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  • Young Offenders

    Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance

    by M. Halsey, S. Deegan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Young Offenders provides one of the most in-depth studies of young males seeking, if often failing, to find a life beyond crime and punishment. Through rich interview data of young offenders over a ten year period, this book explores the complex personal and situational factors that promote and derail the desistance process. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Damage Done

    by Warren Fellows ...
    In 1978 Warren Fellows, Paul Hayward and William Sinclair were convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang men's prison, the Bangkok Hilton. For Warren Fellows, it was the beginning of twelve years of hell.The Damage Done takes you behind the bars of a Bangkok prison. A place where sewer rats and ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD

  • Forget You Had a Daughter - Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton

    by Sandra Gregory ...
    Sandra Gregory seemed to have the perfect life in Bangkok - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare. Desperate to get home by any means possible, she agreed to smuggle an addict's personal supply of heroin. She didn't even make it onto the plane.In this remarkably candid memoir, Sandra Gregory tells the full story of the events leading up to her arrest, the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Defending the Damned

    Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office

    by Kevin Davis ...
    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 most challenging and seemingly hopeless cases, yet they always fight to win.One of those lawyers ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Down in the Chapel

    Religious Life in an American Prison

    by Joshua Dubler ...
    A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiaryBaraka, 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 Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Inside Man

    Life As An Irish Prison Officer

    by Philip Bray ...
    In 1977, Philip Bray joined the Irish prison service, working in Limerick Prison. At the time, prisons were places where pillows, blankets and even food were scarce. Most prisoners were illiterate and luxuries such as televisons and books were unheard of. Over the following thirty years, Philip bore witness to dramatic changes in the prison service. Inside Man is an account of life inside Ireland ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Real Cost of Prisons Comix

    Edited by Lois Ahrens ...
    One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher. Collected in this volume are the three comic books published by the Real Cost of Prisons Project. The stories and statistical information in each comic book are thoroughly researched and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maximum Security

    by Karen Farrington ...
    Maximum Security tells the stories of the world's harshest prisons, and the people on either side of the locked door.From Alcatraz and Devil's Island to La Santé, France and Boscobel, USA 'supermax', this book is about the eternal cat and mouse game played out between convicts and the warders who try to keep them behind the four tall walls of 'the Big House'.These pages are packed with accounts of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside the Ohio Penetentiary

    by David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, James Dailey ...
    Explore one of history's most notorious maximum-security prisons through these tales of mayhem and madness.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 ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Executioner

    Memoirs of Thailand's last prison executioner

    by Chavoret Jaruboon ...
    Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailand’s infamous prisons. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in the world. Honest and often disturbing – but told with surprising humour and emotion – The Last Executioner is the remarkable story of a man who chose death as his vocation. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-Type Murder

    Murdering Minds

    by Duncan Cartwright ...
    What turns an apparently 'normal' individual into a killer?Many people who commit "rage type" murders have no history of violence. Using psychoanalytic theory and a number of case studies, this book isolates key psychological factors that appear to help explain why such acts of extreme violence occur.Starting from a psychoanalytic standpoint, Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-Type Murder argues ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Privatising Probation

    Is Transforming Rehabilitation the End of the Probation Ideal?

    by John Deering, Martina Feilzer ...
    Over the past 20 years, there have been many changes to probation governance in England and Wales aimed at controlling it from central government. However, the changes introduced under the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda, introduced in 2013, are unprecedented: the service has been divided and part-privatised and no longer exists as a unified public body.This topical book looks at the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD