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Violence of Incarceration
Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the …
Narcotic Farm
The United States Narcotic Farm opened in 1935 in the rolling hills of Kentucky horse country. Portrayed in the press as everything from a "e;New Deal for the drug …
The Governor
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of …
Monitoring Penal Policy in Europe
The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies. This is particularly the case …
Better to be Feared
Better To Be Feared is the true story of a 48-year-old businessman who, having pled guilty to perpetrating a fraud involving a fake business contract, was plunged into the dark …
Life Imprisonment
Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in …
Investment of Criminal Proceeds into the Legitimate Economy
This book explores the infiltration of Italian and Russian organised crime in the UK real estate market, assessing how vulnerable the UK is to these sorts of activities. It …
Challenges in the Management of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence
This book provides an up-to-date analysis of major issues in the field of sexual abuse, both established and emerging, and asks how we can develop the most evidence-based, …
Impermissible Punishments
An original transatlantic history of the invention of the corrections profession and of ensuing debates about punishment's purposes and prisoners' rights. Impermissible Punishments …
Executioner's Current
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an …
The Politics of the Prison and the Prisoner
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the role of the prison as a source of political ideas and site of political engagement, as well as in the prisoner’s …
Historical Geographies of Prisons
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral …