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The Prison Community was a landmark study on prison culture and social processes, first published in 1940 (and reissued in 1958).

Follows forty juvenile male offenders, from their first-time admissions to the Ohio system through their incarceration and reentry into the community. The author conducted three …

The question "e;What can justify criminal punishment ?"e; becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only …

Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these connections gave rise to a small but well-focused reform …

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups. This book opens up the closed …

Private prisons have become an integral part of the penal system in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. There already are over 100 such prisons in these …

This book highlights the myriad factors that can impact the children of incarcerated parents. It is no secret that the United States continues to be the leading nation for the …

**Winner of a Koestler Trust Silver Award*** and the only book of its kind by a serving lifer.

This is a story about what the justice system does to people long before-and long after-a sentence is handed down. It is not a story about innocence or guilt.Real Men Wear Beige …

';When I testify in court, I am often asked: ';What is the damage of long-term solitary confinement?' ... Many prisoners emerge from prison after years in solitary with very …

The dramatic increase in U.S. prison populations since the 1970s is often blamed on the mandatory sentencing required by “three strikes” laws and other punitive crime bills. …