Penology and punishment Books
Pluto Press When Protest Becomes Crime Politics and Law in
Book SynopsisHow our political and legal systems criminalise protestersTrade Review'Protesters often end up in criminal courts. Even so, and despite sporadic efforts, social science has long neglected the criminalization of protest. In this welcome comparative study, Carolijn Terwindt skilfully examines the complex interplay between law and protest, making an important contribution to an overlooked topic' -- Steven Barkan, author of 'Protesters on Trial: Criminal Justice in the Southern Civil Rights and Vietnam Antiwar Movements''Carolijn Terwindt reveals how courtroom narratives often attribute criminality to ideologies or associations going so far as to apply 'terrorism' sentencing enhancements to American environmental activists rather than to actions. This timely and meticulous analysis helps inform how the politics of law impact citizen efforts to draw attention to, and rectify, unjust practices by those in power' -- Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute'Drawing on three well-chosen and meticulously developed case studies, Carolijn Terwindt's lucid analysis demonstrates how, far from being neutral applications of the law, prosecutorial narratives become sites of contention that can exacerbate long standing socio political conflicts' -- Patricia Richards, Meigs Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsSeries Preface Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction PART I: LAW, POLITICS AND LEGITIMACY IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES 2. When Groups Take Justice into Their Own Hands 3. The Prosecutorial Narrative and the Double Bind of Liberal Legalism 4. Mobilizing the Power of Victimhood 5. Challenging the State’s Crime Definition PART II: WHEN PROSECUTORS RESPOND: NARRATIVES IN ACTION ETA cases in Spain 6. Casting the Net Wider by Calling the Armed Group a Network 112 7. Narrating Praise for ETA Prisoners as Humiliation of Victims “Mapuche conflict” cases in Chile 8. Vacillating between Criminalization and Negotiation 9. Responding to Allegations of Racism and Repression against the Mapuche People “Eco-terrorism” cases in the United States 10. Shifting from Reactive to Proactive Prosecutions 11. Drawing a Boundary between Raising Awareness and Intimidation 12. Conclusion: The Prosecutor’s Contested Claim to Criminal Justice References Interviews Trial Transcripts Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Violence and Punishment
Book SynopsisThis innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all connected.Trade ReviewWinner of the Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title “Pieter Spierenburg is one of the world’s experts on the history of violent crime, and his writings are filled with fascinating facts and thought-provoking insights. The essays in this volume will inform and stimulate anyone interested in human violence and its history.” Steven Pinker, Harvard University “Pieter Spierenburg is our leading student of the civilizing process in punishment and society. Violence and Punishment ties together decades of research into the dynamics of violence and state formation; truly the definitive work on the topic.” Jonathan Simon, University of California Berkeley “With this strong new addition to his previous work, Pieter Spierenburg consolidates his position as Europe's leading historian of violence.” Roger Lane, Haverford CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Violence and Punishment within Civilizing Processes page 1 PART ONE Violence 1 Long-Term Trends in Homicide: Amsterdam, Fifteenth–Twentieth Centuries 19 2 Homicide and the Law in the Dutch Republic: A Peaceful Country? 39 3 Violence and Culture: Bloodshed in Two or Three Worlds 57 PART TWO Punishment and Social Control 4 Punishment, Power and History: Foucault and Elias 75 5 Monkey Butt’s Mate: On Informal Social Control, Standards of Violence and Notions of Privacy 92 6 "The Green, Green Grass of Home:" Refl ections on Capital Punishment and the Penal System in Europe and America from a Long-Term Perspective 104 PART THREE Civilizing the Body in Human History 7 Elites and Etiquette: Changing Standards of Personal Conduct in the Netherlands until 1800 129 8 Civilizing Celebrations: An Exploration of the Festive Universe 151 9 The Body’s End: Death and Paradise in Human History 163 Epilogue: A Personal Recollection of Norbert Elias and How I Became a Crime Historian 174 Notes 181 Archival Sources 200 Bibliography 201 Index 221
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John Wiley & Sons Committed to the State Asylum Insanity and
Book SynopsisAn examination of the evolution of the asylum as the response to insanity in 19th-century Quebec and Ontario. Focusing on the creation and development of government-funded asylums for the insane, it argues that asylum development was the result of complex relationships among an array of people.Trade Review"A very valuable contribution to the historiography of psychiatric medicine. By relying heavily on primary records dealing with patient committal and relations among the many interested parties in asylum medicine in Ontario and Quebec history, Moran does something truly original and profound." Ian R. Dowbiggin, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island "Sound scholarship. The empirical base of the book is solid. Moran displays a sound command of the secondary literature and of the on-going historiographical debates on the nature of the nineteenth-century psychiatric experience." Thomas E. Brown, Humanities, Mount Royal College "The author has an excellent understanding of historiography. The book is very accurate, and Moran's analyses are both careful and meticulous." Andre Cellard, Department of History, University of Ottawa
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University of British Columbia Press Compulsory Compassion
Book SynopsisOften touted as the humane and politically progressive alternative to the rigid philosophy of retributive punishment that underpins many of the world's judicial systems, restorative justice aspires to a theoretical and practical reconciliation of the values of love and compassion with justice and accountability. Emotionally seductive, the rhetoric of restorative justice appeals to a desire for a right relation amongst individuals and communities, and offers us a vision of justice that allows for the mutual healing of victim and victimizer, and with it, a sense of communal repair.In Compulsory Compassion, Annalise Acorn, a one-time advocate for restorative justice, deconstructs the rhetoric of the restorative movement. Drawing from diverse legal, literary, philosophical, and autobiographical sources, she questions the fundamental assumptions behind that rhetoric: that we can trust wrongdoers' capacity for meaningful accountability and respectful community, and that weTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1 The Seductive Vision of Restorative Justice: Right-Relation, Reciprocity, Healing, and Repair2 “Essentially and Only a Matter of Love”: Justice and the Teachability of Universal Love3 Three Precarious Pillars of Restorative Optimism4 Sentimental Justice: The Unearned Emotions of Restorative Catharsis5 “Lovemaking Is Justice-Making”: The Idealization of Eros and the Eroticization of Justice6 Compulsory Compassion: Justice, Fellow-Feeling and the Restorative Encounter7 Epilogue. Restorative Utopias: “The Fire with Which We Must Play”?NotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Women Film and Law
Book SynopsisWomen, Film, and Law questions the criminalization of women through an engaging exploration of the women-in-prison film genre.Trade ReviewAn excellent analysis of the social significance of the women-in-prison genre. -- Mark Bernhardt * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 A Genre of One’s Own2 Reforming Prisons, Transforming Women: Ann Vickers3 The Unattainability of Reform: Caged!4 Recuperating Exploitation: Caged Heat5 Representing Incarcerated Black Women: Stranger Inside and Civil Brand6 Representation and Recalibrating the WIP Genre: Orange Is the New BlackConclusionNotes; Selected Filmography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Changing of the Guards
Book SynopsisChanging of the Guards is the first comprehensive assessment of how for- and not-for-profit private organizations are reshaping Canadian criminal justice processes and outcomes.Table of ContentsForeword: Privatization of Criminal Justice: Emotional, Intellectual, and Political Responses / Adam WhiteIntroduction: Canadian Perspectives on Private Influences and Privatization in Criminal Justice / Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, and Derek SilvaPart 1: Private Provision and Purchase of Security1 Police, Private Security, and Institutional Isomorphism / Massimiliano Mulone2 Private Policing of Images in Canada / Steven Kohm3 Postsecondary Security in the Canadian Context / Erin Gibbs Van BrunschotPart 2: Private Actors in City Spaces and Surveillance4 Policing Canadian Smart Cities: Technology, Race, and Private Influence in Canadian Law Enforcement / Jamie Duncan and Daniella Barreto5 Platforms and Privatizing Lines: Business Improvement Areas, Municipal Apps, and the Marketization of Public Service / Debra MackinnonPart 3: Private Influences and Privatization in Courts, Prisons, and Jails6 Private Risk Assessment Instruments and Artificial Intelligence in Canada’s Criminal Justice System / Nicholas Pope and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich7 The Implications of Food Privatization in Jails: A Case Study of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre / Kaitlin MacKenzie8 Shape Shifting: The Penal Voluntary Sector and the Governance of Domestic Violence / Rashmee SinghPart 4: Private Actors in National Security and Border Control9 Where Public Meets Private: Evidence of an Emerging “Industrial-Espionage Complex” in Canada / Alex Luscombe10 The Role of Privatization in Canada’s Immigration Detention Centres / Jona Zyfi and Audrey MacklinPostscript: Privatization Cultures and the Racial Order: A Dispatch from the United States / Torin MonahanIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Changing of the Guards
Book SynopsisChanging of the Guards is the first comprehensive assessment of how for- and not-for-profit private organizations are reshaping Canadian criminal justice processes and outcomes.Table of ContentsForeword: Privatization of Criminal Justice: Emotional, Intellectual, and Political Responses / Adam WhiteIntroduction: Canadian Perspectives on Private Influences and Privatization in Criminal Justice / Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, and Derek SilvaPart 1: Private Provision and Purchase of Security1 Police, Private Security, and Institutional Isomorphism / Massimiliano Mulone2 Private Policing of Images in Canada / Steven Kohm3 Postsecondary Security in the Canadian Context / Erin Gibbs Van BrunschotPart 2: Private Actors in City Spaces and Surveillance4 Policing Canadian Smart Cities: Technology, Race, and Private Influence in Canadian Law Enforcement / Jamie Duncan and Daniella Barreto5 Platforms and Privatizing Lines: Business Improvement Areas, Municipal Apps, and the Marketization of Public Service / Debra MackinnonPart 3: Private Influences and Privatization in Courts, Prisons, and Jails6 Private Risk Assessment Instruments and Artificial Intelligence in Canada’s Criminal Justice System / Nicholas Pope and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich7 The Implications of Food Privatization in Jails: A Case Study of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre / Kaitlin MacKenzie8 Shape Shifting: The Penal Voluntary Sector and the Governance of Domestic Violence / Rashmee SinghPart 4: Private Actors in National Security and Border Control9 Where Public Meets Private: Evidence of an Emerging “Industrial-Espionage Complex” in Canada / Alex Luscombe10 The Role of Privatization in Canada’s Immigration Detention Centres / Jona Zyfi and Audrey MacklinPostscript: Privatization Cultures and the Racial Order: A Dispatch from the United States / Torin MonahanIndex
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Cornell University Press From Newgate to Dannemora The Rise of the
Book SynopsisA significant chapter in the history of American social reform is traced in this skillful account of the rise of the New York penitentiary system at a time when the United States was garnering international acclaim for its penal methods. Beginning...Trade ReviewIn his account of the formative half-century in the history of prisons in New York State, Lewis presents a carefully documented study that offers to the serious student or administrator the key to much of the development of modern correctional practices. * American Journal of Correction *Much of the material presented is dramatic enough in itself to interest a general reader.... The research is thorough and the documentation complete.... Certainly no one doing research in the history of American penology could afford to neglect this book, and students of New York State history will find no better account of one of the state's most significant social reforms, the Auburn penal system. * The Historian *This book ably reviews New York's experimental prison efforts.... Lewis shows how the contrasting personalities of successive agents and inspectors gave a varying emphasis to the conflicting objectives of punishment and correction, economy and discipline. He writes a fascinating account of the fluctuating contest between the brutal regime of Elam Lynds and other both at Auburn and Sing Sing and the modified version of the silent system developed by such men as Gershom Powers and David Seymour. He suggestively relates each of the principal administrators, including John Luckey, the chaplain, John W. Edmonds, the inspector, and Mrs. Eliza Farnham, the matron, to contemporary social and political trends in America, thus giving his book a broader relevance for pre-Civil War history. Despite the sometimes lurid character of his subject, Dr. Lewis maintains historical objectivity. * The New-York Historical Society Quarterly *This book contributes substantially to our knowledge of prison reform, long neglected by historians of nineteenth-century reform movements. It is a study of both the ideas and practices of penology, and it places them in their national and international setting.... On a number of accounts this is an excellent study. It relates attitudes towards criminals to the prevailing social and political environment. It is based upon a variety of sources.... Finally, the well-organized narrative is presented in a clear and readable style. * Quaker History *This is a useful addition to the literature of penal history.... It makes for some macbre reading, for over the building and operation of the two great prisons of Sing Sing and Auburn brooded the evil genius of Elam Lynds, a fanatical flogger—even of women far gone in pregnancy and epileptics—whose like was only found in the British penal settlements in Australia and the Nazi concentration camps. Part of the story recounted by Lewis is of the efforts of humanitarian reformers to control the abuses and excesses of Lynds and his small band of assiociates. * New Society *
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MY - University of Toronto Press Prison Terms
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking work, Ellen Nerenberg offers an analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, the last fifteen years of Fascism and the fifteen that followed. Nerenberg diverges from the notion that a radical break from Fascism coincided with Mussolini''s fall, instead revealing a disturbing continuity of social restraints following World War II. Drawing on critical discourses of architectural design, urban planning, and cultural geography, Nerenberg offers readings of Buzzati, Piovène, de Céspedes, Banti, Morante, Pratolini, and Gadda. Not limiting herself to prisons, she also explores military barracks, convents, brothels, and homes as carceral homologue. In a surprising investigation of the male body as defined by the architectural space of the barracks and the discursive practices of military guides and journals, she challenges the notion circulated during Fascism of a homogenous model of masculinity. She also probes the social
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University of Toronto Press Prisoners of Isolation
Book SynopsisWhat is it really like in 'the hole'? On what basis do prison officials employ the most drastic of carceral punishments – solitary confinement – and to what effect? Michael Jackson, lawyer, professor, activist, made a point of finding out.Approached in 1974 by a group of prisoners in the British Columbia Penitentiary, Jackson listened to their stories, investigated, and became convinced that these prisoners were being held in solitary confinement under unlawful conditions and for arbitrary and unjustified reasons. He then helped launch proceedings on their behalf to have the imposition of solitary confinement in the B.C. Penitentiary declared 'cruel and unusual punishment.' Jackson sets out the facts and legal arguments presented to the Federal Court of Canada against a background of the historical evolution of solitary confinement and penitentiary discipline. Successfully argued, the McCann case (1975) was unique in Canadian judicial history. Since then
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Stanford University Press The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment
Book SynopsisHow does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity?After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal punishment, it has now taken on a life of its own in various arenas far beyond the limits of the penal sphere. In this volume, the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty, we need to know more about the cultural livespast and presentof the state's ultimate sanction. They undertake this cultural voyage comparativelyexamining the dynamics of the death penalty in Mexico, the United States, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel, Palestine, Japan, China, Singapore, and South Koreaarguing that we need to look beyond the United States to see how capital punishment lives or dies in the rest of the world, how images of state killing are produced and consumed elseTrade Review"In fifteen chapters, they [Sarat and Boulanger] take the reader on a capital punishment odyssey through not only the US, but also central and south Asia, the Middle East, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel, Palestine, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. In a nutshell, this is a book well worth reading for those interested in exploring cross-cultural treatments of the death penalty."—CHOICETable of ContentsContents Contributors 000 1. Putting Culture into the Picture: Toward a Comparative Analysis of State Killing 000 Christian Boulanger and Austin Sarat Part I: Civilization and Punishment: Self and Other in Europe and the Americas 2. Nineteenth-Century Executions as Performances of Law, Death, and Civilization 000 Jurgen Martschukat 3. Seed of Abolition: Experience and Culture in the Desire to End Capital Punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857 000 Patrick Timmons 4. The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment in the United States 000 Judith Randle 5. European Identity and the Mission Against the Death Penalty in the United States 000 Evi Girling 6. Crime and Punishment/Self versus Other: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment Comparative Perspective of European and American Film 000 Louise Tyler 7. Capital Punishment in Poland: An Aspect of the "Cultural Life" of the Death Penalty Discourse 000 Agata Fijalkowski Part II: State Killing and State Violence in Central and South Asia and the Middle East 8. Capital Punishment in Kyrgyzstan: Between the Past, "Other" State Killings and Social Demands 000 Botagoz Kassymbekova 9. Death and the Nation: State Killing in India 000 Julia Eckert 10. Imagining the Death Penalty in Israel: Punishment, Violence, Vengeance, and Revenge 000 Shai J. Lavi 11. The Palestinian Culture of Death: Shariah and Siyasah: Justice, Political Power, and Capital Punishment in the Palestinian National Authority 000 Judith Mendelsohn Rood Part III: Paternal States, "Asian Values," and Visions of Social Order: Capital Punishment in East and Southeast Asia 12. Saving State Face: Capital Punishment in Japan 000 David T. Johnson 13. What Is Wrong with Capital Punishment? Official and Unofficial Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment in Modern and Contemporary China 000 Virgil K. Y. Ho 14. Capital Punishment and the Culture of Developmentalism in Singapore 000 Alfred Oehlers and Nicole Tarulevicz 15. Ending State Killing in South Korea: Challenging the Asian Capital Punishment Status Quo 000 Sangmin Bae Index
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Rutgers University Press Capital Consequences Families of the Condemned
Book SynopsisThose who support capital punishment often claim that they do so because it provides justice and closure for the victimsâ families. In Capital Consequences, attorney Rachel King reminds us that there are other families and other victims who must be considered in the debate over the death penalty.Trade ReviewMothers everywhere weep for lost sons, and children everywhere long for absent parents, but the families of those on Death Row suffer without sympathy or comfort. In Capital Consequences, King thoughtfully describes the anguish of these families as an execution date draws near and challenges the belief that creating another saddened and grieving family is a legitimate consequence of the death penalty. -- Robin M. Maher, Esq., director * American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project *There are few, if any, books like the one Ms. King has written. I hope that people will not turn away from the hardness of these accounts, but will take them in and respond accordingly. -- Richard C. Dieter, * Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center *Table of ContentsIntroduction It could happen to anyone A hero's life Living with death Revenge to reconciliation Too young to die A mother's love A regular guy A reasonable doubt Beyond grief
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Rutgers University Press The Forgotten Men Serving a Life without Parole
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Leigey's work merits a broad readership. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"On the whole, the author has accomplished her purpose of helping those that read her book to remember the forgotten men. Achieving that is an accomplishment in itself. One can only hope that other researchers follow Leigey’s lead to help paint a broader picture of the dehumanizing nature of LWOP sentences." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"A thought-provoking and challenging book that will generate debates, controversy and disagreements about the issue of imposing life without parole … This book should be read by everyone - wardens, correctional staff, medical staff, law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, parole boards, state directors, commissioners, victims and victims' families." * Corrections Today *"The meticulous work conducted here highlights the largely hidden costs of a life behind bars. It illuminates not only how lifers find hope in a largely hopeless situation but also how these inmates find ways of making the life they have behind bars meaningful, not only to themselves but to those around them. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of mankind’s ability to not only survive in the face of terrible hardship but also to establish meaning and purpose in an environment that regularly reinforces the notion that an inmate’s life has neither." * American Journal of Sociology *"By carefully recording the decades-long experiences of those sentenced to permanent incarceration, Leigey brings a much needed degree of humanity to these forgotten men. In so doing, her important contribution impels readers to consider the purpose served by lifelong prison sentences." -- Ashley Nellis * The Sentencing Project *"The Forgotten Men is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the human costs of mass incarceration in America. A compelling and compassionate account of injustice, inhumane punishment and the resilience of the human spirit, the book lays bare the devastating consequences of unnecessarily extreme sentencing policies." -- Jennifer Turner * author of A Living Death: Life without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses *"A profound and moving work of social science that explains in compelling prose what it means to sentence human beings to live and die in prison. The forgotten men whose life stories frame this book will be long remembered by students of penology. Leigey’s superb book will guide my research and teaching in the coming years." -- Robert Johnson * professor of justice, law and criminology at American University *"The Forgotten Men is a thorough, insightful, and engaging book that provides rich information and in-depth analysis in order to accurately convey the realities of life in prison.Leigey’s book is a unique and cutting-edge contribution." -- Ronald Aday * professor of sociology, Middle Tennessee State University *Table of ContentsPreface: Death by IncarcerationAcknowledgments1 The Rise in the Permanently Incarcerated2 The Forgotten3 The Pains of Permanent Imprisonment4 Coping with Permanent Incarceration5 Growing Old in Prison6 Forgotten No MoreAppendix A: Pseudonyms and Demographics of RespondentsAppendix B: Researching the ForgottenNotesReferencesCasesIndex
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Forgotten Men Serving a Life Without Parole Sentence Critical Issues in Crime and Society Hardcover
Trade Review"Leigey's work merits a broad readership. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"On the whole, the author has accomplished her purpose of helping those that read her book to remember the forgotten men. Achieving that is an accomplishment in itself. One can only hope that other researchers follow Leigey’s lead to help paint a broader picture of the dehumanizing nature of LWOP sentences." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"A thought-provoking and challenging book that will generate debates, controversy and disagreements about the issue of imposing life without parole … This book should be read by everyone - wardens, correctional staff, medical staff, law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, parole boards, state directors, commissioners, victims and victims' families." * Corrections Today *"The meticulous work conducted here highlights the largely hidden costs of a life behind bars. It illuminates not only how lifers find hope in a largely hopeless situation but also how these inmates find ways of making the life they have behind bars meaningful, not only to themselves but to those around them. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of mankind’s ability to not only survive in the face of terrible hardship but also to establish meaning and purpose in an environment that regularly reinforces the notion that an inmate’s life has neither." * American Journal of Sociology *"By carefully recording the decades-long experiences of those sentenced to permanent incarceration, Leigey brings a much needed degree of humanity to these forgotten men. In so doing, her important contribution impels readers to consider the purpose served by lifelong prison sentences." -- Ashley Nellis * The Sentencing Project *"The Forgotten Men is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the human costs of mass incarceration in America. A compelling and compassionate account of injustice, inhumane punishment and the resilience of the human spirit, the book lays bare the devastating consequences of unnecessarily extreme sentencing policies." -- Jennifer Turner * author of A Living Death: Life without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses *"A profound and moving work of social science that explains in compelling prose what it means to sentence human beings to live and die in prison. The forgotten men whose life stories frame this book will be long remembered by students of penology. Leigey’s superb book will guide my research and teaching in the coming years." -- Robert Johnson * professor of justice, law and criminology at American University *"The Forgotten Men is a thorough, insightful, and engaging book that provides rich information and in-depth analysis in order to accurately convey the realities of life in prison.Leigey’s book is a unique and cutting-edge contribution." -- Ronald Aday * professor of sociology, Middle Tennessee State University *Table of ContentsPreface: Death by IncarcerationAcknowledgments1 The Rise in the Permanently Incarcerated2 The Forgotten3 The Pains of Permanent Imprisonment4 Coping with Permanent Incarceration5 Growing Old in Prison6 Forgotten No MoreAppendix A: Pseudonyms and Demographics of RespondentsAppendix B: Researching the ForgottenNotesReferencesCasesIndex
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Rutgers University Press Everyday Desistance The Transition to Adulthood
Book SynopsisExamines the lives of young people who spent considerable time in and out of correctional institutions as adolescents. This book narrates the day-to-day experiences of these young men and women, focusing on their attempts to surmount the challenges of adulthood, resisting a return to criminal activity, and formulating long-term goals for a secure adult future.Trade Review"Their sensitive appraisal of the intersecting social forces and social institutions, as well as the internal struggles that young people face, shines through in this book."— The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice "Everyday Desistance is a humanizing portrait of a group of young adults which brings readers to a compassionate understanding of their hardships as well as a great degree of admiration for their triumphs."— Ashley Nellis, The Sentencing Project "Timely, interesting, and well-written, the authors provide a comprehensive examination with accessible stories and ideas. Everyday Desistance fills a niche that needs to be filled."— Mercer L. Sullivan, author of Getting Paid: Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City "There is much to be gained from both a policy and theory perspective by reading Everyday Desistance. It is a well-written and engaging study that contributes to knowledge about re-entry and the journey toward desistance....We can learn a lot about how to help them reach this goal by reading this book." — Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books "This book is a must read for anyone looking to understand the complex daily choices of desistance and to support formerly incarcerated young people to not only survive in adulthood but also to thrive. For me, the book goes beyond the confines of juvenile justice readership — it holds important lessons for anyone working in child welfare to consider their work in the larger picture of poverty, community, incarceration and reentry."— Juvenile Justice Information Exchange "Everyday Desistance stands out as an important contribution to the now burgeoning literature on desistance." — European Journal of Probation Reposting of JJIE's "BOOK REVIEWS Book Review: ‘Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth'"— Youth Today "Laura Abrams and Diane Terry offer a richly detailed account of ‘formerly incarcerated youth’ and their struggle to emerge as adults. Desistance is part of the story, and the authors tell it well." — Children & Society "Using in-depth, in-person interviews, UCLA social welfare professor Laura S. Abrams and Diane J. Terry... have presented a more nuanced portrait of life after juvie" "Abrams and Terry collected firsthand stories and insights to answer the following questions: What does everyday life look like for young people who age out of the juvenile justice system? And how do young people navigate the transition to adulthood while attempting to stay out of the hands of the law?"— Stan Paul, UCLA LuskinTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Michelle Inderbitzin, PhD 1 Introduction 2 The Road to Juvie 3 Locked Up and Back Again 4 And Now I’m an Adult 5 Dangers and Decisions: Navigating Desistance as a Young Man 6 You Can Run but You Can’t Hide 7 Finding a Net to Fall Back On: The Young Woman’s Journeys 8 Everyday Desistance: Theory Meets Reality 9 Policy and Practice Reforms: Supporting the Pathway to Adulthood Acknowledgments Appendix: The Research Process Bibliography Index
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Doing Justice to Mercy Religion Law and Criminal
Book SynopsisIt is often assumed that the law and religion address different spheres of human life. This book challenges this assumption by presenting the reader with an urgent conversation between the law and religion that yields a constructive approach, both theoretically and practically, to the complex role of mercy in our legal process.Trade ReviewAn engaging, vital book, well written and pertinent to a wide range of theoretical and practical issues in the shaping of policy in this society's treatment of persons deemed 'criminals.'... This book suggests that wrongdoers deserve forms of justice tempered by mercy and mercy inclusive of some level of punishment that falls short of revenge. Currently, many Americans like revenge. But that makes this book as important as ever. - Donald W. Shriver, Union Theological Seminary, author of Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds
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University of Virginia Press Crossing the River Styx The Memoir of a Death
Book SynopsisRevealing the cruelties of the state-sanctioned violence that has until recently prevailed in Virginia’s backyard, Crossing the River Styx serves as a cautionary tale for those who still support capital punishment.
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New York University Press Convicted and Condemned
Book SynopsisWinner, W. E. B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political ScientistsExamines the lifelong consequences of a felony conviction through the compelling words of former prisonersFelony convictions restrict social interactions and hinder felons' efforts to reintegrate into society. The educational and vocational training offered in many prisons are typically not recognized by accredited educational institutions as acceptable course work or by employers as valid work experience, making it difficult for recently-released prisoners to find jobs. Families often will not or cannot allow their formerly incarcerated relatives to live with them. In many states, those with felony convictions cannot receive financial aid for further education, vote in elections, receive welfare benefits, or live in public housing. In short, they are not treated as full citizens, and every year, hundreds of thousands of people released from prison are forced to live on thTrade Review"Convicted and Condemned is one of the best ethnographic and first person accounts I have read, which sheds life on the real and tangible effects of public policies. It is an outstanding multi-layered analysis of prisoner reentry that includes public policies and lived experiences and provides a unique perspective to understanding prisoner reentry. A must read book for those responsible for policy making and working with this population." -- Byron Price,Author of Merchandizing Prisoners: Who Really Pays for Prison Privatization"This fascinating book offers a sharp policy analysis and introduces a powerful framework for making sense of the experiences of those with a felony conviction. Keesha Middlemass provides an expert account of the various ways that a felony status is socially constructed and the implications of this construction for those with felony convictions in the years following their release from incarceration." -- Nikki Jones,Author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence"The narrative in this important, impassioned book is strengthened by the voices of those stigmatizedmale and female, black and whiteseeking to find their footing in a hostile environment." * Choice *
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Readings in Syrian Prison Literature
Book SynopsisPrison literature has played an essential role in generating the “experimental shift” in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani's groundbreaking work explores prison writing's critical role in resistance movements in Syria, the evolution of Arabic literature, and the development of a global human rights.
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University of Minnesota Press Prisons of Poverty
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University of Minnesota Press Compulsory
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking look at America's public education system through the lens of prison schoolingTrade Review"Fiercely rendered, Compulsory is the book for our moment. This book requires readers to remap the circuits that bind schools to prisons and the state and centers how communities—including young men who are locked up and their loved ones—negotiate, and often shatteringly resist, these powerlines. Situating the ‘prison classroom’ within a carceral landscape punctuated by deeply racialized and heteropatriachal practices of removal and premature death, Sabina E. Vaught’s necessary and poetic writing moves activist scholarship into needed and new terrains and pushes readers to mourn, to analyze, and to build struggles for radical freedom that leave no one behind."—Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University"Compulsory is a critical ethnography that examines the institution of public education through the lens of the Lincoln prison school at Lincoln Treatment Center, a high-security detention center for males. Observations and interviews with prisoners, their families, teachers, the security staff, and the prison administration offer a vivid look into the specific lives of those at Lincoln and the institutional setting. "—American Journal of Sociology"A highly original, masterful look at the inner workings and logic of the American juvenile justice system. This is the single best book to date on juvenile justice in the age of mass incarceration. Compulsory is an instant classic."—CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Take No PrisonersPart I. Outside1. with its institutions: The Education State2. Keys: Lockup and Juvenile Prison3. The Street: Arterials of the White State4. Second Possession: Racial Property and Removal5. Home: A Story in Three PartsPart II. Inside6. Compulsory Schooling: Inside the Education State7. The Architecture of Discipline: Personal Safety and Prison Security8. Guilty by Association: Kinship and TreatmentConclusion: FutilitiesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£21.59
University of Minnesota Press First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Damien M. Sojoyner fills a significant gap in literature by problematizing the school-to-prison pipeline, offering a more nuanced analytical frame than the one represented in most contemporary popular discourse. First Strike helps us understand what is happening to young people in under-resourced schools and the ways that their experience reflects an eroding commitment to education in favor of punishment."—Beth E. Richie, University of Illinois at Chicago"Sojoyner provides a masterful narrative of Black Los Angeles against the backdrop of mass incarceration and the criminalization of Black children. Scholars and educators should heed Sojoyner’s call to challenge the ‘school-to-prison’ discourse to the more historically grounded ‘enclosures.’"—Maisha T. Winn, Chancellor’s Leadership Professor, University of California, Davis"Sojoyner’s sweeping analysis of enclosures presents a compelling vision of what ethnography can accomplish in tandem with historical analysis."—PoLAR "First Strike pushes anthropological analysis beyond the ethnographic by drawing upon history, policy, and social geography to build a theory of power that accounts for the force of the state as a reactionary response to the radical potential of Black liberation."—Anthropological Quarterly "First Strike contributes crucially to theories of black liberation vis-à-vis education, namely, literatures working to disrupt antiblack narratives of cultural failure within educational policy circles." —American EthnologistTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Problematic History between Schools and Prisons1. The Problem of Black Genius: Black Cultural Enclosures2. In the Belly of the Beast: Ideological Expansion3. Land of Smoke and Mirrors: The Meaning of Punishment and Control4. Troubled Man: Limitations of the Masculinity Solution5. By All Means Possible: The Historical Struggle over Black EducationConclusion: Reading the Past and Listening to the PresentAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.94
Ohio University Press Carceral Afterlives Prisons Detention and
Book SynopsisThis social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central to both the exertion of and challenges to state power in postcolonial Uganda. The book also illustrates the persistent imbrication of prisons, punishment, politics, and struggles for decolonization and freedom across the globe.Trade Review“Katherine Bruce-Lockhart engages in a meticulous analysis of Africa’s postcolonial penal systems through stories of how they were imagined and experienced in Uganda by the confined, workers, and their families. Carceral Afterlives is painstakingly researched, unparalleled on many levels, and a must-read book for anyone interested in postcolonial state politics, global histories of prisons, and confinement. A trailblazer and momentous.” -- Nakanyike B. Musisi, coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Governance in Uganda“Carceral Afterlives demonstrates the centrality of prisons to postcolonial African politics. Using an array of written, oral, and visual sources and an elegant prose, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart provides a fascinating analysis of how prisons, punishment, and politics intertwined in postcolonial Uganda, where the state, whether military or civilian, conceptualized incarceration as a powerful tool for advancing its political agendas by drawing upon a strong colonial legacy of confinement, which in the process turned carceral spaces into sites of resistance and struggle. An impressive work of scholarship, this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on African penal histories and the global history of punishment. A must-read for scholars of East African history as well.” -- Dior Konaté, author of Prison Architecture and Punishment in Colonial Senegal“This is a major contribution to the historiography of postcolonial Uganda, dealing with a topic on which historical research is long overdue. Bruce-Lockhart has provided a richly detailed and authoritative account of prisons and the experience of incarceration under Obote and Amin in particular. In so doing, the author offers new insights into the workings, as well as the dysfunction, of the Ugandan state during the early years of independence.” -- Richard J. Reid, author of A History of Modern Uganda“In her strikingly original book, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart explores how the early rulers of independent Uganda, who had previously denounced colonial prisons as violent and racist instruments of European imperialism, paradoxically redeployed mass detention as an integral arm of the new state. Creatively employing a variety of sources such as memoirs, letters, and journalistic reports, she also captures the voices of prisoners and their political allies who turned prisons into sites of struggle and dissent. Carceral Afterlives constitutes an important contribution to the stimulating new field of transnational prison history.” -- Mary S. Gibson, author of Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism, 1861–1914“This important book reveals the continuities, adaptations, and negotiations of Ugandan incarceration across the colonial and postcolonial eras. Pieced together from a remarkable range of sources, including oral histories, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart conceptualises the modern prison’s symbolic and penal functions as inherently colonial by highlighting the recursive nature of its purpose, character, and experience. Meticulously researched and elegantly framed, this book sets a new agenda for understanding the historic and transnational influences that inflect incarceration in the modern age.” -- Clare Anderson, author of Convicts: A Global HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Captivity and Freedom in Postcolonial Uganda 1. Colonial “Cinderella”: Prisons and Punishment in the Colonial Period 2. A National Prisons Service 3. Professional Identities and Institutional Imaginaries: Prison Work in the Postcolonial State 4. Detention and Dissent in the Obote I Years 5. “Dungeons,” Disappearance, and Detention: Punishment during the Amin Years 6. State of War: Conflict and Confinement after Amin Conclusion Contested Pasts, Contested Futures Notes Bibliography Index
£56.10
Ohio University Press Carceral Afterlives Prisons Detention and
Book SynopsisThis social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central to both the exertion of and challenges to state power in postcolonial Uganda. The book also illustrates the persistent imbrication of prisons, punishment, politics, and struggles for decolonization and freedom across the globe.Trade Review“Katherine Bruce-Lockhart engages in a meticulous analysis of Africa’s postcolonial penal systems through stories of how they were imagined and experienced in Uganda by the confined, workers, and their families. Carceral Afterlives is painstakingly researched, unparalleled on many levels, and a must-read book for anyone interested in postcolonial state politics, global histories of prisons, and confinement. A trailblazer and momentous.” -- Nakanyike B. Musisi, coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Governance in Uganda“Carceral Afterlives demonstrates the centrality of prisons to postcolonial African politics. Using an array of written, oral, and visual sources and an elegant prose, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart provides a fascinating analysis of how prisons, punishment, and politics intertwined in postcolonial Uganda, where the state, whether military or civilian, conceptualized incarceration as a powerful tool for advancing its political agendas by drawing upon a strong colonial legacy of confinement, which in the process turned carceral spaces into sites of resistance and struggle. An impressive work of scholarship, this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on African penal histories and the global history of punishment. A must-read for scholars of East African history as well.” -- Dior Konaté, author of Prison Architecture and Punishment in Colonial Senegal“This is a major contribution to the historiography of postcolonial Uganda, dealing with a topic on which historical research is long overdue. Bruce-Lockhart has provided a richly detailed and authoritative account of prisons and the experience of incarceration under Obote and Amin in particular. In so doing, the author offers new insights into the workings, as well as the dysfunction, of the Ugandan state during the early years of independence.” -- Richard J. Reid, author of A History of Modern Uganda“In her strikingly original book, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart explores how the early rulers of independent Uganda, who had previously denounced colonial prisons as violent and racist instruments of European imperialism, paradoxically redeployed mass detention as an integral arm of the new state. Creatively employing a variety of sources such as memoirs, letters, and journalistic reports, she also captures the voices of prisoners and their political allies who turned prisons into sites of struggle and dissent. Carceral Afterlives constitutes an important contribution to the stimulating new field of transnational prison history.” -- Mary S. Gibson, author of Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism, 1861–1914“This important book reveals the continuities, adaptations, and negotiations of Ugandan incarceration across the colonial and postcolonial eras. Pieced together from a remarkable range of sources, including oral histories, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart conceptualises the modern prison’s symbolic and penal functions as inherently colonial by highlighting the recursive nature of its purpose, character, and experience. Meticulously researched and elegantly framed, this book sets a new agenda for understanding the historic and transnational influences that inflect incarceration in the modern age.” -- Clare Anderson, author of Convicts: A Global HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Captivity and Freedom in Postcolonial Uganda 1. Colonial “Cinderella”: Prisons and Punishment in the Colonial Period 2. A National Prisons Service 3. Professional Identities and Institutional Imaginaries: Prison Work in the Postcolonial State 4. Detention and Dissent in the Obote I Years 5. “Dungeons,” Disappearance, and Detention: Punishment during the Amin Years 6. State of War: Conflict and Confinement after Amin Conclusion Contested Pasts, Contested Futures Notes Bibliography Index
£26.09
Duke University Press Beyond Repair
Book SynopsisEssays offer a new challenge to the death penalty's legitimacy, in light of new empirical research and case studies, and against the backdrop of international law and recent changes in US domestic law.Trade Review“Important and timely, Beyond Repair? presents disturbing findings about the legal system’s inability to administer the death penalty fairly. Especially noteworthy for the new empirical data it brings to bear, this book presents a necessary—and unsettling—look at capital punishment in America today.”—Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union and Professor of Law, New York Law School“In these essays some of our most knowledgeable students of capital punishment take a hard, no-nonsense look at how it actually operates and what drives America’s passionate refusal either to come to peace with the death penalty or give it up. Vital reading for whoever would understand why it can function only fitfully, peevishly, and perversely.”—Anthony G. Amsterdam, New York University School of Law“This collection is an indispensable guide to the new learning on the death penalty, and to the reasons why capital punishment has suddenly become one of the nation's most pressing issues of public policy and debate.”—James S. Liebman, Columbia Law SchoolTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction / Stephen P. Garvey 1 : Second Thoughts: Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of the Century / Samuel R. Gross & Phoebe C. Ellsworth 2 : Capital Punishment, Federal Courts, and the Writ of Habeas Corpus / Larry W. Yackle 3 : “Until I Can Be Sure”: How the Threat of Executing the Innocent Has Transformed the Death Penalty Debate / Ken Armstrong & Steve Mills 4 : Race and Capital Punishment / Sheri Lynn Johnson 5 : Lessons from the Capital Jury Project / John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, & Stephen P. Garvey 6 : International Law and the Abolition of the Death Penalty / William A. Schabas Postscript: The Peculiar Present of American Capital Punishment / Franklin E. Zimring Contributors Index
£25.19
Duke University Press Punishment in Paradise
Book SynopsisPeter M. Beattie provides a detailed examination of the nineteenth-century Brazilian island penal colony Fernando de Noronha, in which he shows how it serves as a metaphor for Brazilian society and was key to Brazil's abolishment of slavery. Trade Review"Beattie’s account of the events on Fernando and its various classes of inmates and other inhabitants is extremely rich in detail and a good read from beginning to end." -- Pieter Spierenburg * British Journal of Criminology *"As a way to reflect on Brazil as a whole at the time, as well as on penology, gender, slavery, and human rights in the greater Atlantic world, Fernando de Noronha’s history magnifies some points and either distorts or omits others. But Beattie’s approach shows how this unique setting can inform a varied range of larger issues." -- Thomas H. Holloway * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This work is a valuable tool for graduate teaching in Brazilian, Latin American, or African diaspora history, and it is essential reading for scholars of the Atlantic world." -- Zachary R. Morgan * American Historical Review *"The originality of this volume lies in this broad approach and its capacity to cut across the boundaries of various sub-disciplines.... The volume is well written and has a clear structure, the documentary basis rich and varied and its interpretations convincing." -- Christian G. de Vito * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Peter Beattie has produced a multi-faceted and insightful study, a prime example of how to study Brazil’s popular classes as both a coherent and a multi-faceted group.... [A] balanced and well-written book, one crowned by a handful of brilliant concepts that will raise the bar for future studies of popular groups in Brazil’s long nineteenth century." -- Oscar de la Torre * Canadian Journal of History *"Punishment in Paradise unearths new and unique archival material, engages with a wide breadth of scholarship, and is deftly written. It will be essential reading for scholars of Brazil, slavery, and coerced labor in the Atlantic World as well as scholars interested in the intersections of masculinity, sexuality, criminality, and human rights." -- Lena Suk * Labor *"Punishment in Paradise will be essential reading for scholars and legal practitioners interested in understanding the criminal law and penal practice and its embeddedness in a long history of labor appropriation. It should attract a broad readership, including those interested in Brazilian history, the transatlantic nineteenth century, slavery and abolition, and the history of crime and punishment. This book should make its way onto syllabi for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of crime and justice; the history of gender and sexuality; and the social history of Brazil, Latin America, and the Atlantic world generally." -- Amy Chazkel * H-Law, H-Net Reviews *"Punishment in Paradise provides much food for thought and invitation to debate. Like The Tribute of Blood, it should shape syllabi and research agendas for years to come." -- Marc A. Hertzman * Luso-Brazilian Review *"Beattie illuminate[s] themes that have been largely overlooked or neglected in national historiographies." -- Evan C. Rothera * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Peter Beattie has crafted a thoughtfully researched sociolegal history. Punishment in Paradise will be essential reading for scholars and students of crime, punishment, and justice in addition to labor regimes within the transatlantic nineteenth century. It should also attract a broad readership, including those interested in Brazilian history as well as slavery and abolition." -- Manuella Meyer * Hispanic American Historical Review *
£80.10
Duke University Press Punishment in Paradise
Book SynopsisPeter M. Beattie provides a detailed examination of the nineteenth-century Brazilian island penal colony Fernando de Noronha, in which he shows how it serves as a metaphor for Brazilian society and was key to Brazil's abolishment of slavery. Trade Review"Beattie’s account of the events on Fernando and its various classes of inmates and other inhabitants is extremely rich in detail and a good read from beginning to end." -- Pieter Spierenburg * British Journal of Criminology *"As a way to reflect on Brazil as a whole at the time, as well as on penology, gender, slavery, and human rights in the greater Atlantic world, Fernando de Noronha’s history magnifies some points and either distorts or omits others. But Beattie’s approach shows how this unique setting can inform a varied range of larger issues." -- Thomas H. Holloway * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This work is a valuable tool for graduate teaching in Brazilian, Latin American, or African diaspora history, and it is essential reading for scholars of the Atlantic world." -- Zachary R. Morgan * American Historical Review *"The originality of this volume lies in this broad approach and its capacity to cut across the boundaries of various sub-disciplines.... The volume is well written and has a clear structure, the documentary basis rich and varied and its interpretations convincing." -- Christian G. de Vito * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Peter Beattie has produced a multi-faceted and insightful study, a prime example of how to study Brazil’s popular classes as both a coherent and a multi-faceted group.... [A] balanced and well-written book, one crowned by a handful of brilliant concepts that will raise the bar for future studies of popular groups in Brazil’s long nineteenth century." -- Oscar de la Torre * Canadian Journal of History *"Punishment in Paradise unearths new and unique archival material, engages with a wide breadth of scholarship, and is deftly written. It will be essential reading for scholars of Brazil, slavery, and coerced labor in the Atlantic World as well as scholars interested in the intersections of masculinity, sexuality, criminality, and human rights." -- Lena Suk * Labor *"Punishment in Paradise will be essential reading for scholars and legal practitioners interested in understanding the criminal law and penal practice and its embeddedness in a long history of labor appropriation. It should attract a broad readership, including those interested in Brazilian history, the transatlantic nineteenth century, slavery and abolition, and the history of crime and punishment. This book should make its way onto syllabi for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of crime and justice; the history of gender and sexuality; and the social history of Brazil, Latin America, and the Atlantic world generally." -- Amy Chazkel * H-Law, H-Net Reviews *"Punishment in Paradise provides much food for thought and invitation to debate. Like The Tribute of Blood, it should shape syllabi and research agendas for years to come." -- Marc A. Hertzman * Luso-Brazilian Review *"Beattie illuminate[s] themes that have been largely overlooked or neglected in national historiographies." -- Evan C. Rothera * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Peter Beattie has crafted a thoughtfully researched sociolegal history. Punishment in Paradise will be essential reading for scholars and students of crime, punishment, and justice in addition to labor regimes within the transatlantic nineteenth century. It should also attract a broad readership, including those interested in Brazilian history as well as slavery and abolition." -- Manuella Meyer * Hispanic American Historical Review *
£27.90
Duke University Press Bruno
Book SynopsisBruno is the story of a Brazilian navy corporal turned drug dealer, who after being imprisoned became the leader of one of Brazil's biggest criminal factions, the Comando Vermelho. Bruno's story provides insights into the Brazilian drug trade, prison life, and explains the epidemic of violence in Rio's favelas.Trade Review“This particular account is interesting and engaging…” -- Ed Hart * Sounds and Colours *"The real contribution of Bruno [is]... the private reflections that we gain from a single informant who is intelligent, critical, and painfully idealistic. It is this personal voice, rather than the empirical data, that makes Bruno truly special, and a necessary supplement for scholars interested not only in drug trafficking and prisons, but in the relationship between crime and self-reflection as well." -- Samuel E. Novacich * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“In telling the story of Bruno, sociologist Robert Gay succeeds in demystifying not only gangs and the drug trade but also an entire country. This is a carefully crafted study of a criminal career embedded in a society that for generations has denied citizenship to large numbers of its population…. This is an important book that skilfully utilises ethnographic interviews to tell the story of one man in the trenches of the global war against drugs.” -- Dick Hobbs * Times Higher Education *"This gripping book is a superb entry point into the maze of Brazilian prisons and, hopefully, a spur to more systematic historical research into the country’s current dilemmas with prisons, drugs, and gangs." -- Paul Gootenberg * Hispanic American Historical Review *"From the haunting cover to the emotional ending Bruno: Conversations with a Brazilian Drug Dealer shapes up to be a gripping read for anyone interested in the shady underworld of drug gang culture. . . . Bruno is a fascinating account that will serve as a useful testament of life in the Brazilian underworld which will be of immense value to students of cultural studies and Latin American history for years to come. In that sense, Bruno is strictly not the sensationalised bestseller that the story has the potential to be, but something infinitely more valuable." -- Jay Kerr * Latin American Review of Books *"Robert Gay has written an intimate, eye-opening book that opens a window into the politics of prisons and drug prohibition in Brazil." -- Kevin Lewis O'Neill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Stirring. . . . Gay offers a finely grained ethnographic account of an individual whose life is embedded in a complex world of drug trafficking complicities." -- Robert Gay * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Trafficking 7 2. Things Come Undone 29 3. The Family 47 4. The Devil's Cauldron 63 5. On the Run 85 6. Paradise Lost 109 7. The Leader 135 8. Judgment Day 175 Postscript 195 Timeline of Events 201 Notes 203 Bibliography 215 Index 219
£76.50
Fordham University Press Killing Times
Book SynopsisGrounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Machinery of Death or Machinic Life 17 2. The Time of the Trap Door 54 3. The Future Anterior of Blood 87 4. Spirit Wind 119 5. Drone Penalty 150 6. Lam Time 185 Appendix: U.S. Supreme Court Cases Cited 217 Acknowledgments 219 Notes 221 Index 253
£27.90
Fordham University Press Killing Times The Temporal Technology of the
Book SynopsisGrounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Machinery of Death or Machinic Life 17 2. The Time of the Trap Door 54 3. The Future Anterior of Blood 87 4. Spirit Wind 119 5. Drone Penalty 150 6. Lam Time 185 Appendix: U.S. Supreme Court Cases Cited 217 Acknowledgments 219 Notes 221 Index 253
£85.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Psychology in Probation Services
Book SynopsisOutlines the strategic framework for psychological services across prisons and probation. This book gives a picture of some key areas of applied psychological practice in probation settings. It covers the development of applied psychological services, court work, mental health, working with sex offenders, risk assessment, and cognitive skills.Trade Review"A comprehensive introduction, from an operational standpoint, of the role of psychology and psychologists in the Probation Service as it is and might develop, for both students and practitioners. Everything from basic risk assessment to MAPPA and work with life sentence prisoners is covered." Rod Morgan, Chairman, Youth Justice Board, formerly HM Chief Inspector of Probation "This is a timely, elegant and wide-ranging collection of essays. It will prove of value and interest not only to professional psychologists and those working in probation but to all those seeking to identify 'what works' in the criminal justice system." Stephen Shaw, Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales "A very practical and informative book that clearly illustrates the contribution and potential contribution that applied psychology can make to the care of offenders and victims in the community, as well as to those working with these individuals within the probation services. It is clearly written and will make a useful contribution to the knowledge base around the issues discussed and will inform both clinicians working in the field and allied services, plus academics and students studying in a variety of related disciplines." Sharon Riordan, Lecturer in Forensic Mental Health Care, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsForeword by Herschel Prins vii Editors’ Preface x Series Editors’ Preface xii Revolving Doors xiv List of Contributors xv Acknowledgements xv 1 Applied Psychological Services in the National Probation Service for England and Wales 1 Graham Towl and David Crighton 2 Work in the Courts 14 David Crighton 3 Counselling Psychologists and Mental Health Work in Probation Services 23 Sharon Mayer 4 Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders 40 Andrew Bates 5 Risk Assessment 52 David Crighton 6 Suicide and Intentional Self-Injury 67 Sara Casado and Amy Beck 7 Groupwork-based Interventions 82 Anne Williams 8 Cognitive Skills Groupwork 91 Derval Ambrose 9 Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements 104 Tania Tancred 10 Domestic Violence Work with Male Offenders 115 Jane Lindsay, Dermot Brady and Debbie McQueirns 11 Work with Life Sentence Offenders 138 Debbie McQueirns 12 Partnership Working: Organizational Roles, Structures and Interfaces 156 Trudy Leeson and David Crighton References 170 Index 186
£49.35
Johns Hopkins University Press Coxsackie
Book SynopsisHow progressive good intentions failed at Coxsackie, once a model New York State prison for youth offenders.Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century. Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in New York State by focusing on Coxsackie, a New Deal reformatory built for young male offenders. Opened in 1935 to serve adolescents adrift, Coxsackie instead became an unstable and brutalizing prison. From the start, the liberal impulse underpinning the prison's mission was overwhelmed by challenges it was unequipped or unwilling to facedrugs, gangs, and racial conflict.Spillane draws on detailed prison records to reconstruct a life behind bars in which ungovernable young men posed constant challenges to racial and cultural order. The New Deal order of the Trade ReviewDamn it's compelling... If you're interested in the historical roots of our prison system, you ought to spend an evening with this book. -- Alfred Brophy, UNC School of Law The Faculty Lounge Archival shelves laden with criminal justice records await informed examination. Historian Spillane found a pertinent data set and analyzed it, brilliantly so. Choice Should be required reading for historians of juvenile and criminal corrections... Presents a compelling cautionary tale that contemporary would-be reformers ignore at their peril, while offering important new insights for scholars. American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Ashes of ReformPart I: The Rapid Rise of Prison Reform in New York, 1929–19441. The Reformer's Mural: The Liberal Penal Imagination2. A New Deal for Prisons: The Politics of Reform in New YorkPart II: Prison Lives and the World of the Reformatory3. Adolescents Adrift: Young Men on the Road to Coxsackie4. Against the Wall: Survival and Resistance at Coxsackie5. Reform at Work: Ideas into Action at Coxsackie6. A Conspiracy of Frustration: Coming HomePart III: The Slow Death of Prison Reform in New York 1944–19777. The Frying Pan and the Fire: The Reformatory in Crisis, 1944–19638. Out of Time: Coxsackie and the End of the Reform Idea9. Floodtide: Coxsackie and Post-Reformatory Prison Politics, 1963–1977Conclusion: The Ghost of Prisons FutureNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£35.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Criminology and Public Policy Putting Theory to
Book SynopsisIn the field of criminal justice, public policy is designed to address the problems brought on by criminal behavior and the response to that behavior. However, too often, the theories carefully developed in the academy fail to make their way into programs and policy. The editors and contributors to this second edition of Criminology and Public Policy highlight the recent development of translational criminology to address the growing movement in criminology to use the results of criminological research and theory to better inform policy and practice. The essays in Criminology and Public Policy propose an in-depth look at both theory and practice and how they are integrated across a number of key criminal justice problemsfrom racial and environmental concerns to gun control and recidivism rates as well as police use of force and mass incarceration. The end result is an essential volume that blends both theory and practice in an effort to address the critical problems in explaining, prevTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Theory Matters for Policy and Why Policy Matters for Theory • Kevin A. WrightPart I Theories of Offender Behavior Introduction to Part I1. Race Differences in Crime • Anthony A. Braga and Kevin M. Drakulich2. Critical Race Theory and the Limits of Liberal Legal Remedies to Address Racial Disparities in Police Violence • Amy Farrell, Patricia Warren, and Shea Cronin3. Situational Prevention of Wildlife Crimes: The Policy Challenges • Ronald V. Clarke, Justin Kurland, and Lauren Wilson4. Global Warming and Criminological Theory and Practice • Rob White5. Toward a Life-Course Theory of Victimization • Jillian J. Turanovic6. Translating Theories of Desistance to Policy • Megan Kurlychek and Megan Denver7. From Hot Spots to a Theory of Place • Cody Telep and David Weisburd8. Aligning Public Policy, Criminological Theory, and Empirical Findings on the Immigration-Crime Relationship • Glenn Trager and Charis E. Kubrin9. Mass Shootings: A New Name for a Familiar Problem • Grant Duwe Part II Theories of the Criminal Justice SystemIntroduction to Part II10. A Theory of Offender Recidivism • Daniel P. Mears and Jillian J. Turanovic11. An Integrated, Reflexive Theory of Police Misconduct • Natalie Todak and Michael D. White12. Sentencing Disparity: A Focus on Race and Ethnicity • Cassia Spohn13. Intergenerational Effects of Crime and Punishment • Kathleen Powell and Sara Wakefield14. R-e-s-p-e-c-t: Communities of Color and the Criminal Justice System • Rod K. Brunson and Michelle N. Block15. Organizational Change and Criminal Justice: Working within the Iron Cage • Danielle Rudes and Shannon Magnuson16. Gun Policy • Jennifer Carlson17. Thinking Outside the Prison Walls: The Value of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program to Solve Old Problems • Kevin A. Wright and Cheryl Lero Jonson18. Toward a Theory of Mental Illness and Crime • Robert D. Morgan and Robert K. AxConclusion: When Theory Fails • Scott H. Decker Contributors Index
£69.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Criminology and Public Policy Putting Theory to
Book SynopsisIn the field of criminal justice, public policy is designed to address the problems brought on by criminal behavior and the response to that behavior. However, too often, the theories carefully developed in the academy fail to make their way into programs and policy. The editors and contributors to this second edition of Criminology and Public Policy highlight the recent development of translational criminology to address the growing movement in criminology to use the results of criminological research and theory to better inform policy and practice. The essays in Criminology and Public Policy propose an in-depth look at both theory and practice and how they are integrated across a number of key criminal justice problemsfrom racial and environmental concerns to gun control and recidivism rates as well as police use of force and mass incarceration. The end result is an essential volume that blends both theory and practice in an effort to address the critical problems in explaining, prevTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Theory Matters for Policy and Why Policy Matters for Theory • Kevin A. WrightPart I Theories of Offender Behavior Introduction to Part I1. Race Differences in Crime • Anthony A. Braga and Kevin M. Drakulich2. Critical Race Theory and the Limits of Liberal Legal Remedies to Address Racial Disparities in Police Violence • Amy Farrell, Patricia Warren, and Shea Cronin3. Situational Prevention of Wildlife Crimes: The Policy Challenges • Ronald V. Clarke, Justin Kurland, and Lauren Wilson4. Global Warming and Criminological Theory and Practice • Rob White5. Toward a Life-Course Theory of Victimization • Jillian J. Turanovic6. Translating Theories of Desistance to Policy • Megan Kurlychek and Megan Denver7. From Hot Spots to a Theory of Place • Cody Telep and David Weisburd8. Aligning Public Policy, Criminological Theory, and Empirical Findings on the Immigration-Crime Relationship • Glenn Trager and Charis E. Kubrin9. Mass Shootings: A New Name for a Familiar Problem • Grant Duwe Part II Theories of the Criminal Justice SystemIntroduction to Part II10. A Theory of Offender Recidivism • Daniel P. Mears and Jillian J. Turanovic11. An Integrated, Reflexive Theory of Police Misconduct • Natalie Todak and Michael D. White12. Sentencing Disparity: A Focus on Race and Ethnicity • Cassia Spohn13. Intergenerational Effects of Crime and Punishment • Kathleen Powell and Sara Wakefield14. R-e-s-p-e-c-t: Communities of Color and the Criminal Justice System • Rod K. Brunson and Michelle N. Block15. Organizational Change and Criminal Justice: Working within the Iron Cage • Danielle Rudes and Shannon Magnuson16. Gun Policy • Jennifer Carlson17. Thinking Outside the Prison Walls: The Value of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program to Solve Old Problems • Kevin A. Wright and Cheryl Lero Jonson18. Toward a Theory of Mental Illness and Crime • Robert D. Morgan and Robert K. AxConclusion: When Theory Fails • Scott H. Decker Contributors Index
£26.99
University of Toronto Press Victimology
Book SynopsisWritten by one of the world's leading experts on victimology, this book is designed to offer a broad introduction to the subject.Trade Review"Wemmers work verily reaches to the core of what is possible in our common law system, when human rights becomes the foundation upon which we address and articulate justice. Each chapter in Victimology: A Canadian Perspective is a precious and provocative piece replete with information that can prove a rich guide for first-time readers and seasoned researchers in the field of victimology." -- Margot Van Sluytman, The Sawbonna Project * Justice Report *"[Wemmers] has assembled an accessible, efficient introduction to her topic of expertise and provides, along the way, insight that sparks interest for greater exploration. This publication comes at a time when Canada is looking for responses to urgent questions about victims’ needs in a legal system that may have fallen behind the times. Victimology is certain to be used in many fields." -- Jake Babad, Osgoode Hall Law School * Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol 55 *"Wemmers’ Victimology: A Canadian Perspective is essential reading for those interested in victims of crime in all their dynamism – theoretically, politically, and within the disciplines. However, Wemmers takes this further by providing a powerful analysis of structural and institutional reform, through the emerging human rights instruments that place victim rights firmly on the policy agenda. Bringing together a volume of this kind is no small feat, internationally significant, but with obvious relevance to those especially interested in Canada’s justice response." -- Tyrone Kirchengast, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney * International Review of Victimology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Evolution of the Notion of Crime Victim 2. History of Victimology 3. Victimization Surveys 4. The Impact of Victimization 5. Theoretical Victimology 6. Victims' Needs and Secondary Victimization 7. Victims' Rights 8. Victim Assistance 9. State Compensation 10. Victim Participation in the Criminal Justice Process 11. Reparative Justice 12. Integrating Victims in Criminal Justice Appendix 1 UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power Appendix 2 Canadian Victims' Bill of Rights Appendix 3 Victim Compensation Programs across Canada Appendix 4 Victim Impact Statement Glossary References Laws Cited in the Text Index
£81.60
Bristol University Press Key Issues in Corrections
Book SynopsisKey Issues in Corrections critically analyzes the most important challenges affecting the correctional system in the USA, offering a no-nonsense explanation of the problems of correctional officers, correctional managers, prisoners, and the public.Trade Review“The updated and thoroughly revised book does an excellent job of analyzing the contemporary challenges in the field of corrections and suggesting meaningful and realistic solutions to them. Moreover, unlike standard textbooks, Key Issues in Corrections, because of the way it is researched, written, and organized is easy to build a course around. The problems and solutions approach will facilitate classroom discussion, and provide the opportunity to integrate supplementary articles that would allow for further reading.” Rick Jones, Criminologist, Marquette University, co-author of Doing Time: Prison Experience and Identity Among First-Time Inmates"This is one corrections textbook where the author takes the reader inside the fence and behind the wall and does not candy coat the truth. Ross writes with eyes wide open." Stephen C. Richards, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, OshkoshTable of ContentsPart 1: Laying the groundwork; What Is Corrections and What Are Its Problems?; Misrepresenting Corrections; Part 2: Problems for convicts and correctional facilities; Misuse of Jails; Underfunding; Prison Conditions; Classification/Risk Assessment; Special Populations behind bars; Rehabilitation of Prisoners; Overburdened Community Corrections System; Crowding/Overcrowding; Death Penalty; Part 3: Problems for correctional officers and administrators; Hiring Standards, Requirements, Practices, and Training; Working Conditions; Correctional Officer Deviance; Officer Pay and Workload; Management and Administration; The Privatization of Corrections; The Future of Corrections.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Key Issues in Corrections
Book SynopsisKey Issues in Corrections critically analyzes the most important challenges affecting the correctional system in the USA, offering a no-nonsense explanation of the problems of correctional officers, correctional managers, prisoners, and the public.Trade Review“The updated and thoroughly revised book does an excellent job of analyzing the contemporary challenges in the field of corrections and suggesting meaningful and realistic solutions to them. Moreover, unlike standard textbooks, Key Issues in Corrections, because of the way it is researched, written, and organized is easy to build a course around. The problems and solutions approach will facilitate classroom discussion, and provide the opportunity to integrate supplementary articles that would allow for further reading.” Rick Jones, Criminologist, Marquette University, co-author of Doing Time: Prison Experience and Identity Among First-Time Inmates"This is one corrections textbook where the author takes the reader inside the fence and behind the wall and does not candy coat the truth. Ross writes with eyes wide open." Stephen C. Richards, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, OshkoshTable of ContentsPart 1: Laying the groundwork; What Is Corrections and What Are Its Problems?; Misrepresenting Corrections; Part 2: Problems for convicts and correctional facilities; Misuse of Jails; Underfunding; Prison Conditions; Classification/Risk Assessment; Special Populations behind bars; Rehabilitation of Prisoners; Overburdened Community Corrections System; Crowding/Overcrowding; Death Penalty; Part 3: Problems for correctional officers and administrators; Hiring Standards, Requirements, Practices, and Training; Working Conditions; Correctional Officer Deviance; Officer Pay and Workload; Management and Administration; The Privatization of Corrections; The Future of Corrections.
£25.64
Bristol University Press Imprisonment Worldwide
Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive account of prison populations worldwide, this new work links prison statistics from the last 15 years with considerations of how prisons and prison populations are managed. It is a major contribution to the knowledge of those currently debating prisons and the use of imprisonment.Trade Review"In this timely book, the authors outline a moral framework stating clearly and succinctly what needs to be done. Sustainable justice requires less emphasis on imprisonment and more on human and social development." Alison Liebling, Cambridge University"Imagine a world with more and more prisons. Imagine failing prisons, brutal and broken prisons. This is the world of Coyle and Co’s book. It shouldn’t be an easy read, but it is eminently readable. It asks urgent questions about the ethics of imprisonment that challenge us imagine something else, something better." Rod Earle, The Open University"The welcome publication of this excellent and thought provoking book will inform governments and parliaments worldwide about the limited role of imprisonment." Lord David Ramsbotham, Member of the UK House of Lords and former Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales“At a time when we are expecting significant change to public services including the criminal justice system, this vital tool for practitioners, academics and students provides a source of inspiration and a substantial body of evidence from around the world.” Frances Crook, CEO, The Howard League for Penal Reform"Comprehensive, concise, ethically informed, and attuned to future possibilities—A must read for penologists the world over." Robert Johnson, Professor of Justice, Law and Criminology, American University"A lovely little book. A great resource for anyone who wants the key information on imprisonment around the world." Richard Garside, Director, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies"This volume raises provocative questions about prisons and the imprisoned" - CHOICE reviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Section I: Prisons and the use of imprisonment: numbers and trends; Numbers of prisoners worldwide; Composition of prison populations worldwide; Prison population trends; Section II: An ethical approach to the use of imprisonment; What constitutes an ethical approach to the use of imprisonment?; Features of an ethical approach to the use of imprisonment; Challenges to an ethical approach to the use of imprisonment; Section III: An alternative future; Rethinking prisons and the use of imprisonment; Conclusion.
£13.38
Bristol University Press Solitary Confinement
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to consider the history of solitary confinement and how it is experienced by the individuals undergoing it. It provides first-hand accounts of the inhumane experience of solitary confinement to provide a better appreciation of the relationship between penal strategy and its effect on human beings.Trade Review“Traces the historical development of the use of solitary confinement in the United States, and describes personal accounts of individuals who have experienced this type of confinement in order to challenge its continued use in the modern age.” Ryan M. Labrecque, Portland State University"Reveals the psychological harm caused by solitary confinement and critically examines the philosophical assumptions surrounding this extreme and cruel form of punishment....an insightful and important study." James Hardie-Bick, University of SussexTable of ContentsThe experience of solitary confinement: some beginning reflections A very brief history of solitary confinement and the supermax penitentiary The developmental history of solitary and supermax confinement: toward a phenomenology of the state of exception The Supreme Court, solitary confinement, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment From the other side of the door: the lived experience of solitary confinement Some closing reflections
£25.64
Bristol University Press Degrees of Freedom
Book SynopsisThe first authoritative volume to look back on the last 50 years of The Open University providing higher education to those in prison, this unique book gives voice to ex-prisoners whose lives have been transformed by the education they received, offering vivid personal testimonies, reflective vignettes and academic analysis of education in prison.Trade Review"The life-changing impact of university access is evident throughout this book. Critical analysis and questioning minds expose the pains of incarceration, the hypocrisy of rehabilitation. Tutors and students together ease those pains, challenge that hypocrisy.' Phil Scraton, Queen's University"This important book documents the vital work done by The Open University in the development of prison education and provides valuable insights into the positive impact of this work upon individual prisoners." Ivana Bacik, Trinity College DublinTable of ContentsOpenings and Introductions: Education for the many, prison for the few ~ Rod Earle and James Mehigan From Prisoner to Student ~ Anne Pike and Ruth McFarlane Vignette 1: Choosing my journey – Kamal Abdul Pioneers and Politics: Open University Journeys in British and Irish prisons in Long Kesh during the years of conflict 1972-1975 ~ Philip O’Sullivan & Gabi Kent Vignette 2: Avoiding the mind-numbing vortex of drivel … – Thomas A University Without Walls ~ Dan Weinbren Vignette 3: Starting a new chapter – Mr C.T. Morgans Open universities, close prisons: critical arguments for the future ~ Rod Earle & James Mehigan Vignette 4: Out of the abysmal – ‘Eris’ The Light to Fight The Shadows: On Education as Liberation ~ Kris McPherson From Despair to Hope ~ Margaret Gough Vignette 5: Making my commitment – Razib Quraishi Straight up! From HMP to PhD ~ Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski From Open University in Prison to Convict Criminology Upon Release: Mind the Gap ~ Michael Irwin Vignette 6: Message to a prisoner – Gordon McDonald From the School of Hard Knocks to the University of Hard Locks ~ Abdulhaq Al-Wazeer Becoming Me with The Open University ~ Edwin Screeche-Powell Vignette 7: Catching up with Kafka – Steven Taylor From D102 to Paulo Freire: an Irish Journey ~ Laurence McKeown Vignette 8: My journey, my new life – Dan Micklethwaite Ex-prisoners and the transformative power of higher education ~ David Honeywell Vignette 9: Prison choices: taking a degree or packing tea? – Alan Jermey What the OU did for me ~ Erwin James Appendix 1: Study with the OU
£75.99
Bristol University Press Degrees of Freedom
Book SynopsisThe first authoritative volume to look back on the last 50 years of The Open University providing higher education to those in prison, this unique book gives voice to ex-prisoners whose lives have been transformed by the education they received, offering vivid personal testimonies, reflective vignettes and academic analysis of education in prison.Trade Review'This important book documents the vital work done by the Open University in the development of prison education and provides valuable insights into the positive impact of this work upon individual prisoners.' Ivana Bacik, Trinity College DublinTable of ContentsOpenings and Introductions: Education for the many, prison for the few ~ Rod Earle and James Mehigan From Prisoner to Student ~ Anne Pike and Ruth McFarlane Vignette 1: Choosing my journey – Kamal Abdul Pioneers and Politics: Open University Journeys in British and Irish prisons in Long Kesh during the years of conflict 1972-1975 ~ Philip O’Sullivan & Gabi Kent Vignette 2: Avoiding the mind-numbing vortex of drivel … – Thomas A University Without Walls ~ Dan Weinbren Vignette 3: Starting a new chapter – Mr C.T. Morgans Open universities, close prisons: critical arguments for the future ~ Rod Earle & James Mehigan Vignette 4: Out of the abysmal – ‘Eris’ The Light to Fight The Shadows: On Education as Liberation ~ Kris McPherson From Despair to Hope ~ Margaret Gough Vignette 5: Making my commitment – Razib Quraishi Straight up! From HMP to PhD ~ Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski From Open University in Prison to Convict Criminology Upon Release: Mind the Gap ~ Michael Irwin Vignette 6: Message to a prisoner – Gordon McDonald From the School of Hard Knocks to the University of Hard Locks ~ Abdulhaq Al-Wazeer Becoming Me with The Open University ~ Edwin Screeche-Powell Vignette 7: Catching up with Kafka – Steven Taylor From D102 to Paulo Freire: an Irish Journey ~ Laurence McKeown Vignette 8: My journey, my new life – Dan Micklethwaite Ex-prisoners and the transformative power of higher education ~ David Honeywell Vignette 9: Prison choices: taking a degree or packing tea? – Alan Jermey What the OU did for me ~ Erwin James Appendix 1: Study with the OU
£27.54
Bristol University Press Investigating Corruption in the Afghan Police
Book SynopsisBased on unprecedented empirical research, this book assesses how institutional legacy and external intervention have shaped the structural conditions of corruption in the Afghan police force and state. Filling a major gap in the literature, this is an invaluable contribution to the literature and to anti-corruption policy in developing states.Table of ContentsIntroduction Definitions and Typologies of Police Corruption Preventing Police Corruption Security Sector Reform, Post-conflict Reconstruction and Police Corruption in Post-conflict States Political, Economic and Cultural Drivers of Police Corruption Corruption in Afghanistan: External Intervention and Institutional Legacy Social Construction of Corruption Assessing the Drivers of Corruption Within the Afghan Police Force Prevention Strategies in Afghanistan Conclusions
£77.39
Bristol University Press Critical Reflections on Women Family Crime and
Book SynopsisDrawing on research from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice research network, this collection sheds new light on the experiences of women and families who encounter the UK criminal justice system. Contributions demonstrate how these groups are often ignored, oppressed and victimised, and offer insights and practical recommendations for change.Table of ContentsForeword: critical reflections from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice network - Jenny Earle 1. Starting the conversation: an introduction to the WFCJ network - Isla Masson and Natalie Booth 2. Playing the game: women and community punishment - Nicola Harding 3. Harmful social and cultural practices that exist within South Asian communities in the UK and their impact on women - Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan and Isla Masson 4. Exploring shame, love and healing within women’s recovery: an analysis of a trauma-specific intervention - Alexandria Bradley, Kirsty Day and Rose Mahon 5. Reducing the enduring harm of short terms of imprisonment - Isla Masson 6. ‘Without it you’re lost’: examining the role and challenges of family engagement services in prisons - Erin Power 7. What are the challenges and opportunities for schools in supporting children of people in prison? - Anna Jones 8. Impact and engagement work in the context of families of people in prison - Anna Kotova 9. Presence, voice and reflexivity in feminist and creative research: a personal and professional reflection - Lucy Baldwin 10. Service users being used: thoughts to the research community - Michaela Booth and Paula Harriott 11. Continuing the conversation: reflections from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice network - Lucy Baldwin, Isla Masson and Natalie Booth
£76.50
Bristol University Press Critical Reflections on Women Family Crime and
Book SynopsisDrawing on research from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice research network, this collection sheds new light on the experiences of women and families who encounter the UK criminal justice system. Contributions demonstrate how these groups are often ignored, oppressed and victimised, and offer insights and practical recommendations for change.Table of ContentsForeword: critical reflections from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice network - Jenny Earle 1. Starting the conversation: an introduction to the WFCJ network - Isla Masson and Natalie Booth 2. Playing the game: women and community punishment - Nicola Harding 3. Harmful social and cultural practices that exist within South Asian communities in the UK and their impact on women - Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan and Isla Masson 4. Exploring shame, love and healing within women’s recovery: an analysis of a trauma-specific intervention - Alexandria Bradley, Kirsty Day and Rose Mahon 5. Reducing the enduring harm of short terms of imprisonment - Isla Masson 6. ‘Without it you’re lost’: examining the role and challenges of family engagement services in prisons - Erin Power 7. What are the challenges and opportunities for schools in supporting children of people in prison? - Anna Jones 8. Impact and engagement work in the context of families of people in prison - Anna Kotova 9. Presence, voice and reflexivity in feminist and creative research: a personal and professional reflection - Lucy Baldwin 10. Service users being used: thoughts to the research community - Michaela Booth and Paula Harriott 11. Continuing the conversation: reflections from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice network - Lucy Baldwin, Isla Masson and Natalie Booth
£25.64
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Living by Inches The Smells Sounds Tastes and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons
Book SynopsisFrom battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Living by Inches is the first book to examine how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity through the basic building blocks of human experience - their five senses.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina We Are Not Slaves State Violence Coerced Labor and Prisoners Rights in Postwar America
Book SynopsisTold from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book weaves together untold but devastatingly important truths from the histories of labour, civil rights, and politics in the United States as it narrates the transition from prison plantations of the past to the mass incarceration of today.
£27.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina From Asylum to Prison Deinstitutionalization and
Book SynopsisRecasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Anne Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and mental health policy making. In doing so, she offers insight into how the prison took the place of the asylum, shaping the rise of the prison industrial complex.
£26.36
Duke University Press A Wall Is Just a Wall
Book SynopsisFocusing on gubernatorial clemency, furlough, and conjugal visits in states ranging from Mississippi to Massachusetts, Reiko Hillyer examines the origins and decline of practices that allowed incarcerated people to occasionally experience life beyond prison walls.Trade Review“Drawing on meticulous research and amplifying the voices of prisoners and their families and advocates, A Wall Is Just a Wall is materialist history at its best. Reiko Hillyer’s beautifully narrated historical lessons and analyses of the contested sites of clemency, conjugal visitation, and furlough policies spur us to newly imagine the porosity of prison walls and, ultimately, prison abolition as justice long overdue.” -- Sora Y. Han, author of * Letters of the Law: Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law *"In this impressive study, historian Hillyer documents the relative openness of American prisons in the early 20th century and the subsequent 'thickening and hardening of prison walls.' . . . This thorough work of historical scholarship draws extensively on inmate newspapers to provide an eye-opening look at the high value prisoners placed on family visits, furlough, and the possibility of clemency, making their cancellation its own form of psychological punishment. Readers concerned by mass incarceration should take note." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Boundaries of Mercy: Clemency, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration 1. Clemency in the Age of Jim Crow: Mercy and White Supremacy 27 2. Freedom Struggles: Clemency Hangs in the Balance in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement 46 3. The House of the Dying: The Decline of Clemency under the New Jim Crow 65 Part II. Strange Bedfellows: Conjugal Visits, Belonging, and Social Death 4. Southern Hospitality: The Rise of Conjugal Visits 89 5. “It’s Something We Must Do”: The National Reach of Conjugal Visits 109 6. “Daddy Is in Prison”: The Decline of Conjugal Visits and the Strange Career of Family Values 129 Part III. Weekend Passes: Furloughs and the Risks of Freedom 7. “To Rub Elbows with Freedom”: Temporary Release in the Jim Crow South 13 8. Conquering Prison Walls: Furloughs at the Crossroads of the Rehabilitative Ideal 174 9. The End of Redemption: Willie Horton and Moral Panic 194 Epilogue 213 Notes 229 Bibliography 303 Index 335
£81.90
