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Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons

Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas...

Author: Ethan Blue
ISBN: 9780814709405
Format: Hardback
$141.00

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Wanted: Historic County Jails of Texas

Wanted: Historic County Jails of Texas

Author: Edward A. Blackburn
ISBN: 9781585444984
Format: Paperback
$59.40

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Monitoring Places of Detention: Second Annual Report of the United Kingdom's National Preventive Mechanism 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011

Monitoring Places of Detention: Second Annual Report...

Author: Great Britain: Ministry of Justice
ISBN: 9780101828222
Format: Paperback
$34.95

This is the second annual report of the United Kingdom's National Preventive Mechanism and summarises the activities...  Read More >>

Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America

Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America

Author: Michele Lise Tarter ,  Richard Bell
ISBN: 9780820341194
Format: Hardback
$335.15

Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison

The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life...

Author: Ben Crewe (Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780199653546
Format: Paperback
$87.95

Based on in-depth fieldwork in a medium-security training prison for men, The Prisoner Society offers a comprehensive...  Read More >>

The Little Book of Prison: A Beginners Guide

The Little Book of Prison: A Beginners Guide

Author: Frankie Owens
ISBN: 9781908162090
Format: Electronic book text
$44.75

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American Corrections

American Corrections

Author: Matt DeLisi ,  Peter J. Conis
ISBN: 9781449652388
Format: Hardback
$380.03

Drs. DeLisi and Conis provide their unparalleled research expertise/productivity and nearly 40 years of combined...  Read More >>

Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail

Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious...

Author: Kathryn Bonella
ISBN: 9780857382696
Format: Paperback
$28.44

An account of one of the world's most notorious drug-smuggler jails.  Read More >>

From Black Power to Prison Power: The Making of Jones V. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union

From Black Power to Prison Power: The Making of Jones...

Author: D. Tibbs
ISBN: 9780230340169
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Prison Officer Tests

Prison Officer Tests

Author: Richard McMunn
ISBN: 9781907558887
Format: Paperback
$74.58

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The Prisoner

The Prisoner

Author: Ben Crewe (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Jamie Bennett (HMP Grendon & Springhill and University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780415668668
Format: Paperback
$96.99

The past fifteen years have seen dramatic growth in imprisonment in the UK, yet our understanding of the lives and...  Read More >>

The Prisoner

The Prisoner

Author: Ben Crewe (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Jamie Bennett (HMP Grendon & Springhill and University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780415668651
Format: Hardback
$336.00

The past fifteen years have seen dramatic growth in imprisonment in the UK, yet our understanding of the lives and...  Read More >>

Contraband Cell Phones in Prisons: Technology Solutions & Perspectives

Contraband Cell Phones in Prisons: Technology Solutions...

Author: Daniel J Estevez ,  Isobel M Gutierrez
ISBN: 9781613245637
Format: Hardback
$488.40

Just as consumer demands for mobile devices have risen rapidly, the use of cell phones by prison inmates has grown...  Read More >>

Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons

Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons

Author: Ruan O'Donnell
ISBN: 9780716531418
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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

The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System

The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case That Shook...

Author: Michael Berryhill
ISBN: 9780292726949
Format: Hardback
$79.07

The shocking story of the black inmate who was acquitted after killing two high-ranking prison guards in a case...  Read More >>

The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System

The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case That Shook...

Author: Michael Berryhill
ISBN: 9780292744066
Format: Paperback
$41.95

The shocking story of the black inmate who was acquitted after killing two high-ranking prison guards in a case...  Read More >>

Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution

Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution...

Author: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
ISBN: 9780691152530
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Presents an examination of a 2005 lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a faith-based residential rehabilitation...  Read More >>

Theatre and Prison

Theatre and Prison

Author: Caoimhe McAvinchey
ISBN: 9780230247932
Format: Paperback
$26.40

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Dovegate: A Therapeutic Community in a Private Prison and Developments in Therapeutic Work with Personality Disordered Offenders

Dovegate: A Therapeutic Community in a Private Prison...

Author: Eric Cullen ,  Judith Mackenzie
ISBN: 9781904380542
Format: Paperback
$59.38

A closely observed account of the UK's first private sector prison-based Therapeutic Community (TC) - a 200-bed...  Read More >>

Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: Volume 2: With Extracts from Her Journal and Letters

Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: Volume 2: With...

Author: Elizabeth Fry ,  Katharine Fry
ISBN: 9781139004350
Format: Undefined
$224.40

Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845) was a prominent Quaker and social reformer, particularly remembered for her work to reform...  Read More >>

Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: Volume 1: With Extracts from Her Journal and Letters

Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: Volume 1: With...

Author: Elizabeth Fry ,  Katharine Fry
ISBN: 9781139004336
Format: Undefined
$224.40

Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845) was a prominent Quaker and social reformer, particularly remembered for her work to reform...  Read More >>

And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night

And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night

Author: Jack Mapanje
ISBN: 9780956240170
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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