Catálogo de libros: Penología y penas

524 Catálogo de libros: Penología y penas

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  • Changing Lenses
    Howard Zehr
    Does the criminal justice system actually help victims and offenders? What does justice look like for those who have been harmed? For those who have done harm? Twenty-five years after it was first published, Changing Lenses by Howard Zehr remains the classic text of the restorative justice field. 336 Pages. ...
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    22,96 €

  • Why Prison?
    David Scott
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    48,53 €

  • Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
    This book analyzes the prison systems in the Americas in the twenty-first century. Leading experts discuss the state of the prison systems in their respective countries, focusing on trends of overcrowding, high recidivism rates, harsh drug laws, human rights, and the relationship between prisons, drug trafficking, and organized crime. ...
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    156,73 €

  • A Sliver of Light
    Joshua Fattal / Sarah Shourd / Shane Bauer
    'A Sliver of Light weaves a spellbinding tale of hard-won survival at the intersection of courage and love -- the love of friends struggling to support one another in wretched circumstances, the unyielding bedrock of mothers’ love for their long-lost children, and the fiercely tested love of three people for the family of humankind. It is a triumph of writing born of a triumph ...
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    17,96 €

  • The Culture of Urban Control
    John P. Walsh / John PWalsh
    Through an analysis of a federal consent decree and media representation related to overcrowding within the largest single-site jail facility in the United States, the incarceration binge of the 1990’s is explored at the local level in The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era. Analysis of jail conditions, expansion, the inmate experience and chan...
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    62,74 €

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V16 #2
    Bob Gaucher
    Journal of Prisoners on Prisons V16 #2. The expansion and intensification of coercive powers is a global phenomenon, reflecting the fragility of social order and the authority of ruling elites in the 21st century.Relationships of domination, powerlessness and resistance, still characterize the carceral experience. 3 ...
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    21,23 €

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons V23 #2
    Edited by Sarah Fiander (Wilfrid Laurier University - Brantford), Ashley Chen (University of Ottawa) and Justin Piché (University of Ottawa), Volume 23(2) of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons features selected papers written by prisoners presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA 15) which discussed prison, abolitionism and reform. 3 ...
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    18,97 €

  • Manson, Sinatra and Me
    Virginia Graham
    Manson, Sinatra and Me is a Hollywood party girl’s memoir that details her encounters with former Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, foreign dignitaries, celebrities, sports stars, businessmen - you name it - including the likes of Frank Sinatra and other members of the Rat Pack. The average man or woman may not have heard of Virginia Graham, but everybody in the know was aware...
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    26,37 €

  • 602
    Harding McRae
    In the summer of 2008, life changed forever for Dr. Harding McRae, a Board Certified emergency physician with over 30 years of experience. In the blink of an eye, a momentary lapse in judgment resulted in a felony arrest for assault with a deadly weapon and, sixteen months later, on November 3, 2009, his conviction ultimately bought Harding a five-year sentence in state prison...
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    34,67 €

  • Capital Punishment in the U.S. States
    Sarah I. Archibald
    Archibald attempts to find variables that can explain the variation not only in the adoption of the death penalty, but also in the implementation of capital punishment. She combines Kingdon's Garbage Can model and Social Control Theory to explain the differences in the adoption and implementation of the death penalty. Given that there was only one model that showed a correlatio...
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    87,79 €

  • The Furnace of Affliction
    Jennifer Graber
    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, particu...
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    41,51 €

  • Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory
    Stephen C. McGuinn / Stephen CMcGuinn
    Stephen C. McGuinn develops a conception of prison infrastructure and policy to explore how workers and administrators are essential in the development of prison culture. This study provides insight for those interested in criminology, criminal justice, prison theory and reform, policy studies, and labor studies. ...
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    132,22 €

  • The Case for a Royal Commission on the Penal System
    Louis Blom-Cooper / Seán McConville
    An initiative supported by leading political, academic, religious and professional figures. A key document that builds on many years of letters to newspapers and media interest. 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 mem...
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    11,89 €

  • Locked Down, Locked Out
    Maya Schenwar
    Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family’s experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster real collective safety. As she vividly depicts here, incarceration takes away the very things that might enable peopl...
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    27,08 €

  • Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962
    Raymond Gard
    Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962 draws on a wide range of archive material to describe the arrival of a modern probation service. Focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, it describes the debates, conflicts and compromises that resulted in the creation of a state sponsored, centrally controlled, professional, secular, social work and psyc...
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    206,48 €

  • More Frontier Justice in the Wild West
    R. Michael Wilson / RMichael Wilson
     More Frontier Justice in the Wild West; Bungled, Bizarre and Fascinating Executions reveals the details of more than two dozen instances of frontier justice from the era of the Wild West. The events chosen are unique, have some surprising twist, serve as a landmark or benchmark event, or just stand out in the annals of western justice. ...
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    14,77 €

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons V23 #1
    Justin Piché
    Volume 23, Number 1 of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons is a general issue edited by Professor Justin Piché (University of Ottawa). In this issue of the JPP, readers will find these three kinds of contributions that, although in written form, offer alternative images that make visible that which takes place inside otherwise opaque prisons. This volume is the first issue of t...
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    18,99 €

  • The Golden Age of Probation
    Roger Statham
    The Golden Age of Probation is the first book on probation by those practitioners who became its leaders. A comprehensive account exploring culture, values and tensions. It looks at the dynamics of probation supervision and political dimensions, including the shift to a market-driven form of public service. A lively and challenging collection of writings by those at the very he...
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    41,90 €

  • Prison Diaries
    Charles Bronson
    Charles Bronson is Britain’s most notorious prisoner, a ’Category A’ inmate who has spent over 30 years inside as a result of his violent and unpredictable behaviour. No one knows the system better than Charlie. Now, for the very first time, you can find out what it is really like inside a maximum security institution as Charlie blows the lid on his life in HM Wakefield. Writte...
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    17,33 €

  • Offender Reentry and Cognitive Intervention
    Ken Balusek
    The mass incarceration policies of recent decades have created the corresponding realization that the vast majority of these individuals will someday be released back into society. Failure to properly prepare these individuals for their return to society will result in a large number of these individuals returning to prison. This research uses propensity score matching to creat...
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    78,88 €

  • Mercy
    David J. Cornwell / David JCornwell
    Restorative justice has attracted increasing support world-wide, but it sits uncomfortably alongside entrenched attitudes towards punishment and retribution. Because it does not involve ’locking-up people and throwing away the key’ it is not favoured reading for risk-averse politicians or the media. There are also vested interests at play which can be traced back to when the st...
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    22,79 €

  • The Promise of Punishment
    Patricia O'Brien / Patricia O’Brien
    Patricia O’Brien traces the creation and development of a modern prison system in nineteenth-century France. The study has three principal areas of concern: prisons and their populations; the organizing principles of the system, including occupational and educational programs for rehabilitation; and the extension of punishment outside the prison walls.Originally published in 19...
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    80,85 €

  • Seeing Justice Done
    Paul Friedland
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    46,77 €

  • Girls Behind Bars
    Suniti Sharma
    While scholarship on the education of youth behind bars has largely focused on boys, more than one in three youth arrests in the United States is female. Girls Behind Bars sets out to address this imbalance.First, the book offers autobiographies, life-stories, and counter-stories in order to counter simplistic generalizations and empirical prescriptions. Next, the study provide...
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    64,26 €

  • Living on Death Row
    Eric Lose
    Living on Death Row represents a 13-year ethnographic study of men awaiting their execution while confined on Ohio's Death Row (DR). Lose was granted unprecedented access to conduct confidential interviews in a supermax environment. Slowly he developed a mutual trust with the inmates, and they began to open up about their crimes, lives, hopes, fears and impending executions. Re...
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    85,54 €

  • Prisoners on Criminology
    William S. Tregea / William STregea
    William S. Tregea makes prisoners’ stories come alive with eighty prisoner essays integrated in informational chapters tracing shifts in criminality, the U.S. prison build up, and inner cities. The chapters review criminological theories through case studies of prisoners’ own insights on their lives at the individual, family, and community levels. ...
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    179,67 €

  • Prisoners on Criminology
    William S. Tregea / William STregea / William Tregea
    William S. Tregea makes prisoners’ stories come alive with eighty prisoner essays integrated in informational chapters tracing shifts in criminality, the U.S. prison build up, and inner cities. The chapters review criminological theories through case studies of prisoners’ own insights on their lives at the individual, family, and community levels. ...
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    84,18 €

  • Confessions of a Prison Chaplain
    Brown Mary
    Mary Brown’s engaging book describes the ’lifeline’ work of the prison chaplaincy. Written by a Quaker chaplain, it shows how important to prisoners this contact is and how it blends into the ever-pressing world of prison regimes. Among the topics covered are the ’statutory duties’ of chaplains, forgiveness, ’prison chapel goers’, Christmas in prison, delivering bad news, deali...
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    24,03 €

  • Prisoners of Britain
    Panikos Panayi
    During WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, and covers 3 different types of internees in Britain: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants. ...
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    36,39 €

  • Coercive confinement in Ireland
    Eoin Sullivan / Ian O’Donnell
    Provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory and Industrial schools, prisons and Borstal formed a network of institutions of coercive confinement integral to the emerging state. ...
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    36,80 €


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