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Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America
ISBN: 9780803230095 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, Bloody Babs became the third woman executed in California after a 1953 trial that played out before standing-room-only crowds captured the imaginations of journalists, filmmakers, and death penalty opponents. Why, Kathleen A. Cairns asks, of all the capital cases in the twentieth century, did Graham s have such political resonance and staying power? Leaving aside the... Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends i... |
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125,15 zł |
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The Limits of the Criminal Sanction
ISBN: 9780804708999 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The argument of this book begins with the proposition that there are certain things we must understand about the criminal sanction before we can begin to talk sensibly about its limits. First, we need to ask some questions about the rationale of the criminal sanction. What are we trying to do by defining conduct as criminal and punishing people who commit crimes? To what extent are we justified in thinking that we can or ought to do what we are trying to do? Is it possible to construct an acceptable rationale for the criminal sanction enabling us to deal with the argument that it is itself an...
The argument of this book begins with the proposition that there are certain things we must understand about the criminal sanction before we can begin...
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182,60 zł |
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Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons
ISBN: 9780814709405 / Angielski / Twarda / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and the world--overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis.
Ethan Blue paints a vivid portrait of everyday life inside Texas and California's penal systems. Each element of prison life--from numbing boredom to hard... As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story o...
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281,72 zł |
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History of Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9781437734911 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering criminal justice history on a cross-national basis, this book surveys criminal justice in Western civilization and American life chronologically from ancient times to the present. It is an introduction to the historical problems of crime, law enforcement and penology, set against the background of major historical events and movements. Integrating criminal justice history into the scope of European, British, French and American history, this text provides the opportunity for comparisons of crime and punishment over boundaries of national histories. The text now concludes with a... Covering criminal justice history on a cross-national basis, this book surveys criminal justice in Western civilization and American life chronolog... |
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286,88 zł |
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Corrections: Exploring Crime, Punishment, and Justice in America
ISBN: 9781437734928 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corrections: Exploring Crime, Punishment, and Justice in America provides a thorough introduction to the topic of corrections in America. In addition to providing complete coverage of the history and structure of corrections, it offers a balanced account of the issues facing the field so that readers can arrive at informed opinions regarding the process and current state of corrections in America. The 3e introduces new content and fully updated information on America's correctional system in a lively, colorful, readable textbook. Both instructors and students benefit from the...
Corrections: Exploring Crime, Punishment, and Justice in America provides a thorough introduction to the topic of corrections in America. In ...
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479,90 zł |
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Changing Lives: Working with Literature in an Alternative Sentencing Program
ISBN: 9781594518638 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here are the stories of a dozen men on probation from the busiest criminal court in Massachusetts who met together on a college campus for three months to read and talk about Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Bill Russell, as well as Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, and other authors who write about major life changes not only issues that have gotten probationers in trouble, such as anger and violence, substance abuse, or family breakdown, but also background problems like poverty and racism, the need for social justice, the weakening of community bonds, and the thinning of spiritual...
Here are the stories of a dozen men on probation from the busiest criminal court in Massachusetts who met together on a college campus for three month...
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756,45 zł |
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Cultures of Commodity Branding
ISBN: 9781598745429 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, and can be found in various permutations in places as diverse as the Bronze Age Mediterranean and Early Modern Europe. What the contributions in this volume also vividly document, both in past social contexts and recent ones as diverse as the kingdoms of Cameroon, Socialist Hungary or online eBay auctions, is the need to understand branded commodities as part of a...
Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding ...
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229,49 zł |
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Handbook of Public Protection
ISBN: 9781843928508 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years. This book brings together leading authorities in the field to provide authoritative coverage of the theory and practice of public protection, both in the UK and internationally.
Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years. Th...
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307,74 zł |
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Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler: With an introduction by Nikolaus Wachsmann
ISBN: 9781845951030 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harrowing in its depiction of life under the rule of two of the most brutal regimes the western world has seen, 'Under Two Dictators' is also a brave and inspiring story of survival, of ideology and of strength.
Harrowing in its depiction of life under the rule of two of the most brutal regimes the western world has seen, 'Under Two Dictators' is also a brave ...
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104,29 zł |
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Foundations for Offender Management: Theory, Law and Policy for Contemporary Practice
ISBN: 9781847427649 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Offender management' for probation means continuing commitment to constructive work with individuals who break the law but in a changing multi-agency context. Providing a comprehensive introduction to criminal justice work, this book negotiates the structures set by law and policy.
'Offender management' for probation means continuing commitment to constructive work with individuals who break the law but in a changing multi-agency...
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146,02 zł |
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Civilising Criminal Justice: An International Restorative Agenda for Penal Reform
ISBN: 9781904380047 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Probably the best collection there is, Civilizing Criminal Justice is an inescapable resource for anyone interested in restorative justice: truly international and packed with experience while combining history, theory, developments and practical advice.This volume of specially commissioned contributions by widely respected commentators on crime and punishment from various countries is a 'break-through' in bringing together some of the best arguments for long-overdue penal reform. An increasingly urgent need to change outmoded criminal processes, even in advanced democracies, demands an end...
Probably the best collection there is, Civilizing Criminal Justice is an inescapable resource for anyone interested in restorative justice: truly inte...
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217,79 zł |
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The Little Book of Prison: A Beginners Guide
ISBN: 9781904380832 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 offender. He had no idea how the system or a prison worked. He was clueless about it all and it was hard for him going in and frightening for the family and loved ones he left behind. The writing began as self-help and as...
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...
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57,50 zł |
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Her Majesty's Philosophers
ISBN: 9781904380955 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Informative, entertaining, against the grain, Her Majesty's Philosophers highlights the artificiality of prison life. By a Guardian correspondent (and with extracts to be published in that newspaper) this book is set to be a penal affairs classic which every student of crime and punishment should read. Building on his Guardian pieces about teaching Philosophy in prison, this is Alan Smith's account in extensio. From introducing Plato to ever-changing groups of hard-nosed prisoners to them wrestling with Bentham, Phillip Larkin and Shakespeare, it is packed with insights and unexpected turns....
Informative, entertaining, against the grain, Her Majesty's Philosophers highlights the artificiality of prison life. By a Guardian correspondent (and...
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120,89 zł |
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Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph Amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison
ISBN: 9781414371214 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, but in three years, they'd covertly put New Testaments into the hands of twenty thousand of their countrymen and started two secret house churches.
In 2009, they were finally arrested and held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, a place where inmates are routinely tortured and executions are commonplace. In the face of ruthless interrogations, persecution, and a death sentence, Maryam and Marziyeh chose to take the... Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christi...
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73,50 zł |
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Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment
ISBN: 9780739188163 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to 'American' ideologies in the retention of capital punishment. The central aim of the study is to illuminate the elusive yet powerful role of ideology in legal discourses. Through analyzing the content and processes of death penalty narratives, this research illuminates the covert life of 'the American Creed, ' (a nexus of ideologies--liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez faire--said to be unique to the United States) in the law. Murder Stories...
Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to 'American' ideologies in t...
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247,12 zł |
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Freedom and Justice Within Walls: The Bristol Prison Experiment
ISBN: 9780415847827 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published...
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a s...
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119,94 zł |
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Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9781349361809 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical analysis of institutions, punishment and the law, and explores the delivery of punishment and experience of incarceration in Western societiesfrom the early-nineteenth century."
Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical ana...
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194,08 zł |
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Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation
ISBN: 9780199687381 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical study of drug investigations, based on extensive fieldwork undertaken with the specialist detective units of two English police services. It fills a significant gap in criminological literature by providing a timely and thought-provoking ethnography of detective culture, investigative practice, and drug law enforcement.
Drawing on data collected from over five hundred hours of direct observation of ordinary police work, both on and off the streets, the... Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical study of drug inve...
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381,92 zł |
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Behind the Walls: Inmates and Correctional Officers on the State of Canadian Prisons
ISBN: 9780774833547 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite falling crime rates, more rights for inmates, and better training for correctional officers, Canada's prisons are overflowing, and outbreaks of violence continue to grab headlines. Applying Goffman's frame theory and drawing on interviews with inmates and correctional officers in provincial and federal prisons, Michael Weinrath offers an unprecedented look at how inmates and officers perceive themselves, their relationships with others, and new developments and ongoing issues in prisons, including boundary violations by officers and the rise of prison gangs. Although progress has... Despite falling crime rates, more rights for inmates, and better training for correctional officers, Canada's prisons are overflowing, and outbreak... |
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427,79 zł |
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Unlocking Minds in Lockup: Prison Education Opens Doors
ISBN: 9780990310259 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prison education programs save taxpayer dollars and lead to rebuilding families and communities. In Unlocking Minds in Lockup, Jan Walker shows you inmates choosing to learn, think and prepare for release to their communities as contributing adults and involved parents. She taught parenting, family relationships and social responsibility classes inside women's and men's prisons for 18 years. She developed curriculum specific to her students needs, wrote textbooks adopted by correctional educators and advocated for the rights of children of incarcerated parents. This book is the author's story...
Prison education programs save taxpayer dollars and lead to rebuilding families and communities. In Unlocking Minds in Lockup, Jan Walker shows you in...
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73,32 zł |
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