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A History of the Assessment of Sex Offenders
Most forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers involved in the assessment of sex offenders today have a good grasp of where the field stands. Many of their …
Prisoners of Politics
A CounterPunch Best Book of the YearA Lone Star Policy Institute Recommended Book"e;If you care, as I do, about disrupting the perverse politics of criminal justice, there is …
Dementia in Prison
This innovative volume exposes dementia as a condition that the aging prison population is increasingly facing. Going beyond exploring the need to understand dementia within prison …
The Socio-economics of Crime and Justice
This book on crime and justice is motivated primarily by the idea that individual behaviour is influenced both by self-interest and by conscience, or by a sense of community …
Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty
Written by two nationally recognized experts, this book provides a comprehensive review of the legal and clinical aspects of the death penalty as it relates to intellectual …
Prisoners of Isolation
What is it really like in 'the hole'? On what basis do prison officials employ the most drastic of carceral punishments – solitary confinement – and to what effect? Michael …
Prison and Workhouse Reform in 19th-Century England
This is the first study to analyse the joint development of the prison and the workhouse in 19th-century England, focusing on the roles played by key local reformers in shaping …
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 …
IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921
IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921 features the factual accounts of 25 daring rescues, rescue attempts and jailbreaks which raised the morale of nationalist Ireland and brought world-wide …
Brief Introduction to Corrections
A Brief Introduction to Corrections is a condensed version of the best-selling Introduction to Corrections by Robert D. Hanser. This new text provides students with an overview of …
Special Issue
In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to …
"Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?"
A groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the first women’s prisonA Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated …