Prisons books

An electric memoir that follows a young woman from chasing Olympic dreams on the ice rink, through addiction and...  Read More >>

This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation....  Read More >>

This timely book addresses an overlooked area of criminal justice by focusing on the reality of pregnancy and new...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1983, examines in detail the training of the key group of people within the British...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1974, this book was the first full-scale work published in this country evaluating carefully...  Read More >>

In Prison Crisis, originally published in 1980, Peter Evans draws together all of the issues of the time to provide...  Read More >>

First published in 1963, this title was an attempt to discover what had been learnt from a range of prison experience...  Read More >>

In the late 1950s crime and its treatment had never been of greater public interest. In this title, first published...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1976, A Taste of Prison deals with a very sensitive area of concern in the system of trial...  Read More >>

An awareness that the effects of prison on offenders were rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful. In this...  Read More >>

First published in 1965, this study was the first attempt in this country to look at the problems of the families...  Read More >>

Why are the children of imprisoned parents often penalised the most? The abuse, stigma and neglect experienced by...  Read More >>

'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever seen.' Andrew...  Read More >>

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

Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable? explores the conflicting discourses about employment...  Read More >>

This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps...  Read More >>

In this new and distinctive contribution to the desistance literature, Dr David Honeywell draws on his own lived...  Read More >>

This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact,...  Read More >>

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Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of ‘prison ecologies’ – a multi-layered perspective to understanding...  Read More >>

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After matriculating from a top Jewish school, Nikki Munitz finds herself in the clutches of a heroin addiction....  Read More >>

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