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: 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...
Description: This book combines an appreciation of Bentham's broader project with an engagement of Foucault's insights on economic government to go beyond the received reading of panopticism as a dark disciplinary...
Author: Hostettler, John Publisher: Waterside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Edition 1st Pages 160 Format Paperback Published 15/11/2010 ISBN 9781904380634 Synopsis In eighteenth century continental Europe penal law was barbaric. Gallows were a regular feature of the landscape...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Illinois Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners instea...
Author: Jones, Sandra J. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Coalition Building in the Anti-Death Penalty Movement uses the concepts of the political process model of social movements to analyze the factors that shape the racial face of the anti-death penalty m...
Author: Abrams, Laura S. / Anderson-Nathe, Ben Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This ethnographic text brings to light the challenges and complexities inherent in the U.S. system of juvenile corrections. Building on over a year of field work at a boys’ residential facility,...
Author: Stinchcomb, Jeanne B. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Jeanne Stinchcomb's book makes an excellent contribution to the field of corrections serving as a substantial resource for those teaching corrections and as a practical inspiration for those students...
Author: Stinchcomb, Jeanne B. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "Jeanne Stinchcomb's book makes an excellent contribution to the field of corrections serving as a substantial resource for those teaching corrections and as a practical inspiration for those students...
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: Anckar, Carsten Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifying those characteristics common to countries that use the d...
Author: Korir, Jacqueline Cheptepkeny Publisher: Zapf Chancery Publishers Africa Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book, grounded, in empirical data analysis by hard statistics and backed by rare photographs from inside Kenyan prisons serves as an eye-opener to both the prison-reformists as well as students a...
Author: Cullen, Eric / Mackenzie, Judith Publisher: Waterside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Edition 1st Pages 316 Format Paperback Published 01/09/2011 ISBN 9781904380542 Synopsis Save 25% when ordered with Grendon Tales (direct from Waterside Press) With a Foreword by leading expert Barbar...
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: Shaw, Stephen Publisher: Waterside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An absorbing and highly innovative work by one of the UK's leading experts on prisons and penal reform. This book charts developments across a fifty year time frame beginning in 1980 at the start of a...
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: Beauchamp, Hillary Publisher: Waterside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A compelling, true life account of her time working in this famous north-London prison. Hilary Beauchamp 'lifts the lid' on life inside, making the book a must for students of women's imprisonment or ...
Author: Sarat, Austin Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty"--commuted the ca...
Description: This major new book brings together leading researchers in the field in order to describe and analyse internationally significant theoretical and empirical work on offender supervision, and to address...
Description: This major new book brings together leading researchers in the field in order to describe and analyse internationally significant theoretical and empirical work on offender supervision, and to address...
Description: Prisoner resettlement is high on current political and policy agendas. The high reconviction rates of ex-prisoners have been acknowledged for many years but the rapidly rising prison population has me...
Description: Prisoner resettlement is high on current political and policy agendas. The high reconviction rates of ex-prisoners have been acknowledged for many years but the rapidly rising prison population has me...
Author: Simon, Rita / De Waal, Christiaan Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Prisons The World Over reports prison conditions, number of prisoners and occupancy level, offenses for which inmates are interred, and average length of incarceration for 21 countries. Also reported ...
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...
Description: The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an i...
Author: Boyd-Caine, Tessa Publisher: Willan Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an i...
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: Howe, Adrian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Political economies of punishment 2. 'New histories of punishment regimes 3. The Foucault Effect: from penology to penality 4. Feminist analytical approaches to wome...
Author: Howe, Adrian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Political economies of punishment 2. 'New histories of punishment regimes 3. The Foucault Effect: from penology to penality 4. Feminist analytical approaches to wome...
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: Cullen, Francis T. / Gilbert, Karen E Publisher: Anderson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Reaffirming Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition, brings fresh insights to one of the core works of criminal justice literature. This groundbreaking work analyzes the rehabilitative ideal within the American c...
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: Umbreit, Mark S. / Umbreit, Dr Mark Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Although Restorative Justice Dialogue is not a long text, it is an impressive achievement. Each chapter is rich in content, as Umbreit and Armour blend theory, practice, empirical research, and case ...
Author: Swanson, Cheryl Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a unique perspective on how restorative justice works in an actual prison setting. Theory, practice, research findings, and the illustration of concepts through inmate writings make...
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: Arrigo, Bruce A. / Milovanovic, Dragan Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 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. ...
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...
Description: This book explores the questions of why policy makers sometimes adopt policies that are not supported by evidence and how scholars and practitioners can encourage policymakers to listen to research. I...
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: 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: Tregea, William / Larmour, Marjorie S. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Prisoners' World seeks to make the 'prisoners' voice' come alive for regular college classroom students via author narrative essays as well as over sixty prisoner essays that shed light into priso...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Thinking Space looks at a range of social theorists and asks what role space plays in their work, what difference (if any) it makes to their concepts, and what difference such an appreciation makes to...
Author: Crang, Mike Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Thinking Space" is ideal reading for those looking to learn about the Ospatial turn1 in social and cultural theory. As theorists have begun using using geographical concepts and metaphors to think ab...
