Penology category: 518 books
Unconstitutional Solitude
Solitary Confinement and the US Constitution’s Evolving Standards of Decency
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book examines American solitary confinement – in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time – and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny. While Eighth Amendment...
The Prisoner Society
Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
While the use of imprisonment continues to rise in developed nations, we have little sociological knowledge of the prison's inner world. Based on extensive fieldwork in a medium-security prison, The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison provides an in-depth analysis...
by Diane Enns
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
We know that violence breeds violence. We need look no further than the wars in the western Balkans, the genocide in Rwanda, or the ongoing crisis in Israel and Palestine. But we don’t know how to deal with the messy moral and political quandaries that result when victims become perpetrators. When...
The Compelling Ideal
Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society....
Polish vs. American Courtroom Discourse
Inquisitorial and Adversarial Procedures of Witness Examination in Criminal Trials
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Polish vs. American Courtroom Discourse brings together the fields of discourse analysis and socio-legal studies to identify, illustrate and explain the cross-cultural similarities and disparities between the inquisitorial and adversarial procedures of witness examination in criminal trials.
by Gerald J. Bayens
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Gunslingers, gamblers and outlaws vastly outnumbered sheriffs and marshals in the cattle towns of the Kansas frontier. Famous lawmen, such as Charlie Bassett, Wild Bill Hickok and Tom Smith, kept the peace by sheer force of personality and the integrity of the local lockup. The story of the state's...
Demystifying the Big House
Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Essays in this volume illustrate how shows such as Orange Is the New Black and Oz impact the public’s perception of crime rates, the criminal justice system, and imprisonment. Contributors look at prison wives on reality television series, portrayals of death row, breastfeeding while in prison,...
Justice Reinvestment
Winding Back Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003. This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its potential as a mechanism for winding back imprisonment rates, and its portability to Australia, the United Kingdom...
End of Its Rope
How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.
The Lone Brit on 13
A Prisoner's Hell in Spain's Toughest Jail
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
The Lone Brit on 13 is a gripping true story of violence, degradation and adventure penned in the confines of a grim Malaga prison cell. Imprisoned for drug-smuggling, the lone Brit on Wing 13, Chance, reveals the horrors he experienced among cut-throat villains and screws in the netherworld of the...
Better to be Feared
Jail Life in the Raw
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Better To Be Feared is the true story of a 48-year-old businessman who, having pled guilty to perpetrating a fraud involving a fake business contract, was plunged into the dark world of life inside some of Britain's hardest jails.
Never having had any contact with criminal justice previously,...
by Diane L. Goeres-Gardner, John Ritter
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
As the only maximum-security prison in the state, the Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) has housed some of the most violent criminals on the West Coast, including brutal serial killers Charley Panzram in 1915 and Jerry Brudos in 1969. Sixty men have been executed inside OSP. The prison was originally built...
AU BAGNE - ADIEU CAYENNE
TOME 1
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...
Gulag Town, Company Town
Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg’s eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban...