The U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay has become the symbol of an unprecedented detention system of global reach and immense power. Since the 9/11 attacks, the news has on an almost daily basis headlined stories of prisoners held indefinitely at Guantanamo without charge or trial, many of whom have been interrogated in violation of ......
Applying Social Psychology in Prisons and Policing
How does meaningful change occur? What is the role of the psychologist in promoting change? These questions drive this incisive retrospective by social psychologist Hans Toch, who has spearheaded participatory change among violence-prone police, disenfranchised corrections officers, and inmates dehumanized by the misapplication of psychology in ......
Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty on the New American West
The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap to keepwomen literally and figuratively imprisoned.
Hitler's penal battalions were designed to change attitudes of prisoners towards national policy while instilling a sense of duty honour and purpose. These goals were to be achieved through harsh discipline and punishments, indoctrination programs and leave restrictions. Troops surviving their missions were eventually transferred to regular units.
Tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and around the world - overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis.
Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty on the New American West
A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violence Incarceration is all too often depicted as an urban problem, a male problem, a problem that disproportionately affects people of color. This book, however, takes readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women of ......
The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration
A look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates Twelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an annual basis. Jails, which differ significantly from prisons, are designed to house inmates for short amounts of time, and are often occupied by large ......
The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration
A look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates Twelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an annual basis. Jails, which differ significantly from prisons, are designed to house inmates for short amounts of time, and are often occupied by large ......
The controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predators When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their neighborhood in 2013, the story exposed an extreme and relatively rare instance of violence against sex offenders. While media accounts would have us ......
The controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predators When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their neighborhood in 2013, the story exposed an extreme and relatively rare instance of violence against sex offenders. While media accounts would have us ......
The fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice. Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the cause celebre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions. This interest is warranted: more than 1,800 people have ......
A Care Quality Guide for Support Workers and Staff
Develop your understanding of working with offenders with mental disorders, and reflect on your practise of working in secure forensic settings with this engaging, value for money and accessible Care Quality Guide.
Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment
Discusses the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual lives
Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment
Discusses the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual lives
A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the books core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art. "A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison ......
In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, African Americans made up approximately twelve percent of the United States population but close to forty percent of the United States prison population. In this book, the author discusses what is likely to happen to these ex-offenders and why.
In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, African Americans made up approximately twelve percent of the United States population but close to forty percent of the United States prison population. In this book, the author discusses what is likely to happen to these ex-offenders and why.
Looks at the dogs, trainers, and dog recipients whose lives have been changed by a program where 8 week old puppies are companioned with prison inmates and trained there by them for 18 months, until they are released as service or aid dogs for individuals and governments.
Millions of people are incarcerated in America's prisons and jails. This book argues that mass incarceration will not, as many have claimed, reduce crime nor create more public safety.
A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System
Tracing the history and features of the penal system, this book lays out a paradigm of criminal justice based on restorative justice and reconciliation. It opens a national dialogue on responsibilities of citizens and the nation to provide remediation rather than mere retributive incarceration, answerable to the common good and the justice of God.
On May 14, 1825, 100 mute, dispirited convict-labourers had been transported in chains from Auburn Prison in New York for the purpose of constructing a new maximum-security prison. This narrative covers every period of the prison's chequered history, from the awful conditions of the 19th century to the relative improvements of the 20th century.
Provides an account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. This book provides a look inside one of these private prisons as told through the eyes of an inmate, K.C. Carceral, who has been in the prison system.
Provides an account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. This book provides a look inside one of these private prisons as told through the eyes of an inmate, K.C. Carceral, who has been in the prison system.
