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The Lord of Bellavista: A Prison Transformed

The Lord of Bellavista: A Prison Transformed
Author: David M. Miller ISBN: 9780281051281 Format: Paperback	$26.37
This title tells the story of Bellavista prison in Medellin, Colombia which used to be one of the bloodiest in the... Read More >>

Sledgehammer: Women’s Imprisonment at the Millennium

Sledgehammer: Women’s Imprisonment at the Millennium...
Author: P. Carlen ISBN: 9780333746066 Format: Paperback	$113.85
An analysis of the penal control of women at the end of the 20th century. The author develops many of the themes... Read More >>

'Terror to Evil-Doers': Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

'Terror to Evil-Doers': Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century...
Author: Peter Oliver ISBN: 9780802081667 Format: Paperback	$135.00
The history of the foundations of modern carceral institutions in Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of previously... Read More >>

'Terror to Evil-Doers': Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

'Terror to Evil-Doers': Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century...
Author: Peter Oliver ISBN: 9780802043450 Format: Hardback	$270.00
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Augustin-Michel Lemonnier Presents Light over the Scaffold: Prison Letters of Jacques Fesch; and Cell 18 : Unedited Letters of Jacques Fesch, Guillotined on October 1, 1957 at the Age of 27

Augustin-Michel Lemonnier Presents Light over the Scaffold:...
Author: Jacques Fesch , Augustin-Michel Lemonnier ISBN: 9780818907500 Format: Paperback	$34.19
A rare insight into the spiritual journey of a young man condemned and executed in France in 1957. Read More >>

Torture & Dungeons

Torture & Dungeons
Author: John McIlwain ISBN: 9780853729143 Format: Paperback	$9.99
Mankind likes to consider itself civilized. Sadly, this civilization is only skin-deep and man's inhumanity to man,... Read More >>

Incarcerating Criminals: Prisons and Jails in Social and Organizational Context

Incarcerating Criminals: Prisons and Jails in Social...
Author: Flanagan , Marquart ISBN: 9780195105414 Format: Paperback	$187.95
'Incarcerating Criminals' look at our prisons and jails, situating them in their social and institutional environments.... Read More >>

Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy

Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy...
Author: Marcia Hill , Judith Harden ISBN: 9781560231073 Format: Paperback	$83.99
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The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society

The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment...
Author: Norval Morris (Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago) , David J. Rothman (Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University; and Professor of History, Columbia University) ISBN: 9780195118148 Format: Paperback	$30.95
The Oxford History of the Prison is an account of the growth and development of the prison in Western society, from... Read More >>

Pentonville: A Sociological Study of an English Prison

Pentonville: A Sociological Study of an English Prison...
Author: Terence Morris , Pauline Morris ISBN: 9780415177443 Format: Hardback	$683.00
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In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison

In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison...
Author: Barbara Owen ISBN: 9780791436080 Format: Paperback	$60.59
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Banged Up in Bali: The Compelling True Story of an Innocent Woman Sentenced to Twenty Years in a Hellhole Indonesian Prison

Banged Up in Bali: The Compelling True Story of an Innocent...
Author: Schapelle Corby , Kathryn Bonella ISBN: 9781845964597 Format: Paperback	$20.67
For Schapelle Corby, a dream holiday became a nightmare when she was arrested at Denpasar Airport in Bali following... Read More >>

Chain Letters

Chain Letters
Author: Frost Lucy , Maxwell-Stewart ISBN: 9780522849776 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Private Prisons and Public Accountability

Private Prisons and Public Accountability
Author: Richard Harding ISBN: 9781560009931 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
Author: Robert E. Burns , Matthew Mancini ISBN: 9780820319438 Format: Paperback	$52.67
The story of one man's flight from injustice. Read More >>

Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint...
Author: Zimring , Hawkins ISBN: 9780195115833 Format: Paperback	$92.95
An assessment of incapacitation in which the authors expose the increasing reliance on restraint to justify imprisonment,... Read More >>

Prisons of Promise

Prisons of Promise
Author: Tessa West , Sir David Ramsbotham (Chief Inspector of Prisons) ISBN: 9781872870502 Format: Paperback	$92.27
The result of working in, studying and thinking about prisons, this book counteracts images of prisons as negative... Read More >>

The Bastille: A History of a Symbol of Despotism and Freedom

The Bastille: A History of a Symbol of Despotism and...
Author: Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink , Rolf Reichardt ISBN: 9780822319023 Format: Hardback	$110.75
Both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm, and a case study on the history of French political culture.... Read More >>

Privatizing Prisons: Rhetoric and Reality

Privatizing Prisons: Rhetoric and Reality
Author: Adrian L James , Keith Bottomley ISBN: 9780803975491 Format: Paperback	$133.00
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Privatizing Prisons: Rhetoric and Reality

Privatizing Prisons: Rhetoric and Reality
Author: Adrian L James , Keith Bottomley ISBN: 9780803975484 Format: Hardback	$405.00
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Women Behind Bars in Romania

Women Behind Bars in Romania
Author: Annie Samuelli ISBN: 9780714642178 Format: Paperback	$105.00
This work describes how, in a mass arrest of Romanians working for US and British legations in 1949, Annie Samuelli... Read More >>

The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison

The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison
Author: Andi Rierden ISBN: 9781558490802 Format: Paperback	$60.59
Depicting the lives of inmates at the Connecticut Correctional Institution, this is the result of three years of... Read More >>

War Stories: An Oral History of Life Behind Bars

War Stories: An Oral History of Life Behind Bars
Author: Susann Walens ISBN: 9780275955755 Format: Hardback	$110.00
Their War Stories, along with the stories of 13 other students in a Western Civilization class, are chronicled here... Read More >>

Punishment Before Trial: Prison Conditions in Venezuela

Punishment Before Trial: Prison Conditions in Venezuela...
Author: Human Rights Watch/Americas ISBN: 9781564322012 Format: Paperback	$23.16
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Dictionary of American Penology, 2nd Edition

Dictionary of American Penology, 2nd Edition
Author: Vergil L. Williams ISBN: 9780313266898 Format: Hardback	$120.00
This overview of American penology covers practice, historical precedents, ideologies, and trends in prison management,... Read More >>

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