|
Sociology
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Behind Bars: Surviving Prison by Jeffrey Ian Ross Publisher Comments A judge hands down a stretch in a local, state, or federal prison. It's time for some serious life lessons. With the crime rates soaring in the United States and the prison population growing faster than at any time in American history, staying alive... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Bringing Adam Home (11 Edition) by Les Standiford Publisher Comments Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, no federal databases of crimes against children, no pedophile registry. His 1981 abduction and murder—unsolved for over a... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Ironies of Imprisonment by Michael Welch Publisher Comments From the Foreword</p> <p></p> <p>'Michael Welch's book is an invitation to think. It is an invitation to grow intellectually and critically, as a consumer of crime policy and an observer of the American scene. Written by a scholar... (read more) List Price $58.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Police Family Liaison (Blackstone's Practical Policing) by Duncan Mcgarry Publisher Comments This is the first practical guide to the sensitive topic of family liaison, aimed directly at the police. It focuses on the key role that family liaison plays in the police service, explains how the role has developed and provides practitioners with a... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs by Gini Sikes Publisher Comments Follows the lives of female gang leaders and members in South Central Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee, revealing the fear and the desperate desire for respect and status that drive these young women into a life of crime. Reprint.... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime by Susan Herman Publisher Comments This year more than 20 million Americans will become victims of crime. Very few will get the help they need to get their lives back on track. Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime presents a new approach, designed to help victims rebuild their lives now... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Protect Your Privacy: How to Protect Your Identity as Well as Your Financial, Personal, and Computer Records in an Age of Constant Surveilla by Duncan Long Publisher Comments Identity theft is at an all-time high. Protect Your Privacy gives you everything you need to know about protecting your computer security, financial and telephone privacy, identification, freedom of movement, and more! Learn to safeguard your privacy in... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Grace Before Dying by Lawrence N Powell Publisher Comments Lori Waselchuk's work documents the new hospice program run by inmate volunteers at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a first-of-its kind service meant to comfort inmates who are elderly or fatally ill. Waselchuk's photographs explore how, through... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance by Karlene Faith Publisher Comments Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about womens imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Redemption by Wilbert Rideau Publisher Comments Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in prison, delivers a remarkable memoir of crime, punishment, and ultimate triumph. After killing a bank teller in a moment of panic during a botched robbery, Wilbert Rideau... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Tomorrow You Go Home: One Man's Harrowing Imprisonment in a Modern-Day Russian Gulag by Tig Hague Publisher Comments The haunting true story of a hardworking British businessman who became mired in the deadly, corruption-laden nightmare of Russia's current prison system — and lived to tell about it, thanks to a love affair that kept his hope alive and the efforts... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Writing for Their Lives: Death Row USA by Mari Mulvey Roberts Publisher Comments Going well beyond graphic descriptions of death row’s madness and suicide-inducing realities, Writing for Their Lives offers powerful, compassionate, and harrowing accounts of prisoners rediscovering the value of life from within the brutality and... (read more) List Price $19.75 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Police Psychology Into the 21st Century by Martin I Kurke Publisher Comments As we approach the 21st century, there is a discernable shift in policing, from an incident-driven perspective to a proactive problem solving stance often described as community policing. In this volume a panel of 21 psychologists examine the changing... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Gangs in Garden City: How Immigration, Segregation, and Youth Violence Are Changing America's Suburbs by Sarah Garland Publisher Comments For the past five years, journalist Sarah Garland has followed the lives of current and former gang members living in Hempstead on the border of Garden City, Long Island. Affiliated with Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street, their troubling personal stories... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence M Friedman Publisher Comments "A major achievement . . . an impressive, panoramic history of the American criminal justice system, from the Salem witchcraft trials to the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers in the first Rodney King beating case".--New York Times Book Review.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty by Scott Turow Publisher Comments A gripping examination of the case for and against capital punishment by a respected criminal lawyer and celebrated novelist. In the words of Harvard Law Professor, Laurence H. Tribe--"Ultimate Punishment is the ultimate statement about the death penalty:... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Decision Making and Juvenile Justice: An Analysis of Bias in Case Processing by Paul E. Tracy Publisher Comments Based on a comprehensive study of three counties in Texas, this work examines the idea of differential handling of minority youth offenders. Traditional wisdom indicates that minorities are over-represented in the juvenile justice system due to racism... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your price: $87.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by Philip J Cook Publisher Comments 100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden... (read more) List Price $92.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison by Jack Henry Abbott Publisher Comments A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. This is a 37 year old man's account of 25 years behind bars.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Takedown: A Suburban Mom, a Coal Miner's Son, and the Unlikely Demise of Colombia's Brutal Norte Valle Cartel by Jeffrey Robinson Publisher Comments If ever there was an odd couple. A suburban mom and a coal miner's son. Bonnie Klapper is an attractive, funny, off-beat but tenacious federal prosecutor who constantly thinks out of the box, often to the chagrin of her superiors. She is a full-time... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
