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  • The Innocent Manby John Grisham

    Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 9.99

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron?s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered.... more...

  • A Prison Diary 3by Jeffrey Archer

    Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 7.66

    Day 115 Saturday 10th November 2001 6.38am It?s all an act. I am hopelessly unhappy, dejected and broken. I smile when I am at my lowest, I laugh when I see no humour, I help others when I need help myself. I am alone. If I were to show any sign, even for a moment, of what I?m going through, I would have to read the details in some tabloid the following... more...

  • Marching Powderby Rusty Young

    Pan Macmillan Australia 2007; US$ 18.03

    A true story of friendship, cocaine and South America's strangest jail. Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the twenty-something Australian law graduate travelled to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's... more...

  • Rethinking Miscarriages of Justiceby Dr Michael Naughton

    Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 30.00

    Drawing on Foucauldian theory and 'social harm' paradigms, Naughton offers a radical redefinition of miscarriages of justice from a critical perspective. This book uncovers the limits of the entire criminal justice process and challenges the dominant perception that miscarriages of justices are rare and exceptional cases of wrongful imprisonment. more...

  • Class, Race, Gender, and Crimeby Gregg Barak; Paul Leighton; Jeanne Flavin

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 38.99

    A decade after its first publication, Class, Race, Gender, and Crime remains the only authored book to systematically address the impact of class, race, and gender on criminological theory and all phases of the criminal justice process. The new edition has been thoroughly revised, for easier use in courses, and updated throughout, including... more...

  • Hidden Victimsby Susan F. Sharp

    Rutgers University Press 2005; US$ 25.95

    "Sharp?s book reemphasizes the tremendous costs of maintaining the death penalty?costs to real people and real families that ripple throughout generations to come."?Saundra D. Westervelt, author of Shifting the Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense "Everyone concerned with the effects of capital punishment must have this book."?Margaret... more...

  • What Works in Correctionsby Doris Layton MacKenzie; Alfred Blumstein; David Farrington

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 33.00

    This assesses the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs, specialized treatment for different types of offenders, management and treatment of drug-involved offenders and punishment, control and surveillance interventions to provide an intensive review of correctional interventions and programs. Through extensive research, MacKenzie illustrates which... more...

  • The Fatal Shoreby Robert Hughes

    Random House 2010; US$ 16.01

    In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shore... more...

  • Monkey House Bluesby Dominic Stevenson

    Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 13.33

    In 1993, Dominic Stevenson left a comfortable life with his girlfriend in Kyoto, Japan, to travel to China. His journey took him to some of the most inhospitable and dangerous places in the world, from the poppy fields of the Afghan-Pakistan border to the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road, before he was arrested for drug smuggling while boarding... more...

  • Are Prisons Obsolete?by Angela Y. Davis

    Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 11.95

    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable.... more...