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Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities: Two Centuries of Semi-Penal Institutionalisation for Women

Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities: Two Centuries...
Author: Alana Barton ISBN: 9780754638292 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex

Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial...
Author: Julia Sudbury ISBN: 9780415950572 Format: Paperback	$98.99
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The Galtee Boy: A Fenian Prison Narrative

The Galtee Boy: A Fenian Prison Narrative
Author: John Sarsfield Casey , Mairead Maume ISBN: 9781904558224 Format: Paperback	$41.95
This very vivid memoir describes the prison experiences of a Cork Fenian activist, John Sarsfield Casey. 'The Galtee... Read More >>

Measuring Prison Performance: Government Privatization and Accountability

Measuring Prison Performance: Government Privatization...
Author: Gerald G. Gaes , Scott D. Camp ISBN: 9780759105867 Format: Hardback	$224.40
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Alternatives to Prison

Alternatives to Prison
Author: Anthony Bottoms (University of Cambridge, UK) , Sue Rex (University of Cambridge, UK) ISBN: 9781843921042 Format: Paperback	$101.00
As the UK and many other western societies face up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population,... Read More >>

Legal Aspects of Corrections Management

Legal Aspects of Corrections Management
Author: Clair A. Cripe , Michael G. Pearlman ISBN: 9780763725457 Format: Hardback	$348.35
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Surviving Russian Prisons

Surviving Russian Prisons
Author: Laura Piacentini ISBN: 9781843921035 Format: Hardback	$305.00
What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered?... Read More >>

Measuring Prison Performance: Government Privatization and Accountability

Measuring Prison Performance: Government Privatization...
Author: Gerald G. Gaes , Scott D. Camp ISBN: 9780759105874 Format: Paperback	$54.95
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The Effective Corrections Manager: Correctional Supervision for the Future

The Effective Corrections Manager: Correctional Supervision...
Author: Richard L. Phillips , Charles R. McConnell ISBN: 9780763733117 Format: Hardback	$306.11
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Papua New Guinea's Last Place: Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison

Papua New Guinea's Last Place: Experiences of Constraint...
Author: Adam Reed ISBN: 9781571816948 Format: Paperback	$59.40
Prison Studies, a growing field of interest for social scientists, is mostly focusing on western societies and Japan.... Read More >>

Voices from Prison: An Ethnographic Study of Black Male Prisoners

Voices from Prison: An Ethnographic Study of Black Male...
Author: Komanduri Murty , Ashwin Vyas ISBN: 9780761829669 Format: Paperback	$84.95
In this unique study, authors Komanduri Murty, Angela Owens, and Ashwin Vyas examine the life histories of Black... Read More >>

The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage

The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp...
Author: Philip F. Williams , Yenna Wu ISBN: 9780520244023 Format: Paperback	$57.95
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America Behind Bars: Trends in Imprisonment, 1950 to 2000

America Behind Bars: Trends in Imprisonment, 1950 to...
Author: Rick Ruddell ISBN: 9781593320577 Format: Hardback	$153.12
Ruddell examines the political, cultural, and social factors that contributed to the growth in incarceration in... Read More >>

Fortress Alcatraz: Guardian of the Golden Gate

Fortress Alcatraz: Guardian of the Golden Gate
Author: John Arturo Martini ISBN: 9781580086264 Format: Paperback	$42.11
San Francisco historian John Arturo Martini explains the fascinating history of this landmark, from its discovery... Read More >>

Dancing to the Concertina's Tune: A Prison Teacher's Memoir

Dancing to the Concertina's Tune: A Prison Teacher's...
Author: Jan Walker ISBN: 9781555536015 Format: Paperback	$45.28
America's soaring prison population is separated from the outside world by the Concertina, the rigid spirals of... Read More >>

Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising

Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising
Author: Staughton Lynd ISBN: 9781592130931 Format: Hardback	$142.56
In 1993, prisoners took control of the maximum-security prison in Lucasville, Ohio. Their 11-day ordeal started... Read More >>

American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons

American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons
Author: Mark Dow ISBN: 9780520239425 Format: Hardback	$105.60
Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive... Read More >>

Doing Prison Work

Doing Prison Work
Author: Elaine M Crawley (University of Salford, UK) ISBN: 9781843920359 Format: Hardback	$231.00
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Games Prisoners Play: The Tragicomic Worlds of Polish Prison

Games Prisoners Play: The Tragicomic Worlds of Polish...
Author: Marek M. Kaminski ISBN: 9780691117218 Format: Hardback	$121.44
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Prisons and their Moral Performance: A Study of Values, Quality, and Prison Life

Prisons and their Moral Performance: A Study of Values,...
Author: Alison Liebling (Director, Prisons Research Centre, University Lecturer in Criminal Justice, and Fellow of Trinity Hall Cambridge) , Helen Arnold (Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9780199271221 Format: Hardback	$216.00
This book constitutes a critical case study of the modern search for public sector reform. It includes a detailed... Read More >>

The U.S. Federal Prison System

The U.S. Federal Prison System
Author: Mary F. Bosworth ISBN: 9780761923053 Format: Paperback	$316.00
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The Prisons Handbook

The Prisons Handbook
Author: Mark Leech , Deborah Cheney ISBN: 9781872870168 Format: Paperback	$264.00
An A-Z of adult and young offender penal establishments in England and Wales, this guide contains information about... Read More >>

Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons

Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons...
Author: Alan Elsner ISBN: 9780131427914 Format: Hardback	$79.17
Provides insight into the political and social forces driving imprisonment in America. This book charts a path for... Read More >>

Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany

Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany
Author: Nikolaus Wachsmann ISBN: 9780300102505 Format: Hardback	$137.28
State prisons played an indispensable part in the terror of the Third Reich, incarcerating many people during the... Read More >>

Analysing Women's Imprisonment

Analysing Women's Imprisonment
Author: Pat Carlen , Anne Worrall (Keele University) ISBN: 9781843920694 Format: Paperback	$83.99
In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of women in prison, which... Read More >>

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