Prisons books

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries...  Read More >>

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries...  Read More >>

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is...  Read More >>

First published in 1974, The American Prison Business studies the lunacies, the delusions, and the bizarre inner...  Read More >>

First published in 1976, Psychopath is a study of Patrick Mackay who, in 1974 – with a string of muggings and killings...  Read More >>

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful...  Read More >>

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this...  Read More >>

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this...  Read More >>

Emphasizing not just the internal, but the external value of creativity in prison, Prisons of Creativity widens...  Read More >>

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union....  Read More >>

Soviet Russia Fights Crime (1934) examines the workings of the Soviet penal system in the pre-war years of the Soviet...  Read More >>

This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration.  Read More >>

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First published in 1937, Prison from Within is a first-person account of a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for...  Read More >>

Written by activists and scholars based in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Uganda and the...  Read More >>

Should architecture be used for punishment? How might the spaces we inhabit nurture or damage us? How can we begin...  Read More >>

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Challenging the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment-and-society, this collection...  Read More >>

A 'professional confessional' of cases and stories from a Parole Board member, as seen on TV.  Read More >>

This book presents universal themes that impact the safety, wellbeing, and resiliency of correctional officers,...  Read More >>

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Despite its omnipresence...  Read More >>