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Penal Correctionalism and the Colonial State in Ireland, 1763-1870

Penal Correctionalism and the Colonial State in Ireland,...
Author: Patrick Carroll-Burke ISBN: 9781851824588 Format: Hardback	$102.95
This book provides the first major study of the political and cultural forces that shaped the development of penal... Read More >>

Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945

Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity:...
Author: Edward J. Escobar ISBN: 9780520213357 Format: Paperback	$52.95
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Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America

Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America
Author: Jacobo Schifter , Jacobo Schifter ISBN: 9781560239659 Format: Hardback	$231.00
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Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons

Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's...
Author: Mary Bosworth , Professor David Nelken ISBN: 9781840147391 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America

Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America
Author: Jacobo Schifter , Jacobo Schifter ISBN: 9781560239666 Format: Paperback	$60.99
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Crime and Justice, Volume 26: Prisons

Crime and Justice, Volume 26: Prisons
Author: Michael Tonry , Joan Petersilia ISBN: 9780226808499 Format: Hardback	$132.00
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Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment

Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment...
Author: R. Matthews ISBN: 9780333752319 Format: Paperback	$100.32
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Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment

Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment...
Author: R. Matthews ISBN: 9780333752302 Format: Hardback	$290.37
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Down on Parchman Farm: The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta

Down on Parchman Farm: The Great Prison in the Mississippi...
Author: William B. Taylor , Peggy Whitman Prenshaw (Fred S. Frey Professor of Southern Studies, Louisiana State University, USA) ISBN: 9780814250235 Format: Paperback	$57.95
The story of Parchman Farm, from its beginnings as a penal farm at the turn of the century to the 1972 court decision... Read More >>

Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran

Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations...
Author: Ervand Abrahamian ISBN: 9780520218666 Format: Paperback	$52.95
Discusses the role of torture in Iranian politics. This book provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and... Read More >>

Jailbirds and Stool Pigeons: Crime Stories of the West

Jailbirds and Stool Pigeons: Crime Stories of the West...
Author: Norman Davis ISBN: 9780888394316 Format: Paperback	$34.19
Jailbirds and Stool Pigeons is a story of human weakness. Featuring true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest... Read More >>

Battle at Alcatraz: A Desperate Attempt to Escape the Rock

Battle at Alcatraz: A Desperate Attempt to Escape the...
Author: Ernest B. Lageson ISBN: 9781886039377 Format: Paperback	$34.99
One of the bloodiest battles in the history of American prisons occurred at Alcatraz in May 1946, when prisoners... Read More >>

Going Straight: After Crime and Punishment

Going Straight: After Crime and Punishment
Author: Angela Devlin , Bob Turney ISBN: 9781872870663 Format: Paperback	$54.34
Going Straight will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand how and why some offenders reach a point when... Read More >>

No One to Blame?: A Personal Account of Inquests into Some Deaths in Detention Under Aparteid

No One to Blame?: A Personal Account of Inquests into...
Author: George Bizos , Sydney Kentridge ISBN: 9780864863195 Format: Paperback	$33.51
Advocate Bizos, himself centrally involved in many of the inquests following these deaths in detention, examines... Read More >>

All Things Censored: Huntingdon and S.C.I.Greene Prison Sessions

All Things Censored: Huntingdon and S.C.I.Greene Prison...
Author: Mumia Abu-Jamal , etc. ISBN: 9781902593067 Format: Audio	$39.55
Here are the radio commentaries, the last of them recorded just two days before Pennsylvania prison authorities... Read More >>

Comparing Prison Systems

Comparing Prison Systems
Author: Nigel South , Robert P. Weiss ISBN: 9789057005114 Format: Paperback	$109.00
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The Fear of 13: Countdown to Execution: My Fight for Survival on Death Row

The Fear of 13: Countdown to Execution: My Fight for...
Author: Nick Yarris ISBN: 9781780896519 Format: Hardback	$33.61
A memoir of Nick Yarris, who was wrongly convicted of rape and murder and spent 23 years on Death Row. While he... Read More >>

Zona: Siberian Prison Camps

Zona: Siberian Prison Camps
Author: Carl de Keyzer ISBN: 9780954264840 Format: Hardback	$171.60
Carl De Keyzer took the journey East to photograph the former gulags, or prison camps, of Siberia. He photographed... Read More >>

Living Inside Prison Walls: Adjustment Behavior

Living Inside Prison Walls: Adjustment Behavior
Author: Victoria R. DeRosia ISBN: 9780275958954 Format: Hardback	$140.00
Based upon a qualitative study of the prison adjustment of advantaged offenders, this book challenges the ""special... Read More >>

Celling of America: An inside Look at the Prison Industry

Celling of America: An inside Look at the Prison Industry...
Author: Dan Pens , Paul Wright ISBN: 9781567511406 Format: Paperback	$52.67
In this searing indictment of the criminal justice system, Paul Wright, Dan Pens and Daniel Burton-Rose kick open... Read More >>

Correctional Officer Inside Prisons

Correctional Officer Inside Prisons
Author: Steven Herberts ISBN: 9781560725862 Format: Hardback	$89.76
Six-five is a general warning to all inmates that an officer has just entered the area, so beware. Concealed behind... Read More >>

With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America

With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in...
Author: Scott Christianson ISBN: 9781555533649 Format: Hardback	$89.27
In this sweeping examination of imprisonment in the United States over five centuries, Scott Christianson exposes... Read More >>

The Prisons Handbook

The Prisons Handbook
Author: Mark Leech ISBN: 9781872870724 Format: Paperback	$132.00
An A-Z of adult and young offender penal establishemnts in England and Wales, this guide contains information about... Read More >>

Comparing Prison Systems

Comparing Prison Systems
Author: Nigel South , Robert P. Weiss ISBN: 9789057005107 Format: Hardback	$210.00
Compares prison systems of 15 nations, and addresses crisis and change in penology which occurred during 1980s... Read More >>

Psychiatric morbidity among prisoners in England and Wales

Psychiatric morbidity among prisoners in England and...
Author: Nicola Singleton , Great Britain: Office for National StatisticsSocial Survey Division ISBN: 9780116210456 Format: Paperback	$116.44
The report of a survey carried out in 1997 by Social Survey Division of the Office for National Statistics on behalf... Read More >>

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