Penology category: 518 books
Billington
Victorian Executioner
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
This is the first fully comprehensive biography on the hangman James Billington, a former pub entertainer and barber who secured the post of executioner for London and the Home Counties. The reader is introduced to the real Billington, illuminating the dark side of a man who held the mandate to kill....
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The House of the Dead (Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿, Zapiski iz Myortvovo doma) is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1861 in the journal...
Les Femmes et l'adultère, de l'Antiquité à nos jours
Peines - Châtiments - Maris complaisants - Maris jaloux - Anecdotes - Situations plaisantes
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Qu'est-ce que l'adultère ? « C'est l'œuvre de chair sciemment et volontairement accomplie entre une personne mariée et une personne autre que son conjoint. » D'après Fournel, « l'adultère est une des trois espèces de délit dont les personnes de différent sexe peuvent se rendre coupables...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Alcatraz was opened as Federal penitentiary to confine the most hardened criminals in 1934. Men like Doc Barker and Al Capone were a couple of the names of its inmates. Most were incorrigibles sent from other prisons where they had been malcontents and generally a problem for guards and prison administration....
Punishment in Paradise
Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century...
Why Punish?
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Why do we punish? Is it because only punishment can achieve justice for victims and 'right the wrong' of a crime? Or is it justified because it reduces crime, by deterring potential offenders, offering rehabilitative treatment to others and incapacitating the most dangerous? The complex answers to...
In the Shadow of Death
Restorative Justice and Death Row Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
The press called Martin's actions a "crime spree." Already convicted of armed robbery, Martin was facing the death penalty. In less than two weeks the jury would decide his fate. Terrified that his son would be sentenced to die, Phillip did the only thing he felt he could do: in an act of faith and...
Alternatives to Imprisonment
Intentions and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The detrimental effects of imprisonment have been documented and accepted in most western countries. As a result, alternatives to incarceration have been sought in the effort to reform the penal system. Although during the last thirty years several Nordic official committees have recommended a reduction...
The Prison Library Primer
A Program for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
In this century the central and quintessential correctional facility program ought to be the library. While the U.S. prison industry has embraced a massive reentry movement emphasizing literacy and job readiness for former felons, prison libraries have been ignored as potential sources for reintegration....
Is William Martinez Not Our Brother?
Twenty Years of the Prison Creative Arts Project
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Praise for the Prison Creative Arts Project:
"I cannot overstate how profoundly my experience with the Prison Creative Arts Project has shaped my life. It began my engagement with prison issues, developed both my passion and my understanding of them, and I continue to draw on both as I...
by Eileen McHugh, Cayuga Museum
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
What is now called Auburn Correctional Facility has been open in Auburn since 1817, and it is the oldest continually operating prison in the country. Auburn's claim to being the preeminent American prison is bolstered by its many firsts. Auburn was the first prison in the world to house convicts in individual...
by Katy Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
The Portsmouth Naval Prison, now vacant, sits at the far end of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Seavey Island on the Maine and New Hampshire border. For over a century, "the Castle" or "the Rock," with its deceptively appealing exterior, has kept both visitors and New Hampshire residents in its thrall....
In the World
From the Big House to Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
The Hollywood ending of an adrenaline-filled and, by turns, harrowing and funny odyssey of crime and redemption in America's War on Drugs.
Smuggler's Blues, the first book in Richard Stratton's memoir of his criminal career, detailed his years as a kingpin in the Hippie Mafia. Kingpin, the second...
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Form of Futility
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
In the summer of 2008, life changed forever for Dr. Harding McRae, a Board Certified emergency physician with over 30 years of experience. In the blink of an eye, a momentary lapse in judgment resulted in a felony arrest for assault with a deadly weapon and, sixteen months later, on November 3, 2009,...