Penology category: 518 books
Long Road Home
Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp-a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration...
by Victor Hugo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 1, 2012
O romancista Victor Hugo foi um dos rostos da oposição à pena de morte em França. Em «O último dia de um condenado», o autor francês coloca-se na pele de um condenado à guilhotina nos momentos que antecedem a execução da sentença....
Getting Life
An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“A devastating and infuriating book, more astonishing than any legal thriller by John Grisham” (The New York Times) about a young father who spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit…and his eventual exoneration and return to life as a free man.
On August 13, 1986,...
I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine
Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 percent,...
Lockdown on Rikers
Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Mary Buser began her career at Rikers Island as a social work intern, brimming with ideas and eager to help incarcerated women find a better path. Her reassignment to a men's jail coincided with the dawn of the city's "stop-and-frisk" policy, a flood of unprecedented arrests, and the biggest...
by Robert Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
*Silver Medal, 2015 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Best New Voice*
*Finalist, Memoir, 2015 Maine Literary Award*
In this gripping nonfiction account, Robert Reilly provides a look inside America’s prison system unlike any other, and the way that it affects not only the prisoners themselves...
by Mario Marazziti, Paul Elie
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice”...
Texas Tough
The Rise of America's Prison Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution
In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation...
A New South Rebellion
The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government authority. Propelled by the insurgent sensibilities of Populism and Gilded Age unionism, the miners initially...
我和殺人魔相處的那一年
精神科醫師與真實世界的人魔面對面、教人大開眼界的黑暗實錄
Language: Chinese
Release Date: February 1, 2016
「這裡誰沒殺過人？」
殘暴‧每天一觸即發！
■ 「蛾摩拉」是一間無法醫療的醫院、一所沒有警衛的監獄。
透過一位勇敢的醫生，我們打開這座罪惡之城的大門，直視所謂的「異常」。
■ 納帕州立醫院是美國最大的司法精神病院之一，院內一千兩百名病患皆為精神異常犯罪者，不只有大規模殺人犯，還有性犯罪者和校園槍擊犯，全都是因為精神異常而被法院判定無罪。本書一領讀者深入門禁森嚴的精神病院，史無前例地為大眾開拓了全新視野。
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Mass Imprisonment
Social Causes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2001
`The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified.
David Garland and his excellent range of criminological contributors go well beyond this by showing how to start thinking (and arguing) about what these unprecedented statistics might mean...
Going Up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the...
Let Freedom Ring
A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People’s Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section...
Resistance Behind Bars
The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, this collection of real-life prisoners' stories and analysis of the prison landscape as it is today documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the United States. In 1974,...