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Handbook on Prisons
Handbook On Prisons
    Focusing on prisons,
    this is a useful
    reference for
    practitioners working in
    prisons and other parts
    of the criminal justice
    system. This book aims to
    explore a range of
    historical and
    contemporary issues
    relating to prisons,
    imprisonment and prison
    management, and to chart
    likely future trends.
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Prisons and Prison Systems
Prisons And Prison Systems
    Examining prisons and
    prison systems throughout
    the world, this
    comprehensive
    encyclopedia provides an
    historical overview of
    institutions and systems
    around the world, as
    well as penal theories,
    prisoner culture and
    life, and notable
    prisoners and personnel.
    It also includes material
    on such famous prisons as
    the Tower of London and
    Alcatraz.
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Prisons of Promise
Prisons Of Promise
    The result of working in,
    studying and thinking
    about prisons, this book
    counteracts images of
    prisons as negative
    places, and encourages
    people to identify and
    encourage the "goodwill,
    energies and skills which
    might be maximized so as
    to make prisons safe and
    purposeful communities".
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Controversial Issues in Prisons
Controversial Issues In
Prisons
    Controversial Issues in
    Prisons is a textbook
    designed to explore eight
    of the most controversial
    aspects of imprisonment
    in England and Wales
    today. It is primarily a
    book about the people who
    are sent to prison and
    what happens to them when
    inside.
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Inside
Inside
    A comprehensive study of
    the experiences of women
    prisoners in Ireland over
    the last 200 years. It
    describes the prisons
    within which women were
    and are imprisoned, the
    crimes for which they
    were imprisoned, the
    sentences imposed upon
    them, and the prison
    experiences provided for
    them.
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Lifers
Lifers
    Tackles the issue of
    imprisonment with the
    conventional wisdom on
    homicide, society's
    purposes of imprisonment,
    and offenders'
    reformability. This book
    reveals what happens to
    prisoners serving very
    long sentences in
    correctional facilities
    and what this should tell
    us about effective
    sentencing policy.
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Fifty Year Stretch
Fifty Year Stretch
    Charts developments
    across a fifty year time
    frame. This book begins
    at the start of a growth
    in the prison population
    of England and Wales (and
    elsewhere) and travels
    across time dealing with
    key events, issues, and
    developments. It makes
    understanding penal
    affairs easier.
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Doing Prison Work
Doing Prison Work
    Provides a sociological
    account of the social
    world of the English
    prison officer, to help
    in our understanding of
    the inner life of prisons
    in general and the
    working lives of prison
    officers in particular.
    This book explores not
    only what prison officers
    do but also how they feel
    about their work.
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Treatment of Prisoners
Treatment Of Prisoners
    The United States has
    long adhered to the rules
    regarding the treatment
    of prisoners as set forth
    by the Geneva Convention.
    Media outlets and books
    have partially exposed
    occurrences of various
    degrees of torture taking
    place in these
    facilities. This book
    presents an analyses of
    these developments.
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Humane Prisons
Humane Prisons
    Acknowledges the social
    and political trends,
    particularly the part
    played by social
    deprivation and racism
    and the importance of
    continuing to understand
    them. This book attempts
    to provide, ideas,
    examples and models for
    others to use, add to or
    challenge.
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Contraband Cell Phones in Prisons
Contraband Cell Phones In
Prisons
    Just as consumer demands
    for mobile devices have
    risen rapidly, the use
    of cell phones by prison
    inmates has grown as the
    US prison population
    continues to expand. This
    use is considered
    contraband by prison
    officials. This book
    investigates and examines
    wireless technology
    solutions to prevent
    contraband cell phone use
    in prisons.
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Understanding Prison Staff
Understanding Prison Staff
    Provides insight into
    various aspects of the
    daily life of prison
    staff. This book offers
    an exploration of their
    work and seeks to draw
    attention to the variety,
    value and complexity of
    work within prisons. It
    also provides information
    on research studies,
    debates, and on
    operational and
    procedural matters.
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Warden
Warden
    A story of the author's
    30-year career in Texas
    prisons, from his first
    night as a
    shotgun-wielding guard to
    the last man he
    accompanied to the death
    chamber. It describes the
    efficient actions of the
    'tie-down team' and the
    way that he himself
    lifted his glasses from
    his nose to signal the
    executioner to start the
    IV flow.
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Golden Gulag
Golden Gulag
    Provides an explanation
    for the increase in
    number of people in US
    prisons by more than
    450%. This book examines
    the issue through
    statewide, rural, and
    urban perspectives to
    explain how the expansion
    developed from surpluses
    of finance capital,
    labor, land, and state
    capacity.
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Violent Crime and Prisons
Violent Crime And Prisons
    Gathers the research from
    around the globe in the
    field of violent crime
    and prisons with topics
    such as unity building as
    violence prevention,
    violence and college
    students, female inmates
    attitudes towards
    same-sex relationships,
    art therapy in prison and
    the link between high
    environmental
    temperatures and violent
    behaviour.
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Understanding the Management of High Risk Offenders
Understanding The Management
Of High Risk Offenders
    High-risk offenders have
    been defined as those who
    have committed a violent
    or sexual offence, or
    who are assessed as
    likely to do so. This
    book brings together a
    wide range of research on
    responses to
    'dangerousness',
    including the author's
    own original research on
    the community management
    of high risk offenders.
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The Oxford History of the Prison
The Oxford History Of The
Prison
    This volume provides an
    informative account of
    the growth and
    development of the prison
    in Western society, from
    classical times to the
    present day. Specialists
    in social, legal, and
    institutional history
    explore the complex
    history of the prison and
    the social world of
    inmates and their
    keepers.
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Doing Justice Better
Doing Justice Better
    Escalating resort to
    prisons, longer
    sentences, overcrowded
    and ineffective regimes,
    high rates of
    re-offending and eclectic
    penal policy all combine
    to fuel the crisis,
    whilst failing to reduce
    offending. This book
    argues that the symptoms
    of this penal malaise are
    grounded in the media
    sensationalism of crime.
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Doing Harder Time?
Doing Harder Time?
    Framed within the
    theoretical perspective
    of structuration theory,
    but also drawing on
    aspects of Goffman's
    interactionism and
    Bourdieu's concept of
    habitus, this book
    offers an interpretation
    of research carried out
    with ageing prisoners and
    prison officers and shows
    the reality of prison for
    those who are reaching
    the end of their life
    course.
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Prisongate
Prisongate
    In his time as Her
    Majesty's Chief Inspector
    of Prisons, Sir David
    Ramsbotham reported on
    the failings in the
    British prison service
    and made recommendations
    for their changes. The
    suggestions were barely
    acknowledged by ministers
    and officials. In
    "Prisongate" he reveals
    these flaws to the
    nation.
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Guantanamo
Guantanamo
    Guantanamo: If the light
    goes out illustrates
    three experiences of
    home: at Guantanamo naval
    base, home to the
    American community; in
    the camp complex where
    the detainees have been
    held; and in the homes
    where former detainees,
    never charged with any
    crime, find themselves
    trying to rebuild lives.
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Grendon Tales
Grendon Tales
    Offers an understanding
    of how Grendon Prison
    with its therapeutic
    communities became a
    world leader. This work
    also offers an
    understanding of: why
    some prisoners struggle
    to 'get into' Grendon
    whilst others avoid the
    place; the impact on
    prisoners when they first
    arrive at Grendon; and,
    what happens during their
    time there.
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Prison Governors
Prison Governors
    Provides a study of
    prison governors and
    focuses on how they carry
    out their task, how that
    has changed over time,
    and how their role has
    evolved. This book
    explains how prison
    governors have changed
    under external pressures
    and examines a number of
    the factors that have
    been influential in
    changing their working
    environment.
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Addicted to Incarceration
Addicted To Incarceration
    Aims to outline the
    'scope of the problem' in
    terms of incarceration,
    to highlight the nature
    of the political
    discussions surrounding
    criminal justice policy
    in general and
    corrections policy in
    particular, and to
    discuss the role of
    misinformation on how the
    US has ended up with its
    state of incarceration.
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Inside Man
Inside Man
    Charts Ireland's first
    female high-security
    prison in Limerick, a
    place where wealthy
    Englishwoman-come-IRA-operative
    Rose Dugdale's pregnancy
    went unnoticed, while
    Limerick Prison's cells
    were filled with leading
    Republican figures and
    later notorious feuding
    Limerick families and the
    'Dublin Mafia', whose
    imprisonment fuelled a
    violent protest.
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Sakhalin Island
Sakhalin Island
    In 1890, Chekhov,
    already knowing that he
    was ill with
    tuberculosis, undertook
    an arduous eleven-week
    journey to the penal
    colony on the island of
    Sakhalin. This work is
    both a detailed depiction
    of the Tsarist system of
    penal servitude and an
    insight into Chekhov's
    motivations and
    objectives for visiting
    the colony and writing
    the expose.
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Supermax
Supermax
    Examines the rise and
    proliferation of
    'Supermaxes', large
    prisons dedicated to
    holding prisoners in
    prolonged and strict
    solitary confinement, in
    the United States since
    the late 1980s. This book
    provides a holistic view
    of the theory, practice
    and consequences of these
    prisons.
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Victorian and Edwardian Prisons
Victorian And Edwardian
Prisons
    Although they have
    existed in Britain for
    over a thousand years,
    it was not until the
    nineteenth century that
    prisons became the
    cornerstone of the penal
    system. This book looks
    at the development of
    prison buildings, life
    and labour of prisoners,
    and the position of
    prison officers.
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The Society of Captives
The Society Of Captives
    First published in 1958,
    Society of Captives
    contained a study of the
    maximum security prison,
    which questioned the
    extent to which prisons
    can succeed in their
    attempts to control every
    facet of life. Featuring
    a new introduction by
    Bruce Western, this
    title aims to serve as a
    text for those coming to
    terms with the nature of
    modern power.
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Capitalist Punishment
Capitalist Punishment
    This is a comprehensive
    study of one of the most
    important contemporary
    issues confronting prison
    reform - prison
    privatization and human
    rights. It discusses
    privatization in its
    historical and
    ideological context, and
    in relation to United
    Nations standards and
    rules.
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The Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
The Treatment And
Rehabilitation Of Offenders
    Treatment and
    rehabilitation have been
    central to the progress
    of criminal justice
    policy, and both have
    played an important role
    in the development of
    criminology. After the
    attention given to
    punishment and
    retribution in recent
    years, there is now a
    resurgence of interest in
    treatment and
    rehabilitation.
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The Pain and the Pride
The Pain And The Pride
    Covers various aspects of
    the regime at Buena
    Vista, Colorado. This
    book contains a
    comparison based on the
    experimental regime at
    Britain's Thorn Cross
    young offender
    institution (the British
    boot camp). It is useful
    to people and
    practitioners across a
    broad spectrum,
    particularly sentencers
    and people concerned with
    prisons.
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Punishment and Civilization
Punishment And Civilization
    This book examines how a
    framework of punishment
    that suited the values of
    the civilized world came
    to be set in place from
    around 1800 to the late
    20th century. John Pratt
    draws on research about
    prison architecture,
    clothing, diet,
    hygienic arrangements and
    changes in penal language
    to establish this.
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Controversial Issues in Prisons
Controversial Issues In
Prisons
    Controversial Issues in
    Prisons is a textbook
    designed to explore eight
    of the most controversial
    aspects of imprisonment
    in England and Wales
    today. It is primarily a
    book about the people who
    are sent to prison and
    what happens to them when
    inside.
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Penal Systems
Penal Systems
    A comprehensive, and
    thematic introduction to
    the comparative study of
    penality throughout the
    world. Using analysis of
    twelve different
    countries, the authors
    offer an international
    and integrated approach
    to comparative penology.
    It is useful to students
    and researchers in
    comparative criminology
    and criminal justice.
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Prison Readings
Prison Readings
    Provides an introduction
    to the main debates and
    dilemmas associated with
    prisons and imprisonment,
    bringing together a
    selection of the key
    readings on the subject.
    This book is useful for
    students studying prisons
    as part of courses in
    criminology, sociology,
    law, psychology and
    other disciplines and
    practitioners working in
    this field.
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Age of Imprisonment
Age Of Imprisonment
    Addresses the issue of
    the rapidly growing
    number of elderly men
    entering and serving time
    in prison. This book
    examines the emotional,
    psychological and
    practical implications of
    serving a prison sentence
    late in life and the
    challenges facing staff
    working with this
    prisoner group. It is
    suitable for those
    working in the fields of
    criminology.
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The Prison System & Its Effects
The Prison System & Its
Effects
    To an Antipodean, this
    book is a fascinating
    development of the New
    Zealand Prison System
    which includes the
    history of penology prior
    to the phenomenon coming
    to these shores. It is
    also an exploration of
    more complex managerial
    and social issues
    concerning crime and its
    treatment, including the
    interweaving of different
    penal policies.
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My Guantanamo Diary
My Guantanamo Diary
    Some at Guantanamo are
    terrorists who deserve to
    be convicted and
    sentenced as such. Some
    are paediatricians and
    school teachers. This
    book is a testament to
    their captivity. It
    documents the voices of
    men who have been
    tortured and held in a
    black hole of indefinite
    detention without legal
    recourse for years.
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