Penology & punishment books

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The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison

The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in...

Author: Beverley A Crick ,  Mikita Brottman
ISBN: 9781504765985
Format: Audio
$105.57

A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in...  Read More >>

Resist Not Evil

Resist Not Evil

Author: Clarence Darrow
ISBN: 9781354667033
Format: Hardback
$71.15

This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.  Read More >>

The Politics of Abolition Revisited

The Politics of Abolition Revisited

Author: Thomas Mathiesen (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781138687691
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Published in 1974, this book is a landmark text in critical criminology. The new edition includes a new introduction...  Read More >>

Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity

Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity...

Author: Tamir Bar-On
ISBN: 9781138676251
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This book focuses on the philosophy, politics and impact of the 'New Right' which originated in France and has since...  Read More >>

Slavery and the Penal System

Slavery and the Penal System

Author: Dr Barry Krisberg ,  J Thorsten Sellin
ISBN: 9781610273367
Format: Paperback
$85.11

The classic and groundbreaking study of penal slavery throughout the ages is finally available again. Previously...  Read More >>

Parole in Canada: Gender and Diversity in the Federal System

Parole in Canada: Gender and Diversity in the Federal...

Author: Sarah Turnbull
ISBN: 9780774831932
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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The Politics of Police Detention in Japan: Consensus of Convenience

The Politics of Police Detention in Japan: Consensus...

Author: Silvia Croydon (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Hakubi Centre for Advanced Research, Kyoto University, Japan)
ISBN: 9780198758341
Format: Hardback
$185.95

The first in-depth empirical investigation of Japan's divergent police detention arrangements, shining a spotlight...  Read More >>

Rue Rilke

Rue Rilke

Author: Daniel Joseph Polikoff
ISBN: 9781630513597
Format: Hardback
$168.19

"Travelogue, literary autobiography, and journalistic exposé of the mores of capital punishment, Rue Rilke chronicles...  Read More >>

The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards

The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline,...

Author: Nancy A. Heitzeg
ISBN: 9781440831119
Format: Hardback
$90.00

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The Ohio State Reformatory

The Ohio State Reformatory

Author: Nancy K. Darbey
ISBN: 9781467114899
Format: Paperback
$32.99

In the state of Ohio, before 1884, most first-time offenders between the ages of 16 and 30 were housed in the Ohio...  Read More >>

The invisible seed and Bloo

The invisible seed and Bloo

Author: Debbie J Hefke ,  Dienabou Diallo
ISBN: 9780996628655
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Bloo's self discovery teaches him valuable lessons of love and confidence.Mama Hen expresses great love and joy...  Read More >>

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil...

Author: Dan Berger
ISBN: 9781469629797
Format: Paperback
$97.55

In this groundbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison...  Read More >>

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in...

Author: Talitha L. LeFlouria
ISBN: 9781469630007
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The...  Read More >>

America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s

America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in...

Author: Lee Bernstein
ISBN: 9780807871171
Format: Paperback
$85.80

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Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants

Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences...

Author: Martha D. Escobar
ISBN: 9781477309018
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact

Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental...

Author: Denise Johnston ,  Megan Sullivan (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781138183223
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Parental Incarceration makes available personal stories by adults who have had the childhood experience of parental...  Read More >>

Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure

Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning...

Author: Greg Berman ,  Aubrey Fox
ISBN: 9781442268463
Format: Hardback
$193.00

In this revised edition of their concise, readable, yet wide-ranging book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question...  Read More >>

Young Offenders: Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance

Young Offenders: Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance...

Author: M. Halsey ,  S. Deegan
ISBN: 9781349489206
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Young Offenders provides one of the most in-depth studies of young males seeking, if often failing, to find a life...  Read More >>

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