Penology category: 518 books
Peace Behind the Wire
A Nonviolent Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
On January 18, 2011, twelve prisoners signed a solemn pledge and set out to see if they could live in peace with the men inside Georgia’s most dangerous maximum security prison. It was a simple but powerful pledge: for forty days they would follow the example of iconic peacemakers and commit themselves...
The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America
Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Opening a new area in Latin American studies, The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America showcases the most recent historical outlooks on prison reform and criminology in the Latin American context. The essays in this collection shed new light on the discourse and practice of prison reform, the...
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds
The Prison Experience, 1850–1935
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds is the first major historical study of the creation and development of the prison system in Peru. Carlos Aguirre examines the evolution of prisons for male criminals in Lima from the conception—in the early 1850s—of the initial plans to build penitentiaries...
The International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment, Volume 2
Abolition and Alternatives to Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is understood and posited. Of particular interest is the attention given to an integral but often forgotten element of the abolition debate: alternatives to capital...
Prisoner Reentry and Social Capital
The Long Road to Reintegration
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
'If you do the crime you gotta do the time.' This adage reflects the overall attitude most Americans have about crime and the criminal justice system. Implicit in this adage is the notion that once 'the time' is done, the individual is free to re-enter society and resume a normal life. In Prisoner...
Harsh Justice
Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading--more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prison terms are commonplace in America. Countries like France and Germany, by contrast, are systematically mild. European offenders are rarely sent to prison, and when they are,...
Incarceration Nation
Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research. Based on ten years of teaching in, writing about, and protesting at prisons across America,...
by Robert D. Hanser
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Introduction to Corrections provides a comprehensive foundation of corrections that is practitioner-driven and grounded in modern research and theoretical origins. This text uniquely illustrates how the day-to-day practitioner conducts business in the field of corrections in both institutional and...
by Klaus Viehmann, Gabriel Kuhn, Bill Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Prison Round Trip is a reflection on prison life and how to keep one’s sanity and political integrity behind bars. Grappling with themes of consciousness, the nature of freedom, and what it means to be alive, Klaus Viehmann wrote this essay ten years after being released from prison, having completed...
Renascent Pragmatism
Studies in Law and Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Pragmatism is experiencing a resurgence in law, philosophy and social science, with pragmatists seeking a consistent, comprehensive and productive understanding of social life. In its four sections Renascent Pragmatism aids the reinvigoration of pragmatism as an important intellectual tradition and...
Corrections
From Research, to Policy, to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Corrections: From Research, to Policy, to Practice offers students a 21st-century look into the treatment and rehabilitative themes that drive modern-day corrections. Written by two academic scholars and former practitioners, Mary K. Stohr and Anthony Walsh, this book provides students with a comprehensive...
Extreme Punishment
Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The contributors empirically demonstrate how the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy combatants are treated like criminals in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
America's Jails
The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates
Twelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an annual basis. Jails, which differ significantly from prisons, are designed to house inmates for short amounts...
by Paul Brakke
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
** ** The sad truth is that the U.S. Criminal Justice System doesn’t work for many different reasons -- from our overflowing prisons to the destructive war on drugs and disproportionate effect on minority communities to conflicts between police and citizens and problems...