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Queer Outside in Law
This book contributes to current debates about "e;queer outsides"e; and "e;queer outsiders"e; that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the …
Buddhisten på dødscellen
Jarvis Jay Masters hadde en tøff oppvekst. Han tilbrakte tenårene i ungdomsfengsler og endte til slutt i det beryktede fengselet San Quentin. Under soningen ble han lurt i en felle …
Enforcing Religious Freedom in Prison
Prisoners in federal and state institutions retain certain religious exercise rights under the Constitution and statutes. This book focuses on the government's efforts to enforce …
War Stories
Here is Gregory, who spent two years in solitary confinement before he was convicted of any crime; here is Ethiop, who was imprisoned for homicide despite the absence of a murder …
Protecting Prisoners
Prisoners are a uniquely vulnerable social group and protecting them from oppressive states has given rise to a complex web of standards generated by a variety of international …
Imaginary Penalities
This book is concerned to explore the idea of imaginary penalities and to understand why the management of criminal justice and criminal justice systems has so often reached crisis …
Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States, 2d ed.
This updated encyclopedia provides ready information on all aspects of capital punishment in America. It details virtually every capital punishment decision rendered by the United …
Body Searches and Imprisonment
This book explores and addresses body search practices in prison environments from different angles (criminology, sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such practices in …
The Costs of Crime and Justice
This book presents a comprehensive view of the financial and non-financial consequences of criminal behavior, crime prevention, and society’s response to crime. Crime costs are …
Lived Religion, Conversion and Recovery
The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery. The contributions explore the complex interactions that occur …
Solitary confinement
Why is solitary confinement used in today's world? Does it help the rehabilitation of offenders? And how is policy affected by justification for the use of it? This book is the …
Quantifying Resistance
This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an …