Prisons books

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The Good Prison Officer: Inside Perspectives

The Good Prison Officer: Inside Perspectives

Author: Andi Brierley
ISBN: 9781032394398
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book offers a solution-focused and strengths-based guide to becoming an effective Prison Officer.  Read More >>

Fighting for My Life: A Prisoner's Story of Redemption

Fighting for My Life: A Prisoner's Story of Redemption...

Author: Billy Moore
ISBN: 9781472145611
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A follow-up to the bestselling A Prayer Before Dawn about Billy's imprisonment in Klong Prem prison, the 'Bangkok...  Read More >>

Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution

Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and...

Author: Tea Fredriksson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781804553695
Format: Hardback
$172.99

Through a study of ten commercially published prison autobiographies, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an...  Read More >>

Angel Face: The Making of a Criminal

Angel Face: The Making of a Criminal

Author: Walter Probyn
ISBN: 9781032421117
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First published in 1977, Angel Face documents the penal life of Walter Probyn, who spent 30 out of 44 years in prison...  Read More >>

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law

Author: Ellie Brown (Ph.D, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781032330747
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is...  Read More >>

Smart Prisons

Smart Prisons

Author: Peiliang Sun
ISBN: 9789811696596
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book aims to apply the new generation of information technology to the research and practice of prison management,...  Read More >>

A Prison Diary Volume I: Hell

A Prison Diary Volume I: Hell

Author: Jeffrey Archer
ISBN: 9781509808878
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The number one bestseller and storyteller writes a powerful account of life inside the British penal system.  Read More >>

A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory

A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory

Author: Jeffrey Archer
ISBN: 9781509808885
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The number one bestseller continues his vital account of life inside the British penal system.  Read More >>

A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven

A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven

Author: Jeffrey Archer
ISBN: 9781509820795
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The final volume in Archer’s essential account of life inside the penal system.  Read More >>

Crime and Justice, Volume 51: Prisons and Prisoners

Crime and Justice, Volume 51: Prisons and Prisoners...

Author: Michael Tonry ,  Sandra Bucerius
ISBN: 9780226825052
Format: Hardback
$165.95

Volume 51 is a thematic volume on Prisons and Prisoners. Since 1979, the Crime and Justice series has presented...  Read More >>

Ghosts Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama's Death Row

Ghosts Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama's Death...

Author: Katie Owens-Murphy ,  Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty
ISBN: 9780826505293
Format: Paperback
$65.87

An anthology of poetry, visual art, essays, and other creative writings that have emerged from Alabama’s death row...  Read More >>

Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain

Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain...

Author: Russ Ford ,  Todd C. Peppers
ISBN: 9780813949116
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Revealing the cruelties of the state-sanctioned violence that has until recently prevailed in Virginia’s backyard,...  Read More >>

The American Prison Business

The American Prison Business

Author: Jessica Mitford
ISBN: 9781032354743
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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The Zekameron: Shortlisted for The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024

The Zekameron: Shortlisted for The Republic of Consciousness...

Author: Maxim Znak ,  Jim and Ella Dingley
ISBN: 9781910895757
Format: Paperback
$33.61

One hundred stories written in prison in Belarus in 2021 awaiting trial. While the futures of fellow prisoners hang...  Read More >>

Introduction to Corrections

Introduction to Corrections

Author: Robert D. Hanser (University of Louisiana at Monroe)
ISBN: 9781071848999
Format: Paperback
$398.64

Introduction to Corrections, Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive foundation of corrections that is practitioner-driven...  Read More >>

Unlocked: An Irish Prison Officer’s Story

Unlocked: An Irish Prison Officer’s Story

Author: David McDonald ,  Mick Clifford
ISBN: 9780241996669
Format: Paperback
$35.00

The extraordinarily revealing memoir of life in Ireland's biggest prisons from a retired officer For thirty years,...  Read More >>

Strangeways Unlocked: The Shocking Truth about Life Behind Bars

Strangeways Unlocked: The Shocking Truth about Life...

Author: Neil Samworth
ISBN: 9781529064230
Format: Paperback
$22.99

From Neil Samworth, the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of Strangeways, comes a shocking account of what...  Read More >>

The Evolving Protection of Prisoners’ Rights in Europe

The Evolving Protection of Prisoners’ Rights in Europe...

Author: Gaëtan Cliquennois (University of Strasbourg, France)
ISBN: 9781032047980
Format: Paperback
$75.99

The Evolving Protection of Prisoners’ Rights in Europe explores the development of the framing of penal and prison...  Read More >>

The Evolving Protection of Prisoners’ Rights in Europe

The Evolving Protection of Prisoners’ Rights in Europe...

Author: Gaëtan Cliquennois (University of Strasbourg, France)
ISBN: 9780367321536
Format: Hardback
$263.00

The Evolving Protection of Prisoners’ Rights in Europe explores the development of the framing of penal and prison...  Read More >>

Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers

Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers...

Author: Hayden P. Smith (University of South Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781032407029
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book presents universal themes that impact the safety, wellbeing, and resiliency of correctional officers,...  Read More >>

Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison

Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison

Author: Michael Gibson-Light (Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver)
ISBN: 9780190055394
Format: Hardback
$233.00

"A critical and cutting-edge examination of modern prison laborThe United States is home to the most expansive prison...  Read More >>

Wrongful Imprisonment: Mistaken Convictions and their Consequences

Wrongful Imprisonment: Mistaken Convictions and their...

Author: Ruth Brandon ,  Christie Davies
ISBN: 9781032376868
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful...  Read More >>

Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover

Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became...

Author: Jeffrey Bellin
ISBN: 9781009267557
Format: Paperback
$59.49

A former prosecutor turned law professor explains the rise of mass incarceration and the path to reform. Mass Incarceration...  Read More >>

What's Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration

What's Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in...

Author: Bill Keller
ISBN: 9781735913742
Format: Paperback
$27.99

"""What purpose is incarceration supposed to serve, and how successfully does it serve that purpose? What's Prison...  Read More >>

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