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  • Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850

    by Barry Godfrey, Heather Shore, Zoe Alker, Pamela Cox ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English juvenile reformatory system. The book breaks new ground in crime research, speaking to pressing present-day concerns around child poverty and youth justice, and resonating with a powerful public fascination for family ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Writing My Wrongs

    Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison

    by Shaka Senghor ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Behind Bars – Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner Reveals What Life is Like Inside

    by Charles Bronson ...
    Charlie has taken his 24 years of experience of prison dwelling and condensed it into one handy and comprehensive volume. Moved regularly around the prisons of the British Isles he has sampled all that prison life has to offer, taking in both the historic and pre-historic buildings that comprise Britain's infamous prison system. It's all in here from the correct way to brew vintage prison 'hooch' ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Against The Law

    by Peter Wildeblood ...
    'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter WildebloodIn March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu case. Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, along with Lord Montagu and Major Michael Pitt-Rivers. The other two men were set free ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Burning Down the House

    The End of Juvenile Prison

    by Nell Bernstein ...
    The nationally acclaimed “engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking” (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist“Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.” —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC NewsWhen teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine

    Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup

    by David Chura ...
    Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 percent, according to a 2007 survey by the Campaign for Youth. Since 1992, every state except Nebraska has passed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mass Incarceration on Trial

    A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

    by Jonathan Simon ...
    For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a tenuous order.Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trapped in a Vice

    The Consequences of Confinement for Young People

    by Alexandra Cox ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJTrapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice. Trapped in a Vice explores the lives ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Criminal Careers in Transition

    The Social Context of Desistance from Crime

    by Stephen Farrall, Ben Hunter, Gilly Sharpe, Adam Calverley ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Continuing previous work exploring why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated in the community, Criminal Careers in Transition: The Social Context of Desistance from Crime follows the completion of a fifth sweep of interviews with members of a cohort of former probationers interviewed since the late-1990s. The research undertaken since the inception of the project ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture

    Adventures in Criminalized Identities

    by Finola Farrant ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This unique book explores criminalized identities and the idea of 'viscous culture' to provide new understandings of crime, punishment and justice. It shows that viscous culture encourages some of us to become outlaws, monsters or shapeshifters who challenge systems of domination and forces of control.Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture interweaves analyses of popular culture with extensive ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Guards Imprisoned (1989)

    Correctional Officers at Work

    by Lucien Lombardo ...
    First published in 1989, Guards Imprisoned provides an in-depth look into the work and working life of prison guards as they perceive and experience it. The author, who was a teacher at Auburn Prison, New York, discovered that little was known about the guard’s perceptions of his "place" in the prison community and set out to explore the dynamics of this key correctional occupation from the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Pocket Guide to Restorative Justice

    by Pete Wallis, Barbara Tudor, Pete & Thalia Wallis ...
    This pocket-sized guide can be taken conveniently to meetings, interviews and visits, to be used as a quick reference point for information about the practical application of restorative justice.The book covers every stage of the process, from how a facilitator should prepare for taking on a new case, through initial contacts with victim and offender and facilitating meetings, to recording and ... Read more

    $19.69 USD