Prisons books

With reform of parole now on the political agenda, will a more formal process of release operate toconstrain the...  Read More >>

Pentridgetells of prison life and events during the troubled 1970s when rebellion was in the air, and when Pentridge...  Read More >>

This edited collection utilises recent advances in theories on masculinities to explore and analyse the ways in...  Read More >>

This book explores the topic of food and foodways within American jails and prisons. It focuses on food as a political...  Read More >>

This book examines how the form and function of prisons in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras differ,...  Read More >>

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This book brings together a collection of essays by leading criminologists to explore the relationship between the...  Read More >>

In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected...  Read More >>

Custody visitors are volunteers who make unannounced visits to police custody blocks to check on the welfare of...  Read More >>

Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. Accommodating...  Read More >>

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The Maze Prison shows how an establishment built to hold those involved in terrorism, atrocities, murder and allied...  Read More >>

The Maze Prison shows how an establishment built to hold those involved in terrorism, atrocities, murder and allied...  Read More >>

"Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug...  Read More >>

This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores...  Read More >>

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An extraordinary, eye-opening look behind the razor wire into life inside the walls of one of the most notorious...  Read More >>

Offers a much-needed analysis of the teaching of college writing in US prisons. Through the examination of a college-in-prison...  Read More >>

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Bringing together a range of international experts, this book contributes to the discourse on the penal system,...  Read More >>

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Bringing together a range of international experts, this book contributes to the discourse on the penal system,...  Read More >>

Members of the last generation of inmates and staff return to this now-forgotten prison to tell the true and brutal...  Read More >>