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  • Cambridge University Press The Virtual Prison Community Custody and the Evolution of Imprisonment Cambridge Studies in Criminology

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  • Cambridge University Press Institutions of Confinement

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  • Cambridge University Press Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State

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  • Cambridge University Press The Prison and the Gallows

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  • Cambridge University Press The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice

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  • Cambridge University Press The Prisoners Dilemma Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies The Hamlyn Lectures

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    Book SynopsisOver the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised as an index of governments' competence. New and worrying developments, such as the inexorable rise of the US prison population and the rising force of penal severity, seem unstoppable in the face of popular anxiety about crime. But is this inevitable? Nicola Lacey argues that harsh 'penal populism' is not the inevitable fate of all contemporary democracies. Notwithstanding a degree of convergence, globalisation has left many of the key institutional differences between national systems intact, and these help to explain the striking differences in the capacity for penal tolerance in otherwise relatively similar societies. Only by understanding the institutional preconditions for a tolerant criminal justice system can we think clearly about the possible options for reform within particular systems.Trade Review'It was a privilege to have been asked to review this book. Nicola Lacey seems certain to join that select list of Hamlyn lecturers … who, over the years, have provided significant reference points for criminologists as well as jurisprudentially inclined lawyers. … Lacey has done criminology a profound service by highlighting the core issues. This short text deserves a place on every student reading list.' British Journal of Criminology'This is too small a space to do justice to Lacey's discerning consideration of [the] issues and her impressive (and creditable) incorporation of research in political philosophy, criminology, welfare economics, and social theory to make her points.' The Edinburgh Law Review'The rise of American mass incarceration, and similar but less dramatic developments elsewhere, has given rise to much speculation and analysis of comparative penal development, of which The Prisoners' Dilemma is the latest and one of the most interesting and provocative examples. If we are fortunate, Nicola Lacey's work will stimulate a lot more comparative research. … [Her] thoughtful and original thesis provides a research agenda for a whole generation of new comparative scholars. We can only hope that they decide to rise to the challenge.' The Modern Law ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. Punishment in Contemporary Democracies: 1. 'Penal populism' in comparative perspective; 2. Explaining penal tolerance and severity: criminal justice in the perspective of political economy; Part II. Prospects for the Future: Escaping the Prisoners' Dilemma?: 3. Inclusion and exclusion in a globalizing world: Is penal moderation in co-ordinated market economies under threat?; 4. Confronting the prisoners' dilemma: the room for policy manoeuvre in liberal market economies.

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  • Cambridge University Press Capital Punishment

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  • Cambridge University Press A History of Exile in the Roman Republic

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  • Cambridge University Press Prison State

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  • Cambridge University Press Mass Incarceration Nation

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  • Cambridge University Press Mass Incarceration Nation

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  • Cambridge University Press Prison Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity

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  • Cambridge University Press Execution State and Society in England 16601900

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  • Cambridge University Press The Criminal Prisons of London

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    Book SynopsisPublished in 1862, this book is a comprehensive guide to crime and punishment in nineteenth-century London. Henry Mayhew (181287), a journalist and social reformer, argues for prison reform by demonstrating that all of London's penal institutions were ineffective in reforming criminals and did not adequately provide for the inmates.Table of ContentsAdvertisement; Introduction: London considered as a great world; A balloon view of London; Some idea of the size and population of London; London from Different Points of View: The entry into London by rail; The Port of London; London from the top of St. Paul's; The Contrasts of London: Of the riches and poverty of London; The charity and crime of London; Of the London streets, their traffic, names, and character; Professional London; Legal London; The Administration of the Criminal Law: The criminal prisons and prison population of London; The London convict prisons and the convict population; Of prison discipline; The Convict Prisons of London: Pentonville Prison; The female convict prison at Brixton; The hulks at Woolwich; Millbank Prison - the convict depot; The Correctional Prisons of London: The Middlesex House of Correction, Coldbath Fields; The Middlesex House of Correction, Tothill Fields; The Surrey House of Correction, Wandsworth; The City House of Correction, Holloway; The Detentional Prisons of London: Newgate Jail; The House of Correction, Clerkenwell; Horsemonger Lane Jail.

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  • Cambridge University Press Reformatory Schools

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    Book SynopsisThe penal reformer and educationist Mary Carpenter (180777) grew up in a family with a strong sense of obligation to those less fortunate. First published in 1851, this is an influential work on the education, care and support of young offenders, arguing for special institutions and a change in government policy.Table of ContentsPreface; Introductory chapter; 1. First principles; 2. Evening ragged schools; 3. Free day schools; 4. Industrial feeding schools; 5. The gaol; 6. Penal reformatory schools.

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    £32.99

  • The Maximum Security Book Club Reading Literature

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Maximum Security Book Club Reading Literature

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  • Probation Parole and CommunityBased Corrections

    McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Probation Parole and CommunityBased Corrections

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    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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    £161.93

  • Pearson Education (US) Corrections

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    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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    £179.99

  • Introduction to Corrections

    OUP USA Introduction to Corrections

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  • Cruel and Unusual

    Yale University Press Cruel and Unusual

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    Book SynopsisSince 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the US.

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  • The Innocent Man

    Random House USA Inc The Innocent Man

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    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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    £15.30

  • The Innocent Man

    Random House USA Inc The Innocent Man

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    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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    £26.25

  • The Highest Law in the Land

    Penguin Publishing Group The Highest Law in the Land

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    Book SynopsisShortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas PrizeA Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book Named Most Anticipated by Los Angeles Times A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics. The figure of the American sheriff has loomed large in popular imagination, though given the outsize jurisdiction sheriffs have over people’s lives, the office of sheriffs remains a gravely under-examined institution. Locally elected, largely unaccountable, and difficult to remove, the country’s over three thousand sheriffs, mostly white men, wield immense power—making arrests, running county jails, enforcing evictions and immigration laws—with a quarter of all U.S. law enforcement officers reporting to them. In recent years there&

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    £20.95

  • Prisoners of the Castle

    Diversified Publishing Prisoners of the Castle

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  • The Death of Innocents

    Random House USA Inc The Death of Innocents

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    Book SynopsisFrom the author of the national bestseller Dead Man Walking comes a brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we’re executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of 65, and Joseph Roger O’Dell. Both were convicted of murder on flimsy evidence (O’Dell’s principal accuser was a jailhouse informant who later recanted his testimony). Both were executed in spite of numerous appeals. Sister Helen Prejean watched both of them die.As she recounts these men’s cases and takes us through their terrible last moments, Prejean brilliantly dismantles the legal and religious arguments that have been used to justify the death penalty. Riveting, moving, and ultimately damning, The Death of Innocents is a book we dare not ignore.

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  • Special Category The IRA in English Prisons Vol 2

    Irish Academic Press Ltd Special Category The IRA in English Prisons Vol 2

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  • Two Truths and a Lie

    Random House USA Inc Two Truths and a Lie

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  • A Handbook On Hanging New York Review Books

    The New York Review of Books, Inc A Handbook On Hanging New York Review Books

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    Book SynopsisA Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.

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  • Athiesm Destroys

    CT3Media, Inc. Athiesm Destroys

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  • Introduction to Corrections

    Sage Publications, Inc Introduction to Corrections

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    £164.96

  • Correction

    Flatiron Books Correction

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    Book SynopsisNYT EDITOR''S CHOICE WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION OF 2023 FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice systemthrough the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just MercyCorrection ranks among the very best books on life inside and outside of prison I have ever read. ?Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted Correction provides a revelatory lens for examining mass incarceration. The Washington Post A Most Anticipated Book of 2023: Chicago Review of Books, The Chicago Tribune, The Next Big Idea ClubThe United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichéspaying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the timethere is little sense colle

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    £22.50

  • CommunityBased Corrections

    Cengage Learning, Inc CommunityBased Corrections

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    £167.52

  • Legal Aspects Of Corrections

    Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc Legal Aspects Of Corrections

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  • Arcadia Publishing Frontier Kansas Jails Landmarks

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  • A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning,

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  • Women Behind Bars: Gender and Race in U.S.

    Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc Women Behind Bars: Gender and Race in U.S.

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    Book SynopsisToday's prisons are increasingly filled with poor, dark-skinned, single mothers locked up for low-level drug involvement, with serious ramifications for the corrections system. ""Women Behind Bars"" offers the first comprehensive exploration of the challenges faced by incarcerated women in the United States. Young and Reviere show conclusively that serving time in prisons designed by and for men not only does little to address what landed women, particularly women of color, there in the first place, but also undermines their prospects for an improved life on the outside. Using a multifaceted race/class/gender lens, the authors make a convincing argument that women in prison are punished twice: first by their sentences, and again because the policies that govern time behind bars were not designed to address women's unique problems and responsibilities.Trade ReviewThe integration of race into the discussion of women and corrections is important, particularly in the classroom. This book, unlike most, does not address the issue of race as an afterthought, but instead shows its relevance by integrating it throughout. - Stephanie Bush-Baskette, Rutgers University ""This comprehensive text is a strong contribution to the study of women and incarceration. Particularly effective in terms of its focus on race, gender, and imprisonment, it should be required reading in a wide range of courses."" - Barbara Bloom, Sonoma State University

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    £21.95

  • One Day in the Life of 179212: Notes from an

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  • Carolina Academic Press Rethinking the Reentry Paradigm A Blueprint for

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    £34.20

  • Arcadia Publishing Inc. The Burlington County Prison Stories from the

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  • Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin

    Chicago Review Press Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin

    Book SynopsisFor ten years before Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully convicted man, David McCallum. McCallum was eventually exonerated and freed after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story of how Carter and Klonsky, along with a group of committed friends and professionals, managed to secure McCallum’s release. It details their many struggles, from founding an innocence project to take on the case, finding lawyers willing to work pro bono, and hiring a private detective to sift through old evidence and locate original witnesses, to the most difficult part: convincing members of a deeply flawed criminal justice system to reopen a case that would expose their own mistakes when all they wanted to do was ignore the conflicting evidence. A new district attorney willing to reexamine the case, a documentary film, and an op-ed piece in which Carter, on his deathbed, made a plea for McCallum’s release finally turned the tide of justice. Trade Review"After you read this gripping tale of a Brooklyn teenager coerced into falsely confessing and freed nearly thirty years later, you will not think about confession evidence or criminal investigations the same way." Brandon L. Garrett, author of End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice and Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong"I was the judge who granted a writ of habeas corpus to Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter resulting in his freedom after serving nineteen years in prison for a wrongful conviction. After his release we became friends, and he often spoke of his commitment to obtain the release of David McCallum. Freeing David McCallum is the compelling true story of the exoneration of another man wrongly convicted. His miraculous release, after twenty-nine years, demonstrates that fortunately there are those among us who will devote themselves unsparingly to freeing the innocent." Judge H. Lee Sarokin, retired

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  • Inside the Ohio Penitentiary

    Arcadia Publishing Inside the Ohio Penitentiary

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  • Cuz: An American Tragedy

    WW Norton & Co Cuz: An American Tragedy

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    Book SynopsisFirst appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle Allen’s Cuz announced the arrival of one of our most gifted literary memoirists. In this “compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story” (New York Times), Danielle Allen—a prize-winning scholar—recounts her heroic efforts to rescue Michael Alexander Allen, her beloved baby cousin, who was arrested at fifteen for an attempted carjacking. Tried as an adult and sentenced to thirteen years, Michael served eleven. Three years later, he was dead. Why did this gifted young man, who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up murdered? Why did he languish in prison? And why at fifteen was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone’s car? Hailed as a “literary miracle” (Washington Post), this fierce family memoir makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.Trade Review"A literary miracle of form and content. The book pleads with us to find the moral imagination to break the American pattern of racial abuse. Allen’s ambitious, breathtaking book challenges the moral composition of the world it inhabits by telling all who listen: I loved my cousin and he loved me, and I know he’d be alive if you loved him, too." -- Kiese Laymon - Washington Post"A compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story...Among the most valuable contributions Allen makes is forcing us to ask: To what end are we locking up our children? Are we not foreclosing their options before their lives have even begun?...Allen’s analysis of gang culture—or “the parastate,” as she calls it, with its own bylaws and tragic form of appeal—may be where she’s at her ferocious best" -- Jennifer Senior - New York Times""[Cuz] address[es] issues worth pondering: how codes of masculinity constrain and cripple men, the lure of violence, the mysteries of human personality and the debts family members owe one another in dire circumstances…In writing about her cousin, Allen is also elegizing other black men victimized by poverty, drugs and unequal justice. Her blend of personal anguish and social consciousness evokes not just [John Edgar] Wideman, but Jesmyn Ward's 2013 memoir, Men We Reaped."" -- Julia M. Klein - Chicago Tribune"Allen’s memoir, Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A., is a doleful and stirring narrative of how Michael Allen Alexander’s magnetic smile slowly dimmed until he was found shot to death in the passenger seat of a car in Los Angeles…. Allen’s heartbreak gives way to a well-researched expedition." -- Otis R. Taylor, Jr. - San Francisco Chronicle"She’s rightfully angry at what happened to her cousin, but it doesn’t hide her empathy for families who endure hardship to visit their imprisoned loved ones, and it doesn’t lessen her humanity toward the people whose imprisonment doesn’t make sense. That, mixed with an aching, soaring joy are what you’ll find in 'Cuz,' and it’s going to make you think—hard. Can you afford to miss that? No, make no mistake." -- Terri Schlichenmeyer - Oakland Post"The shattering story of her young cousin…'Cuz' is a powerful family memoir and study of the criminal justice system." -- Tom Beer - Newsday"Allen, whose writing is creative and accessible, uses her finely tuned talent to fold Michael’s fate into the gathering storms of the U.S. criminal-justice system and Los Angeles’ gang-related and racial turmoil. Both a searching, personal elegy and a sure-footed lamentation of the systems meant to protect us, this is a searing must-read." -- Annie Bostrom - Booklist, Starred review"[Allen] puts a face to the numbing statistics of incarcerated young black boys and men. . . . At its heart, Allen’s book is both an outcry and entreaty as she grapples with a painful reality." -- Publishers Weekly"A literary and political event like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, Danielle Allen’s Cuz is an elegiac memoir and social jeremiad born out of the tragedy of mass incarceration. A loving cousin paying tribute to her brilliant and beloved but troubled 'cuz,' Allen hits a grand slam." -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, and host of the PBS series Finding Your Roots"What starts as a personal memoir, an effort to resurrect from oblivion a beloved cousin who died young, modulates in Allen’s hands into a cool, reasoned, but ultimately devastating indictment of the War on Drugs and the sentencing regime it has given birth to. In plain terms, stripped of the jargon of the social sciences, she shows us what can await if you are young, black, and unlucky in today’s United States." -- J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Life and Times of Michael K"In this narrative of freedom and incarceration, education and disadvantage, rehabilitation and punishment, Danielle Allen paints an unforgettable portrait of a cousin she loved. The pacing is brisk and novelistic, but the message is large and clear: we need urgently to reform the system through which we process juveniles who commit crime, because the current system perpetuates the very injustices it was designed to address." -- Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree"Cuz is riveting, painfully personal, and profoundly lucid in its history telling. Allen's crystalline voice amazes despite the most bewildering behemoth topic." -- Quiara Alegría Hudes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Water by the Spoonful

    10 in stock

    £12.99

  • Send Them to Hell: The Brutal Horrors of

    Transworld Publishers Ltd Send Them to Hell: The Brutal Horrors of

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisSend Them to Hell is a horrifying, authentic chronicle of life as lived by foreign inmates over the past two decades in Bangkok's notorious prison system.Murder, human-rights abuse, drugs, blackmail, extortion, extreme violence, medical maltreatment and unjustifiable death penalties feature as everyday occurrences in the living hells that are Bangkwang and Klong Prem jails. Sebastian Williams has graphically revealed this shocking reality through the eyes of a long-term inmate from the West who endured at first hand the unimaginable, inhuman nightmare that constitutes the Thai penal system.

    20 in stock

    £13.94

  • Adult Corrections: International Systems and

    Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc Adult Corrections: International Systems and

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn this text, prominent resident scholars present comprehensive overviews of the adult corrections systems of Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Namibia, Romania and the US. These national profiles provide a rare comparative and international perspective on corrections trends, issues and problems. The national profiles are complemented by the editor's introduction and glossary.

    2 in stock

    £31.95

  • Looking for Ashley: Re-reading What the Smith

    £27.08

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