Penology and punishment Books
OR Books Abolition Labor
Book SynopsisAbolition Labor chronicles the national movement to end forced labor, much of it unpaid, in American prisons. It draws on interviews with formerly incarcerated persons in Alabama, Texas, Georgia and New York to give a more holistic picture of these work conditions, and it covers the new prisoner rights movement that began with system-wide work strikes involving more than 50,000 people in the 2010s. Incarcerated people work for penny wages (15 cents an hour is not unusual), and, in several states, for nothing at all, as cooks, dishwashers, janitors, groundskeepers, barbers, painters, or plumbers; in laundries, kitchens, factories, and hospitals. They provide vital public services such as repairing roads, fighting wildfires, or clearing debris after hurricanes. They manufacture products like office furniture, mattresses, license plates, dentures, glasses, traffic signs, garbage cans, athletic equipment, and uniforms. And they harvest crops, work as welders and carpen
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Yale University Press Dangerous Medicine
Book SynopsisThe untold history of America’s mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists’ aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjectsTrade Review“Halpern’s story is chilling, told with clarity and commendable brevity and, most importantly, is of crucial relevance today. The emergence of Covid-19 galvanised calls for the creation of experiments in which volunteers would be infected with SARS-CoV-2 to help understand how the disease spreads and behaves. Some of these studies continue.”—Robin McKie, The Observer“Sydney Halpern has written a compelling, if unsettling, history of hepatitis research during World War II and the Cold War. It will become a must-read for anyone interested in bioethics and medical history.”—Susan E. Lederer, author of Subjected to Science and Flesh and Blood“An immensely important account of decades of human experiments that raised serious moral questions, not only in hindsight as is often claimed, but also at the time they were conducted.”—Jonathan D. Moreno, coauthor of Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Healthcare in America“Sydney Halpern’s Dangerous Medicine, a scandal-strewn history of hepatitis research, provides a frighteningly timely reminder of the dangers vulnerable patients face when medical research attacks disease in time of war.”—Paul A. Lombardo, author of Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
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John Blake Publishing Ltd Talking with Serial Killers: Dead Men Talking:
Book SynopsisLeading crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee gained the trust of some of the most infamous convicted killers, having corresponded with them and even entered their prison lairs to discuss their horrific crimes in detail. In this book, he presents six unforgettable prisoners and allows them to tell their stories, as well as giving the details and background of their terrifying cases - making this a must-read for aficionados of the genre and anyone fascinated by the extremes of human behaviour. Beyond the headlines, once the drama of the courtroom has subsided and the prison gates have been locked behind these killers for good, Talking With Serial Killers: Dead Men Talking allows the reader to get up close and personal with torturers, sexual psychopaths and mass murderers, to read the stories that are rarely heard and get the last word from some of the world's most pitiless killers.
£8.54
The History Press Ltd The Big Book of Pain
Book SynopsisFor millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of torture appears to us today, for at least 3,000 years it formed part of most legal codes throughout Europe and the Far East. The Big Book of Pain is an exploration of the systematic use throughout the ages of various means of punishment, torture, coercion and torment. It takes the reader into the Ancient Roman Coliseum, the medieval dungeon, the Inquisitional interrogation, the auto-da-fe, the witch-trial, and the worst of prisons. It is a shocking and compelling study of the shameful methods and motives of the torturer and the executioner, and of the heinous duty they have performed through the ages.
£19.00
The History Press Ltd Farewell to Spandau
Book SynopsisPutting the record straight about the last years of Rudolf Hess's lifeTrade ReviewCrisply authoritative first-hand account . . . The odd story of Hess’ imprisonment and death is one of those fascinating footnotes of history and readers will not find a better account of them than this book. -- The Washington Times
£11.69
HarperCollins Publishers The Governor
Book SynopsisTHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAs seen on This MorningBack in the day, I was Governor of Security and Operations for HMP Wormwood Scrubs. If you're easily shocked or offended, you best look away nowHaving worked for 16 years in a high-security women's prison dealing with the likes of Rosemary West and Myra Hindley, Vanessa Frake thought she'd seen it all. That was until she was transferred to the notorious Wormwood Scrubs.Thrust into a man's world', her no-nonsense approach and fearless attitude saw her swiftly rise through the ranks. From dealing with celebrity criminals and busting drug rings, to recruiting informers and being subject to violent attacks, this hard-hitting but often humorous memoir reveals all about life behind bars in unflinching detail.Now, for one last time, The Gov opens the prison gates. Prepare for the madness and horror of daily life with the UK's most ruthless criminals.
£9.49
University of California Press Lynching Photographs
Book SynopsisWhy do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? This book examines lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography's historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. It charts the history of lynching photographs - their meanings, uses, and controversial display.Table of ContentsIntroduction Anthony W. Lee The Evidence of Lynching Photographs Shawn Michelle Smith Lynching Photographs and the Politics of Public Shaming Dora Apel Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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Haus Publishing Tazmamart: 18 Years in Morocco’s Secret Prison
Book SynopsisThis is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found himself locked in a small, underground cell in a prison thought to be a mere horror story: Tazmamart. For 18 years, no one knew where the prison’s inmates were. No one knew if they were even alive. In many ways, they hardly were: confined for 24 hours a day, with the barest rations, no hygiene or medical help, and accompanied by cockroaches, scorpions, and tarantulas. One of the few to survive, Aziz writes not only to tell his own remarkable story but to remember and honour the men that lived – and died – alongside him. Against the backdrop of this unimaginable suffering, Aziz shows the strength of the human spirit to keep going against all the odds, to smile in the face of misery, and to forgive rather than condemn. Set to become a cult classic of survival literature, Tazmamart is a hellish journey through the abyss of despair – and out the other side.
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Columbia University Press Inside Private Prisons
Book SynopsisLauren-Brooke Eisen blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America. Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry, offering a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens.Trade ReviewInside Private Prisons is a careful, discerning assessment of our transformation of human incarceration into product and profit. Lauren-Brooke Eisen has compiled a definitive history of the phenomenon and has done so with more precision and equanimity than many of us can manage. If you want to intelligently argue about the modern prison-industrial complex, begin your studies here. -- David Simon, creator of The WireEisen’s study of private prisons is long-awaited, powerful, and a critically important read for all citizens who seek to understand the relationship between profit and incarceration and who hope to protect those who find themselves locked up in private facilities across the nation. From Colorado to South Texas to Wisconsin, and from CoreCivic to GEO Group, Eisen takes us inside a world that many of us revile but know virtually nothing about. She not only explodes many myths about private prisons and detention centers but ultimately offers an invaluable blueprint for humanizing them. Like it or not, she points out, they are real places where real people, at least for the foreseeable future, will be contained. -- Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyLauren-Brooke Eisen illuminates the history of private prisons and their place in the current environment and the future of mass incarceration in America—which we are trying to minimize. She incorporates individual interviews with a collation of quantitative data to strike a balance between fine detail and the big picture of the complex and still-evolving discourse of private corrections; a vital discussion for the future of our criminal justice and immigration policies. -- Ernest Drucker, author of A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in AmericaQuestioned during the Obama administration and embraced during the Trump administration, prisons run by private corporations remain a controversial part of the penal landscape in the United States. This book provides a comprehensive and fair-minded look at American private prisons, explaining how such prisons were a product and sometimes a propelling force of mass incarceration. Eisen provides invaluable insight into how private prisons actually operate, why they are likely to continue to exist, and what can be done to make them safer, more effective, and more humane instruments of criminal justice. -- Carol S. Steiker, Harvard UniversityIn a welcome departure from much of the work on private prisons, Eisen doesn’t view the profit motive as inherently wrong, but rather asks the important question of how (and whether) we can structure firms’ incentives to achieve more just outcomes. -- John Pfaff, author of Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real ReformAn admirably researched look at an ominous aspect of criminal justice. * Kirkus Reviews *A deeply researched, scrupulously fair book about private prisons, which house 126,000 people in America, or 7% of state inmates and almost 18% of federal prisoners. * The Economist *Eisen's book is essential in telling us not just where the industry has been but where it is going in the years ahead. * The Marshall Project *There is simply no other book available that addresses the private prison industry like this one. Eisen's authoritative work is an important addition to the national discourse on private prisons. -- Christopher Zoukis * New York Journal of Books *[Inside Private Prisons] is a balanced, fair, and comprehensive analysis. It does not tell readers what to think but instead gives us the information we need to make up our own minds. This makes it all the more valuable. -- Alexander E. Sharp * The Christian Century *An important book. Highly Recommended. * Choice *Eisen does a masterful job at presenting a thorough examination of private prisons. She utilizes a historical lens in the first few chapters to provide readers a better understanding of the privatization of prisons and other government services. Her methodology broadens to include prison visits and interviews with inmates, prison officials, and inmate families. This allows her to successfully address a range of issues interconnected to private prisons such as the prison industrial complex, prisoners as commodities, private prisons in the American Heartland, the prison divestment movement, politics of private prisons, and the future of private prisons. -- Robert Costello * Criminal Justice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Prison Buildup and the Birth of Private Prisons2. How the Government Privatized3. Prisoners as Commodities4. The Prison Industrial Complex5. Private Prisons and the American Heartland6. The Prison Divestment Movement7. The Politics of Private Prisons8. Shadow Prisons: Inside Private Immigrant Detention Centers9. Public Prisons Versus Private Prisons10. Wrestling with the Concept of Private Prisons11. The Future of Private PrisonsConclusionNotesIndex
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Pan Macmillan A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory
Book SynopsisOn 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk.He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and during that time, as this account testifies, encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously over-stretched prison service, but the spirit and courage of his fellow inmates . . .Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory is an extraordinary work of non-fiction, where Archer reveals what life is like inside the walls of Britain's prisons.Trade ReviewThe finest thing that Jeffrey Archer has ever written * Independent on Sunday *Compelling reportage . . . Jeffrey Archer raises these diaries to the standards of a prison Pepys by being such an assiduous recorder of fellow inmates’ secrets -- Jonathan Aitken * Mail on Sunday *Archer paints a bleak but true picture of life in prison . . . It is vivid and disturbing, and will reach a vastly wider audience than any academic treatise or political pamphlet on the subject -- Ann Widdecombe * New Statesman *
£10.44
University of California Press Golden Gulag Prisons Surplus Crisis and
Book SynopsisProvides an explanation for the increase in number of people in US prisons by more than 450%. This book examines the issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity.Trade Review"A magnificent analysis of the political economy of super-incarceration and the slave plantations that California calls prisons." - Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear "Golden Gulag is a deeply necessary book for our times. Gilmore digs beneath the easy answers to the more troubling causes of a political consensus that prisons are the only solution to all urban and rural ills." - Nayan Shah, author of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown"Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue: The Bus 1. Introduction 2. The California Political Economy 3. The Prison Fix 4. Crime, Croplands, and Capitalism 5. Mothers Reclaiming Our Children 6. What Is to Be Done? Epilogue: Another Bus Notes
£21.25
WW Norton & Co Stars Between the Sun and Moon One Womans Life in
Book SynopsisAn incredible memoir of North Korea by a woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.Trade Review"Have the courage to read this book and listen to a clear, honest voice from the shadows and darkness that dissolve humanity." -- Ha Jin, National Book Award winner of Waiting "Not just a story of one woman's escape from North Korea, Lucia Jang's work has painted a vivid portrait of daily life in a country that few of us truly know. Stars between the Sun and Moon is a welcome addition to the growing oeuvre of memoirs by North Korean refugees and should be read widely by those interested in North Korea and the enduring tenacity of humanity." -- Billy Davis, campaigns & strategy officer, European Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea (EAHRNK)
£19.79
Manchester University Press Coercive confinement in Ireland
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory and Industrial schools, prisons and Borstal formed a network of institutions of coercive confinement integral to the emerging state. -- .Trade ReviewMost of these people were simply locked up in state institutions, creating a shameful legacy that is only now being dragged into the light. Coercive Confinement in Ireland is a valuable contribution to that process., Andrew Lynch, Sunday Business Post|Some of the documents reproduced here give a powerful insight into the social mores of the time., Andrew Lynch, Sunday Business Post|"Coercive Confinement in Ireland deserves a readership well beyond its jurisdiction of interest.", Mark Finnane, Griffith University, Australia, Punishment & Society, 28 March 2013|This book is brilliant in conception, haunting in its emotional reach through the contemporaneous accounts, and altogether illuminating. This is a hugely important, major and scholarly contribution to our understanding of the different forms and shapes of regulatory control., David Wilson, The Howard League and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Howard Journal Vol 53 No 1, pp.104-115, 2014|"O’Sullivan and O’Donnell provide an outstanding insight into the raison d’être of these various institutions; their relationships with the state, the Church, and society at large (often forgotten); entry and (often torturous) exit pathways; the flow of individuals across institutions (transcarceration); the routines and practices employed therein; and the subjective experiences of the bad, the mad, the fallen and the vulnerable....This is an outstanding book, one which is superbly written and crafted."(Shane Kilcommins, University College Cork, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2014), Shane Kilcommins, University College Cork, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2014|Overall, this is a fascinating collection and O’Sullivan and O’Donnell’s contextual introductory and concluding chapters are informative and thought provoking. The book will be useful to scholars interested in institutional care and also in teaching, with its short extracts providing interesting material for students to read and analyse through group work and individual reflection., Linda Moore, University of Ulster, Irish Studies Review, 10 November 2014|Overall, this is a fascinating collection and O’Sullivan and O’Donnell’s contextual introductory and concluding chapters are informative and thought provoking. The book will be useful to scholars interested in institutional care and also in teaching, with its short extracts providing interesting material for students to read and analyse through group work and individual reflection., Linda Moore, University of Ulster, Irish Studies Review, 23.1, 1 February 2015 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Setting the scenePart I: Patients, paupers and unmarried mothers 2. How to deal with the unmarried mother – Sagart 3. The unmarried mother: some legal aspects of the problem – Richard Devane 4. A plea for social service – Humbert MacInerny 5. Report Commission on the relief of the sick and destitute poor, including the insane poor 6. Report Inter-departmental committee appointed to examine the question of the reconstruction and replacement of county homes 7. Irish journey – Halliday Sutherland 8. Report commission of inquiry on mental illness 9. No birthright: a study of the Irish unmarried mother and her child – Michael Viney 10. Bird’s nest soup – Hanna Greally 11. Mental illness: an inquiry – Michael VineyPart II: Prisoners 12. The prisons – Edward Fahy 13. I did penal servitude – D83222 14. Prisons and prisoners in Ireland: report on certain aspects of prison conditions in portlaoighise convict prison – The Labour Party 15. The spyhole – Shea Murphy 16. Dungeons deep: a monograph on prisons, Borstals, reformatories and industrial schools in the republic of Ireland, and some reflections on crime and punishment and matters relating thereto – Peadar Cowan Part III: Troubled and troublesome children 17. Report commission of Inquiry into the Reformatory and Industrial School System 18. Memorandum on children in institutions, boarded out and nurse children – Joint Committee of Women’s Societies and Social Workers 19. Founded on fear: letterfrack industrial school, war and exile – Peter Tyrrell 20. Some of our children: a report on the residential care of the deprived child in Ireland – Tuairim21. The dismal world of Daingean – Michael Viney 22. Report Committee and reformatory and industrial schools systems 23. The road to God knows where – Sean MaherIndex
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HarperCollins Publishers THE PRISON DOCTOR My time inside Britains most
Book SynopsisSUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAs seen on BBC BreakfastHorrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent being a doctor behind bars.Violence. Drugs. Suicide. Welcome to the world of a Prison Doctor.Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK's most infamous prisons first in young offenders' institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe's largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield.From miraculous pregnancies to dirty protests, and from violent attacks on prisoners to heartbreaking acts of self-harm, she has witnessed it all.In this eye-opening, inspirational memoir, Amanda reveals the stories, the patients and the cases that have shaped a career helping those most of us would rather forget.Despite their crimes, she is still their doctor.Trade Review‘Written with both humour and deep concern for the lives of her incarcerated patients. It’s a poignant, compassionate read, giving an insight into the complicated and damaged lives of some of the offenders … a thoroughly enlightening and engaging book.’ Mail on Sunday ‘A fascinating, sometimes funny, often gruelling account of working behind bars.’ Observer ‘Not only features startling anecdotes but also the more rewarding aspects of her job – the prisoners who sent her letters of thanks, the ones for whom there remains hope.’ i newspaper ‘eye-opening … harrowing … Though so many of the tales are unbearably sad, and some details quite difficult to read without flinching, frequent moments of hope and humanity mitigate what could otherwise be a bleak look at life on the lowest rung of society’s ladder.’ The Telegraph ‘All of the highs and lows of prison life, with heart-warming honesty and anecdotes to make your sides split and your jaw drop in equal measure … Amanda has filled her book full of funny tales that both she and the inmates have had a good giggle at.’ Sunday Express S Magazine ‘An enthralling account.’ The Sun
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Spokesman Books On Palestine and Prisoners The Spokesman 120
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Duke University Press Bruno
Book SynopsisBruno is the story of a Brazilian navy corporal turned drug dealer, who after being imprisoned became the leader of one of Brazil's biggest criminal factions, the Comando Vermelho. Bruno's story provides insights into the Brazilian drug trade, prison life, and explains the epidemic of violence in Rio's favelas.Trade Review“This particular account is interesting and engaging…” -- Ed Hart * Sounds and Colours *"The real contribution of Bruno [is]... the private reflections that we gain from a single informant who is intelligent, critical, and painfully idealistic. It is this personal voice, rather than the empirical data, that makes Bruno truly special, and a necessary supplement for scholars interested not only in drug trafficking and prisons, but in the relationship between crime and self-reflection as well." -- Samuel E. Novacich * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“In telling the story of Bruno, sociologist Robert Gay succeeds in demystifying not only gangs and the drug trade but also an entire country. This is a carefully crafted study of a criminal career embedded in a society that for generations has denied citizenship to large numbers of its population…. This is an important book that skilfully utilises ethnographic interviews to tell the story of one man in the trenches of the global war against drugs.” -- Dick Hobbs * Times Higher Education *"This gripping book is a superb entry point into the maze of Brazilian prisons and, hopefully, a spur to more systematic historical research into the country’s current dilemmas with prisons, drugs, and gangs." -- Paul Gootenberg * Hispanic American Historical Review *"From the haunting cover to the emotional ending Bruno: Conversations with a Brazilian Drug Dealer shapes up to be a gripping read for anyone interested in the shady underworld of drug gang culture. . . . Bruno is a fascinating account that will serve as a useful testament of life in the Brazilian underworld which will be of immense value to students of cultural studies and Latin American history for years to come. In that sense, Bruno is strictly not the sensationalised bestseller that the story has the potential to be, but something infinitely more valuable." -- Jay Kerr * Latin American Review of Books *"Robert Gay has written an intimate, eye-opening book that opens a window into the politics of prisons and drug prohibition in Brazil." -- Kevin Lewis O'Neill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Stirring. . . . Gay offers a finely grained ethnographic account of an individual whose life is embedded in a complex world of drug trafficking complicities." -- Robert Gay * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Trafficking 7 2. Things Come Undone 29 3. The Family 47 4. The Devil's Cauldron 63 5. On the Run 85 6. Paradise Lost 109 7. The Leader 135 8. Judgment Day 175 Postscript 195 Timeline of Events 201 Notes 203 Bibliography 215 Index 219
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Picador USA The Faithful Executioner
Book SynopsisTHE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured for more than forty-five years in the city of Nuremberg. But the portrait of Schmidt that gradually emerged was not that of a monster. Could a man who practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionateeven progressive?In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington teases out the hidden meanings and drama of Schmidt''s journal. Deemed an official outcast, Meister Frantz sought to prove himself worthy of honor and free his children from the stigma of his profession. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt''s life and work: the shocking, but often familiar, crimes o
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Skyhorse Publishing A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz
Book SynopsisNow an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman’s Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt’s executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment.From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed more than 350 people while keeping a journal throughout his career.A Hangman’s Diary is not only a collection of detailed writings by Schmidt about his work, but also an account of criminal procedure in Germany during the Middle Ages. With analysis and explanation, editor Albrecht Keller and translators C. Calvert and A. W. Gruner have put together a masterful tome that sets the scene of execution day and puts you in Master Franz Schmidt’s shoes as he does his duty for his country.An unusual and fascinating classic of crime and punishment, A Hangman’s Diary is more than a history lesson; it shows the true anarchy that inhabited our world only a few hundred years ago.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Random House USA Inc The Innocent Man
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone terribly awry. In the Major League draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the state of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution’s case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.Don’t miss Framed, John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, co-authored with Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey.
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Princeton University Press Death and Redemption
Book SynopsisOffers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag - the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons - in Soviet society. This book argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the 2011 Baker-Burton Award, European History Section of the Southern Historical Association Shortlisted for the 2013 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award "Death and Redemption is a well-written and provocatively argued book that all serious students of Soviet history will need to read and contemplate. Drawing from a wide variety of Russian and Kazakh archives and displaying a firm command of the available primary and secondary sources, Barnes has clearly done his research and done it well. Barnes's focus on ideology is new and refreshing... [T]his book is a major achievement... Steven Barnes's monograph is quite simply the best introduction to the Gulag currently available."--Brian LaPierre, Russian Review "Barnes's Death and Redemption performs a timely and important service... In taking on the Gulag, perhaps the nadir of the Soviet experience, without ideological rancor, Barnes has made a significant contribution to Soviet history, and provided the interested general reader with a fascinating experience."--John Bokina, European Legacy "Steven Barnes' historical study of the Gulag practices of its prisoners' 're-education' and rehabilitation is a compelling contribution to the vast and continually expanding body of scholarly literature on the Stalinist era... I ought to conclude this review with commending and thanking the author for tackling a very difficult subject in a scholarly, objective and thought-provoking manner."--Elena Katz, Europe-Asia Studies "[T]his is an important book that should be widely read. Whether or not one fundamentally agrees with its interpretation of the Gulag and its place in Soviet society, this is a well-researched, original, and sophisticated work that challenges many long-held assumptions."--Alan Barenberg, Modern History "Steven A. Barnes does a wonderful job describing how the gulag, created to isolate, purify, and reeducate criminal and political prisoners, failed as an institution."--Kate Brown, Slavic Review "This ... will appeal to anyone interested in Soviet history, in general, and the institutions of repression, in particular. By fundamentally altering the way we see the function and operation of the Gulag, it also has much to offer scholars of the penal system in the Soviet Union and in comparative perspective."--Katherine R. Jolluck, Journal of Social History "Death and Redemption is a fascinating and important contribution to our understanding of the role of the infamous Gulag in the Soviet Union... In taking on the Gulag, perhaps the nadir of the Soviet experience, without ideological rancor, Barnes has made a significant contribution to the study of Soviet history, and has provided the interested general reader with a fascinating experience."--John Bokina, European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: The Origins, Functions, and Institutions of the Gulag 7 CHAPTER 2: Reclaiming the Margins and the Marginal: Gulag Practices in Karaganda, 1930s 28 CHAPTER 3: Categorizing Prisoners: The Identities of the Gulag 79 CHAPTER 4: Armageddon and the Gulag, 1939-1945 107 CHAPTER 5: A New Circle of Hell: The Postwar Gulag and the Rise of the Special Camps 155 CHAPTER 6: The Crash of the Gulag: Releases and Uprisings in the Post-Stalin Era 201 CONCLUSION 254 Notes 259 References 329 Index 341
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The History Press Executioner
Book SynopsisJames Berry was an ex-policeman who was Britain''s hangman from 1884-92, throughout the period of the Whitechapel murders. Stewart Evans here takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the world of Victorian crime and punishment.
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Little, Brown & Company All Day
Book SynopsisTold with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, All Day recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson''s classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City''s Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional poetry workshops at the correctional facility, Peterson was ill-prepared for a full-time stint teaching a full GED curriculum program for the incarcerated youth. For the first time faced with full days teaching the rambunctious, hyper, and fragile adolescent inmates, Ms. P comes to understand the essence of her predominantly Black and Latino students as she attempts not only to educate them, but to instill them with a sense of self-worth long stripped from their lives.I have quite a spirited group of drama kings, court jesters, flyboy gangsters, tricksters, and wannabe pimps all in my charge, all up in my face, to educate, Peterson discovers. Corralling this motley crew of bad-news bears to do any lesson is like runni
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Ebury Publishing The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom
Book Synopsis**WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ****THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**‘A riveting account of the multiple outrages of the criminal justice system of Alabama. A harrowing masterpiece’ Guardian‘Hinton somehow navigates through his rage and despair to a state of forgiveness and grace’ IndependentAt age 29, Anthony Ray Hinton was wrongfully charged with robbery and murder, and sentenced to death by electrocution for crimes he didn’t commit. The only thing he had in common with the perpetrator was the colour of his skin.Anthony spent the next 28 years of his life on death row, watching fellow inmates march to their deaths, knowing he would follow soon. Hinton’s incredible story reveals the injustices and inherent racism of the American legal system, but it is also testament to the hope and humanity in us all.‘You will be swept away in this unbelievable, dramatic true story’ Oprah WinfreyTrade Review[Hinton] is a remarkable storyteller. You will be swept away in this unbelievable, dramatic true story * Oprah Winfrey *Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison for opposing a racist system in South Africa. Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on death row because a racist system still exists in America. Both emerged from their incarceration with a profound capacity to forgive. They are stunning examples of how the most horrendous cruelty can lead to the most transcendent compassion. -- Archbishop Desmond TutuAnthony Ray Hinton's memoir of his wrongful imprisonment...is a riveting account of the multiple outrages of the criminal justice system of Alabama. But that isn't what makes this a genuine spiritual experience: that comes from the nearly biblical capacity of the author to endure, to forgive, and finally to triumph...his book is a harrowing masterpiece. * Guardian *A wonderful memoir...A story of forgiveness and struggle - and a story of friendship and imagination * Book of the Day, Observer *This incredibly moving chronicle...is one staggering revelation after another, but also a lovely portrait of kindness, warmth and how faith is its own reward...On death row he somehow navigates through his rage and despair to a state of forgiveness and grace. * Independent *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Carceral Geography
Book SynopsisThe 'punitive turn' has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers. Carceral geography offers a geographical perspective on incarceration, and this volume accordingly tracks the ideas, practices and engagements that have shaped the development of this new and vibrant subdiscipline, and scopes out future research directions. By conveying a sense of the debates, directions, and threads within the field of carceral geography, it traces the inner workings of this dynamic field, its synergies with criminology and prison sociology, and its likely future trajectories. Synthesizing existing work in carceral geography, and exploring the future directions it might take, the book develops a notion of the 'carceral' as spatial, emplaced, mobile, embodied and affective.Trade Review’While acknowledging its debt to the small number of scholars interested in spaces and practices of confinement over recent decades, Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration is written by the foremost expert currently working in the field. As a pioneer of carceral geography, Dominique Moran has provided a must-read introduction to the field. Erudite, thought-provoking and tremendously readable, this book will enrich studies of the prison within and beyond geography.’ Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK ’Carceral spaces are proliferating and Dominique Moran provides an indispensable toolkit to apprehend this development. Drawing on state of the art geographical concepts and contemporary debates she expertly defines and establishes the sub-discipline of carceral geography in this book. She also sets out the agenda for the coming years by raising indispensable questions about discipline, mobility and spectacle.’ Nick Gill, University of Exeter, UK ’If Dominique Moran did not perhaps singlehandedly invent the field of carceral geography, she has with this book undoubtedly produced the authoritative guide to it. Always one step ahead, Moran offers here a breathtakingly expansive, ecumenical study of prisons, punishment, space, and architecture - an indispensable manual on geographies of incarceration including a peek into the post-prison. Terrific book for our troubled times.’ Karen M. Morin, Bucknell University, USA 'For law and courts readers interested in migration and imprisonment from a human geography angle, this wide-ranging book has many interesting case study "nuggets" and a wealth of theoretically interesting angles to offer ...' Law & Politics Book ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Origins and dialogues. Part I Carceral Space: Carceral space; The emotional and embodied geographies of prison life; Carceral TimeSpace. Part II Geographies of Carceral Systems: Geographies of carceral systems; Prison transport and disciplined mobility; Inside/outside and the contested prison boundary. Part III The Carceral and a Punitive State: The carceral and a punitive state; Prison buildings and the design of carceral space; Carceral cultural landscapes, post-prisons and the spectacle of punishment; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
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Pan Macmillan A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven
Book SynopsisThe final volume of Jeffrey Archer’s prison diaries, A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven, covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events that led to his incarceration there – it also throws light on a system that is close to breaking point.Told with humour, compassion and honesty, it closes with a thought-provoking manifesto that should be applauded by the Establishment and prison population alike.Day 115Saturday 10th November 20016.38amIt’s all an act. I am hopelessly unhappy, dejected and broken. I smile when I am at my lowest, I laugh when I see no humour, I help others when I need help myself. I am alone. If I were to show any sign, even for a moment, of what I’m going through, I would have to read the details in some tabloid the following day. Everything I do is only a phone call away from a friendly journalist with an open cheque book. I don’t know where I have found the strength to maintain this facade and never break down in anyone’s presence.Trade ReviewThe finest thing that Jeffrey Archer has ever written * Independent on Sunday *Compelling reportage . . . Jeffrey Archer raises these diaries to the standards of a prison Pepys by being such an assiduous recorder of fellow inmates’ secrets -- Jonathan Aitken * Mail on Sunday *Surprisingly effective . . . A devastating critique written simply and directly * The Sunday Times *
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Pan Macmillan A Prison Diary Volume I: Hell
Book SynopsisHell is the haunting first volume in Jeffrey Archer’s The Prison Diaries, the author’s daily record of the time he spent there.‘The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I’ve been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting – his first offence, not even convicted – and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.’On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain’s most violent criminals. This volume recounts his experience while there.Trade ReviewA haunting and compelling insight into prison life * Daily Mail *Surprisingly effective . . . A devastating critique written simply and directly * The Sunday Times *The finest thing that he has ever written * Independent on Sunday *
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University of Minnesota Press Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across
Book SynopsisFrom broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday lifePrison Land offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations—including property, work, gender, and race—enacted across various landscapes of American life. Prisons, Brett Story shows, are more than just buildings of incarceration bound to cycles of crime and punishment. Instead, she investigates the production of carceral power at a range of sites, from buses to coalfields and from blighted cities to urban financial hubs, to demonstrate how the organization of carceral space is ideologically and materially grounded in racial capitalism.Story’s critically acclaimed film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is based on the same research that informs this book. In both, Story takes an expansive view of what constitutes contemporary carceral space, interrogating the ways in which racial capitalism is reproduced and for which police technologies of containment and control are employed. By framing the prison as a set of social relations, Prison Land forces us to confront the production of new carceral forms that go well beyond the prison system. In doing so, it profoundly undermines both conventional ideas of prisons as logical responses to the problem of crime and attachment to punishment as the relevant measure of a transformed criminal justice system.
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McFarland & Co Inc The Fort McClellan POW Camp
Book Synopsis The POW Camp at Fort McClellan, Alabama, was one of hundreds of American containment centers built to hold the hundreds of thousands of German prisoners captured during World War II. The camp''s well-maintained and humane facilities gained it a reputation as a model camp. Military officials praised its elimination of major operational problems. International inspectors commended it, calling it one of the best camps in the country. Prisoners accepted and even enjoyed their time there. Drawing on official documents and recollections of prisoners, soldiers and civilians, this book provides a personal and detailed history of a widely praised and admired place of internment.
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Columbia University Press Narrative Change
Book SynopsisHans Hansen offers readers a powerful model for creating significant organizational, social, and institutional change. He unpacks the lessons of the fight to change capital punishment in Texas, revealing how narratives shape our everyday lives and how we can construct new narratives to enact positive change.Trade ReviewThis is a smart and eminently readable treatment of a novel approach to social, organizational, and personal change through the analysis and alteration of embedded—and often unrecognized—cultural narratives. Practical applications of Hans Hansen’s thoughtful approach to narrative change are provided throughout the book highlighted by an impressive, first-hand account of how a small team of social justice advocates was able to change the way the death penalty operates in Texas. The writing is lively and enthusiastic, and carries readers along a storyline that rests on solid scholarship and considerable social science research. A must-read for those interested in the role our narratives play in maintaining or transforming the status quo. -- John Van Maanen, emeritus professor of organization studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of Tales of the FieldThe way Hans has changed the death penalty in Texas has been miraculous! If his narrative change methods can work on that inexorable institution, they can work anywhere. If Hans says this is the way to change something, just do it! -- Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man WalkingHansen shows us how narrative theory can be used for social change in a way that is both theoretically simple and eminently practical—an unusual combination in modern approaches to change. He does this by telling the story of how he inadvertently got involved with fighting the death penalty in Texas and the surprising success they had when they used these ideas. This is not only a must-read for anyone interested in social change, it is a great story that is nearly impossible to put down. -- Steven S. Taylor, professor of leadership and creativity and dean ad interim, Foisie Business School, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteHans Hansen has produced a brilliant, thought-provoking, and inspiring book on how narrative models can influence organizational change. Drawing on compelling institutional and organizational examples, the book scores highly for logic of argument and clarity of exposition. Rich in concepts, it offers a unique perspective on change management; every page has something fascinating and important to say. -- John Hassard, Alliance Manchester Business SchoolI started out thinking this was the best business book I have ever read. I was wrong. It’s the best book I’ve ever read. Period. -- LoNita Sharp, global HR professionalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. No Place to Hide2. Talking Narratives3. How the Change Model Emerged4. Applying the Model5. The Narrative Stranglehold6. Enacting New Narratives7. Narrative Selection Versus Narrative Construction8. Narratives as a Way to Organize9. A Narrative for You10. Big Ideas and Narrative ModesConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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Penguin Books Ltd Discipline and Punish
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDiscipline and Punish is clearly a tour de force ... that rare kind of book whose methods and conclusions must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists and political activists * The New York Times Book Review *Foucault's genius is called forth into eloquent clarity of his passions ... his best book * Washington Post *'The main line of the thesis is enormously appealing and the range of historical sources and, even more, the analytical skill with which they are made to yield up their secrets, is quite dazzling' -- Harvie Ferguson * International Journal of Criminology and Penology *
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Harvard University Press Civilizing Torture
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA morally engaging investigation of torture that measures American ideals of democracy and equality against a dark, uncomfortable reality. -- Pulitzer Prize BoardA sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded. From indigenous American cultures’ use of ritualized torture to the techniques imported from Europe by early European settlers, to the various acts of cruelty and violence employed by prison guards, slave owners, the police and American soldiers, Brundage makes the…case that torture is a fundamental part of America’s history and makeup…The work of American torture has always been twofold: not just the violence itself, but the complex legal and rhetorical strategies that obfuscate it away to maintain a myth of America as a civilized place without cruel and unusual punishment. * Los Angeles Times *Understanding the history of torture in the United States will not prevent future violence, but Brundage views this information as providing an important framework for an engaged citizenry… Given that the current occupant of the White House has insisted that torture ‘absolutely’ works and has boasted he ‘would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding,’ the lessons of Civilizing Torture feel positively urgent. * Australian Book Review *Torture is a topic that many Americans might assume is a rarity in the country’s history, since it’s now banned by international law. But as the title of this book suggests, the reality is just the opposite…Essential reading for a better understanding of social and political justice. * Library Journal (starred review) *While the American people take pride in their country as democratic and civilized, history has shown that the practice of torture and violence pervades much of its history…This book is important to the historical record and is an invaluable tool for historians and social scientists. * Choice *A remarkable account of America’s episodic engagement with torture over the course of the nation’s history. Brundage uncovers ‘an American tradition’ marked less by legal and moral restraint than by strategies of rhetorical management designed to conserve American innocence and exceptionalism. A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering present. -- David Garland, author of Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of AbolitionAn indispensable book. Even as Americans have prided themselves on a civilized standard that is above torture, the United States has actually been engaged in the practice for virtually its entire history. Brundage shows that many of U.S. history’s key moments have involved torture of the most despicable kinds. Here’s hoping that Brundage’s book is the beginning of a new reckoning. -- John Fabian Witt, author of Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American HistoryAmerican claims to constitute a higher form of ‘civilization’ erode in the face of this sobering study of atrocity. With extraordinarily deep and wide-ranging research, Fitzhugh Brundage shows that the American state has repeatedly resorted to savage violence against marginalized groups such as Indians, slaves, and prisoners. Bringing a humane sensibility to an inhumane subject, Brundage forces us to confront our painful past. -- Barbara J. Keys, author of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970sThat Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it. -- Lawrence Wilkerson, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy, The College of William and Mary, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, 2002–2005
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge International Handbook of Forensic
Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Handbook of Forensic Psychology in Secure Settings is the first volume to identify, discuss and analyse the most important psychological issues within prisons and secure hospitals. Including contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from the UK, US, Australia and Canada, the book covers not only the key groups that forensic psychologists work with, but also the treatment options available to them, workplace issues unique to secure settings, and some of the wider topics that impact upon offender populations. The book is divided into four sections: population and issues; treatment; staff and workplace issues; contemporary issues for forensic application. With chapters offering both theoreticalTrade Review'This is a comprehensive, cutting-edge book ideal for anyone interested in Forensic Psychology. The detailed attention to issues regarding a range of forensic populations and treatment programmes is excellent. The consideration of contemporary issues and the insightful, honest evaluation of the potential challenges of working in secure settings are particularly refreshing. It is an easily-accessible resource that I am sure will be a valued go-to reference for academics, practioners and students. We have needed a volume like this for a long time.' - Dr. Jane L Wood, HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist, Reader, School of Psychology, University of Kent, UK'This outstanding book offers the latest evidence in all areas of forensic psychology practice. The chapters, written by leading authors in the field, aptly capture the complexities of the work, and provide clear guidance for practitioners working in the field. The collection is impressive in its breadth and depth, and will be an essential read for students of forensic psychology and practitioners working in secure settings.' - Joel Harvey, King’s College London, UKTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction SECTION I: POPULATIONS AND ISSUESChapter 2: Young high risk forensic populations: Assessment, treatment, and risk managementChapter 3: Understanding women in prisonChapter 4: Offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilitiesChapter 5: Understanding deception and denial in offendersChapter 6: Self-harm in prisonChapter 7: Assessment issues in offending populationsSECTION II: TREATMENTChapter 8: Treatment with firesettersChapter 9: Sexual offender treatment in forensic and correctional settingsChapter 10: Domestic Violence ProgrammesChapter 11: Empirically-based strategies for treating personality disorderChapter 12. Trauma and its treatment in forensic settingsChapter 13: Contemporary evidence-based approaches to the assessment and treatment of substance-abusing offendersChapter 14: Effective interventions to address acquisitive offendingChapter 15: Modifying Assessment and Treatment for deaf forensic clientsSECTION III: STAFF AND WORKPLACE ISSUESChapter 16: The psychological and emotional effects of prison on prison staffChapter 17: Relationships in prisonsChapter 18: Staff supervision within in forensic settingsChapter 19: The positive practice of safety: Reductions in workplace bullying behaviour through increases in safety and securityChapter 20: The resilient organisationChapter 21: A practical approach to ethical issues for psychologists in prisons and secure settingsSECTION IV: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES FOR FORENSIC APPLICATIONChapter 22: Functions of critical incidents and their management in secure forensic servicesChapter 23: Understanding terrorismChapter 24: Understanding and intervening with partner abuseChapter 25: Gangs: Best practices in suppression, assessment, and interventionChapter 26: Understanding and managing intra-group aggression among residents in secure settings
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Mirror Books The Art of Crime: Diary of A Prison Art Tutor
Book SynopsisAs an Art Tutor working in Britain's jails, Steven Tafka's job was to teach the supposedly unteachable. The longer he did the job, the more it seemed like it was him that was serving a sentence. Writing this darkly comic book gave him a release and helped him to survive. From the initial job interview, 'The Art of Crime' charts the journey of a rookie prison art tutor from idealism to the depths of the prison underworld. Written in diary form it details the tragi-comic, often absurd daily experiences of trying to help prisoners to achieve a qualification against all the odds. Tafka had to discover the art of teaching watercolours to violent gangsters and introduce murderers to Monet. He finds himself doing swimming pool designs for an armed robber and trying to keep order in a classroom where one of the learners thinks he is Picasso Peppa Pig. And all this is happening as he is having to count the latex gloves in and out (so the prisoners can't smoke them) and watch out for illicit hooch brewing behind the classroom radiators. This book gives a rodents-and-all insight into the dysfunctionality of prison life, the often-abject conditions, but more importantly the power of art to transform lives. There is an undoubted fascination with the art prisoners make, because it has something to tell us about the human condition and this book reveals the characters behind it.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Catalpa Rescue
Book SynopsisThe incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history.New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain Anthony sets sail on the Catalpa to rescue the men from the stone walls of this hell on Earth known to the inmates as a ''living tomb''. What follows is one of history''s most stirring sagas that splices Irish, American, British and Australian history together in its climactic moment.For Ireland, who had suffered English occupation for 700 years, a successful escape was an inspirational call to arms. For America, it was a chance to slap back at Britain for their support of the South in the Civil War; for England, a humiliation. And for a young Australia,Trade ReviewGripping * Irish Independent *
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Those Who Know Dont Say The Nation of Islam the
Book SynopsisChallenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centres the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state.Trade ReviewShows that police departments steeped in cultures of bigotry, and a judicial system that promotes punishment over rehabilitation, were harsh in responding to black protest movements, many of them led by the Nation of Islam. . . . An impressive academic investigation and an appealing contribution to black American history." —Foreword
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Bonnier Books Ltd Inside Broadmoor: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Book SynopsisThe Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller'There is time and then there is Broadmoor time.' Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic. Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper), John Straffen and Kenneth Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, and cannibal Peter Bryan. The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside. Including interviews with the staff, its experts and the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date. Published at the dawn of a new era for the hospital, this is the full story of Broadmoor's past, present and future and a dark but enlightening journey into the minds of Britain's most dangerous and how they are treated.
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Haus Publishing Tazmamart: 18 Years in Morocco's Secret Prison
Book SynopsisThis is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found himself locked in a small, underground cell in a prison thought to be a mere horror story: Tazmamart. For 18 years, no one knew where the prison's inmates were. No one knew if they were even alive. In many ways, they hardly were: confined for 24 hours a day, with the barest rations, no hygiene or medical help, and accompanied by cockroaches, scorpions, and tarantulas. One of the few to survive, Aziz writes not only to tell his own remarkable story but to remember and honour the men that lived - and died - alongside him. Against the backdrop of this unimaginable suffering, Aziz shows the strength of the human spirit to keep going against all the odds, to smile in the face of misery, and to forgive rather than condemn. Set to become a cult classic of survival literature, Tazmamart is a hellish journey through the abyss of despair - and out the other side.Trade Review'A beautifully composed memoir that chronicles twenty years of death and degradation in a secret state prison that yet also reads as the spiritual pilgrimage of an ascetic. It is a historical document too, formed from BineBine's compassionate testimony of the loves and aspirations, childhood memories and adult ambitions of those buried at Tazmamart, be they rebel officers, innocent careerists, young idealists or well-connected courtiers, condemned to a prolonged act of royal vengeance in the aftermath of two failed military coups.' (Barnaby Rogerson); 'Aziz BineBine spent 18 years in the now infamous secret prison of Tazmamart in the Moroccan desert, and it took him a further 18 years to write about it. His chronicle about his fellow prisoners, most of whom died, is both terrible and generous; BineBine wanted to pay homage to the dead, rather than the survivors.The unspeakably brutal years are punctuated by his love for literature, his faith, and empathy for his fellow prisoners. His account joins the ranks of timeless prison literature and is a rich testimony of astounding human resilience.' (Olivia Snaije); Lulu Norman's fine translation brings alive this firsthand account of brutality, injustice and survival. (Michele Roberts); 'The hellhole of Tazmamart--Morocco's notorious secret prison--has been the crucible for many a searing story. Aziz Binebine's account is one of the finest: forensic in its detail of the sheer horror of the place, with flashes of pure poetry and deep humanity in his own tale and that of his fellow inmates. Storytelling during his long years in Tazmamart kept Binebine alive; his book will keep readers engrossed--and aghast--from start to finish.' (Shereen El Feki, Author, Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World); 'When you read this true story, in which both horror and humanity mingle, you will realise that the truth is sometimes far worse than the most unlikely imaginings. This is a detailed account of Tazmamart, one of the worst political prisons in world history. King Hassan II of Morocco and his collaborators built it to quash the people's will to resist despotism, but this book proves the opposite. It shows that human resilience is more powerful. As BineBine puts it so well, the only cause of all this suffering and this long struggle for survival was that, one day in 1971, Fate's finger was pointed at him. This book is both a thriller and a song to the glory of the human that resides in each of us. It's a cry of despair against the evil of men. But no matter how sombre his words, the writer has no lack of humour or humility.' (Maati Monib, historian, journalist, and human rights activist in Morocco); 'The poignant testimony of Aziz BineBine is of rare interest, testifying very preciously to what is called in Morocco "the years of lead". Knowing already the book in its initial version in French, I find its translation of a real finesse, and very faithful to the original.' (Abdelmajid Benjelloun, Moroccan author, historian and poet); For all the suffering, this isn t a depressing book. On the contrary, it is compulsively readable and even uplifting, because the lesson BineBine imparts is one of love and dry-eyed compassion. Faultlessly translated by Lulu Norman, Tazmamart is a deeply moving testament to the strength of the human spirit. - --Jason Goodwin, The Spectator; The book s call for dignity, justice, and transparency for the accused remains deeply relevant today. - Johanna Sellman, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University --ohanna Sellman, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
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Atlantic Books A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner
Book Synopsis***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year'Shocking, scathing, entertaining.' Guardian 'Incredibly compelling.' The Times'Heart-breaking.' Sunday TimesWhere can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow?Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service. Like most people, documentary-maker Chris Atkins didn't spend much time thinking about prisons. But after becoming embroiled in a dodgy scheme to fund his latest film, he was sent down for five years. His new home would be HMP Wandsworth, one of the largest and most dysfunctional prisons in Europe.With a cast of characters ranging from wily drug dealers to senior officials bent on endless reform, this powerful memoir uncovers the horrifying reality behind the locked gates. Filled with dark humour and shocking stories, A Bit of a Stretch reveals why our creaking prison system is sorely costing us all - and why you should care.Trade ReviewShocking, scathing, entertaining... If you thought you knew how bad British prisons are, you haven't read this book... It's an inside story to make you weep at the incompetence, stupidity and viciousness of the current system. * Guardian *An incredibly compelling account, not just because of Atkins' incongruity and his knack for black, observational humour, but because it lays bare a system that has become utterly dysfunctional. Atkins is thrust into the heart of Britain's prison crisis and can never quite believe what he is seeing. It's a sort of Kafkaesque haplessness. A bleak catalogue of absurdity. * The Times *Surreal, darkly funny, at times horrifying but always humane account of what it's like to be locked up. * Observer *A soul-searching account... A pacy memoir which is imbued with a dark humour... heartbreaking. [Atkins is] honest enough to have left in the parts that would make his mother wince. * Sunday Times *A razor-sharp and darkly funny memoir... * Spectator *A highly readable and thought-provoking account, which illuminates a failing and anachronistic institution in dire need of a radical overhaul. * Daily Mail *Powerful... a dispassionate record of the grinding down of the human soul, deliberate hopelessness, insane and moribund bureaucracy, the whims of bullying guards, roll calls, curses, kicks and punches. * Roger Lewis, The Telegraph *Terrifically vivid... what makes the book so riveting is that Atkins takes us behind the statistics to show us prison life in all its chaotic, sometimes surreal weirdness. * Reader's Digest *A Bit of a Stretch shows a system in chaos, as guards struggle to deal with mentally ill, poorly educated men housed in decaying old buildings. It is also, in places, very funny. * Helen Lewis, The Atlantic *Heartbreaking and hilarious. * Christie Watson – bestselling author of The Language of Kindness *An entertaining memoir, but also an indictment of our creaking, underfunded prison system. * The Times *Atkins's shocking yet entertaining diary of his time behind bars is a must-read. * Independent *Powerful and highly readable. * Peter Dawson – Director of the Prison Reform Trust and former prison governor *Funny, shocking and powerful. * The Secret Barrister *Gripping, warm and empathetic. Atkins exposes the shocking gap between what politicians claim about prison and the humiliating reality. You'll roar with laughter before turning to deep despair. * Isabel Hardman – author of Why We Get the Wrong Politicians *Fabulous. Candid, funny and never self-pitying, this is a must-read insight into why prison simply doesn't work. * Jon Snow – presenter, Channel 4 News *Shocking, funny, and very moving. * Mark Thomas – comedian *Absolutely extraordinary. Heartbreaking without being self-pitying, shocking without being gratuitous and, of course, very, very funny. * John Niven – novelist and screenwriter *Harrowing... required reading for anybody concerned with what entitles a society to call itself civilised. * Law Gazette *Honest and authentic. Atkins perfectly captures the madness, hope and despair of prison. Please read this. * Professor David Wilson – founding Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University and former prison governor *An important, urgent and entertaining memoir. It made me laugh, cry my eyes out and think hard, not only about forgiveness, but about love and life in general. An essential read. * Sathnam Sanghera – bestselling author of The Boy with the Topknot *Table of Contents0: Introduction 1: Trauma and Toothpaste 2: Lockdowns and Love Actually 3: Showers and Slips 4: Goodfellas and Goldilocks 5: Biohazard and Back Rubs 6: Suicide and Sellotape 7: Spinsters and Spiceheads 8: Murder and Mutiny 9: Courtrooms and Cheeseburgers 10: Despair and Dancing Queen 11: Paedophiles and Prizes 12: Epilogue
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Gulag Archipelago 19181956
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HarperCollins Ill Fly Away
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Maximum Security Book Club Reading Literature
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Probation Parole and CommunityBased Corrections
Book SynopsisMore than 8 million adults and juveniles are under correctional supervision in the United States, and even those who are confined will eventually be supervised by professionals in the field of community-based corrections. The first scholars to do so, Gerald Bayens and John Smykla explain in this first edition of Probation, Parole, and Community-Based Corrections, that community-based corrections is more than just programs in the community.Utilizing the latest data, up-to-the-minute news, profiles of professionals working in the field, policy discussions, pedagogical tools, and international perspectives, the authors have created an exciting book for students learning about community-based corrections.Table of ContentsPrefaceCHAPTER 1: Why Study Community-Based Corrections?: Using Evidence-Based Practices, Risk Assessment, andIntermediate Sanctions to Reduce Crime and Protect theCommunity CHAPTER 2: Legislation, Apprehension, Adjudication, and Corrections: The Four Filters Affecting Community-BasedCorrections CHAPTER 3: Theories of Offender Treatment: Reasons to Have a Theoretical Roadmap CHAPTER 4: Assessing Risk: The Importance of ClassificationCHAPTER 5: Pretrial Release and Diversion: Suspending Progression through the Formal Justice ProcessCHAPTER 6: Economic Sanctions: Fines, Restitution to Victims, and Community Service CHAPTER 7: Probation and ISP: The Most Common Methods of Correctional Supervision in America CHAPTER 8: Parole: The Crucial Phase of ReentryCHAPTER 9: Boot Camps and Jail-Based Community Supervision: Unique Alternatives to Traditional Community-Based Corrections PracticesCHAPTER 10: Residential, Day Reporting, and Drug Courts: Offenders Living Among Us CHAPTER 11: Special Populations: Offenders with Mental Health Problems, Sex Offenders, and Women OffendersCHAPTER 12: Community-Based Corrections for Juveniles: Giving Kids the Chance They NeedGlossaryCreditsCase IndexSubject Index
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Ebury Publishing Newjack
Book SynopsisAfter he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America''s most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or ''newjack'', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating and often violent world of America''s penal system.Unarmed and outnumbered, prison officers at one of America''s toughest maximum security jails supervise 1,800 inmates, most of whom have been convicted of violent felonies: murder, manslaughter, rape. Prisoners conceal makeshift weapons to settle gang rivalries or old grudges, and officers are often attacked or caught in the crossfire. When violence flares up in the galleries or yard an officer''s day can go from mundane to terrifying in a heartbeat.Conover is an acclaimed journalist, known for immersing himself completely in a situation in order to write about it. With remarkable insight, Newjack takes the reader as close to experiencing life in an American pTrade ReviewNewjack is about as good as it gets - by turns gripping, funny, frightening and sad * The Washington Post *[A] mind-blowing example of journalism at its most authentic, Conover discovers that prison can bring out the animal in any man * Entertainment Weekly *Conover is to be commended for having the chops to venture where few others would dare to go * Los Angeles Times *Pretty damned amazing...entirely gripping and powerful -- Sherman AlexieRiveting * Maxim *
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Ebury Publishing Banged Up Abroad Hellhole
Book Synopsis''There are 3,000 drugged-up psychopaths, armed to the teeth with blades, shooters and bombs. That''s the only way I can describe Yare. It''s a murderous viper''s nest of assassins, cut throats and killers.''When James Miles and his best friend Paul Loseby were caught smuggling ten kilos of cocaine out of Caracas, Venezuela, they couldn''t deny their guilt. Young and naive, the lads had thought the one-off drug mule job would be a passport to a better life. But in reality it was a ticket to hell ...They were sentenced to thirty years and flung into the world''s deadliest prison system, ending up in the notorious Yare. A place where drugs and weaponry are currency and the rules are: there are no rules.This is the gripping true-life story of how two men endured untold savagery in the most appalling conditions. It''s about what it''s like to witness murder and rape every day, fearing you''ll be next. How it feels to join a dangerous Latino gang and eat deTrade ReviewGripping and shocking read. * The Sun *
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Vintage Publishing The Fatal Shore
Book SynopsisRobert Hughes, art critic of Time magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association's F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of The Shock of the New, and of Heaven and Hell in Western Art. He is also author of the acclaimed Nothing if Not Critical, a work on Frank Auerbach; Barcelona, and Culture of Complaint, essays on the fraying of America. Robert Hughes died in August 2012.Trade ReviewA unique phantasmagoria of crime and punishment, which combines the shadowy terrors of Goya with the tumescent life of Dickens * Peter Ackroyd, The Times *A triumph of research, passion and fine writing. I found it an extraordinary and compelling book to read, one of fantastic scope and imagination; truly a tour de force * William Shawcross *Riveting * The Book Magazine *With its mood and stature...The Fatal Shore is well on its way to becoming the standard opus on the convict years * Sydney Sunday Telegraph *An enthralling account of the convict settlement of Australia, thoroughly researched and excellently written, brimming over with rare and pungent characters, and tales of pathos, bravery, and horror * Peter Matthiessen *
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Vintage Publishing The General
Book SynopsisOn 11 September 2001, in a café in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn't possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day.In a series of terrible events, Ahmed was sold by the Pakistanis to the Americans in the diplomatic lounge at Islamabad airport and spent five and a half years in Guantanamo. There, he was beaten, tortured, humiliated, very nearly destroyed.But Ahmed did not give in. This very ordinary, Moroccan-born London chef became a leader of men. Known by the authorities as The General, he devised protests and resistance by any means possible. As a result, he spent most of his time in solitary confinement. But then, after all those years, Ahmed was freed, his innocence admitted.This is Ahmed's story. It will make you rethink what it means to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It will also make you look anew at courage, suTrade ReviewA revelation. People need to read this book * Mark Haddon *Those who doubt Guantanamo exemplifies American power should read this epic story of a truly brave man who survived to tell the truth * John Pilger *One of the many things that you are left feeling by Errachidi’s account is that there is no such thing as an “ordinary man”; another is that his extraordinary story, with all its surreal and brutal twists, needed telling -- Tim Adams * Observer *Remarkable... The General purports to be the story of just one man but this compelling read speaks for every innocent victim in the War on Terror, from the 3,000 murdered on 9/11 to the 30,000 Iraqi and Afghan civilians -- Marco Giannangeli * Sunday Express *Anyone at all interested in the state of human rights or democracy in the 21st century should read this. It's a profoundly humane testimonial written by a person whose kindness and dignity uplift. His treatment at the hands of the US Administration beggars belief * Emma Thompson *
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Pearson Education (US) Corrections
Book SynopsisTable of Contents PART I: PUTTING CORRECTIONS IN PERSPECTIVE 1. The History of Crime and Corrections 2. Sentencing and the Correctional Process PART II: CORRECTIONAL POLICY AND OPERATIONS 3. Jails 4. Probation and Intermediate Sanctions 5. Prison Systems 6. Parole and Prisoner Reentry PART III: CORRECTIONAL CLIENTS 7. The Clients of Adult Correctional Agencies 8. The Juvenile Correctional System 9. Special Offenders PART IV: PRISON LIFE 10. The Management of Prisons 11. Prison Life for Inmates 12. The World of Prison Staff 13. Custody within a Prison 14. Treatment and Programs within a Prison PART V: ISSUES IN CORRECTIONS 15. Legal Issues and the Death Penalty 16. Current and Future Issues in Corrections
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Oxford University Press Inc The Ex Post Facto Clause
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive examination of the US Constitution''s Ex Post Facto Clause, surveying its history and the critical role it can and should play in combatting the punitive tendencies of American legislatures.The Ex Post Facto Clause, one of the few civil liberty protections found in the body of the US Constitution, reflects the Framers'' acute concern over the tendency of legislatures to enact burdensome retroactive laws targeting unpopular individuals. Over time, a broad array of Americans have invoked the protective cloak of the Clause, including Confederate sympathizers in the late 1860s; immigrants in the early 1900s; Communist Party members in the 1950s; and, since the 1990s, convicted sex offenders. Although the Supreme Court enforced the Clause with vigor during the first several decades of the nation''s history, of late the justices have been less than zealous defenders of the security it was intended to provide. And, even more problematic, they have done so amid major changes in the nation''s social, political, and institutional life that have made the protections of the Ex Post Facto Clause all the more important. The Ex Post Facto Clause provides the first book-length examination of the history of the Clause and its potential for tempering the punitive impulses of modern American legislatures. Wayne A. Logan chronicles and critiques the evolving treatment of ex post facto claims by the Supreme Court, which has created a body of law that is both at odds with the Framers'' intent and ill-suited to the unforgiving and harshly punitive nation that America has become. Drawing on Framing Era history, seminal Supreme Court decisions, and the global embrace of the values underlying the Ex Post Facto Clause, Logan provides a blueprint for how the Clause can play a reinvigorated and more robust role in guarding against the penal populism besetting modern American legislatures.Trade ReviewProfessor Wayne Logan—renowned expert on sex offender registration, felon disfranchisement, and other collateral sanctions—now provides the definitive study of the Constitution's prohibition on retroactive laws. Logan shows that the Ex Post Facto Clause was originally intended as a broad protection of the most vilified and vulnerable against persecution. He provides a devastating critique of the US Supreme Court's history of contriving arbitrary exceptions to this fundamental principle and shows how these have contributed to excesses of the war on crime. This is first rate work. * Guyora Binder, SUNY Distinguished Professor, University at Buffalo School of Law, SUNY *An important contribution to our understanding of the punitive turn in US penal policies. Logan's comprehensive scholarship demonstrates the role of contemporary judge-made constitutional doctrine in enabling our long war on crime and recovers the lost constitutional tradition of checking the abuses of penal populism that would be vital to ending it. * Jonathan Simon, Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law, University of California, Berkeley *This is a richly detailed account of an understudied constitutional clause that presents an innovative argument for its reinvigoration. Logan's work directly contributes to legal and historical scholarship on American constitutional and criminal law, but political scientists, sociologists, and criminologists interested in criminal justice reform will be interested in his prescription to use the provision to check punitive lawmaking. Many laws with retroactive impacts on the lives of convicted individuals-including those mandating sex offender registration and notification or prohibiting convicted felons from certain occupations, among others-do not receive ex post facto coverage under current doctrine. Logan's case for a new approach is fresh and valuable. * Anthony Grasso, Law & Society Review *This is a richly detailed account of an understudied constitutional clause that presents an innovative argument for its reinvigoration. Logan's work directly contributes to legal and historical scholarship on American constitutional and criminal law, but political scientists, sociologists, and criminologists interested in criminal justice reform will be interested in his prescription to use the provision to check punitive lawmaking...As research grows exploring the problems of American criminal justice, The Ex Post Facto Clause is a noteworthy contribution advancing a novel argument to reinterpret an oft-ignored constitutional tool to constrain punitive lawmaking. * Anthony Grasso, Wiley Online Library *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Background and Early History Chapter 2: The Supreme Court Weighs In: Calder v. Bull (1798) Chapter 3: Formative Nineteenth Century Developments Chapter 4: Late Nineteenth Century to 1990: A Period of Retrenchment Chapter 5: The 1990s to the Present Chapter 6: Recasting the "Punishment Question" Chapter 7: Broadening the Scope of Coverage Chapter 8: Global Perspectives Appendix A Appendix B Index
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