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Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers
Correctional officers face considerable stress, risk, and danger that lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes. In fact, their life expectancy is 15 years shorter than the …
The History and Future of Correctional Psychology
Ideal for correctional psychology practitioners, students of correctional and forensic psychology, and those interested in the history of psychology, this unique volume traces the …
Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia
Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia explores the earliest historical evidence related to imprisonment in the history of the world. While many historical investigations into prisons have …
Punishment and Inequality in America
Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than seven-fold to over two million people, including vastly disproportionate numbers of …
Life Imprisonment and Human Rights
In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no …
Crime and Intelligence Analysis
Crime and Intelligence Analysis: An Integrated Real-Time Approach, 2nd Edition, covers everything crime analysts and tactical analysts need to know to be successful. Providing an …
Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence
Since 1996, death sentences in America have declined by more than 60 percent, reversing a generation-long trend toward greater acceptance of capital punishment. In theory, most …
Prostitution in der DDR
Mit der Einführung des ersten Strafgesetzbuches der DDR im Jahr 1968 galten Prostituierte nach Paragraph 249 als ›Asoziale‹ und konnten strafrechtlich verfolgt werden – ein Schritt …
Murder on the Inside
Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award • Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book“You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.” On …
Solitary Confinement
Parachuted into France as a British secret agent, Christopher Burney was arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into a solitary confinement cell in a prison outside Paris. There he …
Fatal Shore
A landmark history that confronts Britain s colonisation of Australia.In The Fatal Shore, historian and critic Robert Hughes offers a vivid, unflinching account of Britain s …
Gendered Responses to Male Offending in Barbados
It is generally accepted that men commit more crimes than women. The widespread acceptance of this view is based primarily on the number of convictions with most jurisdictions …