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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 …
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 …
Women in Correctional Homes in West Bengal
On the Crisis of Boko Haram Terrorism
The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. It describes the terrorism …
Price Of Punishment: Public Spending For Corrections In New York
Despite the intensity of the national debate concerning control and correctional policies, neither the costs of existing agencies nor of alternative approaches are adequately …
Food as a Mechanism of Control and Resistance in Jails and Prisons
Murguia explores food and foodways within institutions of incarceration. Food, like all resources within total institutions, is vulnerable to social manipulation. Within jail and …