Penology category: 518 books
A Question of Freedom
A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's life
At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower- middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed...
In the Shadow of Papillon
Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision. In desperation, he agreed to smuggle cocaine out of Venezuela. Almost inevitably, he and his girlfriend, Sam, were caught.
The price they paid was a ten-year sentence in the hell of the...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Written while its unfortunate author was a prisoner in Reading Gaol, De Profundis contains what is probably the most sincere and personal expression of his peculiarly artificial and sensitive nature. He records his bitterness toward society on his downfall, his abject grief during his first months...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
"Children in prison and other cruelties of prison life" is a letter that Oscar Wilde wrote to the editor of the London Daily Chronicle after a warder (guard) in the prison in Reading (one of the prisons where Wilde himself was incarcorated) was dismissed after having fed a starving child...
The Hot House
Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation’s hardest criminals do hard time.
“A page-turner, as compelling and evocative as the finest novel. The best book on prison I’ve ever read.”—Jonathan Kellerman
The most...
Life After Murder
Five Men in Search of Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Once a murderer, always a murderer? Or can a murderer be redeemed? Who do they really become after they have served decades in prison? What does it take for a killer to be accepted back into society? What is the chance that he will kill again?
Award-winning journalist Nancy Mullane found herself...
by Charlie Bronson, Lorraine Etherington
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
THE CLOSEST PLACE ON EARTH THAT YOU WILL GET TO HELL - Charlie BronsonBroadmoor: My Journey Into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told.In the winter of...
Changing Lenses
A New Focus for Crime and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Crime victims have many needs, most of which our criminal justice system ignores. In fact, the justice system often increases the injury. Offenders are less ignored by this system, but their real needsfor accountability, for closure, for healingare also left unaddressed.Such failures are not...
A Punitive Society
Falling Crime and Rising Imprisonment in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
New Zealand has one of the highest levels of imprisonment in the Western world. Yet the growth of imprisonment in New Zealand has occurred when the crime rate here, as in most other Western societies, has been in significant decline. Why, then, the disjuncture?
In this penetrating BWB Text,...
Victimology
A Canadian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Victimology is a relatively new and emerging interdisciplinary area that crosses the fields of criminology, law, sociology, and justice. Written by one of the world’s leading experts on victimology, this book is designed to offer a broad introduction to the subject. Unlike other texts that are organized...
by Kate Kray
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2003
When Kate married gangster Ronnie Kray he introduced her to some of the most feared criminals Britain has ever known. She persuaded them to open their hearts to her and talk about their crimes, fears and dreams.Featured in this book are such killers as John Straffen, Britain's longest-serving lifer....
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and brothers. Using newspapers, archival sources (including petitions and witness depositions), and records from parliamentary...
by Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Commemorating the eightieth anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti's execution- with a new cover and new foreword
Electrocuted in 1927 for the murder of two guards in Massachusetts, the Italian- American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti defied the verdict against them, maintaining...
by Golfo Alexopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin’s Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often...