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Prisoners of Society: Attitudes and After-Care

Prisoners of Society: Attitudes and After-Care

Author: Martin Davies
ISBN: 9781032559629
Format: Hardback
$189.00

An awareness that the effects of prison on offenders were rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful. In this...  Read More >>

The Prisoner's Release: A Study of the Employment of Ex-Prisoners

The Prisoner's Release: A Study of the Employment of...

Author: Keith Soothill
ISBN: 9781032572284
Format: Hardback
$221.00

Originally published in 1974, this book was the first full-scale work published in this country evaluating carefully...  Read More >>

Prison Crisis

Prison Crisis

Author: Peter Evans
ISBN: 9781032563954
Format: Hardback
$183.00

In Prison Crisis, originally published in 1980, Peter Evans draws together all of the issues of the time to provide...  Read More >>

New Bones: Abolitionism and the Captive Maternal

New Bones: Abolitionism and the Captive Maternal

Author: Joy James
ISBN: 9781942173748
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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Prisoners and their Families

Prisoners and their Families

Author: Pauline Morris
ISBN: 9781032562704
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Imprisonment in England and Wales: A Concise History

Imprisonment in England and Wales: A Concise History...

Author: Christopher Harding (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) ,  Bill Hines
ISBN: 9781032558608
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Originally published in 1985,this title is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in...  Read More >>

Lag's Lexicon: A Comprehensive Dictionary and Encyclopædia of the English Prison of To-day

Lag's Lexicon: A Comprehensive Dictionary and Encyclopædia...

Author: Paul Tempest
ISBN: 9781032574608
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Originally published in 1950, this Lag’s Lexicon was compiled for a variety of reasons, with the object of entertainment,...  Read More >>

These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails

These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future...

Author: Eva Fedderly
ISBN: 9781982193911
Format: Hardback
$49.99

“A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead...  Read More >>

Criminalising Hate: Law as Social Justice Liberalism

Criminalising Hate: Law as Social Justice Liberalism...

Author: Mark Austin Walters
ISBN: 9783031081279
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This book presents both a new theoretical framework for the criminalisation of hate, referred to as “law as social...  Read More >>

Understanding Offending Populations and the Power of Correctional Psychotherapy: Unlocking Insights

Understanding Offending Populations and the Power of...

Author: Karla Sapp
ISBN: 9783031458859
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This book investigates the general correctional offender population and the psychotherapy services they receive....  Read More >>

Redemptive Criminology

Redemptive Criminology

Author: Aaron Pycroft (Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth) ,  Clemens Bartollas (University of Northern Iowa)
ISBN: 9781529203578
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Challenging concepts and practices of rehabilitation, this text draws on criminology, philosophy and theology to...  Read More >>

Australia's Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of Pentridge Prison

Australia's Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of...

Author: James Phelps
ISBN: 9781460764138
Format: Paperback
$34.99

'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever seen.' Andrew...  Read More >>

Histories and Philosophies of Carceral Education: Aims, Contradictions, Promises and Problems

Histories and Philosophies of Carceral Education: Aims,...

Author: Marcus K Harmes ,  Barbara Harmes
ISBN: 9783030868321
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This edited collection encourages philosophical exploration of the nature, aims, contradictions, promises and problems...  Read More >>

Too Few to Matter: Institutional Inertia in the Prisoning of Women in Québec and Canada

Too Few to Matter: Institutional Inertia in the Prisoning...

Author: Joane Martel
ISBN: 9782766300914
Format: Paperback
$97.55

In 2010, Correctional Service Canada closed two decrepit prisons designated for men. Hoping to reduce prison overcrowding,...  Read More >>

Love in the Time of Incarceration: Five Stories of Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prisons

Love in the Time of Incarceration: Five Stories of Dating,...

Author: Elizabeth Greenwood
ISBN: 9781501158421
Format: Paperback
$47.49

"This evocative and gripping investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their...  Read More >>

Crime and Disorder in Community Context

Crime and Disorder in Community Context

Author: Rebecca Wickes ,  Lorraine Mazerolle
ISBN: 9781032054698
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Drawing on new research in Brisbane, this book entwines ecological theories of crime with key debates on the relevance...  Read More >>

Handbook on Prisons and Jails

Handbook on Prisons and Jails

Author: Danielle Rudes ,  Gaylene Armstrong
ISBN: 9781032449906
Format: Hardback
$410.00

The Handbook on Prisons and Jails brings together the some of...  Read More >>

The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition

The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition...

Author: Michael J. Coyle ,  David Scott
ISBN: 9780367693299
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive look at the latest developments in the 21st Century penal...  Read More >>

Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation

Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation...

Author: Matt Tidmarsh
ISBN: 9780367621940
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores probation staff understandings of professionalism in the aftermath of the Transforming Rehabilitation...  Read More >>

Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century

Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth...

Author: Philip J. Havik ,  Helena Pinto Janeiro
ISBN: 9781032002736
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps...  Read More >>

Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable?

Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable?...

Author: Anita Grace
ISBN: 9780367770396
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable? explores the conflicting discourses about employment...  Read More >>

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice: The Intractability Malleability Thesis

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth...

Author: Esmorie Miller
ISBN: 9781032195575
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a socio-historical investigation of the...  Read More >>

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