Prisons books

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This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama, comedy and horror that utilize prison as a central...  Read More >>

The first scholarly study to explore the Central Prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status...  Read More >>

This handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive look at the latest developments in the 21st Century penal...  Read More >>

A satirical guide to life behind bars by Britain's most notorious prisoner.  Read More >>

This is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found...  Read More >>

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In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour...  Read More >>

Das Deutsche Strafrecht kennt nur zwei Hauptstrafen: Geldstrafe und Freiheitsstrafe. An die Stelle einer uneinbringlichen...  Read More >>

Gripping and inspirational stories from one of Britain's most renowned prisons  Read More >>

The compelling story of what really happened inside the famous prison walls of the Narcotic Farm.  Read More >>

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From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap...  Read More >>

Founded in cultural, textual, and ethnographic analysis, this distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative...  Read More >>

The Prison Out of Place offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations-including property,...  Read More >>

This book explores prisoners’ experiences of prison education and investigates whether participation in education...  Read More >>

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This volume addresses major issues and research in corrections and sentencing with the goal of using previous research...  Read More >>

Bringing together a variety of international voices from the Convict Criminology community, this edited volume surveys...  Read More >>

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Provides the first comprehensive history of Texas prisons. Bob Alexander and Richard Alford chronicle the significant...  Read More >>

Combining works by various authors, it presents diverse perspectives on prison violence: in countries ranging from...  Read More >>

The author, who was a participant at all correctional security levels and social science scholar, examines the historic...  Read More >>

The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is...  Read More >>