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The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century...
Author: Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary University of London) ISBN: 9781107040304 Format: Hardback	$232.88
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The Modern Prison Paradox: Politics, Punishment, and Social Community

The Modern Prison Paradox: Politics, Punishment, and...
Author: Amy E. Lerman (Princeton University, New Jersey) ISBN: 9781107613850 Format: Paperback	$69.84
In The Modern Prison Paradox, Amy E. Lerman examines the shift from rehabilitation to punitivism that has taken... Read More >>

The Modern Prison Paradox: Politics, Punishment, and Social Community

The Modern Prison Paradox: Politics, Punishment, and...
Author: Amy E. Lerman (Princeton University, New Jersey) ISBN: 9781107041455 Format: Hardback	$178.54
In The Modern Prison Paradox, Amy E. Lerman examines the shift from rehabilitation to punitivism that has taken... Read More >>

The Frying Pan: A Prison and Its Prisoners

The Frying Pan: A Prison and Its Prisoners
Author: Tony Parker ISBN: 9780571304295 Format: Electronic book text	$42.32
In 1970 the author was permitted by the Home Office to make a series of visits to HMP Grendon Underwood, the UK's... Read More >>

Forget You Had a Daughter - Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton

Forget You Had a Daughter - Doing Time in the Bangkok...
Author: Sandra Gregory ISBN: 9781782192244 Format: Paperback	$25.85
Sandra Gregory seemed to have the perfect life in Bangkok - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned... Read More >>

Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment

Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of...
Author: Jill A. McCorkel ISBN: 9780814761496 Format: Paperback	$64.99
Discusses the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account... Read More >>

Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment

Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of...
Author: Jill A. McCorkel ISBN: 9780814761489 Format: Hardback	$184.00
Discusses the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account... Read More >>

Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom

Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom...
Author: Rubin ""Hurricane"" Carter , Ken Klonsky ISBN: 9781613748152 Format: Paperback	$52.77
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Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature

Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political...
Author: Yenna Wu , Simona Livescu ISBN: 9780739186169 Format: Paperback	$70.95
This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while examining the... Read More >>

Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison

Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison...
Author: Piper Kerman ISBN: 9780349139869 Format: Paperback	$22.99
An original comedy-drama series from Netflix, Piper Kerman's New York Times-bestselling memoir of the time she served... Read More >>

Amin's Soldiers: A Caricature of Upper Prison

Amin's Soldiers: A Caricature of Upper Prison
Author: John Pancras Orau ISBN: 9781904380962 Format: Paperback	$42.69
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The State of the Prisons in England and Wales: With Preliminary Observations and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons

The State of the Prisons in England and Wales: With...
Author: John Howard ISBN: 9781108064521 Format: Paperback	$178.51
The philanthropist John Howard (1726–90) devoted himself to the study and reform of penal institutions, travelling... Read More >>

Pentonville: A Sociological Study of an English Prison

Pentonville: A Sociological Study of an English Prison...
Author: Terence Morris , Pauline Morris ISBN: 9780415863926 Format: Paperback	$92.99
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The English Prison and Borstal Systems

The English Prison and Borstal Systems
Author: Lionel W. Fox ISBN: 9780415863865 Format: Paperback	$41.99
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

Fifty-one Moves

Fifty-one Moves
Author: Ben Ashcroft ISBN: 9781904380245 Format: Paperback	$25.88
A 'Going Straight' genre life story which breaks new ground in taking as its focus the vagaries of the child care... Read More >>

Sick Justice: Inside the American Gulag

Sick Justice: Inside the American Gulag
Author: Ivan G. Goldman ISBN: 9781612344874 Format: Hardback	$79.07
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Incarcerated Mothers: Oppression and Resistance

Incarcerated Mothers: Oppression and Resistance
Author: Gordana Eljdupovic , Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich ISBN: 9781927335031 Format: Paperback	$46.20
Examines connections between mothering and incarceration, from analysis of the justice system and policies, criminalization... Read More >>

Inmate Populations in Federal Prisons: Build-up Issues & Policy Options

Inmate Populations in Federal Prisons: Build-up Issues...
Author: Russell C Boysen ISBN: 9781626183414 Format: Hardback	$466.62
Since the early 1980s, there has been a historically unprecedented increase in the federal prison population. Some... Read More >>

The American Prison: Imagining a Different Future

The American Prison: Imagining a Different Future
Author: Francis T. Cullen , Cheryl Lero Jonson ISBN: 9781452241364 Format: Paperback	$141.00
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Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels

Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison...
Author: Auli Ek ISBN: 9780415651271 Format: Paperback	$88.99
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce... Read More >>

Notorious Prisons of the World

Notorious Prisons of the World
Author: Stephen Wade ISBN: 9781845631642 Format: Hardback	$57.99
* Tells the stories of the infamous penal colonies and state prisons across the stage of world history * Traces... Read More >>

Through a Convict's Eyes: An Overlooked View of the Criminal Justice System

Through a Convict's Eyes: An Overlooked View of the...
Author: Lavarr Mcbride , Eric Wicklund ISBN: 9781465215185 Format: Paperback	$156.20
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Race To Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling

Race To Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Author: Marc Mauer , Sabrina Jones ISBN: 9781595585417 Format: Paperback	$60.59
The United States' rate of incarceration is the highest in the world. Mauer's Race to Incarcerate Read More >>

The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare

The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare
Author: Jeff Farrell , Paul Keany ISBN: 9781780576077 Format: Paperback	$22.99
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Guantanamo: Facility, Security & Legal Considerations

Guantanamo: Facility, Security & Legal Considerations...
Author: Dominique Vannier ISBN: 9781624178641 Format: Hardback	$381.48
Since 2002, the United States has operated military detention facilities at its Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay,... Read More >>

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