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Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]
BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY. TimeVolume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winners towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he …
When the Hangman Came to Galway
The paths of a secret paramour, a jilted lover and a reluctant hangman cross in one fateful winter week in Galway, 1885 James Berry was the notorious hangman who ended the lives of …
Punishment in Contemporary China
Punishment in contemporary China has experienced dramatic shifts over the last seven decades or so. This book focuses on the evolution, development and change of punishment in the …
Prison Writing and the Literary World
Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writingand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representationand formal aesthetics, …
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and …
Counseling Women in Prison
It has been said that the criminal justice system is a system of men, for men. Women certainly are the minorityùboth as offenders and as professionals in the corrections systems. …
Gangs and Minorities in Singapore
This book is a unique ethnographic study of a racially exclusive Malay Muslim gang, Omega, which has its roots in Singapore’s prisons and controls much of the illicit drug trade in …
Prisoners in Prison Societies
Prisoners in Prison Societies is a study of criminal career patterns over time, demonstrating specifically how and in what ways imprisonment has a positive correlation with later …
'Terror to Evil-Doers'
This is the history of the foundations of modern carceral institutions in Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of previously unexplored primary material - including the papers of …
Prison and Social Death
The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is to face systematic violence, humiliation, and, perhaps worst of …
The Modern English Prison
Originally published in 1934, The Modern English Prison was prepared in the belief that among the growing literature of crime and the treatment of crime, there should be some room …
Gangs and Spirituality
This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with male gang members and …