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  • I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

    par Robert E. Burns ...
    I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice.In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Lifers

    Ireland's evil killers and how they were caught

    par Barry Cummins ...
    There have never been so many killers in Irish prisons. Nearly 1 in 10 Irish prisoners are serving life sentences for murder — and many more are on temporary release. Hardened crime reporter Barry Cummins tells the shocking true stories of some of Ireland's most notorious murderers and their horrific crimes. Lifers covers savage killings going back more than 50 years. This book gives a full ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Punitive Society

    Falling Crime and Rising Imprisonment in New Zealand

    par John Pratt ...
    Collections Livre 10 - BWB Texts
    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, John Pratt describes the dramatic transformation in penal thought that has recently taken place in this ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • Fearmonger

    Stephen Harper's Tough-on-Crime Agenda

    par Paula Mallea ...
    According to Statistics Canada, all crime rates -- including violent crime -- have been trending downward over the last twenty years. Yet the Harper government continues to insist Canadians are in the midst of a crime epidemic. This is their rationale for spending billions on new prisons, and for legislation that will put thousands more behind bars and increase the likelihood that young Canadians ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • First Strike

    Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles

    par Damien M. Sojoyner ...
    California is a state of immense contradictions. Home to colossal wealth and long portrayed as a bastion of opportunity, it also has one of the largest prison populations in the United States and consistently ranks on the bottom of education indexes. Taking a unique, multifaceted insider’s perspective, First Strike delves into the root causes of its ever-expansive prison system and disastrous ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Mass Incarceration on Trial

    A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

    par Jonathan Simon ...
    For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a tenuous order.Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Curious Punishments of Bygone Days

    par Alice Morse Earle ...
    Curious Punishments of Bygone Days is a history book published in 1896. It was written by Alice Morse Earle and printed by Herbert S. Stone & Company. Earle was a historian of Colonial America, and she writes in her introduction:In ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD

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  • Rethinking the American Prison Movement

    par Dan Berger, Toussaint Losier ...
    Collections series American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
    Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of ... En savoir plus

    $81.99 CAD

  • Redemption and Restoration

    A Catholic Perspective on Restorative Justice

    Modifié par David Matzko McCarthy, Vicki Schieber, Trudy D. Conway ...
    The Catholic Church teaches that punishment must have a constructive and redemptive purpose and that it be coupled with treatment and, when possible, restitution. Rehabilitation and restoration must include the spiritual dimension of healing and hope. Since the publication of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop's 2000 pastoral statement on restorative justice, the conversation ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Chef

    par Ms Sabrina Mahfouz ...
    Collections series Modern Plays
    I cook here, create here,make here be as much of life as I canbecause outside of thisI'm not safe,I don't know the way.Chef tells the gripping story of how one woman went from being a haute-cuisine head chef to a convicted inmate running a prison kitchen. Leading us through her world of mouth-watering dishes and heart-breaking memories, Chef questions our attitudes to food, prisoners, violence, ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Death Penalty in America

    Modifié par Hugo Adam Bedau ...
    InThe Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject,provides a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty, making the process of informed consideration not only possible but fascinating as well. No mere revision of the third edition of The Death Penalty in America--which the New York Times praised as "the most complete, well ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Community Corrections

    Modifié par Shannon M. Barton-Bellessa ...
    In response to recognition in the late 1960s and early 1970s that traditional incarceration was not working, alternatives to standard prison settings were sought and developed. One of those alternatives—community-based corrections—had been conceived in the 1950s as a system that might prove more progressive, humane, and effective, particularly with people who had committed less serious criminal ... En savoir plus

    $131.99 CAD