Prisons books

1469 books were found.

American Corrections

American Corrections

Author: Todd R. Clear ,  Michael Reisig
ISBN: 9780495507253
Format: Paperback
$173.34

Offers a look at the American corrections system from perspectives of corrections workers and offenders. This book...  Read More >>

Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell

Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell

Author: Stephen Halliday
ISBN: 9780750938969
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Newgate Prison was the largest, most notorious and worst of London prisons. Stephen Halliday tells the story of...  Read More >>

Prison and Jail Administration: Practice and Theory

Prison and Jail Administration: Practice and Theory...

Author: Judith Simon Garrett ,  Peter M. Carlson
ISBN: 9780763728625
Format: Paperback
$329.87

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Six Years in the Prisons of England

Six Years in the Prisons of England

Author: Frank Henderson
ISBN: 9781434681980
Format: Paperback
$54.78

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Six Years in the Prisons of England

Six Years in the Prisons of England

Author: Frank Henderson
ISBN: 9781434681997
Format: Paperback
$60.06

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Understanding Prison Staff

Understanding Prison Staff

Author: Jamie Bennett ,  Ben Crewe
ISBN: 9781843922742
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Understanding Prison Staff

Understanding Prison Staff

Author: Jamie Bennett ,  Ben Crewe
ISBN: 9781843922759
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Time of Grace: Thoughts on Nature, Family, and the Politics of Crime and Punishment

Time of Grace: Thoughts on Nature, Family, and the Politics...

Author: Ken Lamberton
ISBN: 9780816525706
Format: Paperback
$47.39

I hole up in my own cozy cubicle and write, considering ways to make the approaching Thanksgiving holiday not just...  Read More >>

Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer

Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer...

Author: Richard Shelton
ISBN: 9780816525959
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Shelton began organizing creative writing workshops behind bars in the 1970s, and in this gritty memoir he offers...  Read More >>

Recapturing Freedom

Recapturing Freedom

Author: Dot Goulding
ISBN: 9781876067182
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Imprisoning Resistance

Imprisoning Resistance

Author: Bree Carlton
ISBN: 9780975196755
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Imprisoning Resistance provides an experiential account of life and death in the controversial Pentridge Prison...  Read More >>

In the Shadow of Papillon: Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System

In the Shadow of Papillon: Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's...

Author: Frank Kane ,  John Tilsley
ISBN: 9781845962517
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision. In an...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Institutional Confinement

The Archaeology of Institutional Confinement

Author: Eleanor Conlin Casella ,  Michael S. Nassaney
ISBN: 9780813031392
Format: Paperback
$45.10

States that the study of American institutional confinement, its presumed successes, failures, and controversies,...  Read More >>

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons

Author: Henry Charles Mahoney
ISBN: 9781434652676
Format: Paperback
$73.26

An account of time spent during the Great War in Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, and Ruhleben  Read More >>

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons

Author: Henry Charles Mahoney
ISBN: 9781434652683
Format: Paperback
$81.18

An account of time spent during the Great War in Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, and Ruhleben  Read More >>

Still Life: Killing Time

Still Life: Killing Time

Author: Edmund Clark
ISBN: 9781904587538
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Taken over the course of more than a year of exclusive access, this work applies large format still life photography...  Read More >>

Big Prisons, Big Dreams: Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System

Big Prisons, Big Dreams: Crime and the Failure of America's...

Author: Michael Lynch ,  Raymond J. Michalowski
ISBN: 9780813541860
Format: Paperback
$68.51

The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased....  Read More >>

A Want of Good Order and Discipline: Rules, Discretion and the Victorian Prison

A Want of Good Order and Discipline: Rules, Discretion...

Author: Richard W Ireland
ISBN: 9780708319451
Format: Hardback
$140.00

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Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy

Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison...

Author: Joy James
ISBN: 9780822339236
Format: Paperback
$71.15

A collection of writings by prisoners and scholars that documents the extension of the violence and the repression...  Read More >>

Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy

Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison...

Author: Joy James
ISBN: 9780822339090
Format: Hardback
$237.47

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Women's Prison: Sex and Social Structure

Women's Prison: Sex and Social Structure

Author: Gene Kassebaum ,  Gene G. Kassenbaum
ISBN: 9780202309330
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This study began with both of the authors' interest in gathering data on women in prison to see whether there were...  Read More >>

Doing Justice Better: The Politics of Restorative Justice

Doing Justice Better: The Politics of Restorative Justice...

Author: David J. Cornwell ,  Mark S. Umbreit
ISBN: 9781904380344
Format: Paperback
$58.22

Escalating resort to prisons, longer sentences, overcrowded and ineffective regimes, high rates of re-offending...  Read More >>

Handbook on Prisons

Handbook on Prisons

Author: Yvonne Jewkes ,  Ben Crewe
ISBN: 9781843921851
Format: Paperback
$158.27

Focusing on prisons, this is a useful reference for practitioners working in prisons and other parts of the criminal...  Read More >>

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