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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

    $35.09 USD

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  • I'll Fly Away

    Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison

    by Wally Lamb, I'll Fly Away contributors ...
    “Powerful . . . In I’ll Fly Away, the women have penned well-drawn evocative pieces about their experiences . . . . Healing is happening through writing.”—Lisa Ko, author of The LeaversThe #1 New York Times bestselling author offers an inspiring new collection of writings from the members of his acclaimed program in Connecticut’s York Correctional FacilityIn 2003 Wally Lamb, published Couldn’t ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Execution

    A History of Capital Punishment in Britain

    by Simon Webb ...
    Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. This book explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means of mechanical decapitation, the Halifax Gibbet, was ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don't Shoot! I'm the Guitar Man

    by Buzzy Martin ...
    This is the story of lifelong musician Buzzy Martin, music teacher to the hardened criminals inside the walls of San Quentin Prison-and what he learned, note by incredible note. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Death Penalty on Trial

    Crisis in American Justice

    by Bill Kurtis ...
    Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that changed his life: Capital punishment is wrong. There can be no real justice in America until it is abolished.In The Death Penalty on Trial, Kurtis ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Down in the Chapel

    Religious Life in an American Prison

    by Joshua Dubler ...
    A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiaryBaraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Breaking Out Of The Rock Escape Proof Alcatraz Prison

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Alcatraz was opened as Federal penitentiary to confine the most hardened criminals in 1934. Men like Doc Barker and Al Capone were a couple of the names of its inmates. Most were incorrigibles sent from other prisons where they had been malcontents and generally a problem for guards and prison administration. Alcatraz was once described by a writer as a psychological straitjacket. It featured the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $17.09 USD

  • Let Freedom Ring

    A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners

    by Lynne Stewart, Ashanti Alston ...
    Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People’s Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence

    Practical Techniques for Early Intervention

    by Chris Newman, Kate Iwi ...
    Child protection and family workers can complete training without learning about how to work with domestic abuse perpetrators - but intervening at an early stage can make a real difference to increasing family safety.This concise book equips practitioners with the knowledge and techniques they need to make the most of limited client contact with perpetrators. It outlines how to briefly assess ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Goodbye Man

    by Chad Barton ...
    As more people filled the packed church, Jack was forced to move down the wall toward the front, until he was very near the altar. From that vantage point, he could see the young mothers face. He found himself staring at her, unable to look away. He didnt know why. Perhaps it was the terrible sadness in her face. He watched her intently as she clutched a little brown teddy bear and a picture of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Private Sector and Criminal Justice

    Edited by Anthea Hucklesby, Stuart Lister ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book brings together a collection of essays by leading criminologists to explore the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an increasingly important ‘partner’ in contemporary criminal justice with the unprecedented growth of public sector ‘outsourcing’ arrangements. This has resulted in an increasingly pluralised and marketised landscape ... Read more

    $143.09 USD