Penology category: 518 books
The Blue Tent Sky
How the Left's War on Guns Cost Me My Son and My Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
In 2010 Brian Aitken was sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing firearms he legally owned. He lost everything, including custody of his son, for a crime he did not commit. After spending four months in behind bars, Governor Chris Christie demanded his release. This is his story.
by D. Graham Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the court waiting room. Instead, he finds himself thrust into a high-pressure role as the jury foreman in a Manhattan trial. There he comes face to face with a stunning...
Corrections and Collections
Architectures for Art and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment.
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by David Meyers, Elise Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
With the opening of the Ohio State Reformatory in 1896, the state legislature had put in place "the most complete prison system, in theory, which exists in the United States." The reformatory joined the Ohio Penitentiary and the Boys Industrial School, also central-Ohio institutions, to form the first...
Inside Private Prisons
An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal...
Prison Profiteers
Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“No country in history has ever handed over so many inmates to private corporations. This book looks at the consequences” (Eric Schlosser, bestselling author of Fast Food Nation**).**
In Prison Profiteers, coeditors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright “follow the money to an astonishing constellation...
by Nils Christie
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values. In this book, Nils Christie argues that crime is a fluid and shallow concept - acts that could be construed as criminal are unlimited and crime is therefore...
Sweet Hell on Fire
A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
"A gritty, raw, and engrossing voice."—Publishers Weekly
I was a bad mother,
a bad daughter,
a bad wife, a bad friend.
Boozed out and tired,
with no dreams
and no future.
But I was a good officer.
Sara Lunsford helped cage the worst of the worst, from serial killers...
Executioner's Current
Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other.
In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age...
Desistance from Crime
New Advances in Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime. This ever-growing field has become increasingly relevant as questions of serious issues regarding sentencing, probation and the penal system continue to go unanswered. Rocque covers the history...
A Grip of Time
When Prison Is Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Lauren Kessler is an established author whose books have been BookSense selections*, Washington Post* and Los Angeles Times bestsellers, Wall Street Journal and People magazine best selections, Pacific Northwest Book Award winners, and Oregon Book Award winners.
Kessler is a talented investigative...
A Plague of Prisons
The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The public health expert and prison reform activist offers “meticulous analysis” on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration (The Washington Post).
An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate...
Lockdown High
When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
In the dozen years since the Columbine High School shootings, school violence has fallen steadily. Yet, as Annette Fuentes visits schools across America she finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, teachers carrying guns,...
Prison Rape: An American Institution?
An American Institution?
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Rape is a fact of life for the incarcerated. Can American society maintain the commitment expressed in recent federal legislation to eliminate the rampant and costly sexual abuse that has been institutionalized into its system of incarceration?