Penology & punishment books

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Employment Screening and Non-Conviction Information: A Human Rights Perspective

Employment Screening and Non-Conviction Information:...

Author: Terry Thomas ,  Kevin Bennett
ISBN: 9783030287108
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction...  Read More >>

Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System

Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel...

Author: Christine S. Scott-Hayward ,  Henry F. Fradella
ISBN: 9780520298316
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Most people in jail have not been convicted of a crime. Instead, they have been accused of a crime and cannot afford...  Read More >>

Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System

Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel...

Author: Christine S. Scott-Hayward ,  Henry F. Fradella
ISBN: 9780520298309
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Most people in jail have not been convicted of a crime. Instead, they have been accused of a crime and cannot afford...  Read More >>

Prison Dog Programs: Renewal and Rehabilitation in Correctional Facilities

Prison Dog Programs: Renewal and Rehabilitation in Correctional...

Author: Mary Renck Jalongo
ISBN: 9783030256173
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Bolstered by research that documents the potential benefits of HAI, many correctional facilities have implemented...  Read More >>

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V28 #1

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V28 #1

Author: Professor Justin Piché (Associate Professor) ,  Professor Kevin Walby (Associate Professor)
ISBN: 9780776628783
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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

Socio-Physics: Applying the Natural Sciences to Criminal Justice and Penology

Socio-Physics: Applying the Natural Sciences to Criminal...

Author: Curtis Blakely ,  Michelle Blakely
ISBN: 9781680530117
Format: Hardback
$129.00

Using physics and biology to examine social dynamics is not new and is often referred to as socio-physics. This...  Read More >>

Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America's Prisons

Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security...

Author: Anna Curtis
ISBN: 9780813598345
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Considers how those within the prison system negotiate their expectations about “real” men and “good” fathers, how...  Read More >>

Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America's Prisons

Dangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security...

Author: Anna Curtis
ISBN: 9780813598352
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Considers how those within the prison system negotiate their expectations about “real” men and “good” fathers, how...  Read More >>

Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare...

Author: Vanessa Barker
ISBN: 9780367360436
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Families, Imprisonment and Legitimacy: The Cost of Custodial Penalties

Families, Imprisonment and Legitimacy: The Cost of Custodial...

Author: Cara Jardine (School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde, UK)
ISBN: 9781138329348
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines what it means to be a family within the restrictive and distressing context of imprisonment....  Read More >>

Inside America's Concentration Camps: Two Centuries of Internment and Torture

Inside America's Concentration Camps: Two Centuries...

Author: James L Dickerson
ISBN: 9781733969178
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Inside America's Concentration Camps is an investigative history of concentration camps in the U.S. It is based...  Read More >>

A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio

A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio

Author: James M. Greiner
ISBN: 9781606353820
Format: Paperback
$45.10

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Craftivism and Yarn Bombing: A Criminological Exploration

Craftivism and Yarn Bombing: A Criminological Exploration...

Author: Alyce McGovern
ISBN: 9781137579904
Format: Hardback
$129.35

Drawing on interviews with yarn bombers and craftivists, Craftivism and Yarn Bombing explores how such acts can...  Read More >>

Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons

Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of...

Author: David C. Pyrooz (University of Colorado Boulder) ,  Scott H. Decker (Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9781108498357
Format: Hardback
$170.78

This book examines the role of prison gangs and their members in controlling life in prison. Utilizing data from...  Read More >>

The Upper Limit: How Low-Wage Work Defines Punishment and Welfare

The Upper Limit: How Low-Wage Work Defines Punishment...

Author: François Bonnet
ISBN: 9780520305229
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Since 1993, crime has fallen in the United States to historic lows, providing extraordinary legitimacy to the country's...  Read More >>

The Upper Limit: How Low-Wage Work Defines Punishment and Welfare

The Upper Limit: How Low-Wage Work Defines Punishment...

Author: François Bonnet
ISBN: 9780520305212
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Since 1993, crime has fallen in the United States to historic lows, providing extraordinary legitimacy to the country's...  Read More >>

Nightmare in Jamaica

Nightmare in Jamaica

Author: Tommy Kennedy IV
ISBN: 9781912587230
Format: Paperback
$36.20

The author escapes Warrington by bursting into an intoxicating world of plane hopping, class A drugs, glamorous...  Read More >>

Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy

Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction,...

Author: Monika Fludernik (Professor of English, University of Freiburg)
ISBN: 9780198840909
Format: Hardback
$257.00

This book describes how literature depicts imprisonment in a wealth of metaphors of confinement in literature from...  Read More >>

Life Sentences: Writings from Inside an American Prison

Life Sentences: Writings from Inside an American Prison...

Author: The Elsinore-Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice ,  John Edgar Wideman
ISBN: 9781948742597
Format: Paperback
$44.75

This collection of essays from six incarcerated men about power, punishment, and redemption is a hybrid of prison...  Read More >>

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