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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories' Open Media Book)
by Angela Y. Davis  Publisher Comments Civil rights activist Angela Davis lays bare the situation and argues for a radical rethinking of US rehabilitation programmes....
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The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison
by Robert Ellis Gordon Publisher Comments Gordon's account of teaching writing in Washington prisons is aided by essays and stories contributed by the prisoners themselves. Together, Gordon and his students provide revealing glimpses of this vast, secret-laden subculture of incarcerated...
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The Mystery of Criminal Behavior
by Thomas G Toombs Publisher Comments A number of books have been written that discuss and promote a particular theoretical approach to corrections. Instead of promoting a particular theoretical approach, The Mystery of Criminal Behavior critically analyzes the theories most commonly...
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The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal
by Charles Van Onselen Publisher Comments This masterwork of historical reconstruction recounts the life and times of Joseph Silver, an arch criminal who may well have been Jack the Ripper. A meticulous researcher, Van Onselen offers an account as rich in history as it is in the detail and drama...
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Slammer
by Kevin Marron Publisher Comments CAN PRISONS REALLY PROVIDE US WITH THE PROTECTION THAT WE CRAVE? Many Canadians have lost faith in the prison system. It is supposed to deter people from committing crimes, rehabilitate criminals and protect the public by keeping dangerous...
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Crime and Everyday Life
by Marcus Felson Publisher Comments Third edition....
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Downsizing Prisons : How To Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration (05 Edition)
by Michael Jacobson Publisher Comments Over 2 million people are incarcerated in America's prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. At current incarceration rates, an African American born in the U.S. today has a 30% chance of spending some time in prison. Mandatory minimum...
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Race to Incarcerate
by Marc Mauer Publisher Comments As we enter a new century, Race to Incarcerate, now in paperback, tells the chilling story of the unprecedented explosion in the prison population during the last twenty-five years. In an important book [that] lays out convincing arguments (The San Diego...
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Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.'s Most Notorious Gang
by Colton Simpson Publisher Comments “..(an) arresting memoir…”---Entertainment Weekly Colton “C-Loc” Simpson was a Crip. Beginning at the age of ten in the mid-1970s, Simpson’s world was defined in terms of war. By the time he quit, Simpson had...
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Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State
by Joe Domanick Publisher Comments From an award-winning journalist comes an investigative look, through the stories of people on both sides of the law, at the development and impact of the three strikes legislation in California....
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Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
by Gilbert King Publisher Comments On May 3, 1946, a seventeen-year-old boy was scheduled to die by the electric chair inside of a tiny red brick jail in picturesque St. Martinsville, Louisiana. Young Willie Francis had been charged with the murder of a local pharmacist. The electric...
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Attica: A Survivors Story
by John Michael Domino Publisher Comments This book is a chronological history of the life of a unique man who lived part of his life in one of the toughest prisons in the country in a very difficult time in the nation's history. (Practical Life)...
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Indians in Prison
by Elizabeth Grobsmith Publisher Comments Penologists, social services administrators, and students of criminal justice as well as of Indian studies will welcome this groundbreaking study, the product of close observation of and direct involvement on behalf of Indians in the Nebraska state penal...
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An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America
by George De Stefano Publisher Comments "Invites Italian-Americans of all backgrounds to the family table to discuss how mob-related movies and television shows have affected the very notion of what their heritage still means in the 21st century." --Allen Barra, "The New York Sun <BR>""A...
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Death At Midnight : the Confession of an Executioner (96 Edition)
by Donald A. Cabana Publisher Comments A courageous tale of a prison warden's moral awakening to the death penalty....
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No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
by Edward Humes Publisher Comments At a time when an epidemic of violence has left America afraid for — and afraid of — its children, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes takes a poignant look at a year in the life of Los Angeles Juvenile Court, providing a vivid...
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The Execution of Officer Becker: The Murder of a Gambler, the Trial of a Cop, and the Birth of Organized Crime
by Stanley Cohen Publisher Comments A small-time gambler shot dead in the heart of Times Square. Gangland gunmen and conspirators running for cover. A cop on the take charged with murder and facing execution. New York in 1912, a city in transformation. Award-winning journalist and author...
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Playing for Time: The Death Row All Stars (Images of Baseball)
by Chris Enss Publisher Comments For Joseph Seng and the other death row inmates in the line-up for the Wyoming State Penitentiary All Stars, baseball was literally a game of life or death. Based on primary source documents, some unearthed at the old prison itself, Playing for Time...
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Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution
by Austin Sarat Publisher Comments On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty--commuted the capital sentences of all 167 prisoners on his state's...
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All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (Vintage)
by Fox Butterfield Publisher Comments From the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes the poignant story of how the tradition of white Southern violence and racism has long affected and still haunts one black family. Butterfield follows the Bosket family of Edgefield...
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