Penology category: 518 books
The House of the Dead
Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Winner of the Cundill History Prize
The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million...
by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post).
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil...
Death Penalty on Trial
Crisis in American Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that changed his life: Capital punishment is wrong....
Mass Incarceration on Trial
A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns,...
Disorderly Families
Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of arrest (lettres de cachet) from France’s Ancien Régime were often associated with excessive...
by Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet, Jim Chevallier
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The Bastille is most known for being destroyed - it has endured as a symbol of absolute power that fell to popular anger. But few people, even in France, know anything about the actual prison, notably what it was like inside and the details of how the prisoners were really treated. As it happens,...
by Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Mass incarceration has become a lucrative industry, and the criminal justice system is plagued with bias and unjust practices. And the church has unwittingly contributed...
Sex Trafficking in the United States
Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Sex Trafficking in the United States is a unique exploration of the underlying dynamics of sex trafficking. This comprehensive volume examines the common risk factors for those who become victims, and the barriers they face when they try to leave. It also looks at how and why sex traffickers enter...
For the Children?
Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
“Childhood has never been available to all.” In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the...
Addicted to Rehab
Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
After decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment.
In Addicted to Rehab, Bard College sociologist Allison...
Shapeshifting for Correctional Facility CNT/HNT
Effective Scenario Training for Crisis/Hostage Negotiation Teams
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Hostage Negotiation Within Correctional Facilities
This book concerns crisis/hostage negotiation within correctional facilities. It is not only for ‘in-house’ CNT/HNT teams within prisons. Most jails and other community level correctional facilities do not have their own negotiation team...
Beyond Bars
Rejoining Society After Prison
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Can the common criminal get a fresh start?
An essential resource for former convicts and their families post-incarceration. The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, with currently over 7 million adults and juveniles in jail, prison, or community custody. Because...
Changing the Guard
Private Prisons and the Control of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
When prison privatization began in the United States in the early 1980s, many policy analysts claimed that the result would be higher costs, declining quality, and an erosion of state authority. Bringing together five of the leading researchers of prison privatization and criminology, this authoritative...
by W H Davenport
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
This short piece is a look inside working and some of the inmates of the Work-House on Blackwell's Island in New York City during the Mid 19th century. The work-house was filled with the poor and the petty criminals. The Penitentiary was filled with the big time criminals.