Prisons books

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

This volume presents a number of controversial cases of enforced medical treatment from around the globe, providing...  Read More >>

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A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal 1971 photobook, highly influential in the history...  Read More >>

Ground-breaking history of Irish republican prisoners held in English jails between 1978-1985.  Read More >>

Cautions that the legacy of the grand experiment of the past forty years will be difficult to escape.  Read More >>

Based on private correspondence, British state archives, declassified government documents, international media...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention...  Read More >>

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This book showcases innovative justice initiatives from around the world which engage offenders, practitioners and...  Read More >>

The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is...  Read More >>

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Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape...  Read More >>

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Prison Law is the leading text in its field, combining comprehensive coverage of the law with an unequalled guide...  Read More >>

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution...  Read More >>

I cook here, create here, make here be as much of life as I can because outside of this I’m not safe, I don’t know...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography provides an expansive overview of the challenges presented by qualitative,...  Read More >>

Voices From American Prisons: Faith, Education and Healing is a comprehensive and unique contribution to understanding...  Read More >>

Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming,...  Read More >>

Provides a rare glimpse of life inside British prisons, where non-citizens are increasingly segregated from the...  Read More >>

How realistic are media portrayals of radical, “homegrown” Islamic terrorists filling US prisons? With prisons a...  Read More >>

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

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This book aims to present key aspects of the prison-based bullying research which has taken place over the last...  Read More >>