Penology & punishment books

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"""Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?""": Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 18481920

"""Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?""": Indiana...

Author: The Indiana Women's Prison History Project
ISBN: 9781620975398
Format: Hardback
$49.99

"""A groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth...  Read More >>

Capital Punishment: A Documentary and Reference Guide

Capital Punishment: A Documentary and Reference Guide...

Author: David L. Hudson Jr.
ISBN: 9781440875779
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Each entry in this essential collection of primary resources on capital punishment features an authoritative introduction...  Read More >>

Politics, Punitiveness, and Problematic Populations: Public Perceptions of 'Scroungers', 'Unruly' Children, and ‘Good for Nothings’

Politics, Punitiveness, and Problematic Populations:...

Author: Vickie Barrett ,  Emily Gray
ISBN: 9783031274763
Format: Hardback
$316.77

It examines the relationship between political attitudes (neo-conservative values, neo-liberal values), nostalgic...  Read More >>

Collaboration and Innovation in Criminal Justice: An Activity Theory Alternative to Offender Rehabilitation

Collaboration and Innovation in Criminal Justice: An...

Author: Paulo Rocha
ISBN: 9781032033372
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Drawing on original research, this book provides an up-to-date depiction of the challenges faced by front-line workers...  Read More >>

Policing Suspicion: Proactive Policing in London, 1780-1850

Policing Suspicion: Proactive Policing in London, 1780-1850...

Author: Eleanor Bland (Oxford Brookes University)
ISBN: 9780367547967
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Policing Suspicion is an innovative examination of policing practices and the impact of these on patterns of arrest...  Read More >>

Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice

Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment,...

Author: Michelle Kelly ,  Claire Westall
ISBN: 9780367616328
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Prison Writing and the Literary World offers scholarly essays exploring international prison writings in relation...  Read More >>

Desistance from Sexual Offending: The Role of Circles of Support and Accountability

Desistance from Sexual Offending: The Role of Circles...

Author: Kelly Richards
ISBN: 9780367646257
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending.  Read More >>

Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period: 1780–1830

Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic...

Author: Lucy E. Thompson (Aberystwyth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032196442
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period examines how familiar and neglected texts internalise...  Read More >>

Policing Child Sexual Abuse: Failure, Corruption and Reform in Queensland

Policing Child Sexual Abuse: Failure, Corruption and...

Author: Paul Bleakley
ISBN: 9781032038988
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This is an origin story for the policing of child sexual abuse in Queensland, Australia, the first book to focus...  Read More >>

The Incarceration of Native American Women: Creating Pathways to Wellness and Recovery through Gentle Action Theory

The Incarceration of Native American Women: Creating...

Author: Carma Corcoran
ISBN: 9781496224187
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Dementia in Prison: An Ethical Framework to Support Research, Practice and Prisoners

Dementia in Prison: An Ethical Framework to Support...

Author: Joanne Brooke
ISBN: 9780367673666
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This innovative volume exposes dementia as a condition that the aging prison population is increasingly facing....  Read More >>

Camps of Transit, Sites of Memory: European Perspectives in the Twentieth Century

Camps of Transit, Sites of Memory: European Perspectives...

Author: Katia Pizzi ,  Matteo Cassani Simonetti
ISBN: 9781800793897
Format: Paperback
$116.44

Camps and places of transit have great relevance in the contemporary age, from genocide to forced migration, prisoners...  Read More >>

Criminal: Real-life stories of the people trapped in our failing justice system

Criminal: Real-life stories of the people trapped in...

Author: Angela Kirwin
ISBN: 9781398705852
Format: Paperback
$26.99

An utterly compelling journey inside the broken English prison system by a former prison social care worker.  Read More >>

State-Building, Lawmaking, and Criminal Justice in Afghanistan: A case study of the prison system’s legal mandate, and the rehabilitation programmes in Pul-e-charkhi prison

State-Building, Lawmaking, and Criminal Justice in Afghanistan:...

Author: Najib Amin
ISBN: 9789047301561
Format: Paperback
$322.05

This is a volume in the series of the Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School of the Leiden Law School of...  Read More >>

Behandlung im Strafvollzug: Ein Handbuch für Praxis und Wissenschaft

Behandlung im Strafvollzug: Ein Handbuch für Praxis...

Author: Johann Endres ,  Stefan Suhling
ISBN: 9783658360450
Format: Paperback
$369.57

Der Strafvollzug hat das Ziel, die Gefangenen zu einem Leben in sozialer Verantwortung ohne Straftaten zu befähigen....  Read More >>

Comparing Black Deaths in Custody, Police Brutality, and Social Justice Solutions

Comparing Black Deaths in Custody, Police Brutality,...

Author: Janelle Christine Simmons
ISBN: 9781799893059
Format: Paperback
$279.40

Describes the actions that lead to the death of Black people while they are in the process of being detained by...  Read More >>

Intersections of the Legal System and the Deaf Community: From Law Enforcement to Incarceration

Intersections of the Legal System and the Deaf Community:...

Author: David M. Feldman ,  Paul M. Silvasi
ISBN: 9783031280993
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book examines how those with disabilities, and in particular, the Deaf and hard-of-hearing, are impacted by...  Read More >>

Escaping Forward

Escaping Forward

Author: Marie Thérèse Kiriaky
ISBN: 9783903382923
Format: Paperback
$52.77

The collection of “Escaping Forward” includes nine short stories of people of whom you will not read about in any...  Read More >>

Matricide: Hidden Evil: Volume 1

Matricide: Hidden Evil: Volume 1

Author: Caroline Bardot
ISBN: 9798398017427
Format: Paperback
$26.37

"Five true crime short stories that depict the heinous act of matricide - the killing of one's own mother. Considered...  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: 9783031271021
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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

Women Corrections Executives: The Keys to Reaching the Top

Women Corrections Executives: The Keys to Reaching the...

Author: Kimberly Collica-Cox ,  Dorothy Moses Schulz
ISBN: 9781666900736
Format: Hardback
$169.00

Through firsthand accounts this book explores women’s roles from their initial entry into corrections work through...  Read More >>

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