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  • From Asylum to Prison
    Anne E. Parsons / Anne EParsons
    To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the governme...
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    38,22 €

  • We Are Not Slaves
    Robert T. Chase / Robert TChase
    Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book, International Latino Book AwardsBest Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of CriminologyIn the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plan...
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    40,88 €

  • Work and the Carceral State
    Jon Burnett
    During 2019-20 in England and Wales, over 17 million hours of labor were carried out by more than 12,500 people incarcerated in prisons, while many people in immigration detention centers were also put to work. These people constitute a sub-waged, captive workforce who are frequently discarded by the state when done with. Work and the Carceral State examines these forms of work...
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    127,12 €

  • Convicts
    Clare Anderson
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    40,75 €

  • Convicts
    Clare Anderson
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    119,32 €

  • History & Crime
    Revealing the cross utility potential of multiple disciplines to advance knowledge in crime studies, History & Crime showcases new research into crime from across the interdisciplinary perspectives of early modern and modern history, criminology, forensic psychology, and legal studies. ...
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    142,73 €

  • Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide
    Emma Milne
    Milne provides a comprehensive analysis of conviction outcomes through court transcripts of 14 criminal cases in England and Wales during 2010 to 2019. Drawing on feminist theories of responsibilisation and ’gendered harm’, she critically reflects on the gendered nature of criminal justice’s responses to suspected infanticide. ...
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    142,99 €

  • Current Issues in Corrections
    Christopher Utecht
    Current Issues in Corrections explores a variety of the most timely and salient challenges facing the correctional system. The text is comprised of chapters written by experts in the field who have experience as both academic and criminal justice practitioners. The book begins with an exploration of issues in private corrections and then moves forward to discuss the history of ...
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    123,79 €

  • Killing Justice in the Lone Star State
    Michael O’Brien
    Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases (and some post-execution ones). The book offers a fresh perspective for campaigners and reformers which ranges across theory, policy and practice. It also explains the much criticised Texas ’law of parties.’Many organizations are engaged in a race to prevent the execution of death sentenced pris...
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    35,97 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House;Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors
    Nellie Bly
    Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in the late 1800s to shed light on the horrific conditions of Victorian mental asylums. This is the eye-opening account of her experience. Nellie Bly feigned insanity to be admitted to a mental institution with the intent of exposing its awful conditions first-hand. Her account reveals the institution’s inhumane treatment, abuse ...
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    19,05 €

  • Right Here, Right Now
    Lynden Harris
    Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: 'All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that’s love.' Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person stories of dozens of men on death rows across the country. From childhood experiences living wi...
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    114,96 €

  • Right Here, Right Now
    Lynden Harris
    Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: 'All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that’s love.' Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person stories of dozens of men on death rows across the country. From childhood experiences living wi...
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    21,80 €

  • Global Perspectives on People, Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice
    The United States incarcerates nearly one quarter of the world’s prison population with only five percent of its total inhabitants, in addition to a history of using internment camps and reservations. An overreliance on incarceration has emphasized long-standing and systemic racism in criminal justice systems and reveals a need to critically examine current processes in an effo...
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    281,91 €

  • Spiritual Entrepreneurs
    Brad Stoddard
    The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs. Looking for innovative solutions to the crises produced by gigantic prison populations, Florida’s Department of Corrections claims to have found a partial remedy in the form of faith and character-bas...
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    121,70 €

  • Spiritual Entrepreneurs
    Brad Stoddard
    The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs. Looking for innovative solutions to the crises produced by gigantic prison populations, Florida’s Department of Corrections claims to have found a partial remedy in the form of faith and character-bas...
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    38,07 €

  • Global Perspectives on People, Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice
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    248,73 €

  • Empire of Hell
    Hilary M. Carey / Hilary MCarey
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    41,31 €

  • Sensory Penalities
    Sensory Penalties aims to reinvigorate a conversation about the role of sensory experience in empirical investigation. It explores the visceral, personal reflections buried within forgotten criminological field notes, to ask what privileging these sensorial experiences does for how we understand and research spaces of punishment and social control. ...
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    142,62 €

  • Civilization and Barbarism
    Graeme R. Newman / Graeme RNewman
    Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative. ...
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    41,95 €

  • For Abolition
    David Scott
    According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ’Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.’ Connecting the politics of abolition to wider emancipatory struggles for liberation and social justice, this book argues that penal abolitionism should be understood as an important public critical pedagogy and philosophy of hope that can help t...
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    47,92 €

  • Women in American Prisons
    Jessie L. Krienert / Jessie LKrienert / Mark S. Fleisher / Mark SFleisher
    A fascinating look at the social life of women in prison. Intended to shine the light on prison social life in the face of allegations of all sorts of misconduct and deviant behaviors. ...
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    96,25 €

  • Women in American Prisons
    Mark S. Fleisher / Mark SFleisher
    A fascinating look at the social life of women in prison. Intended to shine the light on prison social life in the face of allegations of all sorts of misconduct and deviant behaviors. ...
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    129,48 €

  • Punishing the Black Body
    Dawn P. Harris
    Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean on similar topics, this is the first to look at the meanings inscribed on the raced, gendered, and classed bodies on the receiving end of punishment. Dawn P. Harris uses theories of...
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    36,91 €

  • Privatising Justice
    John Lea / Wendy Fitzgibbon
    Privatising Justice takes a broad historical view of the role of the private sector in the British state, from private policing and mercenaries in the eighteenth century to the modern rise of the private security industry in armed conflict, policing and the penal system.The development of the welfare state is seen as central to the decline of what the authors call ’old privatis...
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    38,28 €

  • Privatising Justice
    John Lea / Wendy Fitzgibbon
    Privatising Justice takes a broad historical view of the role of the private sector in the British state, from private policing and mercenaries in the eighteenth century to the modern rise of the private security industry in armed conflict, policing and the penal system.The development of the welfare state is seen as central to the decline of what the authors call ’old privatis...
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    127,13 €

  • Contemporary Issues in Victimology
    Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding them. Key topics include: intimate partner violence and dating violence, rape and sexual assault on the college campus, Internet victimization, elder abuse, victimization of inmates, repeat and poly-victimization, fear of crime and ...
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    54,17 €

  • City of Inmates
    Kelly Lytle Hernández
    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 Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exc...
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    44,44 €

  • Live from Death Row
    Mumia Abu-Jamal
    'A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard.' --Alice Walker'Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter From Birmingham Jail.' -Boston GlobeAfter twenty years on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal was released from his death sentence . . . but not the conviction. This once prominent radio reporter was convict...
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    16,65 €

  • Those Who Know Don’t Say
    Garrett Felber
    Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. In doing so, he reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on scho...
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    126,93 €

  • Those Who Know Don’t Say
    Garrett Felber
    Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. In doing so, he reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on scho...
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    35,46 €


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