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The Prison Experience
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 64.95About the evolution of prison in the Netherlands, Germany and France during the early moden period with reference to all of Europe more...
Dictionary of Prisons Punishment
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 53.95Contemporary prison practice faces many challenges, is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized, influenced by the new National Offender Management Service. As well as bringing an increased emphasis on skills and qualifications it has also introduced a new set of ideas and concepts into the established prisons and penal lexicon.... more...
Let Freedom Ring
PM Press 2008; US$ 29.95Let 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... more...
Handbook on Prisons
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 68.95This is the most comprehensive and ambitious book on prisons to have been published, a key text for anybody studying the subject and an essential work of reference for practitioners working in prisons and other parts of the criminal justice system. It is especially timely in view of the many changes and debates about the role of prisons and their... more...
Surviving Russian Prisons
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 89.95What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journey that begins by exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse of the USSR, and ends with a discussion of global penal politics. It is the first... more...
Prisons
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 54.00U.S. prisons are highly dangerous places for inmates and prison staff alike. Housing a mix of criminal offenders?from drug abusers to murderers?while ensuring the safety of staff members and protecting the rights of inmates is a complex and daunting challenge undertaken each day in prisons nationwide. That challenge is heightened as more prisoners... more...
Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2009; US$ 138.00From the late nineteenth century to the present, decisions by the Supreme Court have played a significant role in how American governments, especially at the state level, have carried out the death penalty. With more than 3,400 prisoners, including 118 foreign nationals, now on death rows, the Courts role is not likely to diminish in this area... more...
Underbelly: The Gangland War
Floradale Productions and Sly Ink 2008; US$ 22.72The book behind the hard-hitting TV drama. This is Australia's underbelly bullet holes and all. more...
Prison and the Penal System
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00Convicted criminals are sentenced to jail terms, fines, probation, community service, and sometimes execution. Prison and the Penal System discusses how the justice system deals with criminals in relation to their crimes. It looks at the prison system and its history, discusses relevant social and political issues, and explores concerns of rehabilitation,... more...
Life After Life
Free Press 2010; US$ 25.00Life After Life is the haunting and gloriously redemptive tale of Evans D. Hopkins's many lives, a sweeping journey from promising middle-class youth to civil rights militant, from criminal and convict to celebrated writer and enlightened man. Evans D. Hopkins was born during the Jim Crow era in a second-rate, segregated hospital, and educated... more...









