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Crossing the River Styx
The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia's death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty-now outlawed in Virginia-while …
Healing Stage
Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the …
Incarcerated Juveniles in Ghana
This book presents a rare ethnographic account of young people’s experiences within Ghana’s custodial and correctional institutions. From an actor-oriented perspective and grounded …
The Ordeal
"The Ordeal" is a detailed look at what occurs when a person is falsely accused of child molestation. From the first allegation to the flawed conviction and on to the …
Prison Bureaucracies in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras
Modern criminal justice institutions globally include police, criminal courts, and prisons. Prisons, unlike courts which developed out of an old aristocratic function and unlike …
A Closer Look at Prisons and Prison Inmates
The Man Who Emptied Death Row
This book traces a political career of patronage and corruption. George H. Ryan, Illinois governor from 1999 to 2003, became nationally known for two significant and very different …
American Political Prisoners
This book is the first account of the personal lives of the nearly 1,000 long-term political prisoners arrested under various sedition laws for their opposition to World War I, …
Pracademics in Criminal Justice
Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles …
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth …
Lynching in North Carolina
From the end of the Civil War through 1941, a total of 168 North Carolinians lost their lives to lynching. This form of mob violence was often justified as a means of …
Restorative Justice
'The book embodies a timely collection of restorative justice topics and is well structured with some of the most learned authorities in the field' - Magistrate 'The team which …