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The Prisoner
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accounts of prison life manage to convey some of its most profound and important features: its daily pressures and frustrations, the culture of the wings and landings, and the relationships which shape the everyday experience of being imprisoned. The... more...
The Number
Jonathan Ball Publishers 2010; US$ 10.21On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old coloured man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Behind him lay a lifelong career in the 28s, South Africa's oldest and most reviled prison gang, for decades rumoured to have specialised in rape and robbery. In front of him lay the prospect of a law-abiding future, and life in a household... more...
Applied Methods of Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 58.99The third volume in the Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation series, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform an economic evaluation of a health intervention. It focuses solely on cost-effectiveness analysis in health care. The book is developed out of the Advanced Methods of Cost-Effectiveness... more...
Social Capital and Welfare Reform
Columbia University Press 2006; US$ 34.99In this groundbreaking study, Jo Anne Schneider considers the reasons behind the limited success of most welfare reform initiatives and offers evidence-based recommendations for enhancing the effectiveness of welfare policy. Schneider draws on her rich and nuanced ethnographic studies of Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Kenosha, Wisconsin to clarify... more...
Das "Lindenhotel"
Ch. Links Verlag 2012; US$ 13.22Hauptbeschreibung Drei Frauen und zwölf Männer geben in diesem Band Einblicke in ihr Leben. Ihre Biografien sind höchst verschieden, aber allen ist eines gemeinsam: Sie wurden gezwungen, mehrere Monate an ein und demselben Ort zu verbringen, in einem Haus des Terrors mitten in Potsdam. Sie waren Häftlinge im sowjetischen Geheimdienstgefängnis und... more...
Unter Mördern
Ch. Links Verlag 2012; US$ 16.52Hauptbeschreibung 1981 wird in der DDR ein junger Student der Zahnmedizin bei Vorbereitungen zur Republikflucht gefaßt und kurz darauf zu zwanzig Monaten Haft verurteilt. In der Strafvollzugseinrichtung Brandenburg-Görden gerät er in eine ihm völlig fremde Welt von Schwerverbrechern. Da er sein Studium bereits abgeschlossen hatte, darf er nach einiger... more...
Resistance Behind Bars
PM Press 2012; US$ 9.99As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, this collection of real-life prisoners' stories and analysis of the prison landscape as it is today documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the United States. In 1974, women imprisoned at New York's maximum-security... more...
Sweet Hell on Fire
Sourcebooks 2012; US$ 9.99"A gritty, raw, and engrossing voice."? Publishers Weekly I was a bad mother, a bad daughter, a bad wife, a bad friend. Boozed out and tired, with no dreams and no future. But I was a good officer. Sara Lunsford helped cage the worst of the worst, from serial killers to sex criminals. At the end of every day, when she walked out the... more...
Religion and faith-based welfare
The Policy Press 2012; US$ 45.95A critical and theoretically sensitive overview of the role of religious values, actors and institutions in the development of state and non-state social welfare provision in Britain. more...
Sledgehammer
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 61.00Pat Carlen's compelling and compassionate analysis of the penal control of women at the end of the twentieth century is based on new research completed in 1997. She develops many of the themes of previous work, while introducing new concepts such as 'gender-testing', and 'ameliorative justice'. Skilfully and vividly presenting the words and views of... more...









