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Homosexuality in Prisons
ISBN: 9781410217011 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS: Preface Introduction The Context of Prison Sexual Adjustment Prison Social Organization Prison Social Climate Non-Institutional Factors Affecting Sexual Adjustment Homosexuality in Male Institutions Incidence Prison Sexual Roles Homosexuality in Female Institutions Racial Factors in Prison Homosexuality Problem Definition and Solution Varieties of Intervention Administrative Responses Treatment Strategies Legal Measures Toward an Action and Research Strategy Notes Bibliography
CONTENTS: Preface Introduction The Context of Prison Sexual Adjustment Prison Social Organization Prison Social Climate Non-Institutional Factors Affe...
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96,84 zł |
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The Key to Freedom from Captivity
ISBN: 9781410791481 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,31 zł |
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Ironies of Imprisonment
ISBN: 9781412904803 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ironies of Imprisonment examines in-depth an array of problems confronting correctional programs and policies from the author's singular and consistent critical viewpoint. The book challenges the prevailing logic of mass incarceration and traces the ironies of imprisonment to their root causes, manifesting in social, political, economic, and racial inequality. Unique and accessible, this book promises to stimulate spirited discussion and debate over the use of prisons. Ironies of Imprisonment examines in-depth an array of problems confronting correctional programs and policies from the author's singular and consis... |
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648,74 zł |
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Prisons Across America
ISBN: 9781414022529 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,81 zł |
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Survival of the Fittest
ISBN: 9781420876109 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,98 zł |
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Stories of Transformative Justice
ISBN: 9781551301747 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,26 zł |
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Harsh Punishment: International Experiences of Women's Imprisonment
ISBN: 9781555534110 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the number of incarcerated women is dramatically escalating, women prisoners throughout the world are largely an invisible and neglected population. These comparative essays examine thoroughly the unique problems, challenges, and issues facing women inmates in the United States, Canada, England, New Zealand, Poland, and Thailand. The insightful volume fills a major gap in criminal justice literature, and it provides a solid basis for further discussion of the too-long ignored subject of women's imprisonment.
While the number of incarcerated women is dramatically escalating, women prisoners throughout the world are largely an invisible and neglected populat...
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178,89 zł |
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Guantanamo Bay and the Judicial-Moral Treatment of the Other
ISBN: 9781557534279 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neither journalistic nor sensationalistic eye-witness accounts, this is the first book of serious reflection on the moral background and issues of internal legality surrounding the events of Guantanamo Bay.
Neither journalistic nor sensationalistic eye-witness accounts, this is the first book of serious reflection on the moral background and issues of int...
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82,88 zł |
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The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison
ISBN: 9781558490802 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by a journalist, this book depicts the day-to-day struggles and concerns of inmates a the Connecticut Correctional Institution in Niantic (renamed the Janet S. York correctional Institution), the state's only prison for women. Build in 1917 as a work farm for prostitutes, unwed mothers, and other women of allegedly immoral character, "the Farm," as it is still called, has long served as a barometer of prevailing social attitudes toward women. In the summer of 1992, Andi Rierden obtained permission from the warden at Niantic to conduct research on life inside the institution.... Written by a journalist, this book depicts the day-to-day struggles and concerns of inmates a the Connecticut Correctional Institution in Niantic (... |
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126,78 zł |
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Macho Love : Sex Behind Bars in Central America
ISBN: 9781560239659 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schifter, regional director of the AIDS-prevention organization Latin American Health and Prevention Institute in Costa Rica, offers a detailed study of sexual culture and AIDS in Latin American prisons. He explains how the interplay of sexual ideals, prostitution, manipulation, resistance, and power relationships among prisoners and some staff are
Schifter, regional director of the AIDS-prevention organization Latin American Health and Prevention Institute in Costa Rica, offers a detailed study ...
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536,56 zł |
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The Mandelstam File and Der Nister File: Introduction to Stalin-Era Prison and Labor Camp Records
ISBN: 9781563241758 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reproducing actual Soviet documents, this work examines what prison and labour camp files reveal of the fate of the poet Osip Mandelstam and the history of the Yiddish writer Pinhas Kahanovich (Der Nister). It also provides a guide to the analysis of Stalin-era prison and labour camp files.
Reproducing actual Soviet documents, this work examines what prison and labour camp files reveal of the fate of the poet Osip Mandelstam and the histo...
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707,28 zł |
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Prison Masculinities
ISBN: 9781566398152 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Activists, academics, and prisoners shed light on male hierarchy in prison and in society.
Activists, academics, and prisoners shed light on male hierarchy in prison and in society.
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365,83 zł |
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Prison Masculinities
ISBN: 9781566398169 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Activists, academics, and prisoners shed light on male hierarchy in prison and in society.
Activists, academics, and prisoners shed light on male hierarchy in prison and in society.
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136,53 zł |
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Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty
ISBN: 9781570753589 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In telling her dramatic journey from grief to forgiveness, Bosco presents compelling arguments to why the death penalty does not work and morally is wrong. "Choosing Mercy" is timely, gut-honest, and inspiring.
In telling her dramatic journey from grief to forgiveness, Bosco presents compelling arguments to why the death penalty does not work and morally is w...
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76,86 zł |
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Texas Prisons: The Largest Hotel Chain in Texas
ISBN: 9781571685223 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Overcrowded and understaffed, Texas prisons are nearing the meltdown stage. It wasn't always that way. A few California lawyers and an activist federal judge ruined what was widely acknowledged as the best prison system in the nation. The old judge reached into the pockets of Texas taxpayers and extracted several billion dollars, forcing Texans to undertake the largest prison expansion program in the history of the world. In this unblinking look at the past and present of Texas prisons, crucial questions are raised: Does the Texas prison system do what the people of Texas want it to do? Does...
Overcrowded and understaffed, Texas prisons are nearing the meltdown stage. It wasn't always that way. A few California lawyers and an activist federa...
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115,10 zł |
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Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates
ISBN: 9781574411522 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Texas holds one in every nine U.S. inmates.
"Behind the Walls "is a detailed description of the world's largest prison system by a long-time convict trained as an observer and reporter. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice--what's good, what's bad, which programs work and which ones do not, and examines if practice really follows official policy. Written to inform about the processes, services, activities, issues, and problems of being incarcerated, this book is invaluable to anyone who has a relative or friend incarcerated in Texas, or for... Texas holds one in every nine U.S. inmates.
"Behind the Walls "is a detailed description of the world's largest prison system by a long-time convi... |
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121,89 zł |
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Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates
ISBN: 9781574411539 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Texas holds one in every nine U.S. inmates. Behind the Walls is a detailed description of one of the world's largest prison systems by a long-time convict trained as an observer and reporter. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-what's good, what's bad, which programs work and which ones do not, and examines if practice really follows official policy. Written to inform about the processes, services, activities, issues, and problems of being incarcerated, this book is invaluable to anyone who has a relative or friend incarcerated in Texas, or for...
Texas holds one in every nine U.S. inmates. Behind the Walls is a detailed description of one of the world's largest prison systems by a long-time con...
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72,83 zł |
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Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System
ISBN: 9781580051958 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More and more women--mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters--are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there's been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is happening here, and why?
The answers are in Women Behind Bars, in which investigative journalist Silja Talvi sheds light on why American girls and women are being locked up at such unprecedented rates. Talvi travels across the country to weave... More and more women--mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters--are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are f...
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106,48 zł |
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Penology for Profit: A History of the Texas Prison System, 1867-1912
ISBN: 9781585440436 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the discovery of oil and the advent of Progressivism to Texas, the state dealt with prison overcrowding by leasing convicts and their labor to private industry and funneling the profits into the state's coffers. In this book, Donald R. Walker examines economic, social, and political aspects of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas that resulted in the leasing system and its eventual demise.
Convict leasing resulted in high mortality rates among prisoners, and stories of abusive guards and intolerable conditions were common. Blacks, who lacked social standing, legal... Before the discovery of oil and the advent of Progressivism to Texas, the state dealt with prison overcrowding by leasing convicts and their labor to ...
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77,99 zł |
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Jerry's Riot: The True Story of Montana's 1959 Prison Disturbance
ISBN: 9781591137184 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jerry's Riot: The True Story of Montana's 1959 Prison Disturbance examines the explosion that resulted when the prison's new reform warden collided with career convict Jerry Myles, who wanted to run the prison.
Jerry's Riot: The True Story of Montana's 1959 Prison Disturbance examines the explosion that resulted when the prison's new reform warden collided wi...
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107,39 zł |
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