Penology & punishment books

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Punishment and Crime: The Limits of Punitive Crime Control

Punishment and Crime: The Limits of Punitive Crime Control...

Author: Gary Kleck ,  Brion Sever
ISBN: 9781138307261
Format: Paperback
$162.00

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Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison

Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors’...

Author: Jerry White
ISBN: 9780099593324
Format: Paperback
$45.00

But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be thrown into one of the capital’s most notorious jails:...  Read More >>

If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland

If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in...

Author: Assistant Professor of History Anna Müller (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
ISBN: 9780190499891
Format: Undefined
$216.48

The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post-war...  Read More >>

Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin ""Hurricane"" Carter

Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin ""Hurricane""...

Author: Ken Klonsky
ISBN: 9781613737934
Format: Paperback
$29.99

For ten years before Rubin ""Hurricane"" Carter's death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working...  Read More >>

Fixing the U.S. Criminal Justice System

Fixing the U.S. Criminal Justice System

Author: Paul Brakke
ISBN: 9781947466357
Format: Paperback
$26.27

In FIXING THE U.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, author Paul Brakke provides an in-depth look from a conservative perspective...  Read More >>

Fixing the U.S. Criminal Justice System

Fixing the U.S. Criminal Justice System

Author: Paul Brakke
ISBN: 9781947466340
Format: Hardback
$52.67

In FIXING THE U.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, author Paul Brakke provides an in-depth look from a conservative perspective...  Read More >>

Open Prison Architecture: Design Criteria for a New Prison Typology

Open Prison Architecture: Design Criteria for a New...

Author: Luigi Vessella
ISBN: 9781784662479
Format: Hardback
$297.56

"As a part of the debate on penitentiary architecture, this book proposes a critical interpretation of the conceptual...  Read More >>

The Punishment Response

The Punishment Response

Author: Graeme R. Newman
ISBN: 9781138538023
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Punishment occupies a central place in our lives and attitudes  Read More >>

Quantifying Resistance: Political Crime and the People’s Court in Nazi Germany

Quantifying Resistance: Political Crime and the People’s...

Author: Wayne Geerling ,  Gary Magee
ISBN: 9789811060076
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state...  Read More >>

Crime and Justice, Volume 46: Reinventing American Criminal Justice

Crime and Justice, Volume 46: Reinventing American Criminal...

Author: Michael Tonry
ISBN: 9780226509945
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Justice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series....  Read More >>

Big Data, Crime and Social Control

Big Data, Crime and Social Control

Author: Aleš Završnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
ISBN: 9781138227453
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Drawing on research from Europe and the US, this book identifies the various ways in which law and ethics intersect...  Read More >>

Rethinking the American Prison Movement

Rethinking the American Prison Movement

Author: MR Dan Berger ,  Toussaint Losier
ISBN: 9781315767031
Format: Electronic book text
$105.47

Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of an important and transformational...  Read More >>

Convict Criminology: Inside and Out

Convict Criminology: Inside and Out

Author: Rod Earle (The Open University)
ISBN: 9781447323655
Format: Paperback
$51.95

This is the first single authored book to trace the emergence of Convict Criminology and explore its relevance beyond...  Read More >>

In the Presence of My Enemies: A True Story

In the Presence of My Enemies: A True Story

Author: Clive Wellington Kinlock ,  Joy Wellington
ISBN: 9781525507663
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Raised in poverty, forced from his home, and left to find his own way at a young age, Clive Kinlock struggled to...  Read More >>

Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It

Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and...

Author: Terry A. Kupers
ISBN: 9780520292239
Format: Hardback
$49.95

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Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation

Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for...

Author: Lisa M. Corrigan
ISBN: 9781496814876
Format: Paperback
$62.70

In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned...  Read More >>

Health and Health Promotion in Prisons

Health and Health Promotion in Prisons

Author: Michael Ross (University of Texas, USA)
ISBN: 9781138108769
Format: Paperback
$94.99

The impact of the United Nations ""Healthy Prisons"" initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health...  Read More >>

Innocent: Wrongfully Accused on Death Row: 12 Death Row Inmates Who May Have Been Wrongfully Accused

Innocent: Wrongfully Accused on Death Row: 12 Death...

Author: Roger Harrington
ISBN: 9781549842740
Format: Paperback
$29.67

INNOCENT: Wrongfully Accused on Death RowStatistics show that no less than 4 percent of those that are on death...  Read More >>

In the Presence of My Enemies

In the Presence of My Enemies

Author: Clive Wellington Kinlock ,  Joy Wellington
ISBN: 9781525507656
Format: Hardback
$56.90

Raised in poverty, forced from his home, and left to find his own way at a young age, Clive Kinlock struggled to...  Read More >>

Crime, Prisons, and Jails

Crime, Prisons, and Jails

Author: Kim Masters Evans
ISBN: 9781410325587
Format: Paperback
$264.00

"""Formerly published by Information Plus, Wylie, Texas."""  Read More >>

Wall Shadows; A Study in American Prisons

Wall Shadows; A Study in American Prisons

Author: Frank Tannenbaum
ISBN: 9781376080346
Format: Paperback
$28.33

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin ""Hurricane"" Carter

Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin ""Hurricane""...

Author: Ken Klonsky ,  Keith Sellon-Wright
ISBN: 9781538422465
Format: Audio
$92.27

In April 2014, Rubin ""Hurricane"" Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and...  Read More >>

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