Prisons books

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Convict Criminology for the Future

Convict Criminology for the Future

Author: Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. (University of Baltimore, USA) ,  Francesca Vianello (University of Padua, Italy)
ISBN: 9780367860158
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Bringing together a variety of international voices from the Convict Criminology community, this edited volume surveys...  Read More >>

Handbook on Moving Corrections and Sentencing Forward: Building on the Record

Handbook on Moving Corrections and Sentencing Forward:...

Author: Pamela K. Lattimore ,  Beth M. Huebner
ISBN: 9780367443177
Format: Hardback
$452.00

This volume addresses major issues and research in corrections and sentencing with the goal of using previous research...  Read More >>

Convict Criminology for the Future

Convict Criminology for the Future

Author: Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. (University of Baltimore, USA) ,  Francesca Vianello (University of Padua, Italy)
ISBN: 9780367860172
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Bringing together a variety of international voices from the Convict Criminology community, this edited volume surveys...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook on American Prisons

Routledge Handbook on American Prisons

Author: Laurie A. Gould ,  John J. Brent
ISBN: 9780367027667
Format: Hardback
$452.00

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Tall Walls and High Fences: Officers and Offenders, the Texas Prison Story

Tall Walls and High Fences: Officers and Offenders,...

Author: Bob Alexander ,  Richard K. Alford
ISBN: 9781574418071
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Provides the first comprehensive history of Texas prisons. Bob Alexander and Richard Alford chronicle the significant...  Read More >>

Prisons, State and Violence

Prisons, State and Violence

Author: Maria João Guia ,  Sílvia Gomes
ISBN: 9783030130794
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Combining works by various authors, it presents diverse perspectives on prison violence: in countries ranging from...  Read More >>

Behind American Prison Policy and Population Growth: An Inside Account

Behind American Prison Policy and Population Growth:...

Author: Chris Menton
ISBN: 9781433180026
Format: Hardback
$333.83

The author, who was a participant at all correctional security levels and social science scholar, examines the historic...  Read More >>

The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration

The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration...

Author: Franklin E. Zimring (William G. Simon Professor of Law, William G. Simon Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780197513170
Format: Hardback
$62.95

The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science...

Author: Farah Focquaert ,  Elizabeth Shaw
ISBN: 9781138580626
Format: Hardback
$452.00

This volume examines key questions on punishment, including it's purpose, forms, effectiveness, equity, justifiability,...  Read More >>

Power on the Inside: A Global History of Prison Gangs

Power on the Inside: A Global History of Prison Gangs...

Author: Mitchel P. Roth
ISBN: 9781789143232
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-wide  Read More >>

Contemporary Corrections: A Critical Thinking Approach

Contemporary Corrections: A Critical Thinking Approach...

Author: Rick Ruddell (University of Regina) ,  G. Larry Mays (New Mexico State University)
ISBN: 9780367028671
Format: Paperback
$131.00

Contemporary Corrections: A Critical Thinking Approach introduces readers to the essential elements of the U.S....  Read More >>

Contemporary Corrections: A Critical Thinking Approach

Contemporary Corrections: A Critical Thinking Approach...

Author: Rick Ruddell (University of Regina) ,  G. Larry Mays (New Mexico State University)
ISBN: 9780367028657
Format: Hardback
$389.00

Contemporary Corrections: A Critical Thinking Approach introduces readers to the essential elements of the U.S....  Read More >>

A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner

A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner

Author: Chris Atkins
ISBN: 9781838950170
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons.  Read More >>

Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan: The Colonization of Hokkaido, 1881-1894

Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan: The Colonization...

Author: Pia Jolliffe (Las Casas Institute, UK)
ISBN: 9780367670405
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book examines the local, national, and international significance of convict labour during the colonization...  Read More >>

Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past

Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable...

Author: Karen Morin ,  Dominique Moran
ISBN: 9780367668778
Format: Paperback
$96.99

"This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution...  Read More >>

The Murder of Mr Moonlight: The tragic story of a young widow’s search for happiness and the killing of an innocent man

The Murder of Mr Moonlight: The tragic story of a young...

Author: Catherine Fegan
ISBN: 9780241988497
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The only true crime story the Irish public want to read about this year 'I was a very vulnerable young woman with...  Read More >>

The Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration

The Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration

Author: William T. Pizzi
ISBN: 9780367331399
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration illuminates the role of the United States Supreme Court’s criminal...  Read More >>

The Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration

The Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration

Author: William T. Pizzi
ISBN: 9780367331597
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison

Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most...

Author: Sarah Mirk ,  Various
ISBN: 9781419746901
Format: Hardback
$35.00

An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever.  Read More >>

The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World

The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies...

Author: David Skarbek (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown University)
ISBN: 9780190672508
Format: Paperback
$44.95

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron...  Read More >>

The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World

The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies...

Author: David Skarbek (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown University)
ISBN: 9780190672492
Format: Hardback
$179.95

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron...  Read More >>

Innovationen in der Sozialen Strafrechtspflege

Innovationen in der Sozialen Strafrechtspflege

Author: Bernd Maelicke ,  Tobias M. Berger
ISBN: 9783658303280
Format: Paperback
$194.04

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Chained to the System: The History and Politics of Black Incarceration in America

Chained to the System: The History and Politics of Black...

Author: Arthur H. Garrison
ISBN: 9781516527564
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Presenting historical events in the context of contemporary discourse on black incarceration and police use of force,...  Read More >>

Escape from Pretoria

Escape from Pretoria

Author: Tim Jenkins
ISBN: 9781431429868
Format: Paperback
$38.68

In this jaw-dropping classic of prison escape literature, Tim Jenkin tells of how he, Stephen Lee and Alexander...  Read More >>

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