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  • Higher Education and Police

    An International View

    Edited by Colin Rogers, Bernhard Frevel ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This edited collection is concerned with the ideas, challenges, demands and framework of conditions behind police education from an international perspective. Whilst not directly concerned with a classical comparison of education concepts from different countries, the broad range of international contributors consider issues such as professionalization programmes, how higher education programmes ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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    Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment WeeklyJohn Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone terribly awry.In the Major League draft of 1971, the first ... Read more

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  • Down Inside

    Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service

    by Robert Clark ...
    A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada's most dangerous and notorious prisoners, including Paul Bernardo and Tyrone Conn. He dealt with escapes, lockdowns, prisoner murders, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Hard Time

    Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada

    by Ted McCoy ...
    Prisons have always existed in a climate of crisis. The penitentiary emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth century as an enlightened alternative to brute punishment, one that would focus on rehabilitation and the inculcation of mainstream social values. Central to this goal was physical labour. The penitentiary was constructed according to a plan that would harness the energies of the ... Read more

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  • Understanding Mass Incarceration

    A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time

    by James Kilgore ...
    A brilliant overview of America’s defining human rights crisis and a “much-needed introduction to the racial, political, and economic dimensions of mass incarceration” (Michelle Alexander)Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in place by the world’s largest jailer: the United States.Drawing on a growing body of academic and ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of the Prison

    The Practice of Punishment in Western Society

    Edited by Norval Morris, David J. Rothman ...
    The word "prison" immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards. They seem to be the inevitable and permanent marks of confinement, as though prisons were a timeless institution stretching from medieval stone dungeons to the current era of steel boxes. But centuries of development ... Read more

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  • A Suitable Amount of Crime

    by Nils Christie ...
    Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values. In this book, Nils Christie argues that crime is a fluid and shallow concept - acts that could be construed as criminal are unlimited and crime is therefore in endless supply. It should not be forgotten that there are alternatives, both in the definition ... Read more

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  • Prison Policy in Ireland

    Politics, Penal-Welfarism and Political Imprisonment

    by Mary Rogan ...
    This book is the first examination of the history of prison policy in Ireland. Despite sharing a legal and penal heritage with the United Kingdom, Ireland’s prison policy has taken a different path. This book examines how penal-welfarism was experienced in Ireland, shedding further light on the nature of this concept as developed by David Garland. While the book has an Irish focus, it has a ... Read more

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  • Punishment and Democracy

    Three Strikes and You're Out in California

    by Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins, Sam Kamin ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    "Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a third felony conviction, have been passed in 26 states. California's version of the "three strikes" ... Read more

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  • Prisoner Reentry

    Critical Issues and Policy Directions

    Edited by Stan Stojkovic ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book addresses the core issues in prisoner reentry into society after incarceration. The chapters are written by academic scholars who have much experience researching and writing about prisoner reentry and by people who work in the field of prison reentry. Comprising reviews of empirical literature, this study is also supplemented by the workings of a reentry agency in the state of ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Special Needs Offenders in Correctional Institutions

    Edited by Lior Gideon ...
    Effective treatment and preparation for successful reintegration can be better achieved if the needs and risks of incarcerated offenders are taken into consideration by correctional practitioners and scholars. Special Needs Offenders in Correctional Institutions offers a unique opportunity to examine the different populations behind bars (e.g. chronically and mentally ill, homosexual, illegal ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making

    Edited by Wim Bernasco, Henk Elffers, Jean-Louis van Gelder ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provide high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making, such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. ... Read more

    $133.19 USD