Are Prisons Obsolete?

An utterly compelling journey inside the broken English prison system by a former prison social care worker.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s)...

Scientific research has achieved what thousands of years of philosophising failed to do: explain why we have morals and how they work. The answers ...

Scientific research has achieved what thousands of years of philosophising failed to do: explain why we have morals and how they work. The answers ...

Publisher: Reaktion BooksIllustration(s): 74 color plates, 46 halftonesNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 181 x 228 x 30Cover ty...

The Directory of Federal Prisons is the most comprehensive guidebook to Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities on the market. Not simply a directory ...

If police are the problem, what's the solution? Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a who...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Prisons Information GroupIllustration(s): 5 B-W IllustrationsTranslator: Erik BeranekNumber of p...

Alongside all the social, political or military conflicts that history has recorded in chronicles and archives, ever since man's creation, there is...

This book discusses the failings of the prison system in many countries and offers positive pointers for the future. It shows the way forward will ...

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An emotionally powerful novel about four women and the incredible strength it takes to live a life made invisible by others.Publisher: John Murray ...

Reducere. Greenlight: California PrisonsBy: Tony "Bandit" AlvaradoGreenlight: California Prisons is based on crimes, murders, and ordered hits by mobsters in...

Reducere. For Canadian corrections offi cer Vern Thibedeau, it all began at "Disney World"-or at least the penitentiary that ironically carried that nickname...

Reducere. In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to think for ourselves, how to und...

Reducere. The first time Billy Moore walked into his cell packed with seventy prisoners, the floor resembled a mass grave, with intertwined arms and legs, an...

The definitive guide from two leading authors central to developments in the field. An invaluable book which covers everything from theoretical and...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Lucy WillmottIllustration(s): 4 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 258Publication date: 2021Dimensio...

In 2015 the landmark suicide of the 100th woman to kill herself in prison custody passed largely unnoticed. This book by two experts set out to red...

This book challenges the Government's portrayal of competition policies as self-evident sources of improvement for public services.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Security and Operations for HMP Wormwood Scrubs. If ...

A systematic critique of imprisonment which challenges established views and myths. Examines why there still exists so much political and other mis...

Reducere. This book is about prison chaplains and their care for aging, dying, and dead prisoners in the penal systems of the United States and the United Ki...

Reducere. A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment As the effe...

Demonstrates that neither the conservative idea of deterrence through punishment nor the liberal ideal of rehabilitation has worked in practice. Th...

Publisher: Melcher MediaIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 27Cover type: ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Prof. Lynne HaneyIllustration(s): 6 maps, 16 illustrations, 3 tablesNumber of pages: 376Publica...

"I started reading this book and couldn't stop...[Love Lockdown is] a clear-eyed, compassionate look at prison love stories, and I found every rela...

Reducere. Overcrowded and understaffed, Texas prisons are nearing the meltdown stage. It wasn't always that way. A few California lawyers and an activist fed...

This book explores the relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention and prisons with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped...

What do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

"Gato's head snapped back... We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway a...

The ultimate guide to what it's like to be behind bars in America. It lays bare the day-to-day existence of prisoners and the hustles they get up t...

Wrongly convicted of the murder of a stranger, Jamie Morgan Kane entered the American prison system and was to stay there for 34 years. For the fir...

An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms ind...

Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Thi...

Reducere. Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a "fix" for the regulation ...

Reducere. Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States. In their own w...

Reducere. True crime stories provide the foundation of this prison memoir.Bill Dyer was robbed and shot at an ATM. In Doing Time with God, you go into prison...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Zara StoneIllustration(s): 31 Illustrations including: - 31 Halftones, Black & White including Black and Whit...

Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Jonathan SimonNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 140 x 208 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. DescriptionPrisons have a long and inglorious history, from dungeons in the bowels of castles to oppressive penal colonies in Australia. Karen Farr...

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have experienced life in Israel's prisons since 1967, as did many more in previous decades during the course ...

Reducere. This book is about a man who transformed his time incarcerated in the terrible Communist prisons into an opportunity to win his freedom in Christ. ...

Opens a window on the closed world of Holloway, other women's prisons and the lives of those held there in the 1970s, including Myra Hindley.

Reducere. The Shadow Man haunts penitentiary cell blocks.A chilling wind runs through the Death Tunnel.The Red Eyes Apparition lurks in abandoned hallways. E...

What was it like to be a prisoner of the Nazis in Britain during the Second World War? The first systematic study of the sources relating to prison...

Reducere. The dissemination of Dom Simon Jubani's testimony of faith, who was a priest in our Archdiocese during his lifetime, offers everyone with good will...

Reducere. The dissemination of Dom Simon Jubani's testimony of faith, who was a priest in our Archdiocese during his lifetime, offers everyone with good will...