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  • A Complete Guide to the History and Inmates of the U.S. Penitentiary, District of Columbia, 1829-1862
    Mary C. Thornton / Mary CThornton
    Valuable to genealogists and history buffs, this guide provides records of the crimes and criminals plaguing Washington, DC, in the mid-19th century and of the penitentiary constructed to house them. As Washington emerged as the nation’s capital, it faced many problems, one of which was crime. Created from land ceded by Maryland and Virginia, the new federal district operated u...
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    31,39 €

  • Juvenile Justice and Alternative Education
    Nicole M. Prior
    Prior explores the connection between the quality of alternative education and juvenile delinquency using a life course perspective. Specifically, she determines that the implementation of quality assurance (QA) in alternative education disciplinary schools increased the likelihood that exiting students would return to their home school but had no effect on the students' attend...
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    76,40 €

  • Prison Rape
    Michael Singer
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    69,53 €

  • The Environmental Psychology of Prisons and Jails
    Richard E. Wener / Richard EWener
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    119,13 €

  • Cambiando de Lente
    Howard Zehr
    Spanish Translation. Crime victims have many needs, most of which our criminal justice system ignores. In fact, the justice system often increases the injury. Offenders are less ignored by this system, but their real needs-for accountability, for closure, for healing-are also left unaddressed.Such failures are not accidental, but are inherent in the very definitions and assumpt...
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    17,27 €

  • Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination
    Christian Lange
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    51,67 €

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V21 # 1 & 2
    Volume 21, Number 1 & 2 is a special double issue commemorating the 15th anniversary of Convict Criminology, which 'represents the work of convicts or ex-convicts, in possession of a Ph.D. or on their way to completing one, or enlightened academics and practitioners, who contribute to a new conversation about crime and corrections' (see www.convictcriminology.org). Dedicated to...
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    27,93 €

  • Perspectives On Evaluating Criminal Justice and Corrections
    A comprehensive and authoritative overview of issues relating to the evaluation of criminal justice/corrections ’interventions’, this book draws on a range of theoretical, cultural and epistemological perspectives with authors from a range of disciplines and countries, and provides a unique reference for academics, practitioners and policy-makers. ...
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    227,01 €

  • Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay
    Montgomery J. Granger / Montgomery JGranger
    'Hard as it is to believe, one of the most significant stories of the post-9/11 age is also one of the least known-life at Gitmo, the detention facility for many of the world’s worst terrorists. Few individuals are more qualified to tell this story than Montgomery Granger, a citizen soldier, family man, dedicated educator, and Army Reserve medical officer involved in one of the...
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    14,21 €

  • INJUSTICE...-N- GEORGIA...
    Paul JAustin
    Neoslavery, Injustice, Genocide, Racism, and Hate live in the bosom chest of the people behind the prison industry complex here in antediluvian times. Wrong turn, Georgia! Particularly the police, legislators, judges, district attorneys, prosecutors, prison officials, pardon and paroles board officials, the Governor, and most so-called defense attorneys, just to name a few! And...
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    22,17 €

  • Within Prison Walls
    Thomas Mott Osborne
    Thomas Mott Osborne’s account of his voluntary stay in Auburn State prison. Osborne, the head of a state commission on 'the prison problem,' checked into Auburn to personally experience conditions there. It is really engaging and heartfelt, as well as highly political. Osborne encountered tremendous institutional and political resistance to his reform efforts and you get a real...
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    17,53 €

  • Capital Punishment in America
    Martin G. Urbina
    Urbina's consideration of capital punishment seeks to examine racial and ethnic differences, stressing how Latinos' and Latinas' experiences are distinct from those of Caucasians and African Americans. In considering Latinos he focuses on the problem of lack of data and addresses it through several means. His goal is to go beyond traditional approaches of analyzing death penalt...
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    48,84 €

  • The Making of Captains of Lives
    CHIN KIAT CHUA
    This book tells a story of successful prison reform that brought the recidivism rate of prisoners down from 44% to 24%. In the process of this reform, the entire Prison Service was transformed from a custody focused mindset to a rehabilitation centred culture. This change was wrought despite the lack of enthusiasm of the then political leadership.The author describes his person...
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    23,91 €

  • The Little Book of Prison
    Frankie Owens
    An easy-to-read prison survival guide of do’s and don’ts. Perfect for anyone facing trial for an offence that may lead to imprisonment, their families and friends. Packed with humour as well as more serious items. Backed by prisoner support organizations. Straightforward and highly entertaining.Frankie started writing the LBP from day two of entering prison as a first-time offe...
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    16,74 €

  • Journals Kept by Mr. Gully and Capt. Denham During a Captivity in China in the Year 1842
    Captain Denham / Robert Gully
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    37,28 €

  • Yardbird USA
    Jack Cline / Jack WCline
    The setting is the United States of America, land of the free, yet the world’s leading jailer. The U.S. prison population has reached an explosion point. Attorney and author Jack W. Cline reveals the issues involved in his powerful memoir Yardbird USA: How the United States Became the World’s Leading Jailer (Musings of a Trial Lawyer).The book contains a dozen true crime cases...
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    13,05 €

  • Getting Out & Staying Out
    Demico Boothe
    The United States of America has more people behind bars than any other country in the world and every year nearly 700,000 prisoners get released back into society, the largest percentage of them being black males. "Getting Out & Staying Out" is a short, easy to read set of guidelines intended to help incarcerated and newly freed African-American men (a) learn how to most produ...
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    11,29 €

  • Murder Stories
    Paul Kaplan
    Murder Stories takes on the difficult question of American retention of capital punishment by investigating the elusive role of ideology in the law. As such it is a prime example of contemporary scholarship on the death penalty and law and society. ...
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    132,00 €

  • Aussie Prison Breaks
    Joe Tog
    Isolated in a small cell at Brisbane’s maximum-security prison awaiting trial, Joe Tog composed a series of short narratives for his defence-barrister. The purpose was to overcome confusion with the chronology of events leading up to his arrest in far North Queensland. The barrister however commented to his client during the trial that the notes gave him a clarity that he did n...
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    16,06 €

  • Diet of Worms. Quality of Catering in Kenyan Prisons
    Jacqueline Cheptepkeny Korir
    Prison-reformation has been a controversial and politically charged issue in Kenya. In the past it has elicited such legendary and emotional responses as ’What reforms? Prisons are not supposed to be five star hotels!’ Recently, however, there has been a greater consensus between the public sector and the civic society in Kenya - than has ever in the past - of the need to revis...
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    51,24 €

  • Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism
    A volume in Educational Leadership for Social JusticeSeries Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, Iowa State University, Denise E. Armstrong, Brock University; IraBogotch, Florida Atlantic University; Sandra Harris, Lamar University; Whitney H. Sherman, VirginiaCommonwealth University; George Theoharis, Syracuse UniversityEducation-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Ju...
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    71,61 €

  • Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism
    A volume in Educational Leadership for Social JusticeSeries Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, Iowa State University, Denise E. Armstrong, Brock University; IraBogotch, Florida Atlantic University; Sandra Harris, Lamar University; Whitney H. Sherman, VirginiaCommonwealth University; George Theoharis, Syracuse UniversityEducation-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Ju...
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    127,89 €

  • The State of Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales
    James Neild
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    102,71 €

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons V20 #2
    Volume 20, Number 2 is dedicated to the life and contributions of Liz Elliott, who was an active member of the JPP Editorial Board in the formative years of the Journal, and a passionate advocate for prisoners’ rights, restorative and social justice. The general section includes a number of articles that highlight the socio-politics and experiences of incarceration in the Unite...
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    17,46 €

  • Legal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah
    R. Michael Wilson
    Since statehood was achieved in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, 322 men and 2 women have been executed. The first of these post-statehood executions took place in Nevada on October 30, 1868, and the last took place in Arizona on October 26, 2010. This text provides a case history for each execution, including details of the crimes committed, pursuits and capture...
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    139,53 €

  • Bioetica y Pena de Muerte
    Octavio M. Mendoza
    La pena de muerte constituye un tema que ha cobrado enorme importancia en el ámbito internacional, debido a que su aplicación 'como retribución justa' ante los graves actos delictivos ha puesto en evidencia aristas de cualquier índole: históricas, jurídicas, filosóficas, estadísticas, psicoanalíticas y, por supuesto, éticas; de ahí que su discusión presenta un amplio espectro q...
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    39,43 €

  • Bioetica y Pena de Muerte
    Octavio M. Mendoza
    La pena de muerte constituye un tema que ha cobrado enorme importancia en el ámbito internacional, debido a que su aplicación 'como retribución justa' ante los graves actos delictivos ha puesto en evidencia aristas de cualquier índole: históricas, jurídicas, filosóficas, estadísticas, psicoanalíticas y, por supuesto, éticas; de ahí que su discusión presenta un amplio espectro q...
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    19,01 €

  • Jailhead. My Life in a Box
    Walt Wallace
    Jailhead is the story of life before and after a five-year prison sentence of the author Walt Wallace. It will describe the type of person he was before prison, the type of person he became while there and the type of person he struggled to change from on leaving the prison system. he doesl not hold back on anything and is frank about his experiences. This is not another Glas...
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    16,15 €

  • Capital Punishment
    Joseph Melusky / Keith Pesto
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    85,19 €

  • Detoured
    Jesse De La Cruz
    JESSE DE LA CRUZ was raised in the barrios of California and at the age of twelve, began a journey that led him to become a convict, heroin drug addict, and gang member who served approximately thirty years of his life at California prisons like Folsom and San Quentin. After his final release from prison, Mr. De La Cruz enrolled in college, graduat-ing with a Baccalaureate Degr...
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    11,79 €


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