Catálogo de libros: Penología y penas

1055 Catálogo de libros: Penología y penas

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  • Defund DOC
    Daniel J. Simms
    Across the United States, people are waking up to the injustices and failures of mass incarceration. Most recognize that something has to change. Extreme reform is needed. This book offers a new perspective on the direction we should go. Abolishing cruel and oppressive practices, cultures, rules, regulations, and policies. Instead, focusing on treating root causes and returning...
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    8,76 €

  • Criminal Psychology and the Criminal Justice System in India and Beyond
    This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of criminal psychology in different socio-economic and psycho-sociological contexts. It informs readers on the role of psychology in the various aspects of the criminal justice process, starting from the investigation of a crime to the rehabilitation or reintegration of the offender. Current research in criminology and psy...
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    173,13 €

  • Prisons, Politics and Practices in England and Wales 1945-2020
    David J. Cornwell
    This book presents both a survey of and commentary upon the penal process of England and Wales between 1945 and 2020 from the primary perspective of prisons and their operational management. Part I focusses on the extent to which governmental polities, changing concepts in penology and significant events affected the performance and management of prisons during four key periods...
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    146,42 €

  • Voices from Death Row
    Bruce Jackson / Diane Christian
    A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas’s Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves.Voices from Death Row is considered a classic work on the strange 'living limbo' inhabited by condemned men in Texas, who await resolution of their sentence in execution, death by other causes, commutation to a term of life sentence, or exoneration. This book offers first-p...
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    121,31 €

  • Voices from Death Row
    Bruce Jackson / Diane Christian
    A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas’s Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves.Voices from Death Row is considered a classic work on the strange 'living limbo' inhabited by condemned men in Texas, who await resolution of their sentence in execution, death by other causes, commutation to a term of life sentence, or exoneration. This book offers first-p...
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    25,24 €

  • Histories and Philosophies of Carceral Education
    This edited collection encourages philosophical exploration of the nature, aims, contradictions, promises and problems of the practice of education within prisons around the world. Such exploration is particularly necessary given the complex operational barriers to education, and higher education in particular, within prison-based teaching and learning. These operational barrie...
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    132,22 €

  • ’Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948
    Ben Bethell
    This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as ’star men’, convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms. ...
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    241,02 €

  • Parental Imprisonment and Children’s Rights
    This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children’s rights lens. ...
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    73,29 €

  • Crime and Reconciliation
    Mark Umbreit
    Crime and Reconciliation describes the original setting in the United States where contemporary restorative justice practices first took root. Having worked with the Indiana-based Prisoner and Community Together program (PACT), which eventually advocated for healing dialogue between offending and victimized parties along with family and community members, Mark Umbreit received ...
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    18,71 €

  • Crime and Reconciliation
    Mark Umbreit
    Crime and Reconciliation describes the original setting in the United States where contemporary restorative justice practices first took root. Having worked with the Indiana-based Prisoner and Community Together program (PACT), which eventually advocated for healing dialogue between offending and victimized parties along with family and community members, Mark Umbreit received ...
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    35,46 €

  • The Desistance Journey
    Graham Cambridge / James Windle / Orla Lynch
    This book examines desistance from offending amongst men in County Cork - the largest county in the Republic of Ireland. It examines the bigger picture of desistance, namely how offending and recovery from addiction are inseparable processes. It draws on in-depth interviews with 40 men  who had engaged with the criminal justice system, and the chapters which follow trace the pa...
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    52,82 €

  • Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity
    Julia Hillner
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    37,30 €

  • Prison Masculinities
    This edited book explores prison masculinities, drawing from a wide range of international researchers to highlight how masculinities may divert from the ’hypermasculine’ or macho typology typically found in the prison masculinities literature. ...
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    241,00 €

  • Prison Masculinities
    This edited book explores prison masculinities, drawing from a wide range of international researchers to highlight how masculinities may divert from the ’hypermasculine’ or macho typology typically found in the prison masculinities literature. ...
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    66,51 €

  • Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland
    This volume contains an Open Access Chapter Leading scholars on Irish penal history and theory explore trends and debates that have surrounded patterns of punishment in Ireland since the formation of the State and foreground often absent perspectives in criminology and punishment. ...
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    136,90 €

  • Contesting Crimmigration in Post-hukou China
    Tian Ma
    This book focuses on the criminalization trend and process regarding the internal migration in contemporary China from the perspective Law-in-Action. In Chinese society today, internal migrants are commonly perceived as criminals. Crimmigration, a global term that communicated the convergence of the criminal legal system and the immigration enforcement system, manifest itself i...
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    159,33 €

  • Conservative Government Penal Policy 2015-2021
    Christopher David Skinns
    This book interrogates Conservative government penal policy for adult and young adult offenders in England and Wales between 2015 and 2021. Government penal policy is shown to have been often ineffective and costly, and to have revived efforts to push the system towards a disastrous combination of austerity, outsourcing and punishment that has exacerbated the penal crisis.This ...
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    100,57 €

  • Prison Education and Desistance
    Geraldine Cleere
    This book explores prisoners’ experiences of prison education and investigates whether participation in education contributes to an offender’s ability to desist from crime and increases social capital levels. It is essential reading for all those engaged with penology, desistance, rehabilitation, and the sociology of education. ...
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    73,23 €

  • The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment
    This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people. There are a growing number of scholars around the world who have conducted in-depth, qualitative research inside of youth prisons, and about young people incarcerated in adult prisons, and yet this research has ne...
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    341,14 €

  • Geometrical Justice
    Mark Cooney / Scott Phillips
    Geometrical Justice enlists the pathbreaking geometrical theory of law developed by sociologist Donald Black. Drawing on large datasets, this book considers how characteristics such as race, class, social integration, moral reputation, and organizational status affect legal decision making. ...
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    66,85 €

  • Geometrical Justice
    Mark Cooney / Scott Phillips
    Geometrical Justice enlists the pathbreaking geometrical theory of law developed by sociologist Donald Black. Drawing on large datasets, this book considers how characteristics such as race, class, social integration, moral reputation, and organizational status affect legal decision making. ...
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    241,35 €

  • Peer Mentoring in Criminal Justice
    Gillian Buck
    This book offers the first in-depth analysis of peer mentoring in criminal justice. Drawing upon a rigorous ethnographic study of multiple community organisations in England, it identifies key features of criminal justice peer mentoring. ...
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    73,22 €

  • Prison Food
    An-Sofie Vanhouche
    Based on the lived experiences of incarcerated persons and staff, this book explores the symbolic significance of prison foodways to normalization, autonomy, identity construction, power, group formation and security. The book also traces the rationalization(s) that policy makers attach to prison food, from the water and bread diet of the 18th century, the contested abolition o...
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    144,52 €

  • Detecting and Investigating Environmental Crime
    Petter Gottschalk
    This book discusses environmental crime and individual wrongdoing. It uses the theory of convenience throughout to examine financial motives, attractive opportunities, and personal willingness to explain deviant behavior. This book focusses primarily on the case study of the Island of Tjøme in Norway, an attractive resort where building permits were repeatedly granted to rich p...
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    170,77 €

  • Restoring Justice
    Daniel W. Van Ness / Jonathan Derby / Karen Heetderks Strong
    Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice, Sixth Edition, offers a clear and convincing explanation of restorative justice, a movement within criminal justice with ongoing worldwide influence. The book explores the broad appeal of this vision and offers a brief history of its roots and development as an alternative to an impersonal justice system focused narrowl...
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    103,31 €

  • Responses to Serious Offending by Children
    This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally. Divided into four parts, the book provides a balance of theoretical and empirical insights. ...
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    241,00 €

  • Restoring Justice
    Daniel W. Van Ness / Jonathan Derby / Karen Heetderks Strong
    Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice, Sixth Edition, offers a clear and convincing explanation of restorative justice, a movement within criminal justice with ongoing worldwide influence. ...
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    387,89 €

  • A Land Fit for Criminals
    David Fraser
    The British public today endure some of the world’s worst crime levels. According to the government’s own estimates, 132 million indictable crimes alone are committed every year, the vast majority of which go unrecorded and undetected. Burglary is rife; street crime burgeoning and violence is escalating to unprecedented levels. Fear of crime means that many of us - especially t...
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    20,79 €

  • Licence to Kill
    David Fraser
    Based on over thirty years of research of government sentencing policy and work within the criminal justice system, David Fraser demonstrates that Britain’s increased reliance on alternatives to imprisonment has allowed violent crime to flourish. The number of life-threatening attacks has increased rapidly over the last forty years but justice officials have masked this develop...
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    19,39 €

  • Evidence of Innocence
    Edward R. Clark
    Evidence of Innocence attests to the reality that the more serious the charge, the harder it is to prove innocence - even with strong evidence that the accused was nowhere near the scene of the crime when it occurred.Among other disservices, Edward Clark’s court appointed an attorney in the small town that did not assist in jury selection, leaving Clark to choose jurors from a ...
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    24,78 €


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