Penology category: 518 books
Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness
Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
After Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological...
Down in the Chapel
Religious Life in an American Prison
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary
Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford...
by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, James Dailey II
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
As "animal factories" go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and mobsters. Peer in on America's first vampire, accused of sucking his victims' blood five years before Bram Stoker's...
by Chavoret Jaruboon, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Bang Kwang Prison is one of the most notorious penal institutions in the world. Located seven miles north of Bangkok city in the Nonthaburi Province, the prison is home to over 8,000 inmates, among them ruthless killers, rapists, drug traffickers, conmen and thieves.
The Bangkok Hilton is...
On the Run
Fugitive Life in an American City
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A RIVETING, GROUNDBREAKING ACCOUNT OF HOW THE WAR ON CRIME HAS
TORN APART INNER-CITY COMMUNITIES
Forty years in, the tough on crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of...
Mr. Smith Goes to Prison
What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one.
In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr....
A Life in the Balance
The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, A Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America's Worst Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Sentenced to death in 1965 at age twenty for an unpremeditated murder during the bungled holdup of a convenience store, Billy Wayne spent his first seven prison years on death row. When the death penalty was abolished, his sentence was life. Three-and-a-half decades later, Billy Wayne is still behind...
Surviving Justice
America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful conviction
Surviving Justice 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...
The Death of Innocents
An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
From the author of the national bestseller Dead Man Walking comes a brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we’re executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of 65, and Joseph...
Defending the Damned
Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force, that meant a steady flow of new clients. Eight out of ten people arrested for murder in Chicago are represented by public defenders. They're assigned...
The Death of Punishment
Searching for Justice among the Worst of the Worst
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers' poignant circumstances...
Summary and Analysis of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Based on the Book by Bryan Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Bryan Stevenson book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
A Good Death
Making the Most of Our Final Choices
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Having a good death is our final human right, argues Sandra Martin in this updated and expanded version of her bestselling and award-winning social history of the right to die movement in Canada and around the world.
Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, finalist for both...
City of Inmates
Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian...