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Garland (Paperback): Garland Garland (Paperback)
Garland
R1,136 Discovery Miles 11 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. Drawing on theorists from Durkheim to Foucault, he insightfully critiques the entire spectrum of social thought concerning punishment, and reworks it into a new interpretive synthesis.
""Punishment and Modern Society" is an outstanding delineation of the sociology of punishment. At last the process that is surely the heart and soul of criminology, and perhaps of sociology as well--punishment--has been rescued from the fringes of these 'disciplines'. . . . This book is a first-class piece of scholarship."--Graeme Newman, "Contemporary Sociology"
"Garland's treatment of the theorists he draws upon is erudite, faithful and constructive. . . . "Punishment and Modern Society" is a magnificent example of "working" social theory."--John R. Sutton, "American Journal of Sociology"
""Punishment and Modern Society" lifts contemporary penal issues from the mundane and narrow contours within which they are so often discussed and relocates them at the forefront of public policy. . . . This book will become a landmark study."--Andrew Rutherford, "Legal Studies"
"This is a superbly intelligent study. Its comprehensive coverage makes it a genuine review of the field. Its scholarship and incisiveness of judgment will make it a constant reference work for the initiated, and its concluding theoretical synthesis will make it a challenge and inspiration for those undertaking research and writing on the subject. As a state-of-the-art account it is unlikely to be bettered for many a year."--Rod Morgan, "British Journal of Criminology"
Winner of both the Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law, and Deviance Section

The Future of Crime and Punishment - Smart Policies for Reducing Crime and Saving Money (Hardcover): William R. Kelly The Future of Crime and Punishment - Smart Policies for Reducing Crime and Saving Money (Hardcover)
William R. Kelly
R1,248 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R784 (63%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Today, we know that crime is often not just a matter of making bad decisions. Rather, there are a variety of factors that are implicated in much criminal offending, some fairly obvious like poverty, mental illness, and drug abuse and others less so, such as neurocognitive problems. Today, we have the tools for effective criminal behavioral change, but this cannot be an excuse for criminal offending. In The Future of Crime and Punishment, William R. Kelly identifies the need to educate the public on how these tools can be used to most effectively and cost efficiently reduce crime, recidivism, victimization and cost. The justice system of the future needs to be much more collaborative, utilizing the expertise of a variety of disciplines such as psychology, psychiatry, addiction, and neuroscience. Judges and prosecutors are lawyers, not clinicians, and as we transition the justice system to a focus on behavioral change, the decision making will need to reflect the input of clinical experts. The path forward is one characterized largely by change from traditional criminal prosecution and punishment to venues that balance accountability, compliance, and risk management with behavioral change interventions that address the primary underlying causes for recidivism. There are many moving parts to this effort and it is a complex proposition. It requires substantial changes to law, procedure, decision making, roles and responsibilities, expertise, and funding. Moreover, it requires a radical shift in how we think about crime and punishment. Our thinking needs to reflect a perspective that crime is harmful, but that much criminal behavior is changeable.

Prison Methods in New York State (Hardcover): Philip Klein Prison Methods in New York State (Hardcover)
Philip Klein
R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rue Rilke (Paperback): Daniel Joseph Polikoff Rue Rilke (Paperback)
Daniel Joseph Polikoff
R777 Discovery Miles 7 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Alcatraz Island - Memoirs of a Rock Doc (Paperback): Dianne Beacher Perfit, Milton Daniel Beacher Alcatraz Island - Memoirs of a Rock Doc (Paperback)
Dianne Beacher Perfit, Milton Daniel Beacher
R537 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R91 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ohio State Reformatory (Hardcover): Nancy K Darbey The Ohio State Reformatory (Hardcover)
Nancy K Darbey
R842 R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Offender Reentry and Cognitive Intervention - Propensity Score Matching Utility for Outcome Assessment (Hardcover): Ken Balusek Offender Reentry and Cognitive Intervention - Propensity Score Matching Utility for Outcome Assessment (Hardcover)
Ken Balusek
R1,892 Discovery Miles 18 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wrongfully Accused - 15 People Sentenced to Prison for a Crime They Didn't Commit (Paperback): William Webb Wrongfully Accused - 15 People Sentenced to Prison for a Crime They Didn't Commit (Paperback)
William Webb
R193 Discovery Miles 1 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Justice is blind...but it's not perfect. Everyday, people are convicted or accused of crimes they did not commit. Sometimes the accusations are racially motivated, sometimes they are profiled for the clothes they wear, and sometimes they are just at the wrong place at the wrong time. The 15 people in this book all share one thing in common: they are innocent, but still sent to prison. You will never look at a court room the same way again

Unlocking Minds in Lockup - Prison Education Opens Doors (Paperback): Jan Walker Unlocking Minds in Lockup - Prison Education Opens Doors (Paperback)
Jan Walker
R486 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R75 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nu Society in a Nu Age - Creating the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (Paperback): Walker Thomas Nu Society in a Nu Age - Creating the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (Paperback)
Walker Thomas
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

NU SOCIETY IN A NU AGE Creating the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth This presentation spells out a step-by-step process of correcting the corrections system in order to correct the society, as follows: Our corrections system is by far the largest in the world, with 25% of all prisoners in the world in our prisons, even though we only have 5% of the world's population. PEACE PLEASE proposes that through our experimental prison program called "Project Nu Life" 1. we can create a model program that trains prisoners in the behaviors of a responsible citizen so that they do not return to crime and prison; 2. which will thereby become a model for systematically reducing crime in the larger society; 3. which will thereby become a model for reducing law enforcement, security measures, courts, jails, and prisons; 4. which will thereby become a model for restructuring the larger society based on the model of this successful prison program. How would this work? "Project Nu Life" provides: Twelve Essential Services to Prevent Released Prisoners from Returning to Crime and Prison 1. training in the behaviors of a responsible citizen 2. job training and jobs 3. low-income and rent-to-own housing 4. financial assistance 5. health insurance 6. literacy training 7. a support network 8. seeing prisoners as good people with bad behaviors, not as bad people 9. forgiveness and non-condemnation 10. mutually supportive male-female relationships 11. encouraging our prisoners to strive for a higher purpose in life than the accumulation of material possessions 12. a retirement income

Eternity at the End of A Rope (Softcover) (Paperback): Clifford R. Caldwell, Ron DeLord Eternity at the End of A Rope (Softcover) (Paperback)
Clifford R. Caldwell, Ron DeLord
R1,185 R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Save R204 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Order and Disorder in Modern Britain - Essays on Riot, Crime, Policing and Punishment (Paperback): Victor Bailey Order and Disorder in Modern Britain - Essays on Riot, Crime, Policing and Punishment (Paperback)
Victor Bailey
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The pieces in this collection range from an account of the Skeleton Army riots against the Salvation Army in the early 1880s to the unsuccessful campaign to abolish the death penalty in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Reading Prisoners - Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845 (Hardcover): Jodi Schorb Reading Prisoners - Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845 (Hardcover)
Jodi Schorb
R2,017 Discovery Miles 20 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Shining new light on early American prison literature--from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows literature to its later works of autobiography, expose, and imaginative literature--"Reading Prisoners" weaves together insights about the rise of the early American penitentiary, the history of early American literacy instruction, and the transformation of crime writing in the "long" eighteenth century.
Looking first at colonial America--an era often said to devalue jailhouse literacy--Jodi Schorb reveals that in fact this era launched the literate prisoner into public prominence. Criminal confessions published between 1700 and 1740, she shows, were crucial "literacy events" that sparked widespread public fascination with the reading habits of the condemned, consistent with the evangelical revivalism that culminated in the first Great Awakening. By century's end, narratives by condemned criminals helped an audience of new writers navigate the perils and promises of expanded literacy.
Schorb takes us off the scaffold and inside the private world of the first penitentiaries--such as Philadelphia's Walnut Street Prison and New York's Newgate, Auburn, and Sing Sing. She unveils the long and contentious struggle over the value of prisoner education that ultimately led to sporadic efforts to supply prisoners with books and education. Indeed, a new philosophy emerged, one that argued that prisoners were best served by silence and hard labor, not by reading and writing--a stance that a new generation of convict authors vociferously protested.
The staggering rise of mass incarceration in America since the 1970s has brought the issue of prisoner rehabilitation once again to the fore. "Reading Prisoners" offers vital background to the ongoing, crucial debates over the benefits of prisoner education.

Living on Death Row (Hardcover): Eric Lose Living on Death Row (Hardcover)
Eric Lose
R2,071 Discovery Miles 20 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Case for a Royal Commission on the Penal System (Pamphlet): Louis Blom Cooper, Sean McConville The Case for a Royal Commission on the Penal System (Pamphlet)
Louis Blom Cooper, Sean McConville
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An initiative supported by leading political, academic, religious and professional figures and in association with Queen Mary University of London. Virtually half-a-century has passed since the last Royal Commission on the Penal System was dissolved, its work uncompleted. Looking forwards, six members of the Commission asserted that 'after some years' a new Royal Commission would be of great public service. As commentators, writers and practitioners, Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC and Professor Sean McConville have many decades of experience of penal policy and practice. Some 20-years ago they urged the appointment of a new Royal Commission on the subject. They have since pressed their case in letters to major newspapers and in earlier writings. In this publication the momentum for which is supported by leading figures, they make the case for a new Royal Commission that will be reflective, effective and swift, capable of building consensus and providing directions for generations. They argue that penal policy is fragmented and frequently irrational, contradictory, counterproductive, insubstantial and put together in a haphazard way.The dynamics and pressures of party politics inevitably mean that penal policy often emerges in response to hard cases and headlines. As this pamphlet claims, broader and more considered views, drawing on evidence and seeking to maximise social good, cannot be delivered by politicians afraid of missing an opportunity to score party political points.

Bad Boys Behind Bars - An Anthology of Prisoners' Narratives (Paperback): Binanda C. Barkakaty Bad Boys Behind Bars - An Anthology of Prisoners' Narratives (Paperback)
Binanda C. Barkakaty
R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Sliver of Light - Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran (Paperback): Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd A Sliver of Light - Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran (Paperback)
Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd
R552 R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Save R97 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Manson, Sinatra and Me - A Hollywood Party Girl's Memoir and How She Helped Vincent Bugliosi with the Helter Skelter Case... Manson, Sinatra and Me - A Hollywood Party Girl's Memoir and How She Helped Vincent Bugliosi with the Helter Skelter Case (Paperback)
Virginia Graham; As told to Hal Jacques
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
African American Felon Disenfranchisement - Case Studies in Modern Racism and Political Exclusion (Hardcover): John E Pinkard African American Felon Disenfranchisement - Case Studies in Modern Racism and Political Exclusion (Hardcover)
John E Pinkard
R1,942 Discovery Miles 19 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Narrating Prison Experience - Human Rights, Self, Society, and Political Incarceration in Africa (Paperback): Ken Walibora... Narrating Prison Experience - Human Rights, Self, Society, and Political Incarceration in Africa (Paperback)
Ken Walibora Waliaula
R1,343 R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Save R303 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Locked Down, Locked Out - Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better [16 Pt Large Print Edition] (Paperback): Maya... Locked Down, Locked Out - Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better [16 Pt Large Print Edition] (Paperback)
Maya Schenwar
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tennessee State Penitentiary (Hardcover): Yoshie Lewis, Brian. Allison Tennessee State Penitentiary (Hardcover)
Yoshie Lewis, Brian. Allison
R842 R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of Torture - From Iron Maidens to Vlad's Impalin (Paperback): William Webb A History of Torture - From Iron Maidens to Vlad's Impalin (Paperback)
William Webb
R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For thousands of years man has been perfecting the gruesome art of torture. There have been many ways to execute and torture a person--some make the electric chair look like a paper cut. This book describes some of the most infamous methods of torture ever devised, devices that will turn your stomach and make you thankful that they no longer exist.

Inside the Ohio Penitentiary (Hardcover): David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, James Dailey Inside the Ohio Penitentiary (Hardcover)
David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, James Dailey
R846 R695 Discovery Miles 6 950 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Furnace of Affliction - Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America (Paperback): Jennifer Graber The Furnace of Affliction - Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America (Paperback)
Jennifer Graber
R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s. Initially, state and prison officials welcomed Protestant reformers' and ministers' recommendations, particularly their ideas about inmate suffering and redemption. Over time, however, officials proved less receptive to the reformers' activities, and inmates also opposed them. Ensuing debates between reformers, officials, and inmates revealed deep disagreements over religion's place in prisons and in the wider public sphere as the separation of church and state took hold and the nation's religious environment became more diverse and competitive. Examining the innovative New York prison system, Graber shows how Protestant reformers failed to realize their dreams of large-scale inmate conversion or of prisons that reflected their values. To keep a foothold in prisons, reformers were forced to relinquish their Protestant terminology and practices and instead to adopt secular ideas about American morals, virtues, and citizenship. Graber argues that, by revising their original understanding of prisoner suffering and redemption, reformers learned to see inmates' afflictions not as a necessary prelude to a sinner's experience of grace but as the required punishment for breaking the new nation's laws.

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