Penology category: 518 books
The Hate Factory
Thirty Years Inside with the UK's Most Notorious Villains
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons. In The Hate Factory, he candidly documents his experiences in jail with some of the UK's most notorious criminals.
Jailed for life in 1977 for a crime of passion, Ferris experienced...
Punishment and Democracy
Three Strikes and You're Out in California
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
"Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a...
by Tyrone Kirchengast
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This book addresses the idea that victims remain contested and controversial participants of justice in the twenty-first century adversarial criminal trial. Victims are increasingly participating in all phases of the criminal trial, with new substantive and procedural rights, many of which may...
Redemption and Restoration
A Catholic Perspective on Restorative Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The Catholic Church teaches that punishment must have a constructive and redemptive purpose and that it be coupled with treatment and, when possible, restitution. Rehabilitation and restoration must include the spiritual dimension of healing and hope. Since the publication of the United States Conference...
The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma
Community Activism, Safety, and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predators
When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their neighborhood in 2013, the story exposed an extreme and relatively rare instance of violence against...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Mele and Miller offer a timely, insightful analysis of the continuing challenges faced by ex-felons upon re-entry into society. Such penalties include a lifetime ban on receiving welfare and food stamps for individuals convicted of drug felonies as well as barriers to employment, child rearing, and...
Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope
Stories of Surviving Wrongful Conviction
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Imagine you are in prison for a crime you did not commit. You cannot believe what has happened to you and you're certain the system will correct the error. Five years later and you're still behind bars. Are you still certain? What would you do to survive day after week after month locked up with some...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events...
by Patrick Greg
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
On a cold, damp January night in 1961, 19-year-old Pearl Gamble made the final goodbye to her Mother an set off excitedly with two friends to the local dance. Little did Mrs Gamble know, it was the last time that she would see her daughter alive…The following day, the naked body of Pearl was discovered...
Talking About Torture
How Political Discourse Shapes the Debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the American military, exonerated high-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration, promoted Guantánamo as a model prison, and dismissed...
Gangster
The biography of the international drugs trafficker John Gilligan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
Gangster is the critically acclaimed biography of John Gilligan, the biggest drugs trafficker to emerge from the Irish underworld. The book is an extraordinarily account of how a young Dubliner became a multi-millionaire criminal. It uses first-hand interviews with Gilligan, his thugs, friends, family,...
The Last Executioner
Memoirs of Thailand's last prison executioner
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2006
Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailand’s infamous prisons. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in the world. Honest and often disturbing – but told with surprising humour...
Jacktown
History & Hard Times at Michigan’s First State Prison
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Competing with the likes of Detroit and Ann Arbor, Jackson won the battle to build Michigan's first state prison in 1838. During the era of the "Big House" and industrial growth, the penitentiary's on-site factories and cheap inmate labor helped Jackson become a thriving manufacturing city. In contrast...
Ignorance, Power and Harm
Agnotology and The Criminological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to the expansion of the criminological imagination. Agnotology – the study of the cultural production of ignorance, has primarily been proposed as an analytical tool...