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  • Sonrisa tras las rejas
    J. I. Varela
    Múltiples circunstancias pueden cambiar la vida de una persona, pero pasar diez años en la cárcel es probablemente una de las más extremas. J.I. Varela pasó la mayor parte de su condena rodeado por muros de agua, sin que la brisa marina y la vida playera en las Islas Marías pudieran evitar las sensaciones de abandono, soledad y reclusión: el carcelazo.En «Sonrisa tras las rejas...
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    11,44 €

  • ¡Al llamado del barco!
    Elizabeth García Pérez
    «¡Al llamado del barco!» es el testimonio íntimo y revelador de Elizabeth García Pérez, quien, como trabajadora social, vivió entre 1993 y 1995 en la Colonia Penal Federal de las Islas Marías. A través de una narración honesta, sensible y profundamente humana, la autora nos conduce por la vida cotidiana de colonos, familias y empleados que habitaron este singular modelo peniten...
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    14,04 €

  • What’s Going On In There?
    Jonathan C. Tetherly
    WHAT IS THE CULTURE OF A JAIL? What are the relationships between correctional staff and the inmates? How do teachers, clergy, counselors, and volunteers fit into the picture? Besides Sunday worship, what does a progressive chaplain do in a jail with its rapid turnover of inmates? What are their nationalities and races, their status in society, their sadness, hopes, fears, and ...
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    18,06 €

  • The Eruption of Possible
    Dr. Kevin H Abdur-Rahman
    What happens when a man refuses to be defined by his environment-or confined by his past?The environment doesn’t just shape lives-it cages potential.In The Eruption of Possible, Dr. Kevin H. Abdur-Rahman delivers an unforgettable narrative of resilience, transformation, and the audacity to imagine a different future. With the clarity of lived experience and the wisdom of a comm...
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    16,57 €

  • Navigating the Road to Redemption
    Joe Denman
    Rebuild Your Life After Incarceration-One Step at a TimeFreedom is only the first step-what matters next is learning how to build a life you never have to run from again.Building a stable life after incarceration requires more than good intentions. It requires a clear plan, one with action steps and an understanding of the reentry challenges every former inmate faces. The desir...
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    21,47 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    Locked out of the statehouse, the argument went looking for a reader. Four novels, a poem written in a prison cell, the first English translation of a Catalan address, and the study that went looking for deterrence in the returns and came back empty.After the Civil War, the American abolition movement lost the floor it had spent thirty years winning. The scaffold went behind th...
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    23,05 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    The decade the argument almost won. A systematic American theology of abolition, the most quoted journalism ever written against the gallows, Frederick Douglass tying the scaffold to the auction block, and a novel that makes a murderer’s soul the reader’s problem.Between 1844 and 1869 the movement produced everything it would need. Charles Spear made abolition a system and wrot...
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    23,08 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    Every state in history has killed people. For most of that history, nobody thought it needed defending.The argument against it is supposed to begin in 1764. That year, an Italian named Cesare Beccaria published a short book saying the state had no right to take a life, and Europe began to listen. Every history of the death penalty starts there.This volume exists because that da...
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    17,69 €

  • The Abolition Classics
    Jeff Hood
    In a study in Florence around 1760, a thirty-year-old nobleman named Giuseppe Pelli worked out the argument that would make Cesare Beccaria famous - and then put the manuscript in a drawer, where it stayed for two hundred and fifty years. Four years later, Beccaria published substantially the same case in Livorno. Within a decade, Tuscany had abolished the death penalty outrigh...
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    17,21 €

  • Essays on the Punishment of Death
    Jeff Hood / Kat Bodrie
    In 1844 a Boston minister sat down to end the death penalty by argument alone.Charles Spear gave sixteen essays to the task. He went at the gallows from every side. He counted the jurors who would not convict because conviction meant a hanging. He counted the men who watched an execution in the morning and killed someone by nightfall. He counted the innocent...the farmer hanged...
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    14,13 €

  • Маршрут
    Анна Каретникова
    Восемь лет Анна Каретникова ходила по маршруту - из камеры в камеру, из кабинета в кабинет - как член Общественной наблюдательной комиссии Москвы, имея право беспрепятственно посещать СИЗО, изоляторы временного содержания и отделы полиции. Трагикомические сценки, истерические монологи, вопли отчаяния и внезапные приступы абсурдного юмора складываются в летопись мира, незаметног...
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    19,59 €

  • The Light Within the Walls
    C.P. Handler
    We label them criminals. This book asks us to look again.In The Light Within the Walls, social worker C.P. Handler takes readers inside juvenile detention, where boys carrying histories of trauma, abandonment, violence, and loss are often reduced to the worst thing they have ever done.What she finds is not the story she expected.As she builds trust with youth navigating a syste...
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    24,01 €

  • De Guardias a Guardianes
    Nicole Daedone
    De Guardias a Guardianes es una guía pensada para los oficiales correccionales, los héroes anónimos del sistema penitenciario. A través de ejercicios prácticos, reflexiones y testimonios camino para transformar la cultura de las prisiones desde los cimientos. Utilizado tanto a nivel operativo como administrativo en centros de todo el país, ofrece herramientas para construir un...
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    11,86 €

  • Six Years in the Prisons of England (Cram Edition)
    Frank of London Henderson
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Six Years in the Prisons of England pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Six Years in the Prisons of England' offers a gripping personal narrative of 19th-century prison life in England. Written by 'A Merchant,' this unique historical document provides a compel...
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    23,22 €

  • Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; Or, War on the White Slave Trade (Cram Edition)
    Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Bell
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; Or, War on the White Slave Trade pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls: War on the White Slave Trade' offers a stark and unflinching look at the social issues surrounding prostitution and s...
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    29,68 €

  • The Criminal & the Community (Cram Edition)
    James Devon
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Criminal & the Community pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the complex relationship between crime, punishment, and society in James Devon’s 'The Criminal & the Community.' This seminal work, focusing on the British criminal justice system, delves ...
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    26,94 €

  • Woman in Prison (Cram Edition)
    Caroline H. Woods
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Woman in Prison pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Caroline H. Woods’ 'Woman in Prison' offers a stark and compelling look into the lives of women incarcerated in the United States. This important work, categorized under Social Science, Criminology, and Penolo...
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    20,98 €

  • After Prison-What? (Cram Edition)
    Maud Ballington Booth
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of After Prison-What? pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'After Prison - What?' by Maud Ballington Booth offers a powerful examination of prisoner rehabilitation and the vital role of social work in reforming lives. As a dedicated social activist, Booth explores ...
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    23,08 €

  • The Mysteries of Modern London (Cram Edition)
    George R. Sims / Steven Spurrier
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Mysteries of Modern London pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Mysteries of Modern London' by George R. Sims delves into the dark underbelly of Victorian London, exploring the lives and environments of the city’s criminal class. A crucial historical do...
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    25,12 €

  • Boyville
    John E. (John Elstner) Gunckel
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Boyville pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Boyville: A History of Fifteen Years’ Work Among Newsboys' by John E. Gunckel offers a compelling glimpse into the lives of newsboys in Toledo, Ohio, at the turn of the 20th century. More than just a chronicle, this...
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    23,17 €

  • Spanish Prisons
    Arthur Griffiths
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Spanish Prisons pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Delve into the dark history of crime and punishment in 'The History and Romance of Crime; Spanish Prisons' by Arthur Griffiths. This meticulously prepared edition explores the evolution of Spanish prisons, off...
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    23,13 €

  • Known to the Police (Cram Edition)
    Thomas Holmes
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Known to the Police pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Known to the Police' by Thomas Holmes offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of London policing and crime in a bygone era. This meticulously prepared republication presents a historical account of th...
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    25,26 €

  • Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman’s Caueat, Haben’s Sermon, &c.
    John active 1559-1577 Awdelay / Parson Haben / Thomas active 1567 Harman
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman’s Caueat, Haben’s Sermon, &c. pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Delve into the hidden underbelly of Elizabethan England with 'Awdeley’s Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman’s Caueat, Haben’s Sermon, &c.,' a vital colle...
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    26,16 €

  • West Side Studies
    Lewis Wickes Hine / Pauline Goldmark / Ruth S. (Ruth Smiley) True
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of West Side Studies pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'West Side Studies: Boyhood and Lawlessness, The Neglected Girl' offers a vital glimpse into the early 20th-century concerns surrounding juvenile delinquency and the evolving landscape of urban sociology. Au...
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    29,82 €

  • In an Unknown Prison Land
    George Chetwynd Griffith / Harold Piffard
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of In an Unknown Prison Land pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Venture into the heart of a 19th-century penal colony with George Griffith’s 'In an Unknown Prison Land: An account of convicts and colonists in New Caledonia with jottings out and home.' This compel...
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    25,18 €

  • Criminal Sociology (Cram Edition)
    Enrico Ferri
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Criminal Sociology pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the foundations of modern criminology with 'Criminal Sociology' by Enrico Ferri, a seminal work in the field of social science. This meticulously prepared print edition offers readers a vital explor...
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    25,18 €

  • A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (Cram Edition)
    Watkin Tench
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson' offers a firsthand, detailed record of the establishment of the first European settlement in New South Wales, Austral...
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    25,21 €

  • The Subterranean Brotherhood (Cram Edition)
    Julian Hawthorne
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Subterranean Brotherhood pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Julian Hawthorne’s 'The Subterranean Brotherhood' offers a stark and unflinching look into the penal system and the realities of inmate life. Published originally in the early 20th century, this c...
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    25,10 €

  • Not Giving Up on People
    Audrey Yap / Barrett Emerick
    Feminist philosophers Barrett Emerick and Audrey Yap bring theoretical arguments about personhood and moral repair into conversation with the work of activists and the experiences of incarcerated people to make the case that prisons ought to be abolished. They argue that contemporary carceral systems in the United States and Canada fail to treat people as genuine moral agents i...
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    51,32 €

  • Surviving The Other Death Penalty
    Todd L Cook
    Surviving the Other Death Penalty is a powerful and deeply personal exploration of life behind prison walls, written by a man who has spent more than three decades serving a life sentence in Nebraska. Part memoir, part guidebook, and part call to action, Todd L. Cook takes readers inside the realities of what many incarcerated people call 'the other death penalty'-life without ...
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    25,01 €