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The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America Kevin B. Smith 9781538192382
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.48Tackles the debate of what is driving mass incarceration in America and assesses the political, social, and economic impact across the 50 states.The U.S. incarcerates four times more people per... -
Report of the Proceedings Under the Treason Felony ACT, 11 Vic., Cap. 12, at the Commission Court, Green-Street Dublin, August and October, 1848. by John George Hodges 9781275555662
Booksplease Price: £36.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275555662Author John George HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 796Imprint Gale, Making of Modern... -
Report of the Trial of John Warren: for Treason-Felony, at the County Dublin Commission, Held at the Court-House, Green-Street, Dublin, Commencing the 30Th October, 1867 by Warren Warren 9780461484359
Booksplease Price: £13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461484359Author Warren WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Justice, Liability, And Blame: Community Views And The Criminal Law by Paul H. Robinson
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24This book examines shared intuitive notions of justice among laypersons and compares the discovered principles to those instantiated in American criminal codes. It reports eighteen original studies... -
The Trial of Capt. W. Codling and John Read, for Sinking the Brig Adventure, Off Brighton; And J. Easterby and W. Macfarlane, as Accessaries, in Procuring the Commission of Felony, in Order to Defraud the Underwriters by Anonymous 9781275066199
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275066199Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Gale, Making of Modern LawPublisher... -
Report of the Trial of John Warren, for Treason-Felony, at the County Dublin Commission, Held at the Court-House, Green-Street, Dublin, Commencing the 30th October, 1867 by William G Chamney 9781275092044
Booksplease Price: £19.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275092044Author William G ChamneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Gale, Making of Modern... -
The Trial (at Large) of James Hill; Otherwise, James Hind; Otherwise, James Actzen: For Feloniously, Wilfully, and Maliciously, Setting Fire to the Rope-House, in His Majesty's Dock-Yard at Portsmouth by William Henry Ashhurst 9781275102576
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275102576Author William Henry AshhurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Gale, Making of Modern... -
The Trial of James Thomas, Earl of Cardigan: Before the Right Honorable the House of Peers, in Full Parliament for Felony, on Tuesday the 16Th Day of February 1841 by James Thomas Brudenell Earl of Cardigan 9780461459876
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461459876Author James Thomas Brudenell Earl of CardiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint... -
The History of the Most Remarkable Tryals in Great Britain and Ireland, in Capital Cases; Viz. Heresy, Treason, Felony, Incest, Poisoning, Adultery, } {Rapes, Sodomy, Witchcraft, Pyracy, Murder, Robbery, &C. Volume 1 of 2 by Anonymous 9781275543515
Booksplease Price: £35.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275543515Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Gale, Making of Modern LawPublisher... -
Public Opinion, Crime, And Criminal Justice Julian Roberts 9780813367934
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Taking on one of the most popular issues of the day-crime and the way we make sense of it-Julian Roberts and Loretta Stalans reveal the mismatch between the public perception of crime and the reality... -
Mass Incarceration in America: A Reference Handbook Rachel M. Durso 9781440881428
Booksplease Price: £60.74On a per capita basis, the United States incarcerates a higher percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This book explains the social, economic, and political forces that... -
A Full Report of the Trial of Capt. William H. Tower, Charged with Feloniously Scuttling the Barque Brothers' Pride, of Saint John, N.B., on the 7th Day of May, 1879, in the Gulf Stream Off the Coast of Florida by Anonymous 9781275562097
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275562097Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Gale Ecco, Making of Modern... -
Deceit by Kerry Barnes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Someone's watching you... Living in a beautiful home on the edge of a council estate, Kara Bannon can't imagine what it's like to have nothing. An eerie phone call plays on her... -
Tell the Truth by Amanda Brittany 9780008323042
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Why readers love Tell The Truth:'A gripping read' 'Couldn't put it down' 'A real page turner' 'A... -
Civil Penalties, Social Consequences by Christopher Mele 9780415948241
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Mele and Miller offer a timely, insightful analysis of the continuing challenges faced by ex-felons upon re-entry into society. Such penalties include a lifetime ban on receiving welfare and food... -
The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America by Melissa Burch 9780691272108
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69How a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiringMost employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants,... -
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Science is a force for good in the world-at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge... -
Criminal Behavior by James Joseph Hennessy
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.64Crime Statistics suggest that Americans are not a notably law-abiding people. With some 13 million felonies reported every year, it is not surprising that few topics engage public attention and... -
Commentaries on the Laws of England: v. 4 by Sir William Blackstone 9780226055459
Booksplease Price: £42.37Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated... -
In Our Future, We Are Free: An Astonishing Story of Resistance and Change by Nell Bernstein 9781620977330
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.69A master class in social change-how a coalition of parents, activists, and prison officials brought a racist and destructive institution to its knees "Nell Bernstein's book could be for juvenile... -
As Thick As Thieves: Foolish Felons & Loopy Laws by Richard O. Smith 9780752487205
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Standing in an ID parade of incompetence, waiting to be picked out as Britain's stupidest criminal, we've assembled a line-up of bungling burglars, asinine assailants and thick thieves. Dipping their... -
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics by Marie Gottschalk
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has... -
Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57"An eye-opening account of the criminal justice system's often overlooked creaky gears."-Sam Roberts, New York TimesIn the early 1990s, New York City launched an initiative under the banner of Broken... -
Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences Dennis Baker 9781138614253
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.24In Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences, Dennis J. Baker argues that the mental element in complicity is one of intention, that recklessness alone is not sufficient... -
Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text by Kezia Page 9781138816190
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural... -
The Science of Second Chances: A Revolution in Criminal Justice Jennifer Doleac 9781250886286
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.63When criminal justice expert Jennifer Doleac thinks about reform, she's not just hopeful, she's optimistic. In The Science of Second Chances, she reveals her powerful approach to reducing crime and... -
Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions by Beth M. Huebner
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.67Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Series, includes contemporary essays on the... -
Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race by Jennifer Carlson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.30An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and raceThe United States is steeped in guns, gun violence-and gun debates. As arguments rage on, one issue has largely been... -
Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race by Jennifer Carlson 9780691212814
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and raceThe United States is steeped in guns, gun violence-and gun debates. As arguments rage on, one issue has largely been... -
Wicked Deeds: Murder in America by James M. O'Kane 9781138517967
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44To most Americans, homicide appears to be a random act, one committed by a deranged and irrational killer in a haphazard, unpredictable manner. Murder is seen as a chaotic, disorganized act beyond... -
Red Holocaust Steven Rosefielde 9780415777575
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Twentieth and twenty-first century communism is a failed experiment in social engineering that needlessly killed approximately 60 million people and perhaps tens of millions more. These high crimes... -
Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922: Theatres of War by Sean McConville 9780415378666
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £72.59This is the most wide-ranging study ever published of political violence and the punishment of Irish political offenders from 1848 to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. Those who chose... -
Custom, Courts, and Counsel: Selected Papers of the 6th British Legal History Conference, Norwich 1983 by A. K. R. Kiralfy
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This emphasis of this collection is upon the history of courts and their procedures, they also illustrate the varied approaches and themes of legal history today.About the AuthorAlbert Kiralfy,... -
Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies: Statecraft, Desire and the Politics of Exclusion Roxanne Lynn Doty 9780415406680
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies looks at immigration in the US, the UK and France within the context of globalisation and questions our understanding of the 'state'. Doty uses the concept of... -
The Lower Criminal Courts by Alisa Smith 9780367219307
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80This book explores misdemeanor courts in the United States by focusing on the processing of misdemeanor crimes and the resultant consequences of conviction, such as loss of employment and housing,... -
Convict Criminology for the Future by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D.
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Bringing together a variety of diverse international contributors from the Convict Criminology community, Convict Criminology for the Future surveys the historical roots of Convict Criminology, the... -
Race, Crime, and Justice: A Reader Shaun Gabbidon (Pennsylvania State Capital College, USA) 9780415947077
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.38A comprehensive collection of the essential writings on race and crime, this important Reader spans more than a century and clearly demonstrates the long-standing difficulties minorities have faced... -
Everyday Law for Latino/as by Steven W. Bender 9781594513442
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Now the most populous minority group in the United States, Latino/as increasingly need guidance on the everyday issues that affect their economic livelihood, their freedom, and their equal rights to... -
Women and Justice by Roslyn Muraskin
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.58First published in 1999. societies and 'justice' systems pose for women. This is the first in the Women and the Law series is devoted to examining the implementation and implications of various... -
Inequality in U.S. Social Policy: An Historical Analysis by Bryan Warde 9780367903091
RRP: £76.99Booksplease Price: £67.74In the second edition of Inequality in U.S. Social Policy: An Historic Analysis, Bryan Warde illuminates the pervasive and powerful role that social inequality based on race and ethnicity, gender,...