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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art. Thirty-seven original contributions are organized around four sections: History, Types, and Writers/Artists of Graffiti and Street Art; Theoretical Explanations of Graffiti and Street Art/Causes of Graffiti and Street Art; Regional/Municipal Variations/Differences of Graffiti and Street Art; and, Effects of Graffiti and Street Art. Chapters are written by experts from different countries throughout the world and their expertise spans the fields of American Studies, Art Theory, Criminology, Criminal justice, Ethnography, Photography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Visual Communication.The Handbook will be of interest to researchers, instructors, advanced students, libraries, and art gallery and museum curators. This book is also accessible to practitTrade ReviewConsidering graffiti is both the world's most visible crime and a global subcultural phenomenon, it's strange that mainstream criminology has spent the last four decades steadfastly ignoring the subject. Finally, this seems to be changing. With the arrival of the Routledge Handbook on Graffiti and Street Art, criminology now has the sophisticated and comprehensive benchmark collection the subject deserves. Get yourself a copy and tag the inside cover today!' - Professor Keith Hayward, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Jeffrey Ian Ross’s Routledge Handbook on Graffiti and Street Art is a comprehensive well rounded treatment of graffiti and street art with contributions by the most recognized international scholars of the field. The edited collection provides analyses that are theoretically and empirically grounded, going beyond simply over-romanticizing the subject matter that typically sees graffiti and street art as simple acts of vandalism and/or resistance. The Handbook looks at graffiti/street art as manifestations of the broader social structure, as well as the subcultural processes and micro-level interactions among graffiti/street art practitioners, and the wider community in which they operate. This volume is a must read for scholars, students, and community and state policy makers. - Dawn Rothe, Professor of Sociology and Criminiology, Old Dominion University, USA While completing a major book project in 2012 on street art, I found that the majority of academic texts and articles on graffiti addressed issues of controlling or curving the practice of graffiti in the public square. This is an issue that editor Jeffrey Ian Ross often takes note of throughout the text...The social control trajectory is complimented and expanded by the contributors in this volume and it’s the real strength of its organization. Expanding this field into a handbook is a large task, one that Ross tackled with enthusiasm and a sincere desire to push the field beyond its comfortable borders - G. James Daichendt, College of Arts and Humanities, Point Loma Nazarene, Law and Politics Book Review The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art offers a rich geographical spread, not only including the dominant graffiti and street art Meccas (the United States and the United Kingdom), but also case studies from Brazil, Egypt, Portugal, Canada, and Australia, alongside excellent visual representations. - Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Ph.D. Marie Curie Fellow Institute of Sociology Slovak Academy of Sciences International Social Science Review, Volume 93 | Issue 1It would prove useful to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers, experts and faculty. With the broad scope of disciplinary perspectives utilized throughout the work, this will fit in with a large body of disciplines and industries. The depth and quality of the research and the fact that it deftly fills a gap in graffiti and street art-related research should make this a desirable and useful purchase for academic libraries. - Michael DeNotto, Humanities Librarian,Reference Reviews, Volume 32 · Number 1 · 2018 ·The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art is a one of a kind collection of scholarly chapters devoted to the study of a complex, urban phenomenon. Graffiti and street art are as old as civilization and communication itself, but it was not until the last several decades that research began to tackle this phenomenon. This Handbook provides an accessible tool that will likely be a staple in the study of graffiti and street art for years to come whether that be in the classroom or for one’s own research interests. - Andrew C. Gray, University of Delaware, USA, Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, Volume 6 Number 1 Spring 2018 Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sorting it all out, Jeffrey Ian Ross Part I: History, Types, and Writers/Artists of Graffiti and Street Art 1. Ancient Graffiti, J. A. Baird and Claire Taylor 2. Trains, Railroad Workers and Illegal Riders: The subcultural world of hobo graffiti, John F. Lennon 3. A History of Freight Train Graffiti in North America, Robert Donald Weide 4. Deconstructing Gang Graffiti, Susan A. Phillips 5. Prison Inmate Graffiti, Jacqueline Z. Wilson 6. Ways of Being Seen: Gender and/in writing on the wall, Jessica N. Pabón 7. Research and Theory on Latrinalia, Adam Trahan 8. Yarn Bombing - The softer side of street art, Minna Haveri 9. Straight from the Underground: New York City's legal graffiti writing culture, Ronald Kramer 10. American Indian Graffiti, Favian Martin Part II: Theoretical Explanations of Graffiti and Street Art/Causes of Graffiti and Street Art 11. Graffiti and Street Art as Ornament, Rafael Schacter 12. Graffiti, Street Art and the Divergent Synthesis of Place Valorisation in Contemporary Urbanism, Andrea Mubi Brighenti 13. Graffiti Art & the City: From piece-making to place-making, Graeme Evans 14. Something for the Boys? Exploring the changing gender dynamics of the graffiti subculture, Nancy Macdonald 15. The Psychology Behind Graffiti Involvement, Myra F. Taylor, Julie Ann Pooley, and Georgia Carragher 16. Graffiti and the Subculture Career, Gregory J. Snyder Part III: Regional/Municipal Variations/Differences of Graffiti and Street Art 17. From the City Walls to "Clean Trains": Graffiti in New York City, 1969-1990, Joe A. Austin 18. Boost or Blight? Graffiti Writing and Street Art in the "new" New Orleans, Doreen Piano 19. Pop Culture and Politics: Graffiti and Street Art in Montreal, Anna Waclawek 20. The Battle for Public Space along the Mapocho River, Santiago Chile, 1964-2014, Rodney Palmer 21. London Calling: Contemporary Graffiti/Street Art in the UK’s Capital, Jeffrey Ian Ross 22. Graffiti and Street Art in Paris, David Fieni 23. From Marx to Merkel: Political Muralism and Street Art in Lisbon, Ricardo Campos 24. The Field of Graffiti and Street Art in Post January 2011 Egypt, Mona Abaza 25. Wall Talk: Palestinian graffiti, Julie Peteet 26. Graffiti/Street Art in Tokyo and Surrounding Districts, Hidetsugu Yamakoshi and Yasumasa Sekine 27. Claiming Spaces for Urban Art Images in Beijing and Shanghai, Minna Valjakka 28. Contesting Transcultural Trends: Emerging self-identities and urban art images in Hong Kong, Minna Valjakka Part IV: Effects of Graffiti and Street Art 29. How Major Urban Centers in the United States Respond to Graffiti/Street Art, Jeffrey Ian Ross 30. New York City’s Moral Panic over Graffiti: Normalizing neoliberal penality and paving the way for growth machines, Ronald Kramer 31. Stealing from the Public: The value of street art taken from the street, Peter Bengtsen 32. How American Movies Depict Graffiti and Street Art, Jeffrey Ian Ross 33. Challenging the Defense of Graffiti, in Defense of Graffiti, Stefano Bloch 34. Does Copyright Law Protect Graffiti and Street Art?, Dan Schwender 35. Graffiti, Street Art and the Evolution of the Art Market, Maia Morgan Wells

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Book SynopsisThere have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during the twelfth century, it became a legendary place - the inspiration of more poems, plays and novels than any other building in London. It was a place of cruelty and wretchedness, at various times holding Dick Turpin, Titus Oates, Daniel Defoe, Jack Sheppard and Casanova. Because prisons were privately run, any time spent in prison had to be paid for by the prisoner. Housing varied from a private cell with a cleaning woman and a visiting prostitute, to simply lying on the floor with no cover. Those who died inside - and only a quarter of prisoners survived until their execution day - had to stay in Newgate as a rotting corpse until relatives found the money for the body to be released. Stephen Halliday tells the story of Newgate''s origins, the criminals it held, the punishments meted out and its rebuilding and refo

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Book SynopsisLook beyond the pretty cottages and gentle landscapes of the Cotswolds, and you will find a dark history of crime and punishment. From child thieves, poachers, conmen, prostitutes and would-be suicides to bigamists, highwaymen and murderers, the Cotswolds has had its fair share of criminals treated in what appears to us today to be an arbitrary and often unduly harsh manner by judges and juries. What crimes were committed in this rural society in the past, and how were they punished? This book looks at the variety of punishments bestowed to miscreants from being hanged from a portable gallows at the scene of a crime to transportation or hard labour and why some were punished more than others. Evidence is taken from contemporary sources: prison records, newspaper accounts and broadsides that celebrated the lives and deaths of local characters. It is a fascinating and shocking read.

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Book SynopsisThinking about Punishment pulls together the key writings by Michael Tonry on penal policy trends in western countries, racial and ethnic disparities, and sentencing policies, practices, and theories. Recent research in the past few decades shows that these topics are inextricably interrelated. Tonry argues that the distinct historical and cultural characteristics of a country offer the best explanation of national patterns of punishment at any one time, and over time. More general theories and models fall apart when applied to individual national experiences. In the United States, the key factors explaining both penal policy trends and sentencing patterns and policies include historical patterns of race relations, obsolete constitutional arrangements, moral attitudes related to the continental expansion of the United States and the country''s fundamentalist Protestant religious origins. Comparable - but different - characteristics explain other countries'' experiences. This exceTrade Review'... a valuable contribution to any public library shelf and of value to anyone interested in the development of contemporary penal thinking.' Prison Service Journal 'It is worth reflecting on the sheer breadth of the contributions here...this impressive book' International Criminal Law ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Race and Ethnicity: Malign neglect; Ethnicity, crime and immigration; The malign effects of drugs and crime control policies on black Americans, (with Matthew Melewski). Part II Comparative Penal Policy: Symbol, substance and severity in Western penal policies; Punishment policies and patterns in Western countries; Determinants of penal policies. Part III American Penal Policy: Sense and sensibility in American penal culture; Cycles and sensibilities; Emerging explanations of American punishment policies. Part IV Sentencing Policy: Sentencing reform in America (with Norval Morris); Mandatory penalties; Sentencing matters; Purposes and functions of sentencing. Part V Punishment Theory: Interchangeability of punishments in principle; Proportionality, parsimony, and interchangeability of punishments; Obsolescence and immanence in penal theory and policy. Name Index.

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Book SynopsisA Criminological Imagination contains a selection of key articles from Pat Carlen''s research studies of magistrates'' courts and women''s imprisonment together with a range of other articles on social control, discourse analysis, ideology, punishment, criminology and critique. They are all informed by an assumption that while criminal justice must remain imaginary in societies based upon unequal and exploitative social relations, one task of a criminological imagination might be to suggest why this is so, and how things could be otherwise. This is an invaluable collection for anyone interested in crime, justice and injustice and the social, political and academic contexts in which knowledge of them is constructed.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Published writings; Part I Discourse/Ideology/Social Control: The staging of magistrates' justice; Magistrates courts: a game theoretic analysis; Remedial routines for the maintenance of control in magistrates' courts; Official discourse (with F. Burton); Controlling measures: the repackaging of common-sense opposition to women's imprisonment in England and Canada; Imaginary penalities and risk-crazed governance. Part II Women/Prisons/Punishment: Virginia, criminology and the anti-social control of women; Papa's discipline: an analysis of disciplinary modes in the Scottish women’s prison; Why study women's imprisonment? Or anyone else's?; On rights and powers: some notes on penal politics; Crime, inequality and sentencing; 'Underclass' crime and imprisonment: the continuing need for agendas of utopianism, abolitionism and socialism in criminology and criminal justice; Death and the triumph of governance? Lessons from the Scottish women's prison; Imprisonment and the penal body politic: the cancer of disciplinary governance; Analyzing women's imprisonment: abolition and its enemies. Part III Feminism/Criminology/Critique: Against the politics of sex discrimination: for the politics of difference and a women-wise approach to sentencing; Criminal women and criminal justice: the limits to, and potential of, feminist and left realist perspectives; Criminology Ltd: the search for a paradigm; Critical criminology? In praise of an oxymoron and its enemies; Official discourse, comic relief and the play of governance; Name Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten by activists and scholars based in Australia, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Uganda and the USA, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Prison Education offers the first global state-of-the-field overview of research into educational practices and programs in prisons. It covers the history of the field and puts forward future directions for research. The range of topics covered include discussions of how gender, race, sexuality, indigeneity, age and faith impact incarceration rates around the world; educational leadership; STEM education; creative writing programs; distance learning; abolition; education after prison and education for correctional staff. The book includes a Foreword by Donald Sawyer, III (Director of Correctional Education, Quinnipiac University, USA).

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Book SynopsisShame punishment has existed for perhaps as long as people have been punished, and the issue has been revisited in recent years to help improve crime reduction efforts. In this collection, shame punishment is examined from various critical perspectives, including its relation with expressivism, the diversity of shame punishment used today, the link between shame punishment and restorative justice, the relationship between dignity and shame punishment, shame punishment and its use for sex offenders, and critics of shame punishment in its different incarnations. The selected essays are from leading experts and represent the most important contributions to scholarly research in the field.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I Shame and Expressivism: The expressive function of punishment, Joel Feinberg; Can shaming punishments educate?, Stephen P. Garvey. Part II Shame Punishment: What do alternative sanctions mean?, Dan M. Kahan; Shaming white-collar criminals: a proposal for reform of the federal sentencing guidelines, Dan M. Kahan and Eric A. Posner; Shame, guilt, and punishment, Raffaele Rodogno. Part III Restorative Justice and Shame Punishment: The family model of the criminal process: reintegrative shaming, John Braithwaite; Shame and guilt in restorative justice, Raffaele Rodogno. Part IV Dignity and Shame Punishment: Shaming citizens?, Martha C. Nussbaum; Shame on you, shame on me? Nussbaum on shame punishment, Thom Brooks. Part V Shame and Sexual Offenders: Examining sex offender community notification laws, Abril R. Bedarf; The use of ’shame’ with sexual offenders, Anne-Marie McAlinden. Part VI Critics: Shame on you: an analysis of modern shame punishment as an alternative to incarceration, Aaron S. Book; Scarlet Letter punishment for juveniles: rehabilitation through humiliation?, Bonnie Mangum Braudway; What’s really wrong with shaming sanctions, Dan M. Kahan; Wrong turns on the road to alternative sanctions: reflections on the future of shaming punishments and restorative justice, Dan Markel; Open justice or open season? Should the media report the names of suspects and defendants?, Michael Bohlander. Name index.

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Book SynopsisThe International Police Executive Symposium (IPES, www.ipes.info) coordinates annual international conferences to evaluate critical issues in policing and recommend practical solutions to law enforcement executives deployed across the globe. Drawn from the 2005 proceedings hosted by the Czech Republic in Prague, Effective Crime Reduction Strategies: International Perspectives contains contributions from the renowned criminal justice and law enforcement professionals who gathered at this elite annual meeting. Dedicated to continued reduction in crime through local and global response, these international experts share effective crime-fighting principles and tried and proven best practices.Thoroughly revised and updated since the initial proceedings, the reports in this volume are divided into six sections which explore a host of essential topics: Critical Issues in European Law Enforcement: Highlights efforts in Hungary, ATable of ContentsCritical Issues in European Law Enforcement. Contemporary Concerns: Policing in the United States and Canada. Paradigm Shifts: Policing as Democracy Evolves. Revising Traditional Law Enforcement in Asia to Meet Contemporary Demands. The Positive Influence of Unionization on Police Professionalism. Significant Issues Facing Twenty-First Century Law Enforcement. Conclusion. Index.

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Book SynopsisA hard-hitting exposé of G4S, the company running one of South Africa’s private prisons in Mangaung. Hopkins presents up-close encounters with the gangs who run the prisons, and a unique insight into the minds of the men on the torture squad, who doused inmates with water before electrocuting them, and in some cases, strapped down ‘unruly’

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Book SynopsisAngela D. Madden has been the director of Themis Center for Justice Policy, Practice & Research since 2003.

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging resource provides an authoritative overview of the criminal justice system in America, including its history, legal and philosophical foundations, dimensions of racial and economic inequality, and insights into daily life inside America''s complex court and correctional systems.Explore the origins and evolution of America''s criminal justice system, the moral values and legal doctrines that shaped the nation''s laws and prisons, and current problems, controversies, and reforms related to criminal justice. Profiles of leading figures in the field of criminal justice and social activism, related primary documents, suggestions for further reading and a detailed chronology are also included.

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Book Synopsis'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall Street Journal'A madcap chase... this is a well-written chronicle of 28 months when the world went slightly mad' Sunday Times'A suitably head-spinning account of LSD High Priest Dr Timothy Leary' Mail on SundayOn the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius IQ studies a twelve-foot high fence topped with barbed wire. A few months earlier, Dr. Timothy Leary, the High Priest of LSD, had been running a gleeful campaign for California governor against Ronald Reagan. Now, Leary is six months into a ten-year prison sentence for the crime of possessing two marijuana cigarettes.Aided by the radical Weather Underground, Leary's escape from prison is the counterculture's union of "dope and dynamite," aimed at sparking a revolution and overthrowing the government. Inside the Oval Office, President Richard Nixon drinks his way through sleepless nights as he expands the war in Vietnam and plots to unleash the United States government against his ever-expanding list of domestic enemies. Antiwar demonstrators are massing by the tens of thousands; homemade bombs are exploding everywhere; Black Panther leaders are threatening to burn down the White House; and all the while Nixon obsesses over tracking down Timothy Leary, whom he has branded "the most dangerous man in America."Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA is an American thriller that takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents on four continents, culminating in one of the trippiest journeys through the American counterculture.Trade ReviewFascinating...rigorously researched...[The Most Dangerous Man in America] offers the pleasures of the tick-tock genre. Much like Leary himself, the book is plenty of zany fun * The New York Times *One of the decade's most audacious and exciting stories, told with page-turning panache * The Boston Globe *...[A] rip-roaring tale of hallucinogenic drugs, revolutionary politics and an intercontinental standoff...Minutaglio and Davis have taken a largely forgotten chapter from the recent past and turned it into a vigorous page-turner * San Francisco Chronicle *It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' decade * Wall Street Journal *The Most Dangerous Man in America is a wild ride across time, space, and multiple cosmic planes during an era when America came close to losing -- or finding? -- its mind. Leary and Nixon: surely no other country on earth could have produced such a perfectly, surreally antithetical pair. Crack open this book and prepare to have your mind blown by the reality of this very strange tale -- Ben Fountain * PEN/Hemingway and O. Henry Prize-winning author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories *A pitch-perfect, exhilarating work about one of the strangest chapters in the American experience, one so exciting that even the postscript rivets...A stroke of narrative genius * Booklist (Starred Review) *A riveting international chase between a tenacious but paranoid cat and a wily but delusional mouse... Minutaglio and Davis are superb storytellers, and throughout the narrative, they nimbly move between their two converging subjects. Their account is expertly detailed and blessedly fat-free * Kirkus (Starred Review) *The glory of [The Most Dangerous Man in America] is its fast-paced, rollicking narrative that brings the freakishness of the revolutionary 1970s to life. Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis have pulled off a meticulous observation of their subjects with turns of phrases that pop with pleasure. I galloped through the book; could not put it down -- Jan Jarboe Russell * New York Times bestselling author of The Train to Crystal City *Our intrepid authors, pounding the present tense like the brake pedal on a runaway 18-wheeler, narrate a story more wild, inventive, and sex-drenched than a Dennis Hopper movie -- Glenn Frankel * Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic *A vivid, eye-opening alternate view of an especially bizarre period of American history...Far too strange to be fiction, the book brilliantly details an American tragedy of two men, each of whom considered the other to be the most dangerous man in America -- James Fadiman, PhD * Microdose researcher and author of The Psychedelic Explorers' Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys *

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Book SynopsisWith nearly 2 million people locked up in the United States, Americans have become increasingly familiar with concepts like mass incarceration and the criminalization of blackness. But what are the ripple effects of these phenomena for families who have a loved one in prison?In The Shadow System, Sylvia A. Harvey details the emotional and financial effects of mass incarceration on families and communities around the country. She reveals a shadow system of laws and regulations enacted to dehumanize the incarcerated and profit off their families-from mandatory sentencing laws, to restrictions on prison visitation, to charges of up to $24.95 for a 15-minute phone call. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families, illustrating how families navigate the different regulations, programs, and economic costs, learning to cope (or not) with impossible stakes. Herself the daughter of an incarcerated parent, Harvey is uniquely positioned to reveal the granular reality of these worlds, their injustices, and the people trapped within them. The Shadow System will transform our understanding of the lasting impact incarceration has on American families and communities and delivers a galvanizing clarion call -- filled with moving personal stories -- to fix our broken system.

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Book SynopsisBringing together a range of first-hand testimonies of captives, this personal and arresting collection provides an overview of what life inside is actually like. Drawing on memoirs of captives - including those imprisoned for stealing money, murder, illegal protest or no reason at all - this book presents the universal experience of being incarcerated and brings to life the humanity of those behind locked doors.Tracing the career of the captive from the moment the door is first locked behind them, to analysis of the oddities of relationships developed in prison and how the deprivation of sex is dealt with, the book then reflects on the cruelties faced while inside, and concludes by looking at the problems faced when the supposedly happy day of release finally arrives. These insightful accounts help empathise and reflect on the impact of prison practices on inmates.Trade ReviewThis book uses the words of prisoners of all varieties - criminal, political, wartime - to give a moving flavour of life in confinement. It should be read by all those with an interest in penology, by those responsible for administering a penal system, and by those of us in whose name imprisonment is inflicted on others. -- Professor Bill ForsterPrisoners are often talked about, but less often heard. By foregrounding the voice of those who have been subjected to imprisonment, JE Thomas illuminates their emotional and psychological experiences. This approach is compassionate and humane, resisting the marginalisation of prisoners and challenging popular misconceptions about prisons. -- Dr. Jamie Bennett, Governor of HMP Grendon & Springhill and Research Associate at University of OxfordWhat a good idea for a book! The author is someone with extensive professional experience of prisons and of prisoner education and welfare. He is also a man with a humane understanding of the varying psychological conditions of prisoners. These qualities do not necessarily go together. They have enabled him to write a book that explains such conditions to the reader in a detailed and empathetic way. It provides an account of a regrettably common and yet far from uniform part of the human condition too often either ignored or regarded with prejudice. -- Professor W. John Morgan, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. On being locked up; 2. Settling down; 3. A community?; 4. Dealing with the staff; 5. Prisoners in authority; 6. The world of communication; 7. The studied organisation of cruelty; 8. Cruel and unusual punishment; 9. Sex and the captive; 10. Political prisoners; 11. On freedom; Bibliography

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Book Synopsis"Is it easy to come home after being in jail?"Ideal for use with children aged 6-11, this is a vital resource for supporting the wellbeing of children whose parent is coming home after spending time in prison. Using plain language and photographs, it reassures children and guides them through adjusting to their parent's homecoming. It explains which feelings the child and both parents might experience and the different challenges that everyone in the family might face, while suggesting ways to build new bonds with the parent. Included are activities to help children manage their feelings, tips for parents and professionals on how best to support them, and a list of resources for additional help and information.Trade ReviewWhile the incarceration of a parent is a life changing event for a child, the preparations and experiences of a parent releasing can often be even more stressful ... Tell Me about When Moms and Dads Come Home from Jail provides a supportive way for children to begin learning about what this may look and feel like. -- Kendra Jochum, LCSW-C, Reentry Services Manager, Montgomery County Correctional Facility, MarylandThis book delivers concrete information to children who experience conflicting and confusing emotions when a parent is incarcerated. The therapeutic activities and resources included provide constructive ways to successfully navigate the challenges and fears they face. Both books are excellent resources for families, school libraries, and counseling offices. -- Nancy Elbin, Retired elementary classroom teacher for 26 years and elementary school counselor for 19 yearsThe support pages alone are filled with invaluable resources and ideas. The constructive and positive suggestions can provide comfort for all in the knowledge that they are not alone in the struggle. -- Marion Finkbinder, former educator and administrator, Montgomery County Pubic Schools, MarylandI love the non-judgmental approach; the photographs and activities help promote positive management of difficult feelings and emotions. Both books project a compassionate and understanding tone and provide a wealth of information and answers to common yet distressing questions. -- Monya Cohen, Psychologist working with children and teens who have incarcerated parentsTable of ContentsDedication. Acknowledgements. To the Reader. Tell Me about When Moms and Dads Come Home from Jail. Activities. Tips for Parents and Professionals. Helpful Hints. Resources and Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisSurviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors-overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification-found themselves imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. The stories these exonerated men and women tell are spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring.

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Book SynopsisInside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States. In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their experiences inside- ranging from forced sterilization and shackling during childbirth, to physical and sexual abuse by prison staff. Together, their testimonies illustrate the harrowing struggles for survival that women in prison must endure.Trade Review"Inside This Place, Not of It is essential reading for anyone interested in the stories of women who compel us to see their humanity, tenacity, and value as people." - Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black

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Book Synopsis‘An insightful and gripping account that will take you into the dark but fascinating world of a Victorian executioner.’ – Stewart P. EvansBetween 1884 and 1905 James Billington and his three sons, Thomas, William and John, were responsible for 235 executions in Victorian Great Britain and Ireland. They hanged many notorious murderers, but equally fascinating is the story of the family. Did James really feel he served society and justice, or did this position satisfy something more personal?Billington: Victorian Executioner provides a complete account of the stories behind James Billington’s executions, as well as the real man behind the rope – a man whose business was death. This enthralling biography is an exciting addition to any true crime bookshelf.Trade ReviewAn insightful and gripping account that will take you into the dark but fascinating world of a Victorian executioner. -- Stewart P Evans

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Book SynopsisNearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails are now the fastest-growing sector of the US carceral state. As jails grow, they transform the region around them. Whole towns and small cities see health care provision and employment opportunities become subordinate to carceral concerns.If jails are everywhere, resistance is too. Campaigns against new or expanded jails have emerged in large and mid-sized cities and in dozens of small towns and rural counties across the US. While there is some coordination and communication between those involved in these struggles, they tend to be isolated from each other and from broader movements. The Jail Is Everywhere brings together an incredible range of knowledge and experience from jail fights across the country. It maps this new terrain, foregrounding the hard-forged analyses of anti-jail organizers themselves as they take us through campaigns that, while appearing local, are at the new center of the carceral state. With a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.Trade ReviewA collection of writing spotlighting the 'monster' that is the American prison system...Social justice activists and those with an interest in criminal justice issues will especially appreciate these well-researched, thoughtful essays that reveal just how much power government policies have given to the American carceral system. * Kirkus *[The Jail is Everywhere] paints a vivid picture of a grassroots, nationwide decarceral movement. Activists involved on the ground will find this valuable, while others will receive a substantial education in the politics and economics of incarceration. * Publishers Weekly *With its bevy of perspectives and individual case studies, The Jail Is Everywhere is a revealing overview of the growing problem of jail expansion in the US, with a survey of approaches to addressing it. * Foreword Reviews *The Jail Is Everywhere is a vibrant collection that equips the reader, and anyone interested in organizing against the many forms of carceral expansion, with a swathe of helpful strategies and tactics ... a crucial anthology, skillfully assembled. * Carceral Geography Working Group *A remarkably refreshing read, rooted in the messy but everyday realities of abolitionist organizing. The Jail Is Everywhere demonstrates that knowledge about the function of the carceral state and its multi-tentacled reach into U.S. politics, economy, and culture can only truly be unearthed through active struggle. -- Charlotte Rosen * Inquest *This is not only an important book for people who want to understand the operation of the current carceral state. It's a critical read for folks who might be fighting prison expansion or construction in their neighborhoods. -- Bill Littlefield * Arts Fuse *Table of ContentsForeword- Ruth Wilson GilmoreIntroduction: The Jail Is Everywhere- Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept1. A Quiet Jail Boom- Jasmine Heiss2. The Long Fight Against Jail Expansion in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois- An Interview with James Kilgore of Build Programs Not Jails3. County Jails and the Immigrant Dragnet- Silky Shah4. Decarcerating Sacramento: Confronting Jail Expansion in California's Capital- Liz Blum5. "Not One More Dollar Goes into This Jail": Becoming Abolitionists in Upstate New York- Andrew J. Pragacz and Kevin Revier6. "You Start with Where You Are and with the People Who Are Around You": Organizing Against Jails Across Tennessee- An Interview with Dawn Harrington and Gicola Lane of Free Hearts7. Carceral Communities: Local Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex in the Mountain South- Amelia Kirby8. Communities Over Cages-the (Ongoing) Campaign to Close the Atlanta City Jail- Xochitl Bervera and Wes Ware9. Federal Courts, FEMA Dollars, and Local Elections in the Struggle Against Phase III in New Orleans- An Interview with Lexi Peterson-Burge of Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition10. Real Solutions: Organizing for Alternatives to a Big New Jail in a Small Republican County- Sarah Westover and Matt Witt11. Lessons from the No New Jails Network and the New York City Struggle Against Carceral Feminism- An Interview with Mon Mohapatra of the No New Jails NetworkConclusion: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration- Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah ScheptAcknowledgmentsAppendix: "The County Jail"- Stanley Boone

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Book SynopsisThis book makes an important contribution to the literature on problem-oriented policing, aiming to distill the British experience of problem-oriented policing. Drawing upon over 500 entries to the Tilley Award since its inception in 1999, the book examines what can be achieved by problem-oriented policing, what conditions are required for its successful implementation and what has been learned about resolving crime and disorder issues. Examples of problem-oriented policing examined in this book include specific police and partnership initiatives targeting a wide spectrum of individual problems (such as road safety, graffiti and alcohol-related violence), as well as organisational efforts to embed problem-oriented work as a routine way of working (such as improving training and interagency problem solving along with more specific challenges like improving the way that identity parades are conducted. This book will be of particular interest to those working in the field of crime reduction and community safety in the police, local government and other agencies, as well as students taking courses in policing, criminal justice and criminology.Table of ContentsContents 1 Introduction: problem-orientated approaches to crime reduction and policing 2 Experiences of problem-orientated policing implementation 3 Mainstreaming problem-orientated policing implementation 4 The implementation of problem-orientated projects in the UK 5 Resources for improving problem-orientated policing and partnerships 6 The changing context of British problem-orientated policing 7 Conclusions: problem-orientated policing and Evidence Based Policy and Practice Index

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Book SynopsisThe broad aim of this book is to provide a general basis for comparatively analysing and understanding the French riots of October/November 2005 and the corresponding Bristish disorders which occurred in the spring/summer of 2001. The first of the French riots broke out on 27 October in the north Parisian banlieue (suburb) of Clichy-sous-Bois when two teenage youths of Muslim heritage were electrocuted in a substation while fleeing from the police. The two youths had apparently become unwittingly involved, together with their friends, in a police investigation of a break-in. It is not clear whether they had actually been chased by police officers. Nevertheless, a rumor to this effect quickly circulated the locality, provoking violent confrontation between youths and police. Three more weeks of rioting then ensued in neighbouring Parisian suburbs and other major French cities with similar concentrations of ethnic minorities. The riots invariably involved thousands of youths from poorer areas who confronted the police, set fire to local buildings and ignited hundreds of motor vehicles. Further rioting - though not on the same scale as in 2005 - occurred subsequently in 2006 and 2007. England and Wales have had their own counterparts to the French riots. In the early and mid 1980s, there were a number of clashes between police and African-Caribbean youths in inner-city areas. Further, in 2001 rioting broke out in the northern mill towns and cities of Bradford, Burnley, Leeds and Oldham. All of these later instances involved youths from Pakistani or Bangladeshi descent. In contrast to the riots that occurred in France though, a contributing factor to 2001 riots was the activities of white neo-Fascists. Many official reports and academic studies followed each wave of disorder, each questioning the effectiveness of Britain's 'multicultural' society, in addition to other possible factors such as the marginalisation and 'criminalisation' of minority ethnic youth, and their relations with the police. Such issues were again on the agenda after more rioting occurred in the Lozells area of Birmingham in 2005. Unlike the previous disorders, this entailed conflict between South Asian and African-Caribbean youths, following a rumor that a young African girl had been gang-raped by South Asians. British attempts to analyse and remedy the underlying causes of the riots constitute a potentially valuable resource to French academics, practitioners and policy makers. In turn, the French experience provides a fertile basis for re-applying, testing and enhancing existing British theory and policy. The book consists of a highly coherent, theoretically rich and thematically comprehensive collection of papers which provide an unparalleled description and comparative analysis of the French and British riots, along with social policy recommendations to help to address the underlying issues.Trade Review"There is much in this collection which is informative, interesting and engaging and it offers some fascinating insights into the approach of the French political and research communities around issues of diversity, citizenship and multiculturalism, thereby offering a useful tool for comparative analysts in this respect alone." Journal of Social Policy 2010Table of ContentsContents Part I: Setting the Scene 1 Introduction and overview: the British and French riots, David Waddington (Sheffield Hallam University), Mike King (Birmingham City University) and Fabien Jobard (CESDIP-CNRS, Paris) 2 Theoretical orientations: lessons of UK riots of the 1980s and 1990s, David Waddington and Mike King 3 An overview of French Riots: 1981-2004, Fabien Jobard Part II: The British Riots, 2001-2005 4 Local events, national implications: riots in Oldham and Burnley 2001, Virinder Kalra and James Rhodes (University of Leeds) 5 Police on the line: between control and correctness in multi-ethnic contexts of urban unrest, Janet Bujra and Jenny Pearce (University of Bradford) 6 The Bradford 'riot' of 2001: the diversity of action, Yasmin Hussain and Paul Bagguley (Leeds University) 7 From petrol bombs to performance indicators: the 2001 riots and the emergence of 'community cohesion', Paul Thomas (University of Huddersfield) 8 From rumor to riot: the 2005 Lozells disorders, Mike King Part III: The French Riots, 2001-2005 9 The French riots and urban segregation, Hugues Lagrange (OSC-CNRS) 10 Urban renewal = riot revival? The role of urban renewal policy in the French riots Renaud Epstein (GAPP-CNRS) 11 Riots and protest cycles: immigrant mobilisation in France 1968-2008, Camille Hamidi (TRIANGLE-CNRS,Université Lyon-2) 12 The political dimension of the 2005 riots, Michel Kokoreff (CESAMES-CNRS, Université Paris-5) 13 Youth gangs, riots and the politicisation process, Marwan Mohamed (CESDIP-CNRS) 14 The French police and urban riots: is the national police force part of the solution or part of the problem? Christian Mouhanna (CESDIP-CNRS) 15 The 2007 presidential election and the 2005 urban violence in French deprived urban areas, Christine Fauvelle-Aymar (CEPEL-CNRS, Université Montpellier), Abel François (Starsbourg University) and Patricia Vornetti (University of Paris-1) Part IV: Other International Comparisons 16 A North American example: The 2001 Cincinnati riot and a subsequent peacemaking initiative, David Waddington 17 Why are there no riots in Germany? Mutual perceptions between police forces and minority adolescents, Tim Lukas (Max-Planck-Institute Für Strafrecht, Freiburg) Part V: Conclusions 18 Conclusions, Fabien Jobard, Mike King and David Waddington References Index

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Book SynopsisThe public execution at Tyburn is one of the most evocative and familiar of all eighteenth-century images. Whether it elicits horror or prurient fascination - or both - the Tyburn hanging day has become synonymous with the brutality of a bygone age and a legal system which valued property over human life.But, as this fascinating cultural and social history of the gallows reveals, the early modern execution was far more than just a debased spectator sport. The period between the Restoration and the American Revolution witnessed the rise and fall of a vast body of execution literature - last dying speeches and confessions, criminal trials and biographies - featuring the criminal as an Everyman (or Everywoman) holding up a mirror to the sins of his readers. The popularity of such publications reflected the widespread, and persistent, belief in the gallows as a literal preview of 'God's Tribunal': a sacred space in which solemn oaths, supernatural signs and, above all, courage, could trump the rulings of the secular courts. Here the condemned traitor, "game" highwayman, or model penitent could proclaim not only his or her innocence of a specific crime, but raise larger questions of relative societal guilt and social justice by invoking the disparity between man's justice and God's.Trade ReviewThere are useful chapters on dying speeches and criminal biographies, contemporary theories of criminality, the rise of the highwaymen, and the ritual of execution 'to provide a cultural history of the seventeenth- and eighteenth century gallows and the larger belief system underpinning it'(26). * The Historian, 2010 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements and Notes on Sources; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. From Newgate to Tyburn: Setting the Stage; 2. From the Gallows to Grub Street: Last Dying Speeches and Criminal 'Lives'; 3. Everyman and the Gallows: Contemporary Explanations for Criminality; 4. Highwaymen Lives: Social Critique and the Criminal; 5. The Ordinary's Account: Confession and the Criminal; 6. Dying Well: Martyrs and Penitents; 7. Dying Game: Highwaymen and Bridegrooms; 8. God's Tribunal: Providential Discoveries and Ordeals; Conclusion: The Adjournment of God's Tribunal.

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