Penology & punishment books

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The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration

The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration...

Author: James Kilgore ,  Vic Liu
ISBN: 9798887440422
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Mass incarceration is a lived, sensory experience. The most eye-popping statistics alone cannot relate the enormity...  Read More >>

Neoliberalism and Punishment

Neoliberalism and Punishment

Author: Ignacio González-Sánchez (The University of Girona)
ISBN: 9781032522074
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Exploring the expansion of the penal system in Spain during the first forty years of democracy, this book puts forward...  Read More >>

Books through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement

Books through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement...

Author: "Dave ""Mac"" Marquis" ,  Moira Marquis
ISBN: 9780820365879
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Presents essays that explain the need for prison book programs and offers advice on how to establish or become involved...  Read More >>

Music, Mattering, and Criminalized Young Men: Exploring Music Elicitation as a Feminist Arts-Based Research and Intervention Tool

Music, Mattering, and Criminalized Young Men: Exploring...

Author: Jade Levell (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781837537693
Format: Hardback
$172.99

A cutting-edge study grounded in a new feminist arts-based research and intervention tool, this book propounds an...  Read More >>

The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A Biographical History of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island

The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A Biographical...

Author: Ann Curthoys (University of Western Australia, AUS) ,  Shino Konishi (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032185057
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia....  Read More >>

The Role of the Media in Criminal Justice Policy: Prisons, Populism and the Press

The Role of the Media in Criminal Justice Policy: Prisons,...

Author: Natalia Antolak-Saper
ISBN: 9781032115276
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides a socio-legal examination of the media’s influence on the development and implementation of criminal...  Read More >>

‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948

‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948

Author: Ben Bethell (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London)
ISBN: 9781032064277
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons;...  Read More >>

The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia: 'Preparing myself for Prison' in a Contested Human Rights Landscape

The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia: 'Preparing...

Author: Laura Piacentini ,  Elena Katz
ISBN: 9781032222929
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin...  Read More >>

A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice

A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice...

Author: Katie Tastrom
ISBN: 9798887440545
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Disability justice and prison abolition are two increasingly popular theories that overlap but whose intersection...  Read More >>

Punishment for the Greater Good

Punishment for the Greater Good

Author: Adam J. Kolber (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School)
ISBN: 9780197672778
Format: Hardback
$193.95

Punishment for the Greater Good examines the justification of punishment in the here and now, recognizing that we...  Read More >>

Better Crime Prevention

Better Crime Prevention

Author: Nick Tilley
ISBN: 9780367404369
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Better Crime Prevention provides a critical guide to theory, research, ethics and politics in relation to crime...  Read More >>

Defund: Critical Conversations Toward Abolition

Defund: Critical Conversations Toward Abolition

Author: Calvin John Smiley
ISBN: 9798888900963
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A collection of illuminating interviews with leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers, reflecting on the uprisings...  Read More >>

Better Crime Prevention

Better Crime Prevention

Author: Nick Tilley
ISBN: 9780367404390
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Better Crime Prevention provides a critical guide to theory, research, ethics and politics in relation to crime...  Read More >>

In Russian and French Prisons

In Russian and French Prisons

Author: Peter Kropotkin
ISBN: 9780921689997
Format: Hardback
$90.54

Nearly a century has passed since Kropotkin wrote In Russian and French Prisons, yet his criticisms of the penal...  Read More >>

Dying in Prison: Deaths from Natural Causes in Prison Culture, Regimes and Relationships

Dying in Prison: Deaths from Natural Causes in Prison...

Author: Carol Robinson
ISBN: 9783031271052
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This book uses empirical data gathered using ethnographic methods in two contrasting prisons to provide a rare insight...  Read More >>

The Prison Officer

The Prison Officer

Author: Gen Glaister
ISBN: 9781804992784
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The brutally honest, no-holds-barred story of a young woman trying to keep control in a men's prison. 'Honest and...  Read More >>

Gun Control in Context: Learning from the Australian Gun Control Experience

Gun Control in Context: Learning from the Australian...

Author: Suzanna Fay
ISBN: 9781032222226
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Gun Control in Context: Learning from the Australian Gun Control Experience

Gun Control in Context: Learning from the Australian...

Author: Suzanna Fay
ISBN: 9781032222219
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book approaches the gun control debate by asking what it takes to achieve acceptance of, and compliance with,...  Read More >>

Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Central Asian Context

Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Central...

Author: Rustamjon Urinboyev ,  Måns Svensson (Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University, Sweden.)
ISBN: 9781138592797
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anti-corruption...  Read More >>

Surviving the Prison Place: Narratives of Suicidal Prisoners

Surviving the Prison Place: Narratives of Suicidal Prisoners...

Author: Diana Medlicott
ISBN: 9781032803036
Format: Hardback
$189.00

Originally published in 2001, this book sets out to enlarge understanding of the complexities of suicidal feelings...  Read More >>

Sexual Crime: Victims and Survivors

Sexual Crime: Victims and Survivors

Author: Belinda Winder ,  Kerensa Hocken
ISBN: 9783031466250
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book offers an original contribution drawing together literature, research, practitioner and service user perspectives...  Read More >>

Beyond Courts

Beyond Courts

Author: Community Justice Exchange ,  Interrupting Criminalization
ISBN: 9798888903131
Format: Pamphlet
$27.99

Beyond Criminal Courts is a collection of resources created for organizers, advocates and community members working...  Read More >>

Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars

Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and...

Author: Mark Katz ,  Michael J. Braxton
ISBN: 9781469678702
Format: Hardback
$168.30

A hip-hop-rich prison memoir, this book chronicles Alim Braxton’s struggles and triumphs as he attempts to record...  Read More >>

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