Penology category: 518 books
by Winifred Louise Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
The Man Behind the bars by Winifred Louise Taylor.
A study of prisons, and men in prison, over a century ago. Once one has digested this book, one realizes that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Read this one, and you will find yourself questioning things a lot.
Beyond Incarceration
Safety and True Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
A call to replace Canada’s incarceration model, which has proven destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and — most of all — unnecessary.
Imprisonment developed in the Western world as the punishment to suit all offences, from violent assault to victimless drug use....
Understanding Mass Incarceration
A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our criminal justice system? Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in...
Convicted and Condemned
The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Winner, W. E. B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
Through the compelling words of former prisoners, Convicted and Condemned examines the lifelong consequences of a felony conviction.
Felony convictions restrict social...
Parole in Canada
Gender and Diversity in the Federal System
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Just as Canada’s population has changed in the past four decades, so too has its prison population. The increasing diversity among prisoners raises important questions about how we punish those who break the law. Parole in Canada is the first book to explore how concerns about aboriginality, gender,...
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Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
How America’s prisons turned a “brutal and inhumane” practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact...
No Bond but the Law
Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination...
Long Way Home
A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Nineteen-year-old Jovan Mosley, a good kid from one of Chicago’s very bad neighborhoods, was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn’t commit. Charged with murder, he spent five years and eight months in a prison for violent criminals. Without a trial.
Jovan grew up on the rough streets...
by Alexander Berkman
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
"A book of rare power and beauty, majestic in its structure, filled with the truth of imagination and the truth of actuality, emphatic in its declarations and noble in its reach."-Bayard Boyesen, Mother Earth. "No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society."-...
Life on the Outside
The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
A groundbreaking work of reportage on the hidden consequences of America's prison boom
Life On the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine-a first offense under New York's harsh Rockefeller drug laws. The book opens on...
La fuga del Chapo
Crónica de un desastre
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 13, 2015
La fuga de Joaquín Guzmán Loera la noche del 11 de julio de 2015 de la prisión de El Altiplano se ha transformado en un ícono de la debacle de la política de seguridad en el México de Enrique Peña Nieto.
El multipremiado periodista Raymundo Riva Palacio explica en este libro cómo fue...
by J. Sanmartín, Isabel Iborra, María Jesús Hernández
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Este es el primer número de la revista Criminología y Justicia, editada por la Sociedad Criminológica Balear y que representa el complemento a la web que con el mismo nombre intenta promover la criminología desde una perspectiva apta para todos los lectores, sin caer en...
Incarceration Nations
A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
In this crucial study, named one of the Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2016 and now in paperback, Baz Dreisinger goes behind bars in nine countries to investigate the current conditions in prisons worldwide.
Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is...
El asesino que no seremos
Biografía melancólica de un pandillero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 20, 2017
La estremecedora biografía de un hombre que buscaba el sueño americano y encontró, en cambio, la más terrible pesadilla.
Tras quince años de cárcel, Ed logró regresar de los sótanos del sistema con la firme convicción de rehacer su vida.
Ed pertenece a los llamados dreamers,...