Prisons books

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Generations Through Prison: Experiences of Intergenerational Incarceration

Generations Through Prison: Experiences of Intergenerational...

Author: Mark Halsey ,  Melissa de Vel-Palumbo
ISBN: 9780815375166
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The book examines the causes, experiences and consequences of intergenerational incarceration; building on data...  Read More >>

A Closer Look at Prisons and Prison Inmates

A Closer Look at Prisons and Prison Inmates

Author: Gabriel Mowll
ISBN: 9781536169812
Format: Hardback
$447.61

"A Closer Look at Prisons and Prison Inmates first explores how inmates perceive prisons in general, as well as...  Read More >>

Breaking Out in Prison

Breaking Out in Prison

Author: Babita Patel
ISBN: 9781912157082
Format: Paperback
$56.80

"""My grandfather went to Sing Sing. My father, my uncle, my brother went to Sing Sing. I went to Sing Sing"". Poor...  Read More >>

Buru Island: A Prison Memoir

Buru Island: A Prison Memoir

Author: Hersri Setiawan ,  Jennifer Lindsay
ISBN: 9781925835564
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Buru Island was the site of Indonesia's most remote and infamousprison camp. In the wake of the 1965 repression...  Read More >>

Remaking Achilles: Slicing into Angola's History

Remaking Achilles: Slicing into Angola's History

Author: Carol Tyx
ISBN: 9780999491522
Format: Paperback
$27.66

"""A compassionate and imaginative retelling of a harrowing period in American penal history."" Andy Douglas, Author...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of Industry and Development

Routledge Handbook of Industry and Development

Author: John Weiss (University of Bradford, UK) ,  Michael Tribe
ISBN: 9780367867973
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This Handbook is a global overview of industrialisation. Each chapter will provide readers with contemporary insights...  Read More >>

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence: An Integrated Social Control-Opportunity Perspective

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence: An Integrated...

Author: Benjamin Steiner ,  John Wooldredge
ISBN: 9781138552609
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with...  Read More >>

Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom: Options and Opportunities

Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom: Options and...

Author: Anna Plemons ,  Kristin L. Arola
ISBN: 9780814134658
Format: Paperback
$53.90

Through a mix of history, theory, and story, Anna Plemons explores the fate of the Arts in Corrections program at...  Read More >>

Internetzugang fuer Strafgefangene zwischen Resozialisierung und Sicherheit

Internetzugang fuer Strafgefangene zwischen Resozialisierung...

Author: Lorenz Bode
ISBN: 9783631799758
Format: Paperback
$156.54

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Resist the Punitive State: Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and Prisons

Resist the Punitive State: Grassroots Struggles Across...

Author: Emily Luise Hart ,  Joe Greener
ISBN: 9780745339511
Format: Paperback
$56.90

What do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state...  Read More >>

Resist the Punitive State: Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and Prisons

Resist the Punitive State: Grassroots Struggles Across...

Author: Emily Luise Hart ,  Joe Greener
ISBN: 9780745339528
Format: Hardback
$219.94

What do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state...  Read More >>

Organized Crime, Prison and Post-Soviet Societies

Organized Crime, Prison and Post-Soviet Societies

Author: Alain Touraine ,  Anton Oleinik
ISBN: 9781138710931
Format: Paperback
$62.99

"This title was first published in 2003. The ""Red Mafia"" in Russia have become the subject of increasing international...  Read More >>

A History of Women's Prisons in England: The Myth of Prisoner Reformation

A History of Women's Prisons in England: The Myth of...

Author: Susanna Menis
ISBN: 9781527541832
Format: Hardback
$152.64

This book presents a revisionist prison history which brings to the forefront the relationship between gender and...  Read More >>

Prisons, State and Violence

Prisons, State and Violence

Author: Maria João Guia ,  Sílvia Gomes
ISBN: 9783030130763
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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

Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System

Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American...

Author: Cyntoia Brown-Long
ISBN: 9781982141103
Format: Hardback
$47.99

In her own words, the author shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better...  Read More >>

Fire in the Big House: America’s Deadliest Prison Disaster

Fire in the Big House: America’s Deadliest Prison Disaster...

Author: Mitchel P. Roth
ISBN: 9780821423837
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Roth explores the lives of prisoners and others as well as the political and social circumstances of the Ohio Penitentiary...  Read More >>

Prison Cultures: Performance, Resistance, Desire

Prison Cultures: Performance, Resistance, Desire

Author: Aylwyn Walsh (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
ISBN: 9781789381054
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution....  Read More >>

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V28 #1

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V28 #1

Author: Professor Justin Piché (Associate Professor) ,  Professor Kevin Walby (Associate Professor)
ISBN: 9780776628783
Format: Paperback
$24.99

"This general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Pich and Kevin Walby features articles...  Read More >>

The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison story in Australian and Irish history

The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic...

Author: Peter FitzSimons
ISBN: 9781472131348
Format: Paperback
$49.14

The Catalpa Rescue is the gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history...  Read More >>

A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio

A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio

Author: James M. Greiner
ISBN: 9781606353820
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The first complete history of the historically significant case, A Woman Condemned draws upon newly discovered New...  Read More >>

Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons

Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of...

Author: David C. Pyrooz (University of Colorado Boulder) ,  Scott H. Decker (Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9781108735742
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This book examines the role of prison gangs and their members in controlling life in prison. Utilizing data from...  Read More >>

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