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Among Murderers: Life After Prison
ISBN: 9780520272859 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? What is it like to start over from nothing? To answer these questions Sabine Heinlein followed the everyday lives and emotional struggles of Angel Ramos and his friends Bruce and Adam--three men convicted of some of society's most heinous crimes--as they return to the free world. Heinlein spent more than two years at the Castle, a prominent halfway house in West Harlem, shadowing her protagonists as they painstakingly learn how to master their...
What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? What i...
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Mayada: Daughter Of Iraq
ISBN: 9780553816402 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title reveals an Iraqi woman's true story of life inside Saddam Hussein's torture prisons, by the author of 'Princess'.
This title reveals an Iraqi woman's true story of life inside Saddam Hussein's torture prisons, by the author of 'Princess'.
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The Gaol
ISBN: 9780719561337 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By piecing together the lives of forgotten figures as well as re-examining the prison's links with more famous individuals, from Dick Whittington to Charles Dickens, this history goes in search of a ghostly place, erased by time, which has inspired more poems and plays, paintings and novels, than any other structure in British history.
By piecing together the lives of forgotten figures as well as re-examining the prison's links with more famous individuals, from Dick Whittington to C...
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Hanged at Norwich
ISBN: 9780752458656 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the stroy of those who ended up on the end of the hangman's rope at Norwich Castle Prison, Norwich City Prison on Earlham Road and the later Victorian Norwich Prison on Knox Road. The executions included range from the 14th century through to the last execution conducted in the county in 1951.
This is the stroy of those who ended up on the end of the hangman's rope at Norwich Castle Prison, Norwich City Prison on Earlham Road and the later V...
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Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State
ISBN: 9780761960041 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical, provocative and up to date, this book will stimulate debate about the current penal crisis.
Critical, provocative and up to date, this book will stimulate debate about the current penal crisis.
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Restorative Justice: From Theory to Practice
ISBN: 9780762314553 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covers scholarly work in criminology and criminal justice studies, sociology of law, and the sociology of deviance.
Covers scholarly work in criminology and criminal justice studies, sociology of law, and the sociology of deviance.
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![In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America [With DVD] Jackson, Bruce 9780807835395 0](/9780807835395_in_this_timeless_time_living_and_dying_on_death_row_in_america_with_dvd.jpg "In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America [With DVD]") |
In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America [With DVD]
ISBN: 9780807835395 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experiences of Death Row inmates in the official "nonperiod" between sentencing and execution.
In the first section, "Pictures," ninety-two photographs taken during their fieldwork for the book and documentary film Death Row illustrate life on cell block J in Ellis Unit of the Texas... In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted a...
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The Spectacular Few: Prisoner Radicalization and the Evolving Terrorist Threat
ISBN: 9780814723968 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Madrid train bombers, shoe-bomber Richard Reid, al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the 9/11 attacks--all were led by men radicalized behind bars. By their very nature, prisons are intended to induce transformative experiences among inmates, but today's prisons are hotbeds for personal transformation toward terrorist beliefs and actions due to the increasingly chaotic nature of prison life caused by mass incarceration. In The Spectacular Few, Mark Hamm demonstrates how prisoners use criminal cunning, collective resistance and nihilism to incite terrorism against Western targets. A former...
The Madrid train bombers, shoe-bomber Richard Reid, al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the 9/11 attacks--all were led by men radicalized behind bars. By their very...
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
ISBN: 9780814776384 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Honorable Mention, 2014 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Honorable Mention, 2013 Outstanding Book Award, presented by the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association 2013 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, presented by the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the American Sociological Association 2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the American Sociological Association 2012 Finalist, C....Honorable Mention, 2014 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems |
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After the Crime: The Power of Restorative Justice Dialogues Between Victims and Violent Offenders
ISBN: 9780814795538 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2012 Winner of the Outstanding Book Award presented by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
Outstanding Academic Title from 2011 by Choice Magazine Too often, the criminal justice system silences victims, which leaves them frustrated, angry, and with many unanswered questions. Despite their rage and pain, many victims want the opportunity to confront their offenders and find resolution. After the Crime explores a victim-offender dialogue program that offers victims of severe violence an opportunity to meet... 2012 Winner of the Outstanding Book Award presented by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
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Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
ISBN: 9780820344126 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on these issues and explores how the international community can move toward a more humane future.Working at...
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States de...
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
ISBN: 9780822344223 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Takes the reader inside America's prison to probe the entrails of the bulimic carceral state that has risen on the ruins of the charitable state and the black ghetto. Linking social and penal policies, this title contributes to the historical anthropology of the state in the age of triumphant neoliberalism.
Takes the reader inside America's prison to probe the entrails of the bulimic carceral state that has risen on the ruins of the charitable state and t...
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Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination
ISBN: 9781107404618 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How was the use of violence against Muslims explained and justified in medieval Islam? What role did state punishment play in delineating the private from the public sphere? What strategies were deployed to cope with the suffering caused by punishment? These questions are explored in Christian Lange's in-depth study of the phenomenon of punishment, both divine and human, in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. The book examines the relationship between state and society in meting out justice, Muslim attitudes to hell and the punishments that were in store in the afterlife, and the...
How was the use of violence against Muslims explained and justified in medieval Islam? What role did state punishment play in delineating the private ...
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The Rationale of Punishment
ISBN: 9781410212900 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Explaining U.S. Imprisonment
ISBN: 9781412924870 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explaining U.S. Imprisonment examines women in prison, minorities, the historical path to the modern prison, a wide range of contemporary issues, and social influences on prison reform. While focusing on prisons, this one-of-a-kind book is written within the context of the sociology of punishment and covers cutting-edge topics such as detaining immigrants, the War on Terror, and prison in the 21st century.
Explaining U.S. Imprisonment examines women in prison, minorities, the historical path to the modern prison, a wide range of contemporary is... |
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Making Corrections Work : Effective Offender Rehabilitation. Francis Cullen and Paul Gendreau
ISBN: 9781412988889 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is a ground-breaking book that examines a variety of theoretical orientations applied to past and current corrections theory and practice, and points the way to future improvements in policies and practices.
This text is a ground-breaking book that examines a variety of theoretical orientations applied to past and current corrections theory and practice, a...
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The American Prison: Imagining a Different Future
ISBN: 9781452241364 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is an attempt to be at the forefront of engaging in this conversation about the future of the American prison. Inathirteen chapters, athe authorsaask established correctional scholars to imagine what this prison future might entail. Each scholar uses their expertise to craftA'in an accessible way for students to readA'a blueprint for how to create a new penology along a particular theme. At the bookEs end, the editors write a comprehensive essay that will pull together the olessons learnedo from the preceding chapters.Features and Benefits1. Written by talented corrections...
This volume is an attempt to be at the forefront of engaging in this conversation about the future of the American prison. Inathirteen chapters, athe ...
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Professional Lives of Community Corrections Officers: The Invisible Side of Reentry
ISBN: 9781452242262 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Specifically focussed on community corrections officers (CCOs), this book enhances the understanding of how CCOs, and their work, are connected to a broader political, economic and social context. The book interprets what we know based on existing research to inform policy and the implementation of community corrections.
Specifically focussed on community corrections officers (CCOs), this book enhances the understanding of how CCOs, and their work, are connected to a b...
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Community Corrections
ISBN: 9781452256634 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book continues to provide comprehensive community corrections coverage with an applied, practical perspective, with a special emphasis on contemporary rehabilitative and re-entry strategies.
This book continues to provide comprehensive community corrections coverage with an applied, practical perspective, with a special emphasis on contemp...
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Reaffirming Rehabilitation
ISBN: 9781455731305 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reaffirming Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition, brings fresh insights to one of the core works of criminal justice literature. This groundbreaking work analyzes the rehabilitative ideal within the American correctional system and discusses its relationship to and conflict with political ideologies. Many researchers and policymakers rejected the value of rehabilitation after Robert Martinson's proclamation that "nothing works." Cullen and Gilbert's book helped stem the tide of negativism that engulfed the U.S. correctional system in the years that followed the popularization of the "nothing...
Reaffirming Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition, brings fresh insights to one of the core works of criminal justice literature. This groundbreaking ...
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