Author: Dow, Mark Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in thi...
Author: McAuley, Mary Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Despite their very different histories, societies, political and legal systems, Russia and the UK stand out as favouring a punitive approach to young law breakers, imprisoning many more children than ...
Author: Barnes, Steven A. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet author...
Author: Compton, Veronica Publisher: Algora Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Veronica Compton Wallace was convicted of attempted murder (the Hillside Strangler case in California). Her 21 years as a prisoner have afforded her a rare view of lives needlessly destroyed, and live...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A volume in Educational Leadership for Social Justice Series Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, Iowa State University, Denise E. Armstrong, Brock University; Ira Bogotch, Florida Atlantic University; Sandra Ha...
Author: Elsner, Alan, Publisher: Prentice Hall Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gates of Injustice is an extraordinarily compelling expose of the American prison system now completely updated: how more than 2,000,000 Americans came to be incarcerated; what it's really like on the...
Author: Seabourne, Gwen Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This study of the confinement of women highlights the disparity in regulation concerning male and female imprisonment in the middle ages, and gives a useful perspective on the nature of medieval law, ...
Author: Whitehead, Philip / Thompson, Jamie Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This textbook is designed to help trainee probation officers with the Diploma in Probation Studies, especially with the NVQ elements and making the link to the degree programme in probation. Written b...
Author: Simon, Rita Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As of 2007, more than 9.25 million people were imprisoned worldwide. Almost half of the persons imprisoned are in the United States, China and Russia. The United States has more persons in prison per ...
Author: Canton, Rob Publisher: Willan Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of the probation service. It brings together themes of policy, theory and practice to help students and practitioners to bett...
Author: Canton, Rob Publisher: Willan Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of the probation service. It brings together themes of policy, theory and practice to help students and practitioners to bett...
Author: Miethe, Terance D. / Lu, Hong Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Punishment is the common response to crime and deviance in all societies. However, its particular form and purpose are also linked to specific features of the structure of these societies at a particu...
Author: Denney, David Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on detailed ethnographic material, Denney presents a challenging analysis of the complex processes by which black people are treated differentially by probation services, and offers suggestion...
Author: Lin, Ann Chih Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Is it time to give up on rehabilitating criminals? Record numbers of Americans are going to prison, and most of them will eventually return to society with a high chance of becoming repeat offenders. ...
Description: Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice. Its advocates and practitioners argue that state punishment, society's customary response to crime, ...
Author: Johnstone, Gerry Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice. Its advocates and practitioners argue that state punishment, society's customary response to crime, ...
Author: Arrigo, Bruce A. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Revolution in Penology is a thoroughly original and thought-provoking critique of penal harm, the recursive pains of imprisonment cycle, and the normalization of violence. Relying on selected insights...
Author: Aladjem,Terry Kenneth Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: America is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account - a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terr...
Author: Hoshowsky, Robert J. Publisher: Dundurn Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The story of Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, the last two people executed in Canada, who met their gruesome deaths at Toronto's Don Jail on December 11, 1962.
Author: Hoshowsky, Robert J. Publisher: Dundurn Group Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The story of Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, the last two people executed in Canada, who met their gruesome deaths at Toronto's Don Jail on December 11, 1962.
Author: Cornwell, David J / Strang, Heather Publisher: Waterside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What is restorative justice ... and does it work? These are just two of the many questions posed by David J Cornwell in this incisive work. Based on a lifetime of research and experience it deals wit...
Author: Lacey,Nicola Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Over the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised as an index of governments' comp...
Author: Stanley, Elizabeth Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Building on observations, documentary analysis and over seventy interviews with both torture victims and transitional justice workers this book explores how torture was used, suffered and resisted in ...
Author: Greenwood, F. Murray Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An exposition of the patriarchal values that lie at the core of criminal law, and the class and gender biases that permeate its procedures and applications.
Author: MacKenzie, Doris Layton Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What Works in Corrections examines the impact of correctional interventions, management policies, treatment and rehabilitation programs on the recidivism of offenders and delinquents. The book reviews...
Author: Clear, Todd R Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This formative text discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs, and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in...
Author: Braswell, Michael / Fuller, John / Lozoff, Bo Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book views peacemaking as a broad, encompassing process that is expressed in many different shapes and forms. It blends ancient-wisdom traditions, peacemaking criminology, and restorative justice...
Author: Bohm, Robert M. Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The first true textbook on the death penalty, this text provides an exhaustive introduction, starting with its history and taking the reader through the facts, issues, opinions and controversies surro...
Author: Bohm, Robert M. Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This fourth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment. The book begins with the history ...
Author: Whitehead, John T. / Jones, Mark / Braswell, Michael C. Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Exploring Corrections in America provides a thorough introduction to the topic of corrections in America. In addition to providing complete coverage of the history and structure of corrections, it off...
Author: Travis III, Lawrence F. Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This student-friendly introductory core text describes the criminal justice process in the United States - outlining the decisions, practices, people and issues involved. It provides a solid introduct...
Author: Saunders, Jessica Publisher: Karnac Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a practice is the antithesis of a prison regime. Prisons are hard; psychotherapy is porous, permeable. Echoed throughout this book is the obvious paradox that is being ...
Author: Howe, Adrian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Over the past twenty-five years, a range of critical perspectives--Marxist, poststructuralist and, less frequently, feminist--has been brought to bear on the subject of punishment and, in particular, ...
Author: Bazemore, Gordon / Schiff, Mara Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: An anthology of original essays, this book presents debates over practice, theory, and implementation of restorative justice. Attention is focused on the movement's direction toward a more holistic, c...
Author: Fleisher, Mark S. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Myth of Prison Rape provides a nuanced glimpse into the complex sexual dynamics of American prison. Drawing on results from the most comprehensive study of inmate sexuality to date, Mark S. Fleish...
