Prisons books

Presents a unique sociological analysis of the negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world of the male...  Read More >>

Most people want to avoid serial killers and rapists. Sara Lunsford looked straight at them every day. As a corrections...  Read More >>

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During the reporting year, the prison population had grown by more than 2,000 persons. This resulted in greater...  Read More >>

"The impact of the United Nations ""Healthy Prisons"" initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health...  Read More >>

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The extraordinary story of Bond girl Fiona Fullerton's secret correspondence with life sentence prisoner and suspected...  Read More >>

On Captivity is the first translation into English of Del Cautiverio, Manuel Ciges Aparicio's account of his imprisonment...  Read More >>

Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines three interconnected problems:...  Read More >>

You're from Glasgow. You're in a notorious Texas prison. You're on your own. The true story of the man who became...  Read More >>

Throughout American history, crime and punishment have been central features of American political development....  Read More >>

An insight of what it actually is like to be in prison on a day-to-day basis and how the prison system actually...  Read More >>

A State of Fear will take you right inside the sickening torture jails of Iran and expose the gut-wrenching horror...  Read More >>

This handbook surveys American sentencing and corrections from global and historical views, from theoretical and...  Read More >>

Provides a study of prison governors and focuses on how they carry out their task, how that has changed over time,...  Read More >>

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Prison is a harsh enough place, but being a foreigner in a strange land, and this ordeal becomes a lot more horrifying....  Read More >>

An ""extraordinary"" work of spiritual journalism that grapples with the themes of drugs, prisons, politics, and...  Read More >>

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A compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a women's prison, Orange Is...  Read More >>

This is a sociological study of a Norwegian penal institution. The author spent two years in the institution, observing...  Read More >>

As prison populations increase in Australia and worldwide, this book presents a stocktake of what we know about...  Read More >>

Published in 1862, this book is a comprehensive guide to crime and punishment in nineteenth-century London. Henry...  Read More >>