Penology and punishment Books

This book traces the rise of contemporary populism in Western democracies, marked by the return of would-be 'strong men' politicians. It seeks to make sense of the resultant nature, origins, and the remarkable spread of ideologies that express resistance...

Iskra Books is honored to present the latest in our Red Poetry Series, the brilliant and poignant Letters of Gratitude: I Am Because We Are, by Leon Benson. Benson, who spent twenty-five years wrongfully incarcerated by the state of Indiana, only...

This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the...

Images of Incarceration focuses on fictional portrayals of prison and prisoners to demonstrate how they are depicted in the cinema and on TV, featuring films such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Birdman of Alcatraz, Scum, McVicar, Brubaker, Cool Hand...

Condemned as a terrorist. Transformed by words. A diary of one man's journey through 17 years of imprisonment...The Boy and His Sandcastle is the inspiring true story of Zakaria Amara, a young man sentenced to life for his role in a foiled terrorist plot...

The classic and groundbreaking study of penal slavery throughout the ages is finally available again. Previously a rare book, despite the fact that it is widely quoted and cited by scholars in the field of sociology, penology, and criminology, this book...

Reaffirming Rehabilitation , 2nd Edition, brings fresh insights to one of the core works of criminal justice literature. This groundbreaking work analyzes the rehabilitative ideal within the American correctional system and discusses its relationship to...

The Midnight Express Letters is a compelling collection of letters that Billy Hayes wrote to his family, girlfriend, and friends during his years in a Turkish prison. Here is the raw source material from which Midnight Express-the worldwide best-selling...

The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of "law and order," referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons. As important as this system...

Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about...

Afghanistan is often viewed as a failing state. The international intervention, following 9/11, could fit with the country's domestic modernisation efforts, King Ammanullah's in the 1920s and Zahir Shah's in the 1960s. Yet, such developments had been...

Through the eyes of Eric Bundy.I take you through my experience,of my incarceration. I write this bookto give you an Idea of what to expectwhen faced with doing time inprison. I tell my story for the lostsouls that will never be able to telltheir story...

Das Buch ""Die Disziplinarstrafen der preu�����ischen Strafanstalten"" von Karl von Koblinski wurde im Jahr 1888 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Beschreibung der Disziplinarstrafen, die in den preu�����ischen Strafanstalten...

""Die Disciplinarstrafen In Den Oesterreichischen Strafanstalten Und Gerichtsgefangnissen"" ist ein Buch von Karl Hiller, das im Jahr 1894 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit den Disziplinarstrafen, die in ������sterreichischen...

This book explores probation staff understandings of professionalism in the aftermath of the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms to services in England and Wales. Drawing on the sociology of the professions, this book offers an original and timely...

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as 'star men', convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms.

"A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard." --Alice Walker"Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail." -Boston GlobeAfter twenty years on death row,...

Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent...

In his first book, Shane shares revealing, sometimes shocking, but always insightful true stories from his nearly 10 years in prisons from Alaska to Colorado. Told straight from the heart by arguably one of the most resilient and inspirational inmates...

26 YEARSIn "Justice for Omar," siblings embark on a harrowing journey through the corridors of injustice and the depths of familial devotion. As Omar languishes behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, his sister Rasheeda, determined to unveil the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative criminological approach.

Around one in five prisoners report the previous or current incarceration of a parent. Many such prisoners attest to the long-term negative effects of parental incarceration on one's own sense of self and on the range and quality of opportunities for...

Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition.Prison abolition is at once about...

This book explores the unique reentry experiences of incarcerated men and women who are about to be released from prisons in Portugal.

Role Exit Within Prison Officers: Returning to 'Civvy Street' explores the reasons why prison officers leave His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) England and Wales and examines the processes and trajectories involved in returning back to...

Providing an innovative contribution to our thinking about the political nature and significance of restorative justice from the specific perspective of political theory, this book will appeal to both students and scholars of restorative justice...

Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores...

In Arts in Corrections, the author-a poet, translator and teacher-takes readers on a chronological journey through an annotated selection of 24 of his own publications from 1981 to 2014 which recount his experiences teaching, consulting and documenting...

Every year, thousands of prisoners get released from jails and prisons into halfway houses, with a large percentage of them being sent back to lockup for violating rules or procedures. Halfway houses are an extremely important component to successful...

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures human...

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland, what we know about it, how it operates, how it is experienced, and how it might be...

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last twenty years and offers a critical analysis of the qualitative consequences generated by such a process on the normative structure of restorative justice, and on its...

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.Prison violence is not a random process; rates of...

The special focus of this book is the lives and experiences of women in China in the first half of the 20th century. Part One - Historical Interpretations - presents essays by Western-educated Chinese women and men, on the historical role of women in a...

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...

Leaves From A Journal Of Prison Visits, Torn Out And Tied Together is a book written by Maria Shepherd and originally published in 1857. The book is a collection of journal entries that Shepherd wrote while visiting prisoners in various jails and prisons...

This book brings together a collection of emergent research that moves the debate on desistance beyond a general consideration of individual and social structural influences. The authors examine empirical developments which have implications for policy...

Das Buch ""Der Tabak in dem Wirtschaftsleben und der Sittengeschichte der V������lker"" von Alwin Oppel aus dem Jahr 1890 behandelt die Bedeutung von Tabak in der Wirtschaft und der Kulturgeschichte der verschiedenen V������lker. Oppel geht dabei auf die...

Das Buch ""Der Vierte Internationale Gefangnisscongress In St. Peterburg Und Das Gefangnisswesen In Russland (1890)"" von M. Graeber beschreibt den vierten internationalen Gefangenenkongress, der 1890 in St. Petersburg stattfand. Der Autor behandelt...

""Etudes Sur La Question Ouvriere En Suisse"" est un livre �����crit par Raoul Jay en 1893. Ce livre est une �����tude approfondie de la question ouvri�����re en Suisse ������ l'�����poque, et explore les conditions de travail, les salaires, les...

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime? Why did one person sue for civil damages, but another let the matter drop? Legal rules are supposed to answer...

Drawing on a body of empirical, qualitative work spanning three decades, this unique text traces the significance of critical social research and critical analyses in understanding some of the most significant and controversial issues in contemporary...

How do identity and social circumstances affect experiences of the criminal legal system in the US?It's no secret that factors such as race and socio-economic status will affect a person's experience of life, and contact with the criminal legal system is...

""Della Incompatibilita Di Alcuni Concetti Di Ragion Penale"" ����� un saggio scritto da Francesco Saverio Arabia nel 1882. In questo libro, l'autore esamina la compatibilit������ e l'incompatibilit������ di alcuni concetti fondamentali della ragion...