Penology category: 518 books
Kommando Spezialkräfte 3
Division Spezielle Operationen
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Kommando Spezialkräfte 3 - Division Spezielle Operationen
„Die Fähigkeit, im Notfall eigene Staatsbürger im Ausland aus Gefahr für Leib und Leben retten zu können, gehört zur grundlegenden Verantwortung eines jeden Staates.“ „Die Bundesregierung betrachtet...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The Routledge Handbook of International Criminology brings together the latest thinking and findings from a diverse group of both senior and promising young scholars from around the globe. This collaborative project articulates a new way of thinking about criminology that extends existing perspectives...
by Michael E. Telzrow, Neville Public Museum of Brown County
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
In 1897, the Wisconsin state legislature approved the creation of the Wisconsin State Reformatory on a 200-acre site between Green Bay and De Pere. It was born during a period of profound change when liberal reformers began to question the traditional punitive approach employed in American prisons. The...
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Life Behind Bars in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year, and it is estimated that 6 to 7 percent of the U.S. population will be confined in their lifetimes. Despite these disturbing numbers, little is known about life inside beyond the mythology of popular culture.
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by Bruce Whitmarsh, William G. Hinkle
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The Elmira Reformatory, established in 1876 in Elmira, New York, was a testament to the most interesting, most scientific, and most hopeful treatment of the convicted criminal that has ever been tried in the United States. It conformed to what were considered sound theories, and the results were good...
A Community-Based Approach to the Reduction of Sexual Reoffending
Circles of Support and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community. This innovative strategy, which helps the offender both to maintain accountability and reintegrate into the community, is proven to be effective...
NoNonsense Legalizing Drugs
How to end the war
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
The question is no longer if we should end the war on drugs but how do we do it.
This latest addition to the NoNonsense series counts the human and financial cost of fifty years drug war-and proceeds to outline a better way, looking at where drug law reform is already working, how to overcome...
Boy With A Knife
A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner's Fight for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Nearly a quarter of a million youth are tried, sentenced, or imprisoned as adults every year across the United States. On any given day, ten thousand youth are detained or incarcerated in adult jails and prisons.
Putting a human face to these sobering statistics, Boy With A Knife tells the...
by Susan Aldous
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Susan Aldous had been on a path to self-destruction when she decided to give her life to others instead of wasting it away in Melbourne's dark underbelly. Working as a Playboy bunny girl, an admirer sponsored her to travel abroad for charity.
She left a world of drugs and petty crime behind...
Safe Behind Bars:
Communication, Control, and De-escalation of Mentally Ill & Aggressive Inmates - A Comprehensive Guidebook for Correctional Offices in Jail Settings
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Inmates in correctional facilities suffering from psychiatric or substance abuse disorders sometimes display any one of a number of frightening behaviors: verbal outbursts, physical threats and even violence. This comprehensive guidebook offers correctional officers in jail settings strategies to...
The Making of Captains of Lives
Prison Reform in Singapore: 1999 to 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This book tells a story of successful prison reform that brought the recidivism rate of prisoners down from 44% to 24%. In the process of this reform, the entire Prison Service was transformed from a custody focused mindset to a rehabilitation centred culture. This change was wrought despite the lack...
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Color Behind Bars: Racism in the U.S. Prison System [2 volumes]
Racism in the U.S. Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
A diverse, critical analysis of racial and ethnic disparities within the American criminal justice system that encourages critical thinking by providing various sides to the issues.
• Presents a historical examination of racial and ethnic influences in the early formation of the criminal...
by Denis MacShane
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014
Two days before Christmas 2013, former MP Denis MacShane entered one of Europe's harshest prisons. Having pleaded guilty to false accounting at the Old Bailey, he had been sentenced to six months in jail. Upon arrival at Belmarsh Prison, his books and personal possessions were confiscated and he was...
The Prisoners' World
Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching prison college and volunteer classes in eleven Michigan and California prisons, The Prisoners' World strives to make the 'prisoners' voice' come alive for regular college students. The book starts off by tracing shifts in social definitions of criminality,...