Penología y penas

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  • Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry - Volume 1
    Elizabeth Fry
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    60,66 €

  • Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry - Volume 2
    Elizabeth Fry
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    67,94 €

  • Prisons the World Over
    Christiaan De Waal / Rita James Simon / Rita Simon
    As of 2007, more than 9.25 million people were imprisoned worldwide. Almost half of the persons imprisoned are in the United States, China and Russia. The United States has more persons in prison per capita than any country in the world. Prisons The World Over offers a comprehensive overview of prison demographics and conditions for each of the following countries: United Sta...
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    60,13 €

  • Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature
    Simona Livescu / Yenna Wu
    This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while probing the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of global aesthetics in political prison narratives, it demonstrates how literary insight enhances the study of human rights. Co...
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    141,64 €

  • Death and Redemption
    Steven A. Barnes / Steven ABarnes
    Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union’s vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instrument...
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    71,87 €

  • Is the Death Penalty Dying?
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    129,88 €

  • The Big House in a Small Town
    Eric Williams
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    56,69 €

  • I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine
    David Chura
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    14,12 €

  • Dovegate
    Eric Cullen / Judith Mackenzie
    The only book on Dovegate Therapeutic Community; Contains first-hand insider accounts by staff and inmates; Describes the latest developments in TC work; Provides extensive data and references. A closely observed account of the UK’s first private sector prison-based Therapeutic Community (TC)—a 200-bed facility. The book considers: the background to and regimes at Dovegate; mod...
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    47,65 €

  • Punishment and Shame
    Wendy C Hamblet / Wendy C. Hamblet / Wendy CHamblet
    Punishment is the imposition, by a legitimate authority, of a painful consequence upon one who has offended the social order by indulging in acts contrary to the social good. Punishment is understood to serve a primary objective in any society: it rehabilitates or reforms (re-forms or shapes anew) the psyches of social offenders to bring them in line with prevailing codes of be...
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    132,01 €

  • Punishment and Shame
    Wendy C Hamblet / Wendy C. Hamblet / Wendy CHamblet / Wendy Hamblet
    Punishment is the imposition, by a legitimate authority, of a painful consequence upon one who has offended the social order by indulging in acts contrary to the social good. Punishment is understood to serve a primary objective in any society: it rehabilitates or reforms (re-forms or shapes anew) the psyches of social offenders to bring them in line with prevailing codes of be...
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    64,18 €

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons V20 #1
    Jennifer M. Kilty
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    17,57 €

  • Cesare Beccaria
    Hostettler / John Hostettler
    In eighteenth century continental Europe penal law was barbaric. Gallows were a regular feature of the landscape, branding and mutilation common and there existed the ghastly spectacle of men being broken on the wheel. To make matters worse, people were often tortured or put to death (sometimes both) for minor crimes and often without any trial at all.Like a bombshell a book en...
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    48,41 €

  • Games Prisoners Play
    Marek M. Kaminski / Marek MKaminski
    On March 11, 1985, a van was pulled over in Warsaw for a routine traffic check that turned out to be anything but routine. Inside was Marek Kaminski, a Warsaw University student who also ran an underground press for Solidarity. The police discovered illegal books in the vehicle, and in a matter of hours five secret police escorted Kaminski to jail. A sociology and mathematics m...
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    50,13 €

  • The ’Million Dollar Inmate’
    Heather Ahn-Redding
    The ’Million Dollar Inmate’ highlights the financial and social costs of America’s incarceration of non-violent offenders. Basing her insight on extensive research into the origins of our correctional systems, the visible and non-visible costs incurred by the practice of incarcerating non-violent offenders, and the goals of our prison system, Heather Ahn-Redding dares to expose...
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    64,00 €

  • The Apology Ritual
    Christopher Bennett
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    45,84 €

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons V19 #2
    As we near the end to the first decade of the 21st century, unfortunately the shadows of state repression still haunt much of the world. Edited by Christine Gervais and Maritza Felices-Luna, this issue of the JPP documents the extreme violence deployed on the body, mind and soul of prisoners aimed at dehumanizing them, which is constructed by government representatives as legit...
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    17,67 €

  • Surviving in the Apartheid Prison
    Sedick Isaacs
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    18,26 €

  • Revolution in Penology
    Bruce A Arrigo / Bruce A. Arrigo / Bruce AArrigo / Dragan Milovanovic
    Revolution in Penology is a thoroughly original and thought-provoking critique of penal harm, the recursive pains of imprisonment cycle, and the normalization of violence. Relying on selected insights derived from continental philosophy, cultural studies, and chaos theory, internationally renowned social theorists, Bruce A. Arrigo and Dragan Milovanovic, deconstruct the human a...
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    57,18 €

  • Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons and Jails
    Christine Tartaro / David Lester
    Police and corrections personnel must always be mindful of the possibility that those in their custody may attempt suicide or commit an act of self-mutilation. Persons housed in prisons, jails, and police lockups tend to be at a higher risk for such destructive behavior than members of the general population. Reasons for this can be found by examining the mental health, substan...
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    64,08 €

  • Restorative Justice in a Prison Community
    Cheryl Swanson
    Americans are frustrated with prisons. They recognize the need for these institutions, but at the same time, they worry about whether the money used to build and maintain them is well spent. Older prisons are dirty, disgusting, and dangerous, but even newer facilities come up lacking in terms of offering inmates opportunities to take responsibility for their crimes, support the...
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    64,00 €

  • Prisoner Reentry and Social Capital
    Angela Hattery / Angela J Hattery / Angela J. Hattery / Angela JHattery / Earl Smith
    Based on interviews with 25 men and women who were recently released from prison, this book explores the re-entry process and the barriers that lead to failed re-entry and a return to prison. Unique to Prisoner Re-entry and Social Capital, Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery explore the role that social capital plays in successful re-entry as well the unique experiences of drug ad...
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    132,17 €

  • Prisoner Reentry and Social Capital
    Angela Hattery / Angela J Hattery / Angela J. Hattery / Angela JHattery / Earl Smith
    Based on interviews with 25 men and women who were recently released from prison, this book explores the re-entry process and the barriers that lead to failed re-entry and a return to prison. Unique to Prisoner Re-entry and Social Capital, Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery explore the role that social capital plays in successful re-entry as well the unique experiences of drug ad...
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    64,34 €

  • Holloway Prison
    Hillary Beauchamp
    A compelling, true life account of her time working in this famous north-London prison. Hilary Beauchamp ’lifts the lid’ on life inside, making the book a must for students of women’s imprisonment or prison education. A unique and telling insight into life in a claustrophobic and sometimes violent atmosphere. An ideal primer on women’s issues within the penal system. With 8 col...
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    50,18 €

  • Danger and Trust
    Davidson Ted Davidson
    This memoir describes the many unexpected things that occurred during Ted Davidson’s unique research among Chicano prisoners at San Quentin Prison and in the Chicano movement in California, from 1966 until 1997. He reached the depths of the prisoners’ own illegal culture via the secretive-deadly if crossed-Mexican Mafia.A very few highlights during those 31 years: Ted was kicke...
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    17,51 €

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons V19 #1
    Bell Gale Chevigny
    Edited by Bell Gale Chevigny, this issue of the JPP features non-fiction pieces by winners of the annual PEN American Center’s Prison Writing Contest that address issues of punishment and creative resistance. Many contributors describe punishment that extends beyond the loss of liberty, and the issue features articles on three strikes policies, death row, the AIDS epidemic, mur...
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    17,65 €

  • Prison Reform
    Corinne Bacon / Thomas Mott Osborne
    Prison Reform: Together With A Discussion Of The Prison Of The Future is a book written by Corinne Bacon in 1917. The book discusses the need for prison reform and proposes ideas for the prison of the future. Bacon argues that the current prison system is flawed and does not effectively rehabilitate prisoners. She suggests that prisons should focus on education and vocational t...
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    37,51 €

  • Rethinking Corrections
    Hung-En Sung / Lior Gideon
    This text explores the challenges that convicted offenders face over the course of the rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration process. Using an integrated, theoretical approach, each chapter is devoted to a corrections topic and incorporates original ...
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    225,06 €

  • Punishment for Sale
    Donna Selman / Paul Leighton
    Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons an...
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    55,74 €

  • Punishment for Sale
    Donna Selman / Paul Leighton
    Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons an...
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    138,91 €


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