Prisons books

1425 books were found.

The Invisible Walls of Dannemora: Inside the Infamous Clinton Correctional Facility

The Invisible Walls of Dannemora: Inside the Infamous...

Author: Michael H. Blaine
ISBN: 9781592110469
Format: Paperback
$52.77

The insightful book reveals the inner workings of this massive prison where the famous prison break occurred in...  Read More >>

The Block

The Block

Author: Ben Oliver
ISBN: 9781912626564
Format: Paperback
$17.99

Luka is imprisoned in the Block when an audacious break-out reunites him with his friends at last. Hiding out in...  Read More >>

Central Prison: A History of North Carolina's State Penitentiary

Central Prison: A History of North Carolina's State...

Author: Gregory S. Taylor
ISBN: 9780807174333
Format: Hardback
$105.60

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Handbook on Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century

Handbook on Sentencing Policies and Practices in the...

Author: Cassia Spohn ,  Pauline Brennan
ISBN: 9780367530983
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century focuses on the evolution and consequences of sentencing policies...  Read More >>

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration: A Wall Rise Up

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration:...

Author: Victoria Bryan (Cleveland State Community College, USA)
ISBN: 9780367726782
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama, comedy and horror that utilize prison as a central...  Read More >>

The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition

The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition...

Author: Michael J. Coyle (California State University, Chico, USA) ,  David Scott (Open University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138354098
Format: Hardback
$462.00

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

Behind Bars – Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner Reveals What Life is Like Inside

Behind Bars – Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner Reveals...

Author: Charles Bronson
ISBN: 9781789463002
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A satirical guide to life behind bars by Britain's most notorious prisoner.  Read More >>

Tazmamart: 18 Years in Morocco’s Secret Prison

Tazmamart: 18 Years in Morocco’s Secret Prison

Author: Aziz BineBine ,  Lulu Norman
ISBN: 9781913368135
Format: Paperback
$24.95

This is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found...  Read More >>

A History of Women’s Prisons in England: The Myth of Prisoner Reformation

A History of Women’s Prisons in England: The Myth of...

Author: Susanna Menis
ISBN: 9781527567115
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book presents a revisionist prison history which brings to the forefront the relationship between gender and...  Read More >>

A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets

A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets...

Author: Igor Golomstock ,  Sara Jolly
ISBN: 9781350238886
Format: Paperback
$64.99

In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour...  Read More >>

Kriminalisierung Psychisch Kranker Durch Transinstitutionalisierung: Eine Kritische Studie Zur Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe

Kriminalisierung Psychisch Kranker Durch Transinstitutionalisierung:...

Author: Sebastian Schildbach
ISBN: 9783848781799
Format: Paperback
$221.76

Das Deutsche Strafrecht kennt nur zwei Hauptstrafen: Geldstrafe und Freiheitsstrafe. An die Stelle einer uneinbringlichen...  Read More >>

The Prison Teacher: Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison

The Prison Teacher: Stories from Britain's Most Notorious...

Author: Mim Skinner
ISBN: 9781841883335
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Gripping and inspirational stories from one of Britain's most renowned prisons  Read More >>

The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts

The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First...

Author: Nancy D. Campbell ,  James P. Olsen
ISBN: 9781949669244
Format: Hardback
$73.79

The compelling story of what really happened inside the famous prison walls of the Narcotic Farm.  Read More >>

Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control

Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of...

Author: Kate Herrity (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Bethany E. Schmidt (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781839097270
Format: Hardback
$191.45

Sensory Penalities reflects an explosion in explorations of the sensory and disrupts conventional expectations of...  Read More >>

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard...

Author: Steven L. Davis ,  Bill Minutaglio
ISBN: 9781529328202
Format: Paperback
$26.99

From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap...  Read More >>

Imaginative Criminology: Of Spaces Past, Present and Future

Imaginative Criminology: Of Spaces Past, Present and...

Author: Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex) ,  Maggie O'Neill (University College Cork)
ISBN: 9781529202731
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Founded in cultural, textual, and ethnographic analysis, this distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative...  Read More >>

The Prison out of Place: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America

The Prison out of Place: Mapping Carceral Power across...

Author: Brett Story
ISBN: 9780520295421
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The Prison Out of Place offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations-including property,...  Read More >>

Prison Education and Desistance: Changing Perspectives

Prison Education and Desistance: Changing Perspectives...

Author: Geraldine Cleere
ISBN: 9780367433864
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores prisoners’ experiences of prison education and investigates whether participation in education...  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: 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 >>

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