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  • Legal Violence and the Limits of the Law

    Edited by Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols ...
    What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that separates it from the cruel and unusual? In legal discourse, the distinction between punishment and vengeance—punishment being the measured use of legally sanctioned violence and vengeance being a use of violence that has no measure—is expressed by the idea of "cruel and unusual punishment." This phrase was originally contained in ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Prison Dog Programs

    Renewal and Rehabilitation in Correctional Facilities

    Edited by Mary Renck Jalongo ...
    This edited volume brings together a diverse group of contributors to create a review of research and an agenda for the future of dog care and training in correctional facilities. Bolstered by research that documents the potential benefits of HAI, many correctional facilities have implemented prison dog programs that involve inmates in the care and training of canines, not only as family dogs but ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Meditation for Prisoners

    MEDITATION FOR PRISONERSI started studying meditation because I firmly expected to go to prison as a result of my refusal to participate in the Vietnam War. I knew instinctively that I would have to find resources within myself to prepare for and protect from long hours of boredom, hostile strangers and oppressive situations. These studies took me around the world and, although I never actually ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Framing the Penal Colony

    Representing, Interpreting and Imagining Convict Transportation

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
    This book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media. Exploring a range of geographies and historical instances of the penal colony, it seeks to identify how the ‘penal colony’ as a widespread phenomenon is as much ‘imagined’ and creatively instrumentalized as it pertains to real sites and populations. It concentrates on ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Politics of Redress

    Crime, Punishment and Penal Abolition

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1990, The Politics of Redress is a product of and commentary on significant developments in critical criminology. It shifts the emphasis from the criminologist as a police agent to a fighter for social justice. The author focuses on the role of punishment in society, in general, and in criminology, in particular, urging the reader to reimagine the concept of punishment, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desistance and Societies in Comparative Perspective

    by Dana Segev ...
    Series series International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
    Scholarly exploration into how and why people stop offending (desistance from crime) has focused on the impact of internal and external factors in processes of desistance. Prior research has, in general, been undertaken within one nation and neglected the fact that desistance processes are situated within a broad social context which shapes an individual’s perceptions and actions. This book begins ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform

    Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador

    Offering an important addition to existing critiques of governance feminism and carceral expansion based mainly on experiences from the Global North, this book critically addresses feminist law reform on violence against women, from a decolonial perspective.Challenging the consensus that penal expansion is mainly associated with the co-option of feminist campaigns to counteract violence against ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Chronicles of Crime

    by Camden Pelham ...
    This book comprises details, not only interesting to every person concerned for the welfare of society, but useful to the world in pointing out the consequences of guilt to be equally dreadful and inevitable. The author noticed that in most of the works published before its release, little attention was paid to the ultimate moral or beneficial effects to be produced by them upon the public mind; ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Family Criminology

    An Introduction

    by Amanda Holt ...
    This full-colour textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life. In doing so, it proposes a brand new sub-discipline of Criminology that places the family at the heart of its analysis, offering a groundbreaking approach to the study of crime and deviance. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this introductory text ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • 細思極恐套書:人類恐怖創意血腥殘酷的刑罰史、祕密會社與邪惡教派、恐怖疾病與駭人療法

    Hung, drawn and quartered: the story of execution through the ages;Secret Societies and Crazy Cults: The Story of Secret Orders Through the Ages;Dreadful Diseases and Terrible Treatments: The Story of Medicine Through the Ages

    Series series 細思極恐
    讀過本套套書,你會很慶幸活在這個時代  本套書特色★ 從歷史中看人類如何懲罰他人,各種發揮想像力與執行力的刑罰,膽小者勿試。★ 探索人類獨有的祕密結社歷史,以及特定人士如何透過信仰與恐怖控制其他人類。★ 從歷史中記錄有案的例子來看各時代曾經發生過的重大疾病問題,以及應對的醫學發展,如何影響人類的生命與整體社會的關鍵。★ 每一本書中,蒐羅許多珍貴歷史圖像,全彩呈現,震撼視覺。   《人類恐怖創意血腥殘酷的刑罰史》沒有史上最殘酷刑罰,只有你想像不到的殘忍折磨!各種令人髮指的行刑歷史,讓人忍不住別開頭。•絞首、砍頭、車裂、五馬分屍……•活活燒死、千刀萬剮、剝頭皮……•西班牙宗教裁判所最愛的行刑方式•讓人全身痙攣、眼球爆裂,愛迪生難辭其咎•喝人血、烤人肉、磨骨粉、再來... ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Strategies of Control

    This groundbreaking study of transitions and control in the California prison system has been extensively read, cited, and quoted in unpublished form, and is finally available worldwide. A compelling part of the canon of studies in penology, criminology, sociology, and organizational theory, STRATEGIES OF CONTROL's new edition adds a 2016 foreword by Howard S. Becker and afterword by Jonathan ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Expressive Theory of Punishment

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy
    This book argues that punishment's function is to communicate a message about an offenders' wrongdoing to society at large. It discusses both 'paradigmatic' cases of punishment, where a state punishes its own citizens, and non-paradigmatic cases such as the punishment of corporations and the punishment of war criminals by international tribunals. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Strafvollzug

    Series series Springer-Lehrbuch
    Systematisch aufgebaut spannt der Autor dieses Lehrbuches den Bogen von der historischen Entwicklung über die Grundlagen des Strafvollzugs bis hin zum Vollzugssystem, dem Behandlungsprozess und den Sicherheitsaspekten. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet das Vollzugsverfahrensrecht. Unter Hinzuziehung von neuerer Rechtsprechung und Fallbeispielen werden wesentliche Problembereiche exemplarisch erläutert. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Strafrechtliche Sanktionen

    Series series Springer-Lehrbuch
    Das Buch enthält eine Einführung in die Grundlagen des strafrechtlichen Sanktionssystems. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die rechtlichen Anwendungsvoraussetzungen der einzelnen Sanktionsarten und die Grundlagen ihrer Bemessung. Der kriminalpolitische Hintergrund sowie die kriminologischen Befunde zur Praxis der Sanktionsverhängung und -vollstreckung werden einbezogen. Der Reform des strafrechtlichen ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Down Inside

    Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service

    by Robert Clark ...
    A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada’s most dangerous and notorious prisoners, including Paul Bernardo and Tyrone Conn. He dealt with escapes, lockdowns, prisoner murders, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Summary of Albert Woodfox's Solitary

    Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 When I was 11, my father was forced to retire from the Navy after 25 years, and we moved to La Grange, North Carolina. My father began drinking heavily, and he took his rage and frustration out on my mother. We never knew when he was going to explode in anger and bitterness. #2 I lived in New Orleans, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Broadmoor - My Journey Into Hell

    THE CLOSEST PLACE ON EARTH THAT YOU WILL GET TO HELL - Charlie BronsonBroadmoor: My Journey Into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told.In the winter of 1979, aged just twenty-seven, the inmate who would come to be known as 'Charlie Bronson' was ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • Let Freedom Ring

    A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners

    Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People’s Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Employment Screening and Non-Conviction Information

    A Human Rights Perspective

    This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction information disclosure during pre-employment ‘screening’. It questions how a man can walk free from a criminal court as an innocent person only to have all the court details of his acquittal passed to any potential employer.Despite several million ‘enhanced’ criminal background ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Prisons Exposed

    An insight of what it's like to be in prison on a day-to-day basis and how the prison system actually works. Michael O'Brien has first-hand experience of life inside Cardiff Prison. He tells the experiences of inmates and prison officer, alike. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Carceral Communities in Latin America

    Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
    This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grounded in solid ethnographic work, each chapter explores the informal dynamics of prisons in diverse territories and countries of the region – Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic – while theorizing how day-to-day life for the ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities

    A Practitioner’s Guide

    Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities: A Practitioner’s Guide explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs). Rooted in practice, this book examines the transferability of approaches within international TCs to other forensic settings, while considering how the environment contributes to effectiveness.In this volume, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities

    Shut Out, Shut In

    Series series Feminist Criminology
    The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with ***Cognitive Disabilitie***s explores the lived experience of cognitively disabled women incarcerated in Australia. It draws upon in-depth interviews with Indigenous and non-Indigenous women, as well as interviews conducted with prison practitioners – psychologists, counsellors, and Aboriginal Liaison Officers.Using a theoretical framework of social ... Read more

    $52.99 USD