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Book SynopsisCorrectional services -- which includes salaries and benefits for correctional officersis the Department of Justice''s (DOJ) Bureau of Prisons'' (BOP) largest operational cost, and BOP has undertaken a number of initiatives to reduce costs. This book describes BOP''s major costs and actions to achieve savings; assesses the extent to which BOP has mechanisms to identify additional efficiencies; and describes potential changes within and outside of BOP''s authority that might reduce costs. This book also provides an overview of the federal prison population buildup, policy changes, issues and options of the BOP.

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Book SynopsisThe experience of custody is one most of us only usually hear about from outside. All the intricacies of navigating prison life – suicide watch, fights, punishments, abuses of power by officials, and relationships – are rarely shown. This book sets out to reveal these facets of prison life in a depth and diversity never covered before. Right from the opening passages (when the author is arrested at Heathrow Airport) readers will discover aspects of the justice system that simultaneously shock and enthral. Against the backdrop of severe budget cuts, rising violence and suicides, the door is thrown open to reveal the consequences of hastily enforced policies – with legal challenges brought before the High Court. Throughout it all, a lens is cast on all aspects of the UK justice system.Trade Review“This book charts, in entertaining detail, the ebb and flow of Stephen’s passage through the turbulent waters of an imperfect criminal justice system. There are lessons in it for all of us.” - Eoin McLennan-Murray, President of the Prison Governors’ Association

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Book SynopsisTHE ALL-TIME KOREAN CLASSIC OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD, +100 REPRINTS Reflections from Prison is the collected letters and essays written by renowned Korean thinker Shin Young-Bok during his 20 years and 20 days as a political prisoner on a life tariff under Korea's military dictatorships. His time in prison symbolizes Korea's long period of suffering before becoming the flower of Asian democracy. The letters range from postcards, to tiny characters squeezed onto his daily ration of two sheets of toilet paper. When they were discovered by his friends and published in the Peace Newspaper, the peaceful message born out of the most painful times resonated in many hearts aching for freedom across the country. A year after its first newspaper appearance, he was released under a special pardon and his letters were published as a book in 1988. It has since sold over a million copies and become a Korean classic. The writings themselves are not overtly political since all the letters went through censorships Yet he does not hide the harshness of prison life at the rock bottom of society. They provide a window onto his personal suffering during imprisonment a life sentence, and how he pulled from it crystal-clear reflections on Korean society, history, and human relationships; finding beauty and hope in adversity. Common themes include his observations of nature, prison life , human relationships, Korean & Chinese ancient philosophical literature, poetry, calligraphy, self-cultivation, and history. Since its publication in 1987, a year before Shin's release, Reflections from Prison, has been a steady-seller in Korea. Now well-settled as a Korean classic, it still enjoys its status as a book of healing, insight, teaching and changing people through its inspiration and wisdom. With this translation, we share with readers abroad the precious experience of illumination and awakening that millions of Korean readers have enjoyed.Trade Review"The thinker I admire the most" - Moon Jae-In, President of South Korea "A thinker, a voice of his times, an opponent of mindless intrusive bureaucracy, of the rigidity of capitalism and of social inequalities" - Roger Richardson

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Book SynopsisThe use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the rise of the modern penitentiary during the first half of the nineteenth century and his since remained a feature of many prison systems all over the world. Solitary confinement is used for a panoply of different reasons although research tells us that these practices have widespread negative health effects. Besides the death penalty it is arguably the most punitive and dangerous intervention available to state authorities in democratic nations. Nevertheless, in the United States there is currently an estimated 80-100,000 prisoners in small cells for more than 22 hours per day with little or no social contact and no physical contact visits with family or friends. Even in Scandinavia, thousands of prisoners are placed in solitary confinement every year and with an alarming frequency. These facts have spawned international interest in this topic and a growing international reform movement, which includes researchers, litigaTrade ReviewThe authors of this volume argue eloquently and convincingly, from varied disciplines and perspectives, that it is time to end solitary confinement, and they provide a vision of a carceral system devoid of solitary as well as a road map for getting there. Jules Lobel ... was the lead attorney in a historic class action lawsuit, Ashker v. Governor of California [and t]his volume includes chapters by many of the experts who testified in the Ashker litigation ... This volume is unprecedented in the comprehensiveness and rigor of its treatment of the evidence of negative effects of solitary confinement, and the safe alternatives to solitary that are proven and available. The writing is engaging and accessible. The impact of this book, like the impact of the Ashker litigation, will serve to advance the struggle to end the torture of solitary confinement in the USA and, one hopes, worldwide. * Terry A. Kupers, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsContributors Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Solitary Confinement-from Extreme Isolation to Prison Reform Jules Lobel and Peter Scharff Smith PART ONE: Two Centuries of Solitary Confinement Chapter 2: Solitary Confinement-Effects and Practices from the Nineteenth Century until Today Peter Scharff Smith Chapter 3: Global Perspectives on Solitary Confinement-Practices and Reforms Worldwide Manfred Nowak Chapter 4: Solitary Confinement Across Borders Sharon Shalev Chapter 5: The Rise of Supermax Imprisonment in the United States Keramet Reiter Chapter 6: Not Isolating Isolation Judith Resnik Chapter 7: Torture, Solitary Confinement and International Law Juan E. Mendez PART TWO: Mind, Body and Soul - The Harms and Experience of Solitary Confinement Chapter 8: Solitary Confinement, Loneliness, and Psychological Harm Craig Haney Chapter 9: First Do No Harm: Applying the Harms-to-Benefit Patient Safety Framework to Solitary Confinement Brie Williams and Cyrus Ahalt Chapter 10: Mythbusting Solitary Confinement in Jail Homer Venters Chapter 11: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Health Louise Hawkley Chapter 12: The Brain in Isolation A Neuroscientist's Perspective on Solitary Confinement Huda Akil Chapter 13: Use of Animals to Study the Neurobiological Effects of Isolation: Historical and Current Perspectives Michael J. Zigmond and Richard Jay Smeyne Chapter 14: Sharing Experiences of Solitary Confinement-Prisoners and Staff Robert King, Dolores Canales, Jack Morris, Lieutenant Armondo Sosa PART THREE: Prison reform, prison litigation and human rights Chapter 15: The Management of High Security Prisoners: Alternatives to Solitary Confinement Andrew Coyle Chapter 16: Resisting Supermax: Rediscovering a Humane Approach to the Management of High Risk Prisoners Jamie Bennett Chapter 17: Prisoners Association as an Alternative to Solitary Confinement-Lessons Learned From a Norwegian High Security Prison Are Høidal Chapter 18: Colorado Ends Prolonged, Indeterminate Solitary Confinement Rick Raemisch Chapter 19: Reflections on North Dakota's Sustained Solitary Confinement Reform Leann Bertsch Chapter 20: Solitary Confinement in Canada Joseph J. Arvay, and Alison M. Latimer Chapter 21: "Loneliness is a destroyer of humanity." Jesse Wilson, Held in Solitary Confinement at United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado Amy Fettig and David C. Fathi Chapter 22: Litigation to End Indeterminate Solitary Confinement in California: The Role of Inter-Disciplinary and Comparative Experts Jules Lobel

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Book SynopsisHanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. In those years some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by thousands. Hanging was confined to murderers thereafter, but these were still killed in public until 1868. Clearly the gallows loomed over much of social life in this period. But how did those who watched, read about, or ordered these strangulations feel about the terror and suffering inflicted in the law''s name? What kind of justice was delivered, and how did it change?This book is the first to explore what a wide range of people felt about these ceremonies (rather than what a few famous men thought and wrote about them). A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among `polite'' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, ThackTrade Review[a] classic study * The Sunday Times Culture Magazine *There is plenty to incite horror, but the cleverness of the book is the way it puts the English way of execution into a political context * Jeremy Paxman, Independent *monumental in the subtlety and richness of the argument ... a rare combination of pellucid clarity and passion that carries the reader on to the final chapter without a single longeur. * John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph *A quite outstanding book, moving, perceptive ... richly imaginative. * Linda Colley, Observer *

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Book SynopsisThe question What can justify criminal punishment ? becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the whole penal system. Recent theorizing about punishment offers a variety of answers to that question-answers that try to make plausible sense of the idea that punishment is justified as being deserved for past crimes; answers that try to identify some beneficial consequences in terms of which punishment might be justified; as well as abolitionist answers telling us that we should seek to abolish, rather than to justify, criminal punishment. This book begins with a critical survey of recent trends in penal theory, but goes on to develop an original account (based on Duff''s earlier Trials and Punishments) of criminal punishment as a mode of moral communication, aimed at inducing repentance, reform, and reconciliation through repTrade Review"R.A. Duff's "Punishment, Communication and Community" is a closely reasoned case for a distinctive normative justification of punishment based on mediation and probation."--The Law and Politics Book Review, August 2001"Duff rejects the ultimate exclusionary penalty (capital punishment) for even the most dangerous of criminals and crimes; a reading of his reasons for doing so is a skillful journey through the relevant current literature."--Choice, October 2001"Punishment, Communication, and Community is a masterful, comprehensive analysis of the justification of punishment in general and a landmark contribution to the communicative theory of state punishment that combines theoretical rigor, practical recommendations and humane common sense. Few will entirely agree with [the book], but all will be challenged. Duff's innovative work is required reading for criminal law theorists and policy makers."--Stephen J. Morse, University of Pennsylvania Law School"In this masterly work, Professor Duff offers a penetrating assessment of recent work on penal philosophy and then develops his own communicative theory of punishment, which turns on ideas of community, penance and reconciliation. His account emphasizes the value of proportionate punishments designed to persuade offenders to face up to the implications of their crimes as public wrongs. Elegant in its philosophical argument and practical in its discussion of contemporary sentencing, this book sets the highest standards for work in this vital area of public policy at the start of a new millennium."--Andrew J. Ashworth, University of Oxford"Antony Duff has in recent years established himself as one of our foremost philosophers of punishment, arguing for a communicative view of justified punishment that sees it as a form of secular penance . In this book, he offers his fullest account of this theory to date. His approach, if generally adopted, would require a transformation of many of our existing practices of state punishment. This is a deep and challenging volume: no-one who is seriously concerned with the nature of and justification for state punishment can afford to neglect its arguments."--Anthony Bottoms, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University"A compelling antidote and challenge to death penalty advocates who believe that the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh for killing 164 people will bring consolation to survivors and serve justice."--Choice"Duff rejects the ultimate exclusionary penalty (capital punishment) for even the most dangerous of criminals and crimes; a reading of his reasons for doing so is a skillful journey through the relevant current literature" - -CHOICE"This new book is a major contribution to our understanding of criminal justice and its contemporary politics. For every word in the book that gives succour to today's alarming trends in criminal justice policy, there are ten more that expose cant, ignorance, and confusion. For a philosophical work to engage so closely with current politics and practice without sacrificing philosophical quality is a rare achievement indeed." --John Gardner Punishment and Society

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Book SynopsisAssesses the influence of the public prosecutor in Scotland, the Netherlands, England, Wales and Germany over the process of sentencing offenders in the criminal justice system. The text develops three models of justice seeking to analyze and explain the increased use of prosecutorial power.

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Book SynopsisHow did ideas about crime and criminals change in Europe from around 1750 to 1940? How did European states respond to these changes with the development of police and penal institutions? Clive Emsley addresses these questions using recent research on the history of crime and criminal justice in Europe. Exploring the subject chronologically, he addresses the forms of offending, the changing interpretations and understandings of that offending at both elite and popular levels, and how the emerging nation states of the period responded to criminal activity by the development of police forces and the refinement of forms of punishment. The book focuses on the comparative nature in which different states studied each other and their institutions, and the ways in which different reformers exchanged ideas and investigated policing and penal experiments in other countries. It also explores the theoretical issues underpinning recent research, emphasising that the changes in ideas on crime and crTrade ReviewReview from previous edition The book is conceptually sophisticated...It is also consistently interesting. In sum, the book is a welcome addition to the literature * Thomas Gallanis, Continuity and Change *Excellent and deserve[s] a wide readership...testament to Emsley's attention to detail, breadth of knowledge, and ability to make history accessible and interesting. * Drew Gray, Family and Community History *as always, Professor Emsley's work is rich with information and invites reflection ... His book will long remain an invaluable tool for both historians and sociologists. * Philippe Robert, Crime, Histoire, et Sociétés *Table of ContentsTHE OLD REGIME AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT; THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA; THE DISCOVERY OF THE CRIMINAL CLASSES; THE APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE; THE FACES OF PENAL WELFARE

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Book SynopsisAn ideal supplement to texts on judicial processes, Real Law Stories: Inside the American Judicial Process is the only undergraduate text dedicated to the presentation of real-world interviews with lawyers, judges, and police officers. Each law professional describes his or her job across a range of legal activities and offers insights into the legal process in the United States. Rather than focusing on exceptional or famous cases, authors Richard A. Brisbin Jr., and John C. Kilwein examine the routine, day-to-day functions of lawyers, courts, and the law in personal injury, divorce, employment relations, real estate, and commercial practice; criminal justice; and the appellate process. This real-world approach helps students to grasp how law operates in the everyday world while encouraging them to look beyond the mass media''s negative portrayals of lawyers, police, and litigants. In order to teach students how to conduct interviews, the authors provide succinct explanations of the juTable of ContentsPreface I. THE REAL WORLD OF LAW AND COURTS II. THE CIVIL JUSTICE PROCESS 1. Perspectives on Personal Injury Lawyers: Paul Cranston and Dan Cooper 2. Lawyer for the Middle Class: Deborah Pascente Lifka 3. The Family Law Attorney: Scott Friedman 4. The Lawyer in the Large Firm: Scott Himsel 5. The Commercial Practice Attorney: Jeffrey M. Byer 6. The Litigation of Intellectual Property: Earl Levere 7. The Bankruptcy Attorney: Selene Mazur 8. The Administrative Lawyer: Linda Rice 9. Litigating for the Outsider and Disadvantaged: Robert V. Eye 10. The Lawyer in Public Service: Anne M. Becker III. CRIMINAL LITIGATION 11. City Police: Rita Peerenboom 12. The Detective: Michelle Reichenbach 13. The County Prosecutor: Traci Cook 14. The Federal Prosecutor: David Godwin 15. The Public Defender: J. Luis Guerrero 16. The Lawyer for Capital Punishment Defendants: Cynthia Short IV. THE JUDICIARY 17. The Judge of a Limited-Jurisdiction Court: Dan Hogan 18. The State Trial Judge and Crime: Rick Saviagno 19. The State Trial Judge and Civil Justice: Steven King 20. The Federal Judge: Richard Stearns 21. The State Supreme Court Justice: Larry V. Starcher V. HOW TO CONDUCT INTERVIEWS AND GATHER LAW STORIES VI. REFERENCES

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Book SynopsisThe searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world''s eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle. Only twenty-two years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of the Gulag. What he discovered was a world of unimaginable suffering and death, a world where men were starved, beaten, worked to death, or simply executed. Mochulsky details the horrific conditions in the camps and the challenges facing all those involved, from prisoners to guards. He depicts the power struggles within the camps between the secret police and the communist party, between the political prisoners (most of whom had beTrade ReviewGives us a fascinating insight into the mind of a once-loyal Stalinist. * Fydor Vasilevich Mochulsky, Times Literary Supplement *original and suprising book * New York Review of Books *unique insight * The Spectator *Gulag Boss is essential reading and I could hardly put it down. * Literary Review *This tension between what Mochulsky saw as his duty and the painful reality of the Gulag runs throughout his memoir. This is perhaps what makes Gulag Boss such an important book. It brings us close to understanding why and how someone like Mochulsky could be reconciled to working within such a repressive apparatus, in the light of his own sense of responsibility. * Peter Whitewood, University of Leeds, European History Quarterly *Scholars, students and the lay public all have much to learn, contemplate and question in readingMochulsky's unforgettable memoir. * Brigid O'Keeffe, Europe-Asia Studies. *European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction by Deborah Kaple ; Preface by Fyodor Mochulsky ; Part 1: Gulag from the Outside ; Chapter 1. The NKVD: Villain or Protector? ; Chapter 2. First Acquaintance with Gulag NKVD: Meeting at the Central Committee of the CPSU ; Chapter 3. Meeting in the Cadres Department of Gulag NKVD ; Chapter 4. 45 Days to Pechorlag ; Part 2: Gulag from the Inside ; Chapter 5. At the Construction Administration ; Chapter 6. Unit Foreman. First Contingent of Prisoners: Soviet Volunteer Ski Troops in the Finnish War ; Chapter 7. The Unit Bosses ; Chapter 8. A Change in Leadership at Pechorlag ; Chapter 9. Transferred to the 93rd Unit. Labor Force: Hardened Criminals ; Chapter 10. Attempted Prisoner Revolt in the 93rd Unit ; Chapter 11. Boss and Foreman at the 93rd Unit. Labor Force: Political Prisoners ; Chapter. 12. Threat of Arrest ; Chapter 13. The War ; Chapter 14. Illness ; Chapter 15. Recovery and Return to Work in the Southern Part of the Camp ; Chapter 16. Boss of a Militarized Section. Labor Force: Captured German Prisoners of War ; Chapter 17. Boss of a Railway Division. Labor Force: Professional Railwaymen ; Chapter 18. The <"Liberated>" Secretary of the Communist Youth Organization ; Chapter 19. Fascist Military Landing Force ; Chapter 20. Deputy Boss in the Political Department for Komsomol Work at the NKVD's Road Building Camp No. 3 ; Part 3: Interesting Asides ; Chapter 21. Some Railroad Recollections ; Chapter 22. Peschanka, a Village of De-Kulakized People on the River Pechora ; Chapter 23. The Countryside of Komi on the River Usa ; Chapter 24. Women at Pechorlag ; Chapter 25. A Fellow Traveler from Abez to Pechora ; Part 4: Final Words ; Chapter 26. The End of My Story ; Chapter 27. The Real Essence of the Gulag ; Afterword: The Nature of Memoir ; Appendix 1: Pretexts for Arrest during the Stalin Period ; Appendix 2: Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code ; Appendix 3: Glossary ; Acknowledgments ; Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBased on interviews with more than 150 Russians - from mobsters to police to former KGB agents - this text is an investigation into the organized crime and corruption that plague Russia today. It aims to reveal how crime has flourished in Russia since the demise of totalitarianism.

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Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime from its inception through to Joseph Stalin's death. This book includes interviews with child survivors that display their resilient ability to fashion productive lives despite family destruction and stigma.Trade Review“A pioneering study.”—Walter Laqueur, editor of The Holocaust Encyclopedia -- Walter Laqueur“An essential addition to the budding scholarship on children in the former Soviet Union and to the growing literature on repression and the Gulag under Stalin.”—Lynne Viola, University of Toronto -- Lynne Viola"With its rich and interpretive narrative, wide array of sources, and moving photographs, the Frierson and Vilensky volume offers an excellent resource for scholars and students, an essential starting place for research on children's experiences of revolution, civil war, famine, and repression."—Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, The Russian Review -- Lisa A. Kirschenbaum * The Russian Review *"A significant and sickening book, which… show[s] the stark contrasts between official policies toward Soviet children and their actual experiences."--Anne Applebaum, The New Republic -- Anne Applebaum * The New Republic *

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Book SynopsisOffers a reassessment of the infamous "Gulag Archipelago" by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. This study makes an important historical contribution to our understanding of forced labour in the Soviet Union and its enduring legacy.Trade Review"Gulag Town is a pioneering work of history, offering a major new reconceptualization of the Gulag. The story of the development of Vorkuta, a major Stalinist “company town” and site of forced labor, serves to re-integrate the history of the Gulag into the history of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the complex symbiosis between Stalinist repression and Soviet “internal colonization.”--Lynne Viola, author of The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements -- Lynne Viola“A gripping and highly readable account of the rise and decline of Vorkuta, a cold, isolated Gulag town where forced labourers were sent to live and die alongside guards, administrators, and former prisoners.” - Mark Harrison, editor of Guns and Rubles: the Defense Industry in the Stalinist State -- Mark Harrison"In this fascinating book Alan Barenberg explores the myriad personal and economic links that tied the labor camp complex of Vorkuta to the emerging civilian mining town, and he shows how, after Stalin, the town was able to draw on its camp legacy by offering an important space for former inmates to be reabsorbed into Soviet society."- Yoram Gorlizki, University of Manchester -- Yoram GorlizkiHonorable Mention, Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences, Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, 2015. -- Wayne S. Vucinich * AASSSE *Winner of the 2015 Canadian Association of Slavists' Taylor and Francis Book Prize, given by the Canadian Association of Slavists. -- Taylor and Francis Book Prize * Canadian Association of Slavists *“Barenberg has produced a fascinating study of a Gulag town, Vorkuta, in which he analyzes the connection between the prison and nonprisoner populations during the 1930s and beyond.”—Choice * Choice *

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Book SynopsisBased on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, the author explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong's revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society.Trade Review'Jan Kiely, an American sinologist based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, shows with admirable clarity that the notion of thought reform, or ganhua, occupied the minds and goals of late Qing dynasty reformers, Japanese penologists, progressive prison wardens during the Republic, Chiang Kai-shek and his son Ching-kuo, Buddhists and of course Mao Zedong even before he came to national power.' —Jonathan Mirsky, THES. -- Jonathan Mirsky * THES *“The Compelling Ideal is a thoughtful, rigorously researched, and meticulously detailed investigation into early twentieth-century Chinese penal reform, from the last decade of the Qing dynasty to the formative years of the People’s Republic of China.”—Journal of Asian Studies * Journal of Asian Studies *"This is a solid and well-researched study of techniques of re-education and thought reform in Chinese penal institutions in the first half of the twentieth century."—Klaus Muhlhahn, American Historical Review -- Klaus Muhlhahn * American Historical Review *"...one cannot fail to be impressed by the beautifully crafted deep history his book provides. Readers wishing to understand the historical context within which Maoist thought reform later evolved will find this book to be indispensable." —Aminda Smith, China Quarterly Review -- Aminda Smith * China Quarterly Review *

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Book SynopsisA stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation’s hardest criminals do hard time.   “A page-turner, as compelling and evocative as the finest novel. The best book on prison I’ve ever read.”—Jonathan Kellerman   The most dreaded facility in the prison system because of its fierce population, Leavenworth is governed by ruthless clans competing for dominance. Among the “star” players in these pages: Carl Cletus Bowles, the sexual predator with a talent for murder; Dallas Scott, a gang member who has spent almost thirty of his forty-two years behind bars; indomitable Warden Robert Matthews, who put his shoulder against his prison’s grim reality; Thomas Silverstein, a sociopath confined in “no human contact” status since 1983; “tough cop” guard Eddie Geouge, the only officer in the penitentiary with the auth

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Book SynopsisAn abolitionist manifesto for everyone fighting for revolutionTrade Review‘A powerful analysis of the transformative potential of the abolitionist project. Day and McBean show why we must go beyond shifting a few dollars around to directly challenge the logics of capitalism, racism and patriarchy at the heart of the carceral state’ -- Alex S. Vitale, author of ‘The End of Policing’'Vibrantly chronicles the cultural and political landscape of abolitionist practices in the UK. Day and McBean weave a powerful array of analysis, histories and voices - from organisers, scholars, unionists and/or incarcerated people - to offer profoundly necessary historical lessons that formulate the pathways that shape our abolition feminist revolutions' -- Erica R. Meiners, co-author of ‘Abolition. Feminism. Now.’'Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean speak with such eloquence, conviction and passion that readers will want to join their struggle for abolition revolution. Their trenchant and concrete analysis of the criminalisation of the Black and Asian youth, of carceral white bourgeois feminism, gentrification, police and state violence make essential reading. Let's heed their call for an abolitionist future' -- Francoise Vergès, author of A Decolonial Feminism'Not only does this superlative book expertly dismantle the dogmas of liberal anti-racism and carceral feminism which reproduce the systems of power, it also points the way forward to a post-abolitionist future in a meticulous, clear-headed way. Highly recommended' -- Silvia Federici, author of ’Caliban and the Witch’'A thorough, engaging and important read - that held me through new information whilst never sacrificing depth. I’m so glad this book exists!' -- Travis Alabanza, award winning writer, performer and theatre maker'An essential contribution to the debate on strategies for effective political action against systems of criminalisation. A must for read for activists and those who seek a deeper understanding of the development of international abolitionist movement and its relevance to radical and revolutionary politics today' -- Leila Howe, founding member of the Race Today Collective'An energising, and timely contribution to global debates about abolition and the growing interest in the UK in building on the organising and resistance to state violence and challenging the racism, misogyny and harms of policing and incarceration. A book to help us imagine and develop a world without carceral injustice but transformative social and racial justice.' -- Deborah Coles, Director of INQUEST'This book adds to the excellent emerging literature about police, prison and border abolition in a UK specific context. Abolition Revolution is very special because McBean and Day combine deep theoretical and historical knowledge with practical organising experience, specifically in the context of violence against women and austerity. If you feel that there must be a better way to deal with harm and violence then this book is for you.' -- Yara Rodrigues Fowler, ‘Guardian’'Amazing!' -- A reviewerTable of ContentsIntroduction Thesis 1. A national abolitionist movement has erupted in Britain. Abolition is a tool to reimagine revolutionary politics. Thesis 2. Our journey to abolition in Sisters Uncut was long and bumpy: abolition is a road, not a destination! Part 1 - The Tools of Police Power Thesis 3. Race is at the heart of policing; without race policing can’t function. Dismantling the police means dismantling race. Thesis 4. The police need public consent in order to exist. Withdrawing our consent brings us closer to abolition. Thesis 5. Coercion and control are the tactics of abusers, and coercing and controlling the working class is the job of the police. Abolition is class struggle! Thesis 6. Women have always experienced the sharp end of state violence: if your feminism is carceral, it’s bullshit. Part 2 - Roots In Empire: The History of Criminalisation and Resistance Thesis 7. Class struggle in the 18th century sparked a prison abolitionist fire. Abolition is nothing new. Thesis 8. The UK rehearsed its strategies of control and punishment in the colonies. Abolition continues anti-colonial and class struggle in Britain today. Part 3 - Systems of Criminalisation Today Thesis 9. From student revolt to urban rebellion, abolition must harness the radical energy of our youth! Thesis 10. Bordering and policing protects colonial, imperialist and capitalist wealth. Open borders is abolition and abolition is open borders! Thesis 11. From the streets to the cell block incarcerated people have organised to resist state violence. Thesis 12. The 'War on Terror' expanded policing powers into everyday institutions. Fighting Islamophobic racism is central to abolitionist struggle. Thesis 13. Capitalist crisis, neoliberalism and gentrification drive racist ‘gangs’ policing in Black communities. Abolition is a struggle against the whole system! Part 4 - Abolitionist Futures Thesis 14. Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities have led fierce resistance to state violence. Abolition must unite different struggles. Thesis 15. Crime is a social construct, but harm is real. Revolution is an essential ingredient to building transformative approaches to harm from the community level up. Thesis 16. Revolution needs you… Part 5 - Symposium: Abolition in the UK

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Book Synopsis'Sharp’s book reemphasizes the tremendous costs of maintaining the death penalty—costs to real people and real families that ripple throughout generations to come.'—Saundra D. Westervelt, author of Shifting the Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense'Everyone concerned with the effects of capital punishment must have this book.'—Margaret Vandiver, professor, department of criminology and criminal justice, University of Memphis Murderers, particularly those sentenced to death, are considered by most to be unusually heinous, often sub-human, and entirely different from the rest of us. In Hidden Victims, sociologist Susan F. Sharp challenges this culturally ingrained perspective by reminding us that those individuals facing a death sentence, in addition to being murderers, are brothers or sisters, mothers or fathers, daughters or sons, relatives or friends. Through a series of vivid and in-depth interviews with families of the accused,Trade ReviewWithout denying the horror of the crimes that most death row inmates have committed or the need for confinement of those inmates, Sharp raises the question of whether Americans would still support the death penalty if they understood the full range of its consequences. It is a sobering question that readers of this book will be forced to ponder. -from the foreword by Michael L. Radelet, professor and chair, department of sociology, University of ColoradoTable of ContentsForeword by Michael L. Radelet Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Death Penalty, Victims' Families, and Families of Prisoners 2. Dealing with the Horror: "We're Sentenced, Too": Families of Individuals Facing a Death Sentence 3. Trying to Cope: Withdrawal, Anger, and Joining 4. The Grief Process: Denial and Horror, the BADD Cycle (Bargaining, Activity, Disillusionment, and Desperation} 5. Facing the End: Families and Execution 6. Aftermath: Picking Up the Pieces 7. "But He's Innocent" 8. Double Losers: Being Both a Victim's Family Member and an Offender's Family Member 9. Family after the Fact: Fictive Kin and Death Row Marriages 10. The Death Penalty and Families, Revisited 11. Conclusion Appendix A. Death Row Visitation Policies (Social/Family Visits) Appendix B. Interview Schedule for Initial Interviews Appendix C. Demographics of Interview Subjects Notes Bibliography Index

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