Prisons books

1458 books were found.

If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro

If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro...

Author: Andrew Johnson (Research Associate, Research Associate, Center for Religion & Civic Culture, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780190238995
Format: Paperback
$56.95

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

Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates

Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates

Author: James Phelps
ISBN: 9780143780526
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder: My time inside Ecuador’s toughest prisons

El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder: My time...

Author: Pieter Tritton
ISBN: 9781785035616
Format: Paperback
$32.99

As a Brit banged up abroad, Pieter had to learn how to survive – and fast – because one wrong move would mean death....  Read More >>

Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons

Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's...

Author: Voice of Witness ,  Michelle Alexander
ISBN: 9781786632289
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The Voice of Witness book series takes a humanizing, literary approach to oral history to illuminate the stories...  Read More >>

A Day in Prison: An Insider's Guide to Life Behind Bars

A Day in Prison: An Insider's Guide to Life Behind Bars...

Author: John Fuller ,  Holly Lorincz
ISBN: 9781510717800
Format: Hardback
$42.99

"Twenty-four hours pass slowly in a prison. A Day in Prison will help new inmates understand what's ahead of them,...  Read More >>

Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration: Discovering the Ethical Prison

Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration: Discovering...

Author: Doran Larson
ISBN: 9781611479829
Format: Hardback
$214.00

This book places prison witness at the center of discussions of the human experience of law and order, and of the...  Read More >>

Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry

Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of...

Author: Keesha Middlemass
ISBN: 9780814770627
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Winner, W. E. B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists...  Read More >>

Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry

Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of...

Author: Keesha Middlemass
ISBN: 9780814724392
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Winner, W. E. B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists...  Read More >>

Green is the New Black

Green is the New Black

Author: James Phelps ,  Stan Pretty
ISBN: 9781510076341
Format: Audio
$52.81

James Phelps explores all the questions that we can only barely imagine the answers to about Australia's toughest...  Read More >>

The Rotary Jail: Escape-Proof Cells on a Carousel, 1882-1966

The Rotary Jail: Escape-Proof Cells on a Carousel, 1882-1966...

Author: W.C. Madden
ISBN: 9781476666150
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The rotary jail was one of the more unusual architectural designs in history. In response to a need for better control...  Read More >>

The Routledge International Handbook of Forensic Psychology in Secure Settings

The Routledge International Handbook of Forensic Psychology...

Author: Jane Ireland ,  Carol Ireland
ISBN: 9781138942578
Format: Hardback
$452.00

The Routledge International Handbook of Forensic Psychology in Secure Settings is the first volume to identify,...  Read More >>

The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars

The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars...

Author: Daniel Beer
ISBN: 9780241957523
Format: Paperback
$26.99

"""The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores...  Read More >>

American Prisons: Their Past, Present and Future

American Prisons: Their Past, Present and Future

Author: David Musick (University of Northern Colorado, USA) ,  Kristine Gunsaulus-Musick
ISBN: 9781138805798
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book offers a critical examination of American prisons, their history and their future and a compelling and...  Read More >>

Privatising Public Prisons: Labour Law and the Public Procurement Process

Privatising Public Prisons: Labour Law and the Public...

Author: Amy Ludlow
ISBN: 9781509914135
Format: Paperback
$54.99

This book challenges the Government's portrayal of competition policies as self-evident sources of improvement for...  Read More >>

American Prisons: Their Past, Present and Future

American Prisons: Their Past, Present and Future

Author: David Musick (University of Northern Colorado, USA) ,  Kristine Gunsaulus-Musick
ISBN: 9781138805781
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book offers a critical examination of American prisons, their history and their future and a compelling and...  Read More >>

Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement

Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement

Author: Robert J. Norris
ISBN: 9781479886272
Format: Hardback
$193.00

The fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice. Documentaries like Making a Murderer,...  Read More >>

The Parkhurst Years: My Time Locked Up with Britain’s Most Notorious Criminals

The Parkhurst Years: My Time Locked Up with Britain’s...

Author: Bobby Cummines
ISBN: 9781785035166
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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History of Newgate Prison

History of Newgate Prison

Author: Caroline Jowett
ISBN: 9781473876408
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Relive the conditions inside Britain's most notorious eight-hundred-year-old gaol  Read More >>

Decades Behind Bars: A 20-Year Conversation with Men in America's Prisons

Decades Behind Bars: A 20-Year Conversation with Men...

Author: Gaye Holman
ISBN: 9781476669236
Format: Paperback
$48.40

More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons - one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass...  Read More >>

Inmates' Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison: Rewriting personal histories through cognitive behavioral programs

Inmates' Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison:...

Author: Jennifer Schlosser (Tennessee Tech University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138065895
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book delves into the heart of a prison-based cognitive behavioural programme, examines its inner workings and...  Read More >>

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