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Community Resources
Saddleback Publishing 2012; US$ 19.95Highly readable with full-color photographs, this 120-page handbook is great for teaching life skills to a twenty-first century population. The handbook will provide readers a thorough and non-threatening introduction to: Community Resources; Your Taxes at Work; Emergency Assistance; Services for Workers; Services for Citizens. This handbook offers... more...
Russias Penal Colony in the Far East
Anthem Press 2009; US$ 130.00Russias Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevichs Sakhalin is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevichs 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russias largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific. more...
Selling Welfare Reform
NYU Press 2009; US$ 79.00The 1996 Welfare Reform Act promised to end welfare as we knew it. In Selling Welfare Reform , Frank Ridzi uses rich ethnographic detail to examine how new welfare-to-work policies, time limits, and citizenship documentation radically changed welfare, revealing what really goes on at the front lines of the reformed welfare system. Selling Welfare Reform... more...
Praxis for the Poor
NYU Press 2002; US$ 75.00Praxis for the Poor puts the relationship of politics to scholarship front and center through an examination of the work of Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. Piven and Cloward proved that social science could inform social-policy politics in ways that helped energize a movement. Praxis for the Poor offers a critical reflection on their work and... more...
Doing Harder Time?
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Framed within the theoretical perspective of structuration theory, but also drawing on aspects of Goffman's interactionism and Bourdieu's concept of habitus, this book offers a unique interpretation of research carried out with ageing prisoners and their prison officers and shows the reality of prison for those who are reaching the end of their... more...
One Day in the Life of 179212
Lantern Books 2012; US$ 8.99To a correctional facility in Virginia he is known as Prisoner 179212. But to a legion of journalists and legal reform activists he is Jens Soering, a German citizen who has endured for the past twenty-six years the harshest and most unforgiving punishment this country can offera life sentence without realistic hope of release, which some refer... more...
The Dependency Agenda
Encounter Books 2012; US$ 5.99Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to ?fight poverty? ? in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was before the government began spending trillions of dollars... more...
Long Road Home
Columbia University Press 2009; US$ 31.99Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp& mdash;a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road... more...
Prison Break
John Blake 2012; US$ 9.99A comprehensive history of major prison breaks by those who paid a heavy price for their misdeeds, and risked all to regain their freedom In the folklore of World War II, the memory of those heroes who staged great escapes from POW camps still endure. But what about the other side of the coin: the audacious and daring breakouts of gangsters and... more...
Perspectives On Evaluating Criminal Justice and Corrections
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012; US$ 114.95A comprehensive and authoritative overview of issues relating to the evaluation of criminal justice/corrections interventions, this book draws on a range of theoretical, cultural and epistemological perspectives with authors from a range of disciplines and countries, and provides a unique reference for academics, practitioners and policy-makers. more...









