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El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder
“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 and into the room. I didn’t look …
Behind Bars – Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner Reveals What Life is Like Inside
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR SURVIVING LIFE IN PRISONCharles Bronson knows more about life in prison than anyone else in Britain - on either side of the bars. Jailed originally in 1974, …
The United Nations Programme on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
This book documents the evolution of the United Nations (UN) Crime Programme and its changing priorities, from the early focus on juvenile delinquency and correctional treatment, …
Tall Man: A Death in Aboriginal Australia
In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police …
Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice
The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as ‘model societies’, with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane social policies and human …
Talking with Serial Killers: Dead Men Talking
Leading crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee gained the trust of some of the most infamous convicted killers, having corresponded with them and even entered their prison lairs to …
The Brother You Choose
In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life plus thirty …
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." --TimeVolume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner's towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, …
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." --TimeVolume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor …
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." --TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, this foundational work of Soviet history is Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his …
Violence and Punishment
This innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all connected. Taking the decline of violence …