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  • "É fragrante fojado dôtor vossa excelência"

    Carla Akotirene faz uma crítica feminista e decolocinal dos procedimentos jurídicos expondo a institucionalização do racismo e a perseguição punitivista da população negra."É fragrante fojado doutor vossa excelência" concentra as principais críticas de Carla Akotirene aos aparelhos jurídicos brasileiros, aqui representados pela Vara de Audiência de Custódia do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado da ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • # Convict Conversation

    Criminal Justice Reform, the Corona Virus, and America's Conscience

    Joining the conversation on Mass Incarceration and criminal justice reform, a prisoner speaks out with personal experience from inside, serving a 27-year sentence; providing potential solutions for untold topics that affect society as a whole. Each chapter takes a dive into uncomfortable realities while addressing today's prison system, the Coronavirus pandemic, unfair treatment, and psychological ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 'Rough Sex' and the Criminal Law

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Hannah Bows, Jonathan Herring ...
    Series series Feminist Developments in Violence and Abuse
    ‘Rough sex’ has been at the forefront of criminal law in recent years following several high-profile murders of women killed during alleged consensual sex ‘gone wrong’, leading to widespread calls for reform to prevent the use of what has been termed the ‘rough sex defence.’ Situated in a global context in which violence against women is one of the leading preventable contributors to death and ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • 1 Pill = 28 Years

    by Ken Albertsen ...
    In May 2018, my Burmese lady friend 'Lwin' and I were busted for pandering. A month prior, I was asked by foreign ('farang' in Thai) undercover agents - to provide them with ladies for sex. When we met, the two agents said, 'we want young. Very young.' What they got was two working women, ages 18 and 25. The sting operation, consisting of 20 DSI agents (Thailand's FBI) flown up from Bangkok, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 Questions and Answers About Police Officers, Sheriff’s Deputies, Public Safety Officers and Tribal Police

    Local police and sheriff’s deputies are in the news every day. They are under scrutiny like never before and stereotypes about them and the way the perform their duties abound. News coverage and the proliferation of tools such as cellphone and body cameras make their work more visible, even as police per capita is shrinking. This guide focuses on local policing. As police departments nationwide ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty

    Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice” that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 23/7

    Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

    How America’s prisons turned a “brutal and inhumane” practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators’ discretion. Keramet Reiter tells the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • 320 récits d'un taulard

    by Mbaye HADJ ...
    320 Récits d’un Taulard est une synthèse de 320 récits dans divers domaines (Spiritualité, Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, les Enfants, l’Economie, l’Energie & Environnement, la Famille, La Justice, le Livre, la Prison, les Relations, la Société,) que l’auteur a produit durant son incroyable détention à la prison de Rebeuss à Dakar au Sénégal pendant 2 ans et demi avant d’être libéré.Écrit avec le cœur, ce ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 602

    Form of Futility

    In the summer of 2008, life changed forever for Dr. Harding McRae, a Board Certified emergency physician with over 30 years of experience. In the blink of an eye, a momentary lapse in judgment resulted in a felony arrest for assault with a deadly weapon and, sixteen months later, on November 3, 2009, his conviction ultimately bought Harding a five-year sentence in state prison. At his sentencing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Brief Introduction to Corrections

    A Brief Introduction to Corrections is a condensed version of the best-selling Introduction to Corrections by Robert D. Hanser. This new text provides students with an overview of corrections that is both practitioner-driven and grounded in modern research. Experienced correctional practitioner and scholar Robert D. Hanser shows readers how the corrections system actually works, from ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • A Circular Argument

    A Creative Exploration of Power and Space

    Series series Emerald Studies in Culture, Criminal Justice and The Arts
    Uniquely combining two parts, one critical in the form of a research piece, and the other creative in the form of a fictional novel, this ground-breaking book spans creative writing, criminology and architecture to look at the ways in which power and hierarchies are explored and exploited in space.Part one, A Circular Argument, is informed by a series of reflections on the author’s work as a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • A Community-Based Approach to the Reduction of Sexual Reoffending

    Circles of Support and Accountability

    A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community. This innovative strategy, which helps the offender both to maintain accountability and reintegrate into the community, is proven to be effective in combating child sexual abuse.This book explains this pioneering approach to managing the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice

    Edited by Taylor, Paul, Turner, Jo ...
    The history of crime and punishment is an important, yet under-resourced area of criminology and criminal justice. This valuable book provides concise but robust definitions of key terms and concepts, going well beyond a simple explanation of the word or theme. Offering a succinct approach to the vocabulary and terminology of historical and contemporary approaches to crime and punishment, it ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • A Costly American Hatred

    A Costly American Hatred is an in-depth look at how America’s hatred of “criminals” has led the nation down an expensive path that not only ostracizes and demonizes an ever growing segment of the population, but is also now so pervasive that it is counterproductive to the goals of reducing crime and keeping society safe, wastes enormous resources, and destroys human lives. Anyone who is convicted ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cynic Looks at Life

    First published in 1912, "A Cynic Looks at Life" is a collection of essays in which American author Ambrose Bierce talks about modern civilization and all its faults, including the death penalty, emancipated women, immortality, civilisation and more.These essential essays continue to be thought provoking, offering a valid outlook on life. ... Read more

    $0.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Date with the Hangman

    A History of Capital Punishment in Britain

    by Gary Dobbs ...
    A true-crime history of 20th-century, British judicial hangings from 1900 to 1964, and a look at the overall history of executions in Great Britain.It is a sobering thought that until the closing years of the twentieth century, Britain’s courts were technically able to impose the death penalty for several offenses, both civil and military. Although the last judicial hangings took place in 1964, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Day in Prison

    An Insider's Guide to Life Behind Bars

    by John Fuller ...
    Twenty-four hours is a lot of time in prison, and here is a moment to moment guide of how each one goes by.A Day in Prison shows what life is like for prisoners from morning roll call to lights out. It tracks the many ins and outs of prison culture and provides a comprehensive look into the dynamics that define inmates’ daily interactions with each other, prison guards, and prison administrators. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Descending Spiral

    Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays

    by Marc Bookman ...
    Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionistsAs Ruth Bader Ginsburg has noted, people who are well represented at trial rarely get the death penalty. But as Marc Bookman shows in a dozen brilliant essays, the problems with capital punishment run far deeper than just bad representation. Exploring prosecutorial ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Doctor on the Inside

    From the County Jail to the Supermax

    Get both of Dr. William Wright’s best-selling, award-winning books in a singlevolume!Maximum Insecurity chronicles Wright’s true-life metamorphosis from suburbanear surgeon to life as the sole physician at Colorado’s maximum-security prison.Jailhouse Doc follows Wright’s transition from prison medicine to running theclinic at the county jail. Should be easy right? Not on your life.Told with a ... Read more

    $6.97 USD

  • A equação do crime

    A melhor maneira de reduzir o crime é saber como o criminoso pensa

    A EQUAÇÃO DO CRIME se destaca pela metodologia usada para tratar desse milenar tema, trazendo seus elementos ao alcance de todos. Abandonando a linguagem específica do jurista, o autor humaniza o estudo, construindo em formato de equação a radiografia do crime e do criminoso na sociedade globalizada, dominada por poderosos e altamente técnicos mecanismos de comunicação. De leitura agradável, o ... Read more

    $5.20 USD

  • A Fair Cop

    The true story of a young police officer’s imprisonment for a crime he did not commit.It was Michael Bunting's life ambition to follow in his father's footsteps and become a police officer. But six years after his family watch him pass out and begin his life's dream, he is serving a sentence for a crime he didn't commit. This is his story.Beaten almost senseless as he tried to arrest a violent ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • A Feminist Theory of Violence

    A Decolonial Perspective

    Translated by Melissa Thackway ...
    'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022***The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gendered violence committed with the complicity of the State.In this book, Françoise ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Fighting Spirit

    by Paul Burns ...
    On 27 August 1979, Paul Burns's life changed for ever. Travelling through Warren Point in Northern Ireland when the IRA detonated two massive bombs, he was involved in a devastating explosion - eighteen soldiers were killed that day; Paul was one of only two who survived.Newly recruited to the Parachute Regiment, Paul was performing a tour of duty in Northern Ireland when a four-tonne truck in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • A Good Death

    Making the Most of Our Final Choices

    by Sandra Martin ...
    Having a good death is our final human right, argues Sandra Martin in this updated and expanded version of her bestselling and award-winning social history of the right to die movement in Canada and around the world.Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, finalist for both the Donner Prize in Public Policy and the Dafoe Prize for History, A Good Death has a new chapter on Canada ... Read more

    $11.99 USD