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Book SynopsisHow prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communitiesAs the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky. If Kentucky were its own country, it would have the seventh highest incarceration rate in the world. In Coal, Cages, Crisis, Judah Schept takes a closer look at this stunning phenomenon, providing insight into prison growth, jail expansion and rising incarceration rates in America's hinterlands. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept traces recent prison growth in the region to the rapid decline of its coal industry. He takes us inside this startling transformation ocTrade Review"Against the many reductionist, exploitative, and degrading accounts of Appalachia, this book reveals how important it is to understand the region’s drive toward prisons and jails as part of a larger history, geography, and narrative of continuous extraction and structural crisis, one that was never inevitable but socially reproduced through carceral investments. Coal, Cages, Crisis is essential reading in this moment of reckoning, proving our analyses of racial capital in the rural hinterlands is foundational to struggles in the movement against prisons everywhere. " -- Michelle Brown, co-author of Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture"Through the churn of extraction and profiteering, disposal and human sacrifice, the mountains of Appalachia have become a kind of national sacrifice zone, home to coal mines, garbage dumps, and cages. Judah Schept’s brilliant book nests rigorously local Appalachian history within the global system of racial capitalism that is devouring the planet. As jails and prisons proliferate across the coalfields, Schept tells us what was there before so we will remember to ask that crucial abolitionist question—what might be there instead?" -- Naomi Murakawa, author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America"Judah Schept sketches a fascinating topography of class war and the carceral state in Appalachia. He boldly shifts focus from the criminal policies and physical prisons of the region to the infrastructures of extraction and disposal that have facilitated mass incarceration. This imaginative interdisciplinary study will be a critical resource for scholars and organizers as well as for pundits trying to make sense of Appalachia’s now mythologized ‘white working class.’" -- Christina Heatherton, co-editor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter"Coal, Cages, Crisis is a model of carceral geography that combines investigative journalism, unabashed activism, and multi-layered analysis. Jill Frank’s stark photography illuminates a bleak landscape, while Schept excavates its buried past." -- Tony Platt, author of Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States"The primary insight guiding Coal, Cages, and Crisis is that the carceral facility is part of an ensemble of social relations extending far beyond its walls, in networks of local, state, and federal punishment, the global landscape of commodity exchange, and even the unique historical moment in which it exists. As Schept deftly demonstrates, the site selection, construction, staffing, filling, and subsequent management of prisons and jails is not simply the narrow domain of the misnamed ‘justice system,’ reflecting its needs, nor are prisons and punishment regimes simply deployed in response to changing levels of ‘crime,’ as conservative criminologists argue. Instead, understanding why prisons are built, and filled, requires a close look at local patterns of employment, relations of private property, histories of structural racism, and the political and cultural arenas in which regimes of prison construction and ‘tough on crime’ policies alike are fought out … Time and again, Coal, Cages, Crisis strives to communicate that mass incarceration is not natural or inevitable, and depicts plenty of locals who prove that another way of life is not only possible, but in demand." * The Brooklyn Rail *"Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept links prison growth to other sites in the Central Appalachian landscape—coal mines, coal waste, landfills, and incinerators. He concludes that the prison boom has less to do with crime and punishment and much more with the overall extraction, depletion, and waste disposal processes that characterize dominant development strategies for the region." * Law and Social Inquiry *"Through this interdisciplinary study of the rural prison boom, Schept provides an invaluable state of the field in carceral and Appalachian studies, using the lens of racial capitalism to interpret the region’s complex identity. He also gives an innovative model for the use of blended oral and archival historical methods to study deep historical processes that manifest in the recent past." * The Journal of Southern History *"Prisons have proven to be unsafe and costly to operate and, as a result, many in this region have been closing at a rapid rate.…Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- E. Smith, University of Delaware * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisFrom Confederation to the partial abolition of the death penalty a century later, defendants convicted of sexually motivated killings and sexually violent homicides in Canada were more likely than any other condemned criminals to be executed for their crimes. Despite the emergence of psychiatric expertise in criminal trials, moral disgust and anger proved more potent in courtrooms, the public mind, and the hearts of the bureaucrats and politicians responsible for determining the outcome of capital cases. Wherever death has been set as the ultimate criminal penalty, the poor, minority groups, and stigmatized peoples have been more likely to be accused, convicted, and executed. Although the vast majority of convicted sex killers were white, Canada’s racist notions of the Indian mind meant that Indigenous defendants faced the presumption of guilt. Black defendants were also subjected to discriminatory treatment, including near lynchings. In debates about capital punishmenTrade Review"Strange has not only offered a challenging, thoughtful, and often unsettling work, but has done so in a fashion solidifying her place as one of this nation’s very best historians." -- Jonathan Swainger, University of Northern British Columbia * Labour/Le Travail *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Politics of the Death Penalty and the Problem of Sex Murder 2. Sex Fiends and the Death Penalty at the Turn of Canada’s Century 3. Contesting Convictions and Questioning Culpability: Sex Murder between the Wars 4. Sexual Psychopathy and Penal Severity in the Post-War Era 5. Sexual Psychopathy, Insanity, and the Death Penalty under Scrutiny in the 1950s 6. Sex Murder in the Sixties and the Demise of the Death Penalty Epilogue: The Problem of Sex Murder in the Shadow of Abolition Note on Sources and Methods

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970–71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an exclusive new interview with GIP member Hélène Cixous and writings by Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet. These archival documents—public announcements, manifestos, reports, pamphlets, interventions, press conference statements, interviews, and round table discussions—trace the GIP’s establishment in post-1968 political turmoil, the new models of social activism it pioneered, the prison revolts it supported across France, and the retrospective assessments that followed its denouement. At the same time, Intolerable offers a rich, concrete exploration of Foucault’s concept of resistance, providing a new understanding of the arc of his intellectual development and the genesis of his most influential book, Discipline and Punish.Presenting the account of France’s most vibrant prison resistance movement in its own words and on its own terms, this significant and relevant collection also connects the approach and activities of the GIP to radical prison resistance movements today.Trade Review"The Prisons Information Group was a crucial part of Foucault’s political trajectory, but it was an intensely collaborative project between intellectuals, prisoners, and their families. Expertly translated and introduced, this is the definitive collection of the group’s writings. Although the focus is France, the texts also illuminate other European countries, while the Algerian war opens up questions of colonialism, and the group’s links to the Black Panthers make it important for an understanding of the politics of race. A significant book that is both long overdue and a timely intervention in contemporary debates about police and prison abolition and reform."—Stuart Elden, author of The Early Foucault"Intolerable contributes to incarceration studies by highlighting the contributions (and pointing to the contradictions) of the Prisons Information Group (GIP). By emphasizing the activism of the GIP, it demonstrates how the author and theorist as an academic activist was influenced by the militancy of political actors and revolutionaries who took great risks, especially as incarcerated intellectuals and rebels, to challenge repression structured by racial/colonial capitalism and captivity."—Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader"Though ‘resistance’ in the Trump Era became more of a brand than a battle plan, it is not hard to see the relevance of the Prisons Information Group to the current movement for prison reform and abolition: lessons of past resistance are always important to the future."—Literary Hub

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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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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

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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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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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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)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book Synopsis*Provides a clear, yet panoramic analysis of how the concept of social control has been used by different theoretical traditions in the social sciences.*Connects contemporary changes in areas such as policing, penal systems and surveillance, with wider and deeper changes in the constitution of society.*Employs empirical examples to illustrate key conceptual points.*Develops an innovative argument about the nature and scope of social control in late-modern societies.Understanding Social Control investigates how the concept of social control has been used to capture the ways in which individuals, communities and societies respond to a variety of forms of deviant behaviour. In so doing, the book demonstrates how an appreciation of the meanings of the concept of social control is vital to understanding the dynamics and trajectories of social order in contemporary late-modern societies. Through an analysis of a range of different modes of social control including: policTable of ContentsSeries editor's forewordThe argumentA history of the idea of social controlA history of social control practiceEveryday orderPolicingPunishingSurveillanceThe architecture of social controlRisk, regulation, auditConclusionIndex.

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Book SynopsisA common perception of coaching is that it is a high value service for highly paid executives But what if you offered it to some of the most marginalized people in our society - women in prison? With more potential in any one of our prisons than in any Oxbridge college, discover how coaching can unlock clients, whatever their context.Clare McGregor celebrates the amazing resilience of the human spirit and her book will challenge a lot of your preconceptions about prisons and prisoners. Willingness to take risks and learn from mistakes helped coaching adapt and thrive, even behind bars. The process and questions for a prisoner are the same as for any client: Who are you? What do you want to change? How are you holding yourself back? Equally importantly, the book asks: What does it take to work in this challenging environment? Dozens of fascinating stories bring reality to life: that coaching changes lives as readily in a prison aTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsGetting stuck inWelcome to HMP & YOI StyalWhat are you doing here?What do you want to change?The painThe problemsWho are you?What helps you?What holds you back?How did it go?Through the gate and beyondWhat can you do to make a difference?

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Book SynopsisA Closer Look at Prisons and Prison Inmates first explores how inmates perceive prisons in general, as well as particular aspects of the facilities where they serve time. In that sense, and after reviewing the literature regarding prison conditions and inmates' perceptions about prisons, a Prison Perception Scale is developed and assessed. Additionally, the authors examine how popular depictions of women in prison both interrupt and reinforce damaging stereotypes of incarcerated women. A content analysis of the popular Netflix series "Orange is the New Black" is provided in order to examine the hypothesis that incarcerated women are rarely presented as survivors in media. The closing chapter discusses some cause of recidivism if inmates such as lack of socialization, lack of job training, inability to adjust to social pressure, inability to reintegrate into the society after incarceration, lack of social support, mal-adjustment, lack of education, substance abuse, stigmatization and abuse.Table of ContentsPrefaceHow Inmates and Prison Officers Perceive Prison: An Exploratory StudyPortrayals of Women in Prison: Trauma and Agency in Orange Is the New BlackBooks towards Post-Incarceration Experiences of InmatesBibliographyRelated Nova PublicationsIndex.

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Book SynopsisThe issue of capital punishment is a continually-debated issue because it calls into question the values and direction of society. How is a civilisation supposed to handle lawbreakers? Are some crimes so heinous and some people so dangerous that the death penalty is the only appropriate response? The United States Constitution prohibits ''cruel and unusual punishment'', but opinions on whether that includes capital punishment are vehement on both sides. Many states have some form of death penalty, and public opinion seems to indicate support of it in principle. However, many firestorms have erupted recently over the application of the penalty, including the topics of its use on minors and those with mental disabilities. There are also questions raised about how much of a factor race plays in a capital sentence. Internationally, several countries have foresworn the death penalty, with certain countries in Europe and the Americas refusing to extradite criminal suspects (including suspected terrorists) to the US if capital punishment is a possible sentence. With such politically flammable and ethically challenging issues hanging over it, capital punishment is a vitally important issue to understand. To help facilitate that study, this book assembles a carefully selected and substantial listing of literature focussing on the death penalty. Anyone researching this area of criminal justice will find this book an important tool as it offers easy access to the most relevant works about capital punishment. Following the bibliography, further access is provided with author, title, and subject indexes.

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Book SynopsisFederal funding to states supported over 200,000 youths in residential facilities in 2004, many seeking help to address behavioural or emotional challenges. However, federal investigations have identified maltreatment and civil rights abuses in some facilities. GAO was asked to provide national information about (1) the nature of incidents that adversely affect youth well-being in residential facilities, (2) how state licensing and monitoring requirements address youth well-being in these facilities, and (3) what factors affect federal agencies'' ability to hold states accountable for youth well-being in residential facilities. GAO conducted national Web-based surveys of state child welfare, health and mental health, and juvenile justice agencies and achieved an 85 percent response rate for each of the three surveys. They also visited four states, interviewed program officials, and reviewed laws and documentation. This book is an excerpted, edited and indexed edition.

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Book SynopsisOver the last 10 years, the cost to confine federal Bureau of Prison (BOP) inmates in non-BOP facilities has nearly tripled from about $250 million in fiscal year 1996 to about $700 million in fiscal year 2006. Proponents of using contractors to operate prisons claim it can save money; others question whether contracting is a cost-effective alternative. This book discusses the feasibility and implications of comparing the costs for confining federal inmates in low and minimum security BOP facilities with those managed by private firms for BOP.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores consumer fraud and identity theft as well as telemarketing fraud which is both the oldest, and in some respects, the most persistent form of mass-marketing fraud that Canada and the United States have been actively combating for more than a decade now. Additionally, this book has three main purposes: first, it will describe the principal trends and developments since 2003 in the four major types of crime associated with mass-marketing fraud. Second, it will summarise the present approaches that law enforcement in both countries have adopted since 2003 and third, it will report on recommendations that the subgroup made in 2003 as part of a bi-national action plan to fight this fraud. Additional recommendations are also examined that would address changes in the nature and types of mass-marketing fraud that have emerged since 2003.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents research on prison privatisation in the US, with a focus on state prison privatisation. The basic thrust is to research the privatisation of a governmental function that is traditionally treated as a core function and involves the use of force. Specifically, the author researched the basic drives of prison privatisation and the variation of the magnitude of state prison privatisation among the 50 US states. The basic idea is to examine the influence of political and pragmatic factors to make sure the fundamental nature of the privatisation of imprisonment, and further, of core governmental functions. The author''s general argument is that prison privatisation was pushed forward by the changing political environment. Pragmatic and economic concerns or demands are derived from the political changes and are of secondary but still direct importance. This book has a detailed exploration of the whole picture of prison privatisation, with rich data and analysis.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an overview of the Healthy Marriage Initiative. The purpose of this book is also to understand more fully the strategies for improving outcomes for couples who want to develop healthy marriages during and after one partner''s incarceration. By convening a diverse group of experts with research and practice knowledge about incarceration and reentry, marriage strengthening, family processes, and domestic violence, this book will begin to identify research and program development needs that could be addressed by public- and/or private-sector investment in research and practice. Based on facilitated discussion on a variety of topics, the symposium participants will develop a framework for next steps in expanding marriage strengthening education services and research for couples separated by incarceration.

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Book SynopsisSuicide-proofing a room can prevent suicidal behaviour in incarcerated prisoners and in psychiatric patients. The question addressed is this book is whether suicide-proofing the general environment prevents suicide in the general population. The final chapter sums up the results and discusses the issues stimulated by this body of research.

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Book SynopsisGirls'' delinquency has attracted the attention of federal, state, and local policymakers for more than a decade as girls have increasingly become involved in the juvenile justice system. For girls, the key risk factors for delinquency and incarceration are family dysfunction, trauma and sexual abuse, mental health and substance abuse problems, high-risk sexual behaviours, school problems and affiliation with deviant peers. The authors of this book examine the developmental sequences of girls'' delinquent behaviour, as well as the factors that protect girls against delinquency. In addition, issues such as patterns of offending among adolescents are explored and how they differ for girls and boys. The causes and correlates of girls'' delinquency are discussed as well. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

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Book SynopsisAdministering justice to juvenile offenders has largely been the domain of the states, and as a result of this the laws that pertain to juvenile offenders can vary widely from state to state. This book analyses the current federal legislation that impacts the state juvenile justice systems. It also provides an overview of research on the deterrent effects of transferring youth from juvenile to criminal courts. In addition, this book examines juvenile suicides that occurred in confinement. It describes the demographic characteristics and social history of victims and examines the characteristics of the facilities in which the suicides took place. Drawing on this data, the researchers offer recommendations to prevent suicides in juvenile facilities. Moreover, this book analyses the prevalence and overlap of substance-related behaviours among youth, with comparisons by age group, gender and race/ethnicity. The analysis shows that a youth who engages in one substance-related behaviour is much more likely to engage in another. This book presents information that can help the juvenile justice system detect youth with psychiatric disorders and respond with an integrated system of services. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. prison system has exploded in size and economic importance during the past three decades, due to a variety of factors including mandatory sentencing laws and tougher drug enforcement efforts. At the end of 2008, more than 2.3 million adults were in local, state, or federal custody, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. More than 5 million more were on probation or parole. Overall, one in every 31 adults was under the authority of the correctional system in 2007. The record U.S. prison population is creating pressures on the federal and state governments as spending on corrections claims a larger share of tax dollars, potentially crowding public investment in other areas. This book explores U.S. prison growth and its economic impacts.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the federal prison population in the United States with a focus on growing inmate crowding and the eligibility and capacity impact to reduce inmates'' time in prison. Issues discussed include the effects of a growing federal prison population on operations within the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities and the extent to which BOP has taken actions to mitigate these effects. Also discussed is the extent to which BOP utilizes its authorities to reduce a federal prisoner''s period of incarceration.

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Book SynopsisThe United States has the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world. But are we any safer? Journalist Maya Schenwar proves that locking people up actually makes society less safe - and that there are alternatives that do a better job of deterring crime and providing justice for victims. Schenwar looks at how incarceration breaks the bonds that hold people together and deprives incarcerated people of exactly the kind of support and life skills necessary to reintegrate into society - which is why more than two-thirds of prisoners are re-arrested within three years of release. She draws heavily on her personal experience (her sister has spent the better part of ten years entangled in the system), as well as the struggles of other prisoners and their families.Far from advocating the complete abolition of prisons, Schenwar simply argues that they shouldnât be the only approach. She describes how highly effective alternative justice programs in the US and other countries do a better job of both preventing recidivism and providing meaningful restitution to victims. Above all, however, Schenwar seeks to convince her readers that prisoners, for all their hurtful deeds, shouldnât be treated as "non-persons." Her book is a passionate argument that "throwing away the key" ultimately hurts individuals and society.

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