Penology category: 518 books
by Philip Gourevitch, Errol Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq" (The New York Times Book Review)
A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure is...
by Blaine Pardoe, Victoria Hester
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Adam "Pump" Arnold was both feared and regaled in Victorian- era Battle Creek. He was a bootlegger and a pimp, a robber and a con artist, an arsonist and a loan shark and even an assassin. Arnold faced off with the city over illegal liquor sales and flaunted his victory with a life-size statue of the...
Tulia
Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
This true story of race and injustice in a small west Texas town "resembles... a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird--or would, that is, if the novel were a true story and Atticus had won" (New York Times Book Review)
In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine...
Freeing David McCallum
The Last Miracle of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
For ten years before Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully convicted man, David McCallum. McCallum was eventually exonerated and freed after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story of how...
A Kind of Genius
Herb Sturz and Society's Toughest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
In A Kind of Genius, Sam Roberts offers a window onto Herb Sturz's extraordinary life's work. Sturz began his long career in social entrepreneurship by reforming the bail system and founding the Vera Institute of Justice. He served as New York City's Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice under Ed Koch...
Blink
A Journey Through Gangland Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
As a young man in Glasgow's underworld, Ian 'Blink' MacDonald fought, robbed and slashed his way to the top, developing a taste for the high life along the way. His notoriety earned him an offer of work from Scotland's most feared gangster, Arthur Thompson, but MacDonald had other plans: to finance...
Lucasville
The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
In telling the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history, in which hundreds of inmates seized a major area of an Ohio correctional facility, this chronicle examines the causes of the disturbance, what happened during its 11-day duration, and the fairness of the trials in the aftermath...
A Miracle, a Universe
Settling Accounts with Torturers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible...
Down Inside
Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.
In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada’s most dangerous and notorious...
by ALBERT LONDRES
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Albert Londres est un journaliste et écrivain français, né le 1er novembre 1884 à Vichy et mort le 16 mai 1932 dans l'océan Indien.
Albert LONDRES : « Je demeure convaincu qu’un journaliste n’est pas un enfant de chœur et que son rôle ne consiste...
by ALBERT LONDRES
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Albert Londres est un journaliste et écrivain français, né le 1er novembre 1884 à Vichy et mort le 16 mai 1932 dans l'océan Indien.
Albert LONDRES : « Je demeure convaincu qu’un journaliste n’est pas un enfant de chœur...
by ALBERT LONDRES
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Albert Londres est un journaliste et écrivain français, né le 1er novembre 1884 à Vichy et mort le 16 mai 1932 dans l'océan Indien.
Albert LONDRES : « Je demeure convaincu qu’un journaliste n’est pas un enfant de chœur...
Punishment and Modern Society
A Study in Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. Drawing on theorists from Durkheim to Foucault, he insightfully critiques the entire spectrum of social thought concerning punishment, and reworks...
Monkey House Blues
A Shanghai Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In 1993, Dominic Stevenson left a comfortable life with his girlfriend in Kyoto, Japan, to travel to China. His journey took him to some of the most inhospitable and dangerous places in the world, from the poppy fields of the Afghan-Pakistan border to the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road, before...