Penology category: 518 books
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a quality eBook edition, featuring active Contents, linked footnotes and cross-references, legible tables, and proper formatting.
Featured articles in the March 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Jody Freeman and Jim Rossi, on the coordination...
Locked Up, But Not Locked Down
A Guide to Surviving the American Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
Supreme Design Publishing continues our mission of mentally preparing the Urban Community for the potholes on the road to success. Authors Ahmariah Jackson and IAtomic Allah mentally condition the reader for one of the most dehumanizing psychological processes known to man: incarceration. They offer...
by Robert D. Hanser
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Essentials of Community Corrections offers you a concise and practical perspective on community corrections while emphasizing successful offender reentry through strong community partnerships. Author Robert D. Hanser draws on his expertise with offender treatment planning, special needs populations,...
Stateville
The Penitentiary in Mass Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the...
Called to Heal the Brokenhearted
Stories from Kairos Prison Ministry International
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
In this stirring book, William H. Barnwell tells the stories of prison inmates and the Kairos Prison Ministry volunteers who work with them. Set mostly at the huge Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Barnwell's narrative illustrates how offenders who have done the worst can and do change, becoming...
Issues in Corrections
Research, Policy, and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Since the 1970s, the corrections system has experienced exponential growth. Over the past four decades, the number of inmates held in US prisons and jails has quadrupled. This massive growth is associated with a number of different issues and challenges within prisons and jails, including overcrowding;...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In response to recognition in the late 1960s and early 1970s that traditional incarceration was not working, alternatives to standard prison settings were sought and developed. One of those alternatives—community-based corrections—had been conceived in the 1950s as a system that might prove more...
Reexamining Reentry
The Policies, People, and Programs of the United States Prisoner Reintegration Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Reexamining Reentry takes an in-depth look at how and why prisoner reentry programs are developed. Furthermore, this book explains how having access to these programs, or not, could potentially stymie the community reintegration of the formerly incarcerated. All too often we see the pervasive criminalization...
EducationBased Incarceration and Recidivism
The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
EducationBased Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations. It is incumbent to encourage public awareness of the causes that underlie the destructive cycles plaguing...
The Frying Pan
A Prison and Its Prisoners
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
In 1970 Tony Parker was permitted by the Home Office to make a series of visits to HMP Grendon Underwood, the UK's first psychiatric prison, there to interview inmates and staff for a study of the institution and its unique community.'Tony Parker deserves a place in any future history of literature...
Execution
The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
In his own darkly humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes the instruments used and their effectiveness and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as "gone west" or "drawn a blank," as well as the jargon of the underworld. He covers everything from the preparation...
by Elliott Currie
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
"Earnest, free of jargon, lucid…This is a book that ought to be read by anyone concerned about crime and punishment in America."—The Washington Post Book World
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national...
Prisoners on Criminology
Convict Life Stories and Crime Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
William S. Tregea, a long-time prison teacher, makes prisoners’ stories come alive with eighty prisoner essays integrated in informational chapters tracing shifts in criminality, the U.S. prison build up, and festering inner cities. The chapters review criminological theories through case studies...
When the Guillotine Fell
The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791--1977
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
How long did the guillotine's blade hang over the heads of French criminals? Was it abandoned in the late 1800s? Did French citizens of the early days of the twentieth century decry its brutality? No. The blade was allowed to do its work well into our own time. In 1974, Hamida Djandoubi brutally tortured...