Penology category: 518 books
Homeward
Life in the Year After Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In these circumstances, how do former prisoners navigate reentering society? In Homeward, sociologist Bruce Western examines...
by Mary F. Bosworth
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Explaining U.S. Imprisonment examines women in prison, minorities, the historical path to the modern prison, a wide range of contemporary issues, and social influences on prison reform. While focusing on prisons, this one-of-a-kind book is written within the context of the sociology of punishment...
by Edward J. Latessa, Paula Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Corrections in the Community, Sixth Edition, examines the current state of community corrections and proposes an evidence-based approach to making programs more effective. As the U.S. prison system approaches meltdown, options like probation, parole, alternative sentencing, and both residential and...
Exonerated
A History of the Innocence Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice.
Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the cause célèbre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions....
Transforming probation
Social theories and the criminal justice system
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Written by an established author in the field, this book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system. It is unique in drawing upon innovative social theories and moral perspectives to analyse changes in the probation service by including data...
Trapped in a Vice
The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is...
After Prisons?
Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
As recently as five years ago mass incarceration was widely considered to be a central, permanent feature of the political and social landscape. The number of people in U.S. prisons is still without historic parallel anywhere in the world or in U.S. history. But in the last few years, the population...
by Yoshie Lewis, Brian Allison
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
As Tennessee grew into a modern state, it found itself increasingly beset by crime. In 1831, the legislature approved the construction of the first penitentiary. The pen world was violent and dark, with several major riots, fires, and escape attempts throughout the years. However, the prison also gave...
by Michigan State University School of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Local police and sheriff’s deputies are in the news every day. They are under scrutiny like never before and stereotypes about them and the way the perform their duties abound. News coverage and the proliferation of tools such as cellphone and body cameras make their work more visible, even as police...
by Geoffrey Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
How did it feel to be faced with the prospect of being branded, pressed to death or boiled alive in oil?
In this classic account of the history of torture, Geoffrey Abbott guides us through some of the worst torture methods known to man, from chilli powder punishment to needles under nails,...
Prisoner in the Kitchen
The Car Thief, the Murderer, and the Man Hired to Feed Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Winner of Simon & Schuster’s memoir contest in conjunction with AARP and the Huffington Post, the memoir of a man’s coming-of-age as a civilian cook in a maximum-security prison.
In 1973, recent Montana transplant William Bonham desperately needs a job. Hoping to take advantage of his background...
Angels with Dirty Faces
Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
"There was a time I believed prisons existed to rehabilitate people, to make our communities safer. . . . When I saw for the first time (but not the last) a mother sobbing and clutching her son when visiting hours were up, only to be physically pried off and escorted out by guards, I knew nothing...
Prison Policy in Ireland
Politics, Penal-Welfarism and Political Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This book is the first examination of the history of prison policy in Ireland. Despite sharing a legal and penal heritage with the United Kingdom, Ireland’s prison policy has taken a different path. This book examines how penal-welfarism was experienced in Ireland, shedding further light on the...
by Toussaint Losier, Dan Berger
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world...