Penology & punishment books

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DeathQuest: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States

DeathQuest: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice...

Author: Robert M. Bohm (University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA) ,  Robert M. Bohm (University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA)
ISBN: 9781138940888
Format: Paperback
$133.00

This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the...  Read More >>

The Theatre of Death: Rituals of Justice from the English Civil Wars to the Restoration

The Theatre of Death: Rituals of Justice from the English...

Author: P J Klemp
ISBN: 9781644530313
Format: Paperback
$155.76

This book discusses some rituals of justice--such as public executions, printed responses to the Archbishop of Canterbury's...  Read More >>

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V25 # 1

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V25 # 1

Author: Justin Piché ,  Kevin Walby
ISBN: 9780776624907
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Contributors address a range of themes including prisoner interactions, gender and patriarchal domination in women's...  Read More >>

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making...

Author: Elizabeth Hinton ,  Josh Bloomberg
ISBN: 9781665287494
Format: Audio
$54.09

How did the land of the free become the home of the world's largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise...  Read More >>

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making...

Author: Elizabeth Hinton ,  Josh Bloomberg
ISBN: 9781665287500
Format: Audio
$105.57

How did the land of the free become the home of the world's largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise...  Read More >>

For the Children?: Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State

For the Children?: Protecting Innocence in a Carceral...

Author: Erica R. Meiners
ISBN: 9780816692767
Format: Paperback
$40.99

Childhood has never been available to all. In her opening chapter of ""For the Children?,"" Erica R. Meiners stakes...  Read More >>

First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles

First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles...

Author: Damien M. Sojoyner
ISBN: 9780816697557
Format: Paperback
$40.99

California is a state of immense contradictions. Home to colossal wealth and long portrayed as a bastion of opportunity,...  Read More >>

Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition

Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition...

Author: Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, USA)
ISBN: 9781509507559
Format: Paperback
$39.95

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of...  Read More >>

Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition

Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition...

Author: Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, USA)
ISBN: 9781509507542
Format: Hardback
$124.95

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of...  Read More >>

Parchman

Parchman

Author: R. Kim Rushing ,  Mark Goodman
ISBN: 9781496806512
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Constructed in 1904, the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman covers 20,000 acres, forty-six square miles,...  Read More >>

A Prison Without Walls?: Eastern Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism

A Prison Without Walls?: Eastern Siberian Exile in the...

Author: Sarah Badcock (Associate Professor, Department of History, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9780199641550
Format: Hardback
$190.95

Presents a snapshot of daily life for exiles and their dependents in eastern Siberia during the very last years...  Read More >>

This Is Where I Am: A Memoir

This Is Where I Am: A Memoir

Author: Zeke Caligiuri
ISBN: 9780816695720
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island

Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island

Author: Lil Wayne
ISBN: 9780735212114
Format: Hardback
$79.20

The rapper details the circumstances that led to his year-long incarceration at Rikers Island and his experiences...  Read More >>

Japanese Moratorium on the Death Penalty

Japanese Moratorium on the Death Penalty

Author: Mika Obara-Minnitt
ISBN: 9781137565303
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Offering a timely reanalysis of the issue of Japan’s capital punishment policy, this cutting edge volume considers...  Read More >>

The Penal Voluntary Sector

The Penal Voluntary Sector

Author: Philippa Tomczak (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781138189829
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style

Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style...

Author: Nils Christie
ISBN: 9781138690127
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Crime Control As Industry is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists...  Read More >>

Key Issues in Corrections

Key Issues in Corrections

Author: Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. (Division of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Social Policy, University of Baltimore)
ISBN: 9781447318729
Format: Hardback
$176.95

Key Issues in Corrections critically analyzes the most important challenges affecting the correctional system in...  Read More >>

Boy With a Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner's Fight for Justice

Boy With a Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a...

Author: Jean Trounstine
ISBN: 9781632460240
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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After Life Imprisonment: Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration

After Life Imprisonment: Reentry in the Era of Mass...

Author: Marieke Liem ,  Robert J. Sampson
ISBN: 9781479882823
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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After Life Imprisonment: Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration

After Life Imprisonment: Reentry in the Era of Mass...

Author: Marieke Liem ,  Robert J. Sampson
ISBN: 9781479806928
Format: Hardback
$193.00

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The Theatre of Death: Rituals of Justice from the English Civil Wars to the Restoration

The Theatre of Death: Rituals of Justice from the English...

Author: P J Klemp
ISBN: 9781644530306
Format: Hardback
$320.85

Discusses some rituals of justice - such as public executions, and King Charles I's treason trial - in early modern...  Read More >>

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