Penology category: 518 books
Smart Decarceration
Achieving Criminal Justice Transformation in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Smart Decarceration is a forward-thinking, practical volume that provides innovative concepts and concrete strategies for ushering in an era of decarceration -- a proactive and effective undoing of the era of mass incarceration. The text grapples with tough questions and takes up the challenge of...
Up in Here
Jailing Kids on Chicago's Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Raised in a comfortable Dallas suburb, Mark Dostert crossed cultural and socioeconomic boundaries as a college student by volunteering as a counselor at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, Chicago’s infamous 500-cell juvenile jail, known locally as the Audy Home. Inmates there had...
Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory
Alienation and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory develops a new conception of prison infrastructure, organization, and policy to explore how workers and administrators are essential in the development of culture and morality within the prison environment. Stephen C. McGuinn demonstrates that effective...
by Andrew Goldsmith, Mark Halsey, Andrew Groves
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Corruption is a problem in prisons about which we hear very little, except when there is an escape from custody or other scandal that makes the media. The closed nature of correctional institutions has made the activities that go on within them less visible to the outside world. While some persons...
Measuring Prison Performance
Government Privatization and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
Gaes and his distinguished coauthors offer a comprehensive analysis of public versus private management of prisons, a competition that originated in the 1980s with the introduction of private facilities into the criminal justice system. The authors argue that prison performance must be measured in...
Incarceration and Regime Change
European Prisons during and after the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Political instability is nearly always accompanied by fuller prisons, and this was particularly true during the “long” Second World War, when military mobilization, social disorder, wrenching political changes, and shifting national boundaries swelled the ranks of the imprisoned and broadened...
Policing and Security in Practice
Challenges and Achievements
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This volume addresses critical questions about how to achieve the best outcomes from police and security providers by reviewing and critiquing the scientific literature and identifying best practice guidelines. Chapters cover a range of topical issues, including legitimacy, organised crime, public protests and intelligence and investigations.
by Jose Manuel Ferro Veiga
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 25, 2014
El terrorismo viola sistemáticamente los derechos fundamentales y las libertades públicas, afecta el normal funcionamiento de las instituciones en el contexto de democracias liberales, como es el caso de la española, y condiciona el normal desenvolvimiento de la sociedad civil....
by Jose Manuel Ferro Veiga
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Ante todo indicar al lector que éste no es un manual que estudie el aspecto legal de la protección del patrimonio personal y empresarial, sino que su objetivo está destinado a que de una forma totalmente práctica se inicie la seguridad privada, tratando aspectos tan destacados...
Lazarillos del Siglo XXI
Timos: clásicos y modernos, aún funcionan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Hay cosas que no cambian: cada día amanece, cada semana juega nuestro equipo de fútbol y cada otoño caen las hojas de los árboles y comienza la temporada de recogida de setas. Pero también ocurren otras cosas: cada semana las calles contemplan asombradas cómo...
Social work with sex offenders
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. It addresses the emotional impacts of ‘facing the sex offender’, the importance of values and ethics in practice, and reviews popular and academic understandings of sex...
Criminal Justice Theory
Explaining the Nature and Behavior of Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Criminal Justice Theory, Second Edition is the first and only text, edited by U.S. criminal justice educators, on the theoretical foundations of criminal justice, not criminological theory. This new edition includes entirely new chapters as well as revisions to all others, with an eye to accessibility...
What is to Be Done About Crime and Punishment?
Towards a 'Public Criminology'
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This book responds to the claim that criminology is becoming socially and politically irrelevant despite its exponential expansion as an academic sub-discipline. It does so by addressing the question 'what is to be done' in relation to a number of major issues associated with crime and punishment.
The...
Liberating Minds
The Case for College in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
An authoritative and thought-provoking argument for offering free college in prisons—from the former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Anthony Cardenales was a stickup artist in the Bronx before spending seventeen years in prison. Today he is a senior manager at a recycling...