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Why I Chase Comedians: And Other Bipolar Tales by Frankie Owens 9781914603082
Booksplease Price: £11.29Why I Chase Comedians and Other Bipolar Tales is written with self-observational humour and a comical self-deprecating irony. Frankie Owens takes the reader inside the turbulent mind of someone... -
Opening the Doors: A Prison Chaplain's Life on the Inside by Paul Gill 9781909976603
Booksplease Price: £21.95How does a holy God associate with paedophiles, murderers, drug addicts, alcoholics and others rejected by mainstream society? This book is a product of many years working with and in some cases... -
Nutt Uncut David Nutt 9781909976856
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.99David Nutt regularly hit the headlines as the UK's forthright Drugs Czar (Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs), not least when fired by the Home Secretary in 2009 for his... -
Bow Street Beak by Ronald Bartle 9781909976368
Booksplease Price: £21.64From the cases of Michael Fagan and other Buckingham Palace intruders to those of West End pickpockets, over-zealous preachers, 'saucy' prostitutes and cockroaches in the kitchens of one of London's... -
Trust and Change: Thinking Points on Therapeutic Communities by Judy MacKenzie 9781909976580
Booksplease Price: £17.70Trust and Change explains the democratic basis of therapeutic communities (TCs) and what exactly happens in community meetings including those in prison. It deals with commonly asked questions about... -
Essential Magistrates’ Courts Law by Howard Riddle 9781914603525
Booksplease Price: £26.61Now better than ever, the highly acclaimed Essential Magistrates' Courts Law has been updated to include developments in the law and practice of the magistrates' court since first published five... -
Football's Tallest Tales by Bryan Gibson 9781914603334
Booksplease Price: £13.27Bryan Gibson grew up watching football, wishing he was on the pitch rather than in the crowd. After securing a trial at a well-known club, he was thrilled to be called into the manager's office only... -
Lefty Lawyer: Speaking Truth to Power Pauline Campbell 9781914603556
Booksplease Price: £21.69Lawyers often face criticism from politicians when they give inconvenient advice. The term "lefty lawyer" developed to disparage for example, those defending human rights, immigrants, deportees and... -
Lizzie Borden and the Massachusetts Axe Murders by Ronald Bartle 9781909976436
Booksplease Price: £21.64The case of Lizzie Bordon is one of the most infamous in criminal history having spawned songs, plays and media speculation. It also ranks as one of the most puzzling. Having been acquitted of the... -
Brain and Mind Made Simple David Nutt 9781914603006
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.00A stimulating account of interest to all students of neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology or biology - and of immense value to 'first timers' including undergraduates and A-level students. Written by... -
The Case for A Review of the Law of Murder Modernising Justice 9781909976382
Booksplease Price: £11.30Many people will find it hard to believe that deep within key aspects of the Law of England and Wales there lie significant defectsa -a such is the extent to which our laws and justice system have... -
The Ouija Board Jurors: Mystery, Mischief and Misery in the Jury System by Jeremy Gans 9781909976481
Booksplease Price: £21.64The Ouija board jury incident of 1994 is one of the most disconcerting in English legal history, possibly (says the author) 'the nadir of reported juror misbehaviour in the 20th-century'. But, as... -
Mental Me: Fears, Flashbacks and Fixations by Justin Rollins 9781914603112
Booksplease Price: £17.70Justin Rollins' acclaimed The Lost Boyz (below) traced the author's early life on the streets. Ten years on, this new book describes how he did time in adult prisons and experienced other challenges... -
Transgender Behind Prison Walls by Sarah Jane Baker
Booksplease Price: £16.17After explaining 'What is transgender?' this first book on transgender in a prison setting looks at the entire HM Prison Service regime for such people. Ranging from hard information about rules and... -
Suicide in Prisons: Prisoners' Lives Matter by Graham Towl
Booksplease Price: £24.15The definitive guide from two leading authors central to developments in the field. An invaluable book which covers everything from theoretical and community research to precisely what is known about... -
Better An Empty House Than An Unruly Tenant: A Guide for Landlords by Mike Jones
Booksplease Price: £21.69Better An Empty House brims with information for anyone thinking of letting or investing in a residential property (including buy-to-let). Based on experiences from his long career, including as... -
Mary Ann Cotton: Britain's First Female Serial Killer by David Wilson 9781909976191
Booksplease Price: £36.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909976191Author David WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint -
Tyler Does Not Have Contact With His Dad in Prison by Lorna Brookes 9781914603174
Booksplease Price: £7.99Tyler Does Not Have Contact With His Dad in Prison is the second book in the new Parent in Prison Series of books for children of imprisoned parents. It portrays the challenges they face and allows... -
For Abolition: Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics David Scott 9781909976825
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.' Connecting the politics of abolition to wider emancipatory... -
Your Honour Can I Tell You My Story? by Andi Brierley 9781909976641
Booksplease Price: £21.64The challenging story of a young person's progress through care, prison and social rejection to youth justice specialist. It charts failures to connect with and modify the author's chaotic early life... -
Silently Silenced: Essays on the Creation of Acquiescence in Modern Society by Mathiesen Thomas 9781904380153
Booksplease Price: £19.23After reading Silently Silenced you will never view the ways of government in quite the same light again. A must-read for all people who are interested in democratic processes particularly in... -
The Tottenham Outrage and Walthamstow Tram Chase: The Most Spectacular Hot Pursuit in History by Geoffrey Barton 9781909976405
Booksplease Price: £21.64The Tottenham Outrage of 1909 when two Latvian robbers, Jewish refugees, intercepted a payroll has been comparatively hidden from the wider world (unlike the notorious Siege of Sydney Street which... -
Jacks, Knaves and Vagabonds: Crime, Law, and Order in Tudor England by Gregory J Durston
Booksplease Price: £42.12Students of English history will have heard how benefit of clergy and the 'neck verse' might avoid a hanging, but what of other stratagems such as down-valuing stolen goods, cruentation, chance... -
Motherhood In and After Prison: The Impact of Maternal Incarceration by Lucy Baldwin 9781914603204
Booksplease Price: £26.61Motherhood 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... -
From Percy to Peter: A History of Dyslexia by Jenni Beard 9781909976672
Booksplease Price: £21.64Jenni Beard is dyslexic. She discovered this not as a child but after her son Peter was diagnosed with the condition and she noticed `familial' similarities. She thus writes from a unique and telling... -
The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt by Satish Sekar 9781909976993
Booksplease Price: £36.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909976993Author Satish SekarFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint -
Fields, Fens and Felonies: Crime and Justice in Eighteenth-Century East Anglia by Gregory J. Durston 9781909976115
Booksplease Price: £37.25The contents include justices of the peace, policing, crimes, courts and judges as well as such matters as summary trial and disposal, jury trial, execution (and reprieve), a variety of offences... -
A Woman in Law by Celia Wells 9781909976665
Booksplease Price: £21.64Celia Wells always felt like an outsider. Her unconventional early life was shaped by her Communist Party parents, she grew up as `town' not `gown' in Oxford, surrounded by books but living in a... -
Harry Roberts and Foxtrot One-One: The Shepherd's Bush Massacre by Geoffrey Barton 9781909976474
Booksplease Price: £21.80In August 1966, two weeks after England won the World Cup, and four miles from Wembley Stadium, Harry Roberts and his associates gunned down three unarmed police detectives in front of dozens of... -
The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt by Satish C. Sekar
Booksplease Price: £21.64This fresh edition of Satish Sekar's classic work brings events up to date as at 2017 and includes matters that the author was prevented from publishing sooner. Among other things it deals with the... -
The Cameo Conspiracy: A Shocking True Story of Murder and Injustice by George Skelly
Booksplease Price: £26.91The notorious Cameo Cinema murder case of 1949 is one of Britain's legal cause celebres. But for over half a century the convictions of two young men, George Kelly and Charles Connolly, went... -
Delusions of Innocence: The Tragic Story of Stefan Kiszko Michael O'Connell 9781909976467
Booksplease Price: £24.15The case of Stefan Kiszko casts a dark shadow over British justice. Totally unconnected to the murder of which he was convicted - that of a young girl Lesley Molseed - he spent 16 years in prison... -
The Murder of Childhood: Inside the Mind of One of Britain's Most Notorious Child Murderers by Ray Wyre 9781909976627
Booksplease Price: £24.15This year marks the tenth anniversary of the death of sex-offending expert and founder of the Gracewell Clinic, Ray Wyre. It is also the twenty-fifth anniversary of the main events described in this... -
Call Me Auntie: My Childhood in Care and My Search for My Mother Anne Harrison 9781909976801
Booksplease Price: £16.17The author's account of being abandoned by her mother as a young child and her life in homes and institutions will captivate any reader. The mystery of her search for her mother and constant... -
Gendered Justice: Women, Trauma and Crime by Lucy Baldwin 9781914603426
Booksplease Price: £26.81Gendered Justice seeks to enhance knowledge and practice in relation to criminalised women and anyone affected by their imprisonment. It calls for compassionate trauma-informed, and gender-specific... -
Connecting with Young People in Trouble: Risk, Relationships and Lived Experience Andi Brierley 9781909976894
Booksplease Price: £21.69This powerful critique of youth justice based on lived experience, theory and practice looks at the topic through a refreshing new lens, suggesting that some existing ways of dealing with children... -
The Little Book of Market Manipulation: An Essential Guide to the Law Gregory J Durston 9781909976733
Booksplease Price: £19.68Market manipulation comes in many forms. For a wrong that some say started life with groups of men dressed in Bourbon uniforms spreading false information in cod French accents, the speed of change... -
Going Straight by Angela Devlin 9781872870663
Booksplease Price: £22.68Going Straight is the flagship publication behind the launch of Unlock, the National Association of Ex-Offenders. It contains revealing interviews with people who have 'succeeded' after prison and in... -
Call Me Auntie: My Childhood in Care and My Search for My Mother by Anne Harrison 9781904380894
Booksplease Price: £26.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904380894Author Anne HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint -
Fifty-one Moves by Ben Ashcroft 9781904380245
Booksplease Price: £10.00It is shocking that although just one per cent of children are taken into care by local authori-ties, almost 30 per cent of prisoners have been in care. Ben Ashcroft's heart-rending account of...