Penology & punishment books

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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: 9781538422472
Format: Audio
$79.07

In April 2014, Rubin ""Hurricane"" Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and...  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: 9781538422458
Format: Audio
$237.60

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

Legal Violence and the Limits of the Law

Legal Violence and the Limits of the Law

Author: Amy Swiffen ,  Joshua Nichols
ISBN: 9781138814141
Format: Hardback
$305.00

What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that separates it from the cruel and unusual? Clearly,...  Read More >>

Swift, Certain and Fair: Does Project HOPE Provide a Therapeutic Paradigm for Managing Offenders?

Swift, Certain and Fair: Does Project HOPE Provide a...

Author: Lorana Bartels
ISBN: 9783319584447
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book presents a detailed analysis of Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program.  Read More >>

Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice: Embraced By the Welfare State?

Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice:...

Author: Peter Scharff Smith ,  Thomas Ugelvik
ISBN: 9781137585288
Format: Hardback
$475.17

The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as ‘model societies’, with egalitarian welfare...  Read More >>

Social Censure and Critical Criminology: After Sumner

Social Censure and Critical Criminology: After Sumner...

Author: Anthony Amatrudo
ISBN: 9781349952205
Format: Hardback
$475.17

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Journey to Release: Counselling in a UK Prison

Journey to Release: Counselling in a UK Prison

Author: Mo Smith ,  Toni Close
ISBN: 9781909976498
Format: Paperback
$38.68

An invaluable explanation of the `nuts and bolts' of counselling in prison. Examines the challenges facing counsellors...  Read More >>

American Prisons: A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam

American Prisons: A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion...

Author: Spearit
ISBN: 9781506904870
Format: Paperback
$44.87

This book is a critical exploration of prisons in contemporary America  Read More >>

Mass Incarceration

Mass Incarceration

Author: Keramet Reiter
ISBN: 9780190272531
Format: Paperback
$100.29

In this brief, timely text, Keramet Reiter explores the least visible, but arguably most important, characteristics...  Read More >>

If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro

If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro...

Author: Andrew Johnson (Research Associate, Research Associate, Center for Religion & Civic Culture, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780190238995
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug...  Read More >>

Parole and Beyond: International Experiences of Life After Prison

Parole and Beyond: International Experiences of Life...

Author: Ruth Armstrong ,  Ioan Durnescu
ISBN: 9781349951178
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book provides an assessment of contemporary international knowledge about the experiences of life after release...  Read More >>

Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World

Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons...

Author: Baz Dreisinger
ISBN: 9781590518991
Format: Paperback
$35.00

""A first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College...  Read More >>

Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates

Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates

Author: James Phelps
ISBN: 9780143780526
Format: Paperback
$22.99

These are the stories about Australia's hardest inmates, from Australia's hardest inmates- the true and uncensored...  Read More >>

Deadly Symbiosis

Deadly Symbiosis

Author: Loic Wacquant
ISBN: 9780745631233
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Explores the rise of prison populations in the US, in Britain, European countries, and in Latin America. Beginning...  Read More >>

El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder: My time inside Ecuador’s toughest prisons

El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder: My time...

Author: Pieter Tritton
ISBN: 9781785035616
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Crime Prevention Through Housing Design

Crime Prevention Through Housing Design

Author: Paul Stollard (Paul Stollard Ltd, UK) ,  Paul. Stollard
ISBN: 9781138432871
Format: Hardback
$399.00

This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime....  Read More >>

‘Doing’ Coercion in Male Custodial Settings: An Ethnography of Italian Prison Officers Using Force

‘Doing’ Coercion in Male Custodial Settings: An Ethnography...

Author: Luigi Gariglio (University of Turin, Italy)
ISBN: 9781138207264
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book offers a sustained study of on one feature of a prison officer’s job: ‘doing’ coercion. Adopting an interactionist...  Read More >>

Pornography and The Criminal Justice System

Pornography and The Criminal Justice System

Author: Carmen M. Cusack
ISBN: 9781138415744
Format: Hardback
$399.00

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Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons

Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's...

Author: Voice of Witness ,  Michelle Alexander
ISBN: 9781786632852
Format: Hardback
$119.99

The Voice of Witness book series takes a humanizing, literary approach to oral history to illuminate the stories...  Read More >>

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