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  • Buddha Behind Bars - A Memoir
    Collin Ruiz
    Faced with a two-year federal prison sentence far away from her home and family, Collin Ruiz took her Buddhist vows and dedicated her years of incarceration to developing her Buddhist practice. A women’s federal prison became her monastery. Everyone feels trapped or imprisoned at times. Collin reminds us that even when we can’t control our circumstances, we always control our o...
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    15,60 €

  • Within Prison Walls (Heathen Edition)
    Thomas Mott Osborne
    Thomas Mott Osborne (1859-1926) was an American prison administrator, prison reformer, industrialist, and New York State political reformer, who was so inspired by Donald Lowrie’s 1912 book, My Life in Prison, and its call to action concerning prison reform, that he convinced the governor of New York to appoint him chairman of a new State Commission on Prison Reform. Then, on b...
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    13,92 €

  • The Story of Canada Blackie (Heathen Edition)
    Anne P. L. Field
    Anne Porter Lynes Field (later Lloyd, 1874-1947) was a poet and writer best known as the author of the 1915 book The Story of Canada Blackie, which she was compelled to pen after a chance meeting with New York State’s most notorious criminal John E. Murphy, alias Canada Blackie. Serving a life sentence for a robbery gone awry, he was later given an additional 10 years for attem...
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    12,00 €

  • The Ordeal
    Michael Jay Harris
    '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 post-conviction appeal process and prison itself, 'The Ordeal' offers experiences and insights gleaned from years of struggle. While there is a large amount of courtroom drama and analysis, there is also a fair am...
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    30,50 €

  • An Introduction to Penology
    Dr Helena Gosling / Lawrence Burke
    An Introduction to Penology is a concise, informative, scholarly guide that will speak to a variety of audiences interested in how the notion of punishment, plays out in community and custodial settings with people who have broken the law. ...
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    82,46 €

  • Defund DOC
    Daniel J. Simms
    Across the United States, people are waking up to the injustices and failures of mass incarceration. Most recognize that something has to change. Extreme reform is needed. This book offers a new perspective on the direction we should go. Abolishing cruel and oppressive practices, cultures, rules, regulations, and policies. Instead, focusing on treating root causes and returning...
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    8,76 €

  • Voices from Death Row
    Bruce Jackson / Diane Christian
    A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas’s Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves.Voices from Death Row is considered a classic work on the strange 'living limbo' inhabited by condemned men in Texas, who await resolution of their sentence in execution, death by other causes, commutation to a term of life sentence, or exoneration. This book offers first-p...
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    25,24 €

  • Crime and Reconciliation
    Mark Umbreit
    Crime and Reconciliation describes the original setting in the United States where contemporary restorative justice practices first took root. Having worked with the Indiana-based Prisoner and Community Together program (PACT), which eventually advocated for healing dialogue between offending and victimized parties along with family and community members, Mark Umbreit received ...
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    18,71 €

  • Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity
    Julia Hillner
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    39,76 €

  • A Land Fit for Criminals
    David Fraser
    The British public today endure some of the world’s worst crime levels. According to the government’s own estimates, 132 million indictable crimes alone are committed every year, the vast majority of which go unrecorded and undetected. Burglary is rife; street crime burgeoning and violence is escalating to unprecedented levels. Fear of crime means that many of us - especially t...
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    20,79 €

  • Licence to Kill
    David Fraser
    Based on over thirty years of research of government sentencing policy and work within the criminal justice system, David Fraser demonstrates that Britain’s increased reliance on alternatives to imprisonment has allowed violent crime to flourish. The number of life-threatening attacks has increased rapidly over the last forty years but justice officials have masked this develop...
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    19,39 €

  • Evidence of Innocence
    Edward R. Clark
    Evidence of Innocence attests to the reality that the more serious the charge, the harder it is to prove innocence - even with strong evidence that the accused was nowhere near the scene of the crime when it occurred.Among other disservices, Edward Clark’s court appointed an attorney in the small town that did not assist in jury selection, leaving Clark to choose jurors from a ...
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    24,78 €

  • The Early Release Provision
    David L. Mathis / David LMathis
    The Early Release Provision describes federal and state laws which give federal and state 'non-U.S. citizen' prisoners an opportunity to reduce their sentences (in some cases by more than 95%), leave prison, and return home.These laws have been on the books for many years. Yet, for a host of reasons, most federal and state prisoners (as well as prison staff) are unaware of thei...
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    17,26 €

  • Rethinking the Gulag
    Alan Barenberg
    The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied institutions, and brought together inmates from all the Soviet Union’s ethnicities, professions, and social...
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    49,85 €

  • From Asylum to Prison
    Anne E. Parsons / Anne EParsons
    To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the governme...
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    44,76 €

  • We Are Not Slaves
    Robert T. Chase / Robert TChase
    Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book, International Latino Book AwardsBest Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of CriminologyIn the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plan...
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    46,83 €

  • Essays of a Convict
    Celestino Colon
    Through a collection of essays and poems, Sal shows us how God took an angry bitter man bent on retribution and troublemaking and made him into a Christlike soldier for justice. Writing as a Christian and a jailhouse lawyer, Sal aims to change the world from a prison cell, and this book fulfills part of that mission. Sal writes because he believes the more people read about pri...
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    11,00 €

  • Convicts
    Clare Anderson
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    48,14 €

  • Killing Justice in the Lone Star State
    Michael O’Brien
    Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases (and some post-execution ones). The book offers a fresh perspective for campaigners and reformers which ranges across theory, policy and practice. It also explains the much criticised Texas ’law of parties.’Many organizations are engaged in a race to prevent the execution of death sentenced pris...
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    35,97 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House
    Nellie Bly
    Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in the late 1800s to shed light on the horrific conditions of Victorian mental asylums. This is the eye-opening account of her experience. Nellie Bly feigned insanity to be admitted to a mental institution with the intent of exposing its awful conditions first-hand. Her account reveals the institution’s inhumane treatment, abuse ...
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    21,35 €

  • Right Here, Right Now
    Lynden Harris
    Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: 'All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that’s love.' Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person stories of dozens of men on death rows across the country. From childhood experiences living wi...
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    21,80 €

  • Spiritual Entrepreneurs
    Brad Stoddard
    The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs. Looking for innovative solutions to the crises produced by gigantic prison populations, Florida’s Department of Corrections claims to have found a partial remedy in the form of faith and character-bas...
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    38,07 €

  • Global Perspectives on People, Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice
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    248,73 €

  • Empire of Hell
    Hilary M. Carey / Hilary MCarey
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    63,45 €

  • Quinny
    Matthew D. Hutcheson / Matthew DHutcheson
    Quinny’s father lay on the frozen, snow-covered ground bleeding to death from a gunshot wound to his neck. Hours earlier, the storm passed over the White Mountains of East Central Arizona and headed toward New Mexico. With no clouds in the sky, the cold was biting, cutting. Every labored breath froze his lungs. Even the pathetic fire struggled for life.She slowly approached him...
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    25,37 €

  • Civilization and Barbarism
    Graeme R. Newman / Graeme RNewman
    Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative.The practice of mass incarceration has come under increasing criticism by criminologists and corrections experts who, nevertheless, find themselves at a loss when it comes to offering credible, practical, and humane alternatives. In Civilization ...
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    47,17 €

  • Meditation for Prisoners
    Lewis Elbinger
    MEDITATION FOR PRISONERS I started studying meditation because I firmly expected to go to prison as a result of my refusal to participate in the Vietnam War. I knew instinctively that I would have to find resources within myself to prepare for and protect from long hours of boredom, hostile strangers and oppressive situations. These studies took me around the world and, altho...
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    10,16 €

  • Sex and Crime
    Alexandra Fanghanel / Emma Milne / Giulia F. Zampini
    A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. ...
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    97,27 €

  • For Abolition
    David Scott
    According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ’Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.’ Connecting the politics of abolition to wider emancipatory struggles for liberation and social justice, this book argues that penal abolitionism should be understood as an important public critical pedagogy and philosophy of hope that can help t...
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    47,92 €

  • Prison Dog Programs
    Mary Renck Jalongo
    This edited volume brings together a diverse group of contributors to create a review of research and an agenda for the future of dog care and training in correctional facilities. Bolstered by research that documents the potential benefits of HAI, many correctional facilities have implemented prison dog programs that involve inmates in the care and training of canines, not only...
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    124,16 €


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