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  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind

    Why Britain's Prisons Are Failing

    by John Podmore ...
    At the heart of his book is his conclusion that prison simply does not work, failing on three fundamental levels. The view of the popular media is that when prisoners are locked up they cannot commit crime. This is not true. Podmore shows how crime actually proliferates in prison, how serious organised crime is allowed to flourish there through bad management, and how the UK's prisons are a multi ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Psychiatry in Prisons

    A Comprehensive Handbook

    by Janet Parrott, Ceri Evans, Charles Scott, Natalie Pyszora, Rebecca Milner, Richard Taylor, David Ndegwa, Barbara McDermott, Maria Fotiadou, John Podmore, Danny Sullivan, Crystal Romilly, David Crighton, Graham Towl, Donald Grubin, Ian Cumming, Huw Stone, James Tighe, Kiriakos Xenitidis, Mark Morris, Julie Withecomb, Julian Walker, Phil Brinded, Preeti Chhabra, Raj Dhar, Tish Laing-Morton, Andrew Forrester, Gabrielle Brown, Jessica Yakeley, Simon Wilson, Seena Fazel, Dr Gwen Adshead ...
    Series series Forensic Focus
    Psychiatry in Prisons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, problems and development of psychiatric health care in prisons, focusing particularly on the UK. The contributors tackle a broad range of issues, from familiar mental health issues such as substance misuse, self-injury and health screening to complex legal, moral and philosophical dilemmas. It also draws comparisons with the ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

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  • Without Conscience

    The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

    by Robert D. Hare, PhD ...
    Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines. With their flagrant criminal violation of society's rules, serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy are among the most dramatic examples of the psychopath. Individuals with this personality disorder are ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Prime

    Prepare and Repair Your Body for Spontaneous Weight Loss

    by Kulreet Chaudhary ...
    Prepared to live at your prime?Integrative neurologist Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary discovered a beautiful side effect to the eating and lifestyle tools she gave her brain patients--spontaneously shedding excess pounds. In this, her first book, she shows us how to sharpen the brain, and smarten and heal the gut.Weight gain is not about the food, but about the body’s environment. Excess weight is a result ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Social Control of Sex Offenders

    A Cultural History

    by D. Richard Laws ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders. It shows that the social problem of sex offending is not apparently resolvable by any of the means currently employed.A large array of procedures are used in the attempt to control the difficult population of sex offenders, including: imprisonment, institutional ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Creating Person-Centred Organisations

    Strategies and Tools for Managing Change in Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector

    by Stephen Stirk, Helen Sanderson ...
    Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised services. Key issues covered include attending to the vision, strategy and business planning of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Dead Reckoning

    How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father

    by Carys Cragg ...
    When Carys Cragg was eleven, her father was brutally murdered during a home invasion. Twenty years later, she decides to contact his murderer in prison, and by doing so comes across startling new information about the crime. In this powerful and emotional memoir, she learns of his horrific childhood, and the reasons he lied about the murder; in turn, he learns about the man he killed. She mines ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mental Health Nursing

    An Evidence Based Introduction

    Edited by Steven Pryjmachuk ...
    Do you want to know how to help people with mental health problems?This book introduces you to the core skills and essential knowledge you need to deliver high-quality care.Mental Health Nursing is a practical, values- and evidence-based resource which will guide and support you through your pre-registration mental health nursing programme and into your own practice.Dedicated chapters focus on the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders

    An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing

    by Tom Clarke, Katie Downes, Valerie Anne Brown, Miranda Barber, Dr Gwen Adshead, Sarita Bose, Gillian Tuck, Christopher Scanlon, Amanda Lowdell, Stephen Mackie, Malcolm Kay, Rebecca Neeld, Maria McMillan, Suzanne McMillan, Joanne Roberts, Neil Gordon ...
    Series series Forensic Focus
    Working in any area of mental health nursing presents complex issues regarding the nurse-patient relationship. For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, relationships with patients and colleagues can be particularly emotionally intense and sometimes difficult to express. This book attempts to understand and articulate the emotional labour of forensic nursing and explores the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Criminal Personality

    A Profile for Change, Volume I

    by Samuel Yochelson, Stanton Samenow ...
    The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot be explained by sociologic or psychologic explanations alone.A Jason Aronson Book ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Long Way Home

    A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him

    by Laura Caldwell ...
    Nineteen-year-old Jovan Mosley, a good kid from one of Chicago’s very bad neighborhoods, was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn’t commit. Charged with murder, he spent five years and eight months in a prison for violent criminals. Without a trial.Jovan grew up on the rough streets of Chicago’s Southeast Side. With one brother dead of HIV complications, another in jail for arson and murder, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • God of the Rodeo

    The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison

    by Daniel Bergner ...
    Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. The convicts, sentenced to life without parole, were thrown, trampled, and gored by bucking bulls and broncos before thousands of cheering ... Read more

    $4.99 USD