Penología y penas

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  • Your Future Is in Your Hands
    Franklyn Smith / Gerald Bradford / Terrence Morgan
    Your future is an open road, full of possibilities,and the life you want to live is within your grasp. You need a plan to get there. Your Future Is in Your Hands is that plan-a course comprised of 21 impactful modules to help you identify your goals and strengths, as well as potential obstacles and weaknesses, as you work toward a positive lifestyle and integration into the com...
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    24,09 €

  • Stuck Outside
    Andrew Taylor
    How do identity and social circumstances affect experiences of the criminal legal system in the US?It’s no secret that factors such as race and socio-economic status will affect a person’s experience of life, and contact with the criminal legal system is no different. Drawing on the author’s own experience of jail and the criminal legal system, as well as academic literature in...
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    24,35 €

  • Prison Capital
    Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
    Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana’s unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana’s carceral infrastructures with new pr...
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    126,43 €

  • Prison Capital
    Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
    Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana’s unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana’s carceral infrastructures with new pr...
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    37,58 €

  • The First British Crime Survey
    Julian Molina
    The First British Crime Survey: An Ethnography of Criminology within Government explores the early history of the British Crime Survey and how government officials, academics, and criminologists address the challenges brought by large-scale data projects. ...
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    143,01 €

  • Gendered Perspectives of Restorative Justice, Violence and Resilience
    Bev Orton
    Providing an in-depth, international perspective of women’s resilience, Gendered Perspectives of Restorative Justice, Violence and Resilience: An International Framework shines crucial visibility on a diverse, gendered lens of intervention, empowerment and understanding of violence and resilience. ...
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    143,04 €

  • The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology
    Collectively, The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology explores the contemporary terrain around new and emergent issues and forms of activism, and offers cutting edge conceptualizations of the methodological and practical applications of activist engagement, solidarity, and resistance. ...
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    252,34 €

  • Buddha Behind Bars - A Memoir
    Collin Ruiz
    Faced with a two-year federal prison sentence far away from her home and family, Collin Ruiz took her Buddhist vows and dedicated her years of incarceration to developing her Buddhist practice. A women’s federal prison became her monastery. Everyone feels trapped or imprisoned at times. Collin reminds us that even when we can’t control our circumstances, we always control our o...
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    15,60 €

  • Rethinking Community Sanctions
    Julie Stubbs / Sophie Russell
    Based on insights from interviews with key participants in 3 Australian jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the importance of connecting criminal legal system struggles with broader movements for community control, self-determination, and sovereignty. ...
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    149,66 €

  • Haunting Prison
    Tea Fredriksson
    Through a study of ten commercially published prison autobiographies, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution unveils how prison is narrativized and socially represented as an abject and uncanny institution, shedding new light on what prison is and does in Western carceral imaginations. ...
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    143,07 €

  • Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times
    Mathieu Deflem
    Theoretically and methodologically diverse, Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times addresses important questions of crime, punishment, policing, social control, and law in relation to COVID-19. ...
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    190,96 €

  • The Story of Canada Blackie (Heathen Edition)
    Anne P. L. Field
    Anne Porter Lynes Field (later Lloyd, 1874-1947) was a poet and writer best known as the author of the 1915 book The Story of Canada Blackie, which she was compelled to pen after a chance meeting with New York State’s most notorious criminal John E. Murphy, alias Canada Blackie. Serving a life sentence for a robbery gone awry, he was later given an additional 10 years for attem...
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    12,00 €

  • An Introduction to Penology
    Dr Helena Gosling / Lawrence Burke
    An Introduction to Penology is a concise, informative, scholarly guide that will speak to a variety of audiences interested in how the notion of punishment, plays out in community and custodial settings with people who have broken the law. ...
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    163,83 €

  • An Introduction to Penology
    Dr Helena Gosling / Lawrence Burke
    An Introduction to Penology is a concise, informative, scholarly guide that will speak to a variety of audiences interested in how the notion of punishment, plays out in community and custodial settings with people who have broken the law. ...
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    55,71 €

  • Voices from Death Row, Second Edition
    Bruce Jackson / Diane Christian
    A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas’s Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves. ...
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    121,31 €

  • Voices from Death Row, Second Edition
    Bruce Jackson / Diane Christian
    A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas’s Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves. ...
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    25,24 €

  • 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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    20,37 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies
    This volume explores the theoretical and methodological maturity and diversity in reflexive accounts of criminology and criminal justice in a number of areas, such as and teaching and research in criminology, queer criminology, the intersections of race and gender, indigeneity and decolonization, domestic violence and human rights. ...
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    167,81 €

  • The Spectacle of Criminal Justice
    Rosie Smith
    Delving into how institutions of justice, as well as public expressions of justice, such as rage and grief, are played out in the media, Smith helps us understand how this represents a shift away from historical community displays of punishment towards a media sanitised public engagement with the implementation of control and justice. ...
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    136,27 €

  • The War on Drugs An Old Wives Tale
    Christine D Shuck
    Part memoir, part current affairs, part argument for legalization - The War on Drugs is a MUST READ for those who believe that the war on drugs only happens to 'those people' in 'that part of town.' Written from the point of view of a wife and mother, The War On Drugs: An Old Wives’ Tale examines the pros and cons of marijuana prohibition, drug diversion programs, and challenge...
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    23,98 €

  • Rethinking the Gulag
    Alan Barenberg
    The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied institutions, and brought together inmates from all the Soviet Union’s ethnicities, professions, and social...
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    49,85 €

  • Rethinking the Gulag
    Alan Barenberg
    The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied institutions, and brought together inmates from all the Soviet Union’s ethnicities, professions, and social...
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    121,49 €

  • From Asylum to Prison
    Anne E. Parsons / Anne EParsons
    To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the governme...
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    31,69 €

  • We Are Not Slaves
    Robert T. Chase / Robert TChase
    Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book, International Latino Book AwardsBest Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of CriminologyIn the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plan...
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    40,88 €

  • Work and the Carceral State
    Jon Burnett
    During 2019-20 in England and Wales, over 17 million hours of labor were carried out by more than 12,500 people incarcerated in prisons, while many people in immigration detention centers were also put to work. These people constitute a sub-waged, captive workforce who are frequently discarded by the state when done with. Work and the Carceral State examines these forms of work...
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    127,12 €

  • History & Crime
    Revealing the cross utility potential of multiple disciplines to advance knowledge in crime studies, History & Crime showcases new research into crime from across the interdisciplinary perspectives of early modern and modern history, criminology, forensic psychology, and legal studies. ...
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    142,73 €


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