Penology category: 518 books
by Noel 'Razor' Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
As a gun-wielding bank robber, Noel 'Razor' Smith was top of the criminal tree, enjoying the excitement and benefits of a dangerous and adrenalin-filled career. But he'd also spent the greater part of his adult life in prison, an environment where respect and basic survival were guaranteed only to...
The Boys of the Dark
A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
A story that garnered national attention, this is the harrowing tale of two men who suffered abuses at a reform school in Florida in the 1950s and 60s, and who banded together fifty years later to confront their attackers.
Michael O'McCarthy and Robert W. Straley were teens when they were termed...
Executed on a Technicality
Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries...
Biosocial Criminology
New Directions in Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem.
Inside This Place, Not of It
Narratives from Women's Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. Here, in their own words, thirteen narrators recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once inside.
Among the...
Sex Crimes and Sex Offenders
Research and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Sex Crimes and Sex Offenders: Research and Realities provides an overview of social scientific theory and research on sex crimes and sex offenders. Most other books on the market are focused on a single issue—such as treatment, rape, pedophilia, theory, etc. This book is unique in that it covers...
Behind Bars
Surviving Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
A judge hands down a stretch in a local, state, or federal prison. It's time for some serious life lessons. With the crime rates soaring in the United States and the prison population growing faster than at any other time in American history, staying alive and well - both mentally and physically - is tougher than ever.
Hell Is a Very Small Place
Voices from Solitary Confinement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
“An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books).
On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond...
The Oxford History of the Prison
The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1995
The word "prison" immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards. They seem to be the inevitable and permanent marks of confinement, as though prisons were a timeless institution...
by Jim Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Folsom Prison is California�s second-oldest prison, dating back to 1880. In the decades following the Gold Rush, it housed some of the state�s most notorious prisoners in stone, dungeon-like cells behind solid-metal doors; was the first prison with electric power; and for many years provided labor...
Punishment for Sale
Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad...
Captive Nation
Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression...
Kissing the Sword
A Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
A moving account of life as a political prisoner in post-revolutionary Iran from the acclaimed Iranian author of Women Without Men.
Shahrnush Parsipur was a successful writer and television producer in her native Iran until the Revolution of 1979. Soon after seizing control, the Islamist government...
Exoneree Diaries
The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
By virtue of her own background, Flowers has many existing platforms and promotional opportunities for the marketing of “After Innocence.”
The book’s primary platform is “Exoneree Diaries,” the yearlong multimedia series that aired on Chicago Public Media’s WBEZ 91.5, a station...