Penology & punishment books

Study guide to help people pass their Corrections Officer Exam.  Read More >>

Justice is on trial in the United States. From police to prisons, the justice system is accused of overpunishing....  Read More >>

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The first book in English on the Roman prison, and the first on the Roman prison's late antique incarnation as a...  Read More >>

Examines how race, class and punishment shape American society today.  Read More >>

The WWII German army used the Colditz Castle, one of history's most notorious prisons, to hold defiant Allied captives....  Read More >>

A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row—told in the words of the prisoners themselves.  Read More >>

"This general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Pich and Kevin Walby features articles...  Read More >>

The shocking, seminal memoir of a key member of L.A. gang the Crips, first published in 1990.  Read More >>

A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row—told in the words of the prisoners themselves.  Read More >>

First published in 1937, Prison from Within is a first-person account of a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for...  Read More >>

Provides students with a comprehensive and critical exploration of the US criminal justice system. Learning outcomes,...  Read More >>

This book analyzes homicide prosecution in the 18th century. Using case studies, it explores the ways law intersected...  Read More >>

Being A Narrative Of Personal Experience During A Week Of Voluntary Confinement In The State Prison At Auburn, New...  Read More >>

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Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against...  Read More >>

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against...  Read More >>

Abolition Feminisms: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice, offers wide-ranging feminist abolitionist...  Read More >>

How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 'Russell Marks unravels...  Read More >>

Introduction to Penology and Corrections offers the best of two worlds, covering the practical matters that jail...  Read More >>

Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful stories of German prisoners after WWII, and thereby shines...  Read More >>

Im Zentrum des Buches steht die Frage, ob und wie individuelle Rückfallrisiken der Gefangenen verringert, ihre sozialen...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the criminalization trend and process regarding the internal migration in contemporary China...  Read More >>

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against...  Read More >>

"""A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers""--"  Read More >>