The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Incapacitation
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 50.00An assessment of incapacitation in which the authors expose the increasing reliance on restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature and empirical research on incapacitation's effects, and explore the links between incapacitation and criminal justice policy. In the STUDIES IN CRIME AND PUBLIC POLICY series. more...
Trustee Investment Strategy for Endowments and Foundations
Wiley 2006; US$ 70.00Trustees are responsible for the stewardship of assets and for implementing the mission of their endowment or foundation. Almost invariably trustees delegate the management of those assets to agents who are investment professionals. In this increasingly sophisticated and litigious financial world there can be a growing gap of comprehension, exacerbated... more...
Work over Welfare
Brookings Institution Press 2006; US$ 24.95Work over Welfare tells the inside story of the legislation that ended ''welfare as we know it.'' As a key staffer on the House Ways and Means Committee, author Ron Haskins was one of the architects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. more...
Thinking About Crime
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 18.99Examines the American crime policy. This book explains how the worst policies can be undone and how the avoidable human suffering they produce can be diminished. It presents a treatment of crime as a social problem. more...
Promoting the General Welfare
Brookings Institution Press 2007; US$ 26.95Intellectually rich and a delight to read. . . . a useful and innovative volume. more...
Targeting in Social Programs
Brookings Institution Press 2007; US$ 19.95Schuck and Zeckhauser have written a work that is at once lively and entertaining--and analytically rigorous and policy relevant. more...
Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 28.00This book considers the 1996-2006 welfare laws in the United States from a feminist perspective. more...
Eating the Ashes
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 28.95Serving a life sentence, Compton has experienced some of the best and worst of correctional theory and practice, and has used her experience and talent to improve programs for inmates. In this study, she relates heart-rending images of lives in disarray a more...
Prison State
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00This book examines the recent prison buildup and its impact on American society. more...
Evaluation des Justizvollzugs: Ergebnisse einer bundesweiten Feldstudie (German Edition)
Springer 2007; US$ 109.99Rechnen sich Freiheitsstrafen? Hierzu führten die Autoren eine bundesweite Feldstudie durch: Fragebögen von ca. 1.800 Inhaftierten in rund 30 Haftanstalten, Auskünfte der Anstaltsleiter und von ca. 1.200 Personen aus einer ergänzenden Bevölkerungsbefragung. Zusammen mit einer umfangreichen Analyse von anstalts- und länderspezifischem Datenmaterial... more...









