for over 25 years, navigating Britain's fractured justice... -
Reflective Practice in Forensic Settings: A Cognitive Analytic Approach to Developing Shared Thinking by Jenny Marshall 9781914010842
$45.12Working in forensic settings with clients who have histories of damage and abuse can be a demanding, disturbing, thrilling and unique experience. It means building connections and instilling the capacity to think before acting - far more than just... -
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
RRP: $14.18$9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225813Author Angela DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 106g -
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman
RRP: $19.35$16.83Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one... -
Blanketmen: An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike by Richard O'Rawe
RRP: $18.05$10.87Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. One of the 'Blanketmen', he took part in the dirty protests that led to the hunger strikes of the early 1980s. In Blanketmen, O'Rawe gives his personal account of those... -
Eye for An Eye: The brand-new book club thriller that will get everyone talking by M. J. Arlidge 9781398708181
RRP: $19.34$13.16OUR 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... -
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
RRP: $14.18$10.02'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life... -
Escape: The true story of the only Westerner ever to break out of Thailand's Bangkok Hilton by David McMillan 9781912049967
RRP: $12.89$8.77Klong Prem prison, Thailand. The "Bangkok Hilton", where 600 foreigners among the 12,000 inmates of this walled prison city also wait and rot. Among the tragic, ruthless and forgotten, one man resolves to do what no other has done: escape. This is the... -
The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society by Norval Morris
$42.43The Oxford History of the Prison is an informative account of the growth and development of the prison in Western society, from classical times to the present day. In fourteen chapters -- each written by specialists in social, legal, and institutional... -
An Introduction to Penology: Punishment, Prisons and Probation by Lawrence Burke
RRP: $37.40$30.16An 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... -
The Gulag Archipelago: v. 2: Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780061253720
RRP: $28.37$19.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061253720Author Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander
RRP: $14.18$10.02The iconic New York Times bestseller that 'struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter' (Ibram X. Kendi)Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of... -
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Joy James 9780312294502
RRP: $58.04$43.71The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are... -
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III by Danzig Baldaev
RRP: $29.03$19.70'This is not solely an addendum to the previous volumes, but stands well on its own. The book's physical and emotional core lies in the Baldaev drawings, which are ethnographic, artistic, and surprisingly moving. His unflinching documentation reveals a... -
"prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law
RRP: $21.92$15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807029527Author Victoria LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity by Alison Flowers 9781608466757
RRP: $19.34$12.75Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people after the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed, into the unknown. From the front lines of... -
The General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo by Ahmed Errachidi
RRP: $11.60$8.32On 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... -
The Gulag Archipelago: v. 3: Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780061253737
RRP: $28.37$18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061253737Author Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Big Book of Pain: Torture & Punishment through History by Mark P. Donnelly 9780752459479
RRP: $25.80$19.49For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of... -
A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory by Jeffrey Archer 9781509808885
RRP: $14.18$10.02On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in... -
The Good Prison Officer: Inside Perspectives by Andi Brierley 9781032394404
RRP: $46.43$40.88This book offers a solution-focused and strengths-based guide to becoming an effective Prison Officer. Written and developed by a collection of ex-prisoners who are all now professionals, practitioners, and educators in the criminal justice field, the... -
Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture by Ian Cobain 9781846273346
RRP: $12.89$8.64The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to our national security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on previously... -
Changing Offending Behaviour: A Handbook of Practical Exercises and Photocopiable Resources for Promoting Positive Change by Fergus McNeill
RRP: $34.82$33.79A one-stop resource of practical exercises for professionals to use in direct work with offenders aged 16+.Changing Offending Behaviour is a guide to the essentials of rehabilitation theory which also equips the reader with ready-to-use photocopiable...