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Prison Policy in Ireland
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 51.95This book is the first examination of the history of prison policy in Ireland. Despite sharing a legal and penal heritage with the United Kingdom, Ireland?s prison policy has taken a different path. This book examines how penal-welfarism was experienced in Ireland, shedding further light on the nature of this concept as developed by David Garland.... more...
America's Disappeared
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 12.95The confirmation proceedings for Alberto R. Gonzales and Condeleeza Rice, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, triggered a national debate about the U.S. government’s controversial treatment of detainees and its practice of torture. At the heart of the debate is the question: Is the United States undermining democracy, freedom, and human rights... more...
Better to be Feared
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 13.33Better To Be Feared is the true story of a 48-year-old businessman who, having pled guilty to perpetrating a fraud involving a fake business contract, was plunged into the dark world of life inside some of Britain's hardest jails. Never having had any contact with criminal justice previously, Sean Bridges' adjustment to life behind bars raised... more...
Nordic Prison Practice and Policy - Exceptional or Not?
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 51.95In the growing field of comparative criminal justice, the Nordic countries are regularly used as exceptions to the global move towards growing rates of imprisonment and tougher, less welfare-oriented crime-control policies. Why are the Nordic penal institutions viewed as so ?different? from a non-Nordic vantage point? Are Nordic prisons and penal... more...
Expanding Work Programs for Poor Men
AEI Press 2011; US$ 39.95Expanding Work Programs for Poor Men makes the case that poor fathers, like poor mothers, need 'both help and hassle.' That is, poor men need more help from the government, but they must also be expected-and required-to help themselves. Drawing on welfare reform as a successful precedent, Lawrence M. Mead explores the psychology of male nonwork and... more...
Afterlives
The Lilliput Press 2011; US$ 7.28'...a compelling, powerful and virtually incontestable case that in the summer of 1981 Gerry Adams and those around him thwarted a proposed settlement of the IRA/INLA hunger strikes' Ed Moloney, author of A Secret History of the IRA. 'Afterlives by Richard O'Rawe (Lilliput Press) is the history of the deal that could have ended the hunger strikes... more...
The Hot House
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99An account of life in Leavenworth Prison, based on interviews with inmates and others, describes the lives of a sexual predator, a gang member in for forty-two years, a sociopath in ""no human contact"" status, and others. more...
The Victims Return
PublishingWorks 2011; US$ 9.99Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called "the other holocaust." Over the course of 24 years, more innocent men, women, and children perished than died in Hitler's murder of European Jews. This book originated 30 years ago when Stephen F. Cohen, a professor of Russian studies and history at New York University, first began... more...
Ratgeber Stiften, Band 3
Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung 2010; US$ 10.85Hauptbeschreibung Stiftungsarbeit lebt nicht vom Geld allein, sondern setzt die Mitarbeit von engagierten Menschen zwingend voraus. Jede Stiftung braucht ein Mindestmaß an Organisation, also Stiftungsorgane mit Personen, die bereit sind, sich über längere Zeit für einen spezifischen Zweck einzusetzen. Einige Stiftungen haben die finanziellen Mittel,... more...
Textbook of Social Administration
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 54.95A hands-on guide to making human services work Textbook of Social Administration equips social programs managers with the skills they need to produce mutually desired outcomes for their consumers/clients and for their staff. This comprehensive resource is a how-to guide to developing the management abilities needed to maintain an effective client-centered... more...









