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Yorkshire Ripper - The Secret Murders
In 1981, Peter Sutcliffe, the 'Yorkshire Ripper', was convicted of thirteen murders and seven attempted murders. All his proven victims were women: most were …
Wrestling with the Devil
Ngugi wa Thiong o s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978.A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to …
The Prison Service in Britain
Conditions inside our prisons have vastly improved since the days when prisoners worked out their sentence at the crank or the treadwheel, in total silence or in solitary …
Indefinite
An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it. Jails are the principal people-processing …
Comparing Police Organizations
Police citizen encounters do not occur in a vacuum. Police systems globally have similarities and/or differences which remain largely understudied and therefore underexplained. …
Legal Professionals Negotiating the Borders of Identity
This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the Mexico-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich setting to understand the identity management …
In the World of the Outcasts
Pëtr Filippovich Iakubovich represents the many young people whose opposition to the Russian state turned to extremism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His …
Ethnicity, Race and the Prisoner Community
This book draws on an in-depth ethnographic study to explore the meanings and consequences of race and ethnicity in daily life within two Finnish male prisons.
Offender Rehabilitation Programmes
This book shows how prison officers may be able to significantly influence extra-programmatic conditions, to enhance rehabilitation outcomes and contribute to reducing reoffending. …
Gender, Prison and Reentry Experiences
This book explores the unique reentry experiences of incarcerated men and women who are about to be released from prisons in Portugal. By analysing gendered reentry experiences …
Grip of Time
"e;The book provides insight into life inside a maximum-security prison while illuminating the benefits of the craft of writing. . . . compassionate."e; -Publishers WeeklyA …
Research Agenda for a Human Rights Centred Criminology
This edited collection articulates a future direction for research at the nexus of criminology and human rights by bringing together experts from different branches of criminology …