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 The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice (9th Edition)Best Price: $36.38 I purchased this book for a class and was underwhelmed. Loved the title and the first chapter,... |  Rock Art of the Dreamtime: Images of Ancient AustraliaBest Price: $165.16 This study takes readers on a journey through prehistory, from enigmatic finger markings and... |  Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society (Studies in Crime and Justice Series)Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and... |  Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American SexualityBest Price: $22.29 Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the... |  The Scale of Imprisonment (Studies in Crime and Justice)Best Price: $20.00 Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of... |
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 The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, The Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of GuantánamoBest Price: $11.50 Each Thanksgiving, the president of the United States symbolically pardons one turkey from the... |  Instead Of PrisonsBest Price: $19.99 I came to the subject of abolition expecting to hear the stories of a few marginalized... |  Juvenile CorrectionsBest Price: $21.05 On any given day, there are over 100,000 youthful offenders held in a variety of residential... |  Panopticon; Or, the Inspection-House. Containing the Idea of a New Principle of Construction Applicable to Any Sort of Establishment, in Which Persons ... to Penitentiary-Houses, Prisons, HoBest Price: $14.14 This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a... |  Justifying Legal Punishment (Studies in Applied Philosophy)Best Price: $299.90 While the philosophy of punishment is dominated by utilitarian and "mixed" theories,... |
 Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison (Criminology and Justice Studies)Best Price: $21.04 John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D.... |  Criminal Justice Theory: Explaining the Nature and Behavior of Criminal Justice (Criminology and Justice Studies)Best Price: $42.22 Criminal Justice Theory is the first comprehensive volume on the theoretical foundations of... |  A Warden's Journey Thirty Years and 89 Executions |  In Defense of FloggingBest Price: $5.49 I admit that reading this book in public could prove dangerous to your health, at least based on... |  Offending Behaviour Programmes: Development, Application and Controversies (Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology)Best Price: $49.78 Part of the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Offending Behaviour Programmes:... |
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 American Political PrisonersBest Price: $75.00 This book is the first account of the personal lives of the nearly 1,000 long-term political... |  Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the Role of the WestBest Price: $25.18 First, in the interest of full disclosure, the author of the book is one of my business partners... |  Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El BarrioBest Price: $109.99 This first comprehensive study of Chicanas encountering the U.S. criminal justice system is set... |  Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El BarrioBest Price: $13.99 very long and boring at first. It talks about stats in the beginning and is very wordy.... |  Punishment: A Comparative Historical PerspectiveBest Price: $0.07 This book identifies and examines the sources of similarities and differences in types of... |
 The Offender in the CommunityBest Price: $33.83 Looks at new and traditional approaches for safely bringing past criminal offenders into the... |  When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition.Best Price: $20.41 Is capital punishment just? Does it deter people from murder? What is the risk that we will... |  Irish GulagBest Price: $19.70 Not enough is known about these tragedies in Ireland. The Church has too many skeletons in those... |  Inside: One Man's Experience of PrisonJohn Hoskison was a professional golfer whose life was turned upside down when he knocked down... |  At Issue Series - Does Capital Punishment Deter Crime? (hardcover edition)Best Price: $3.99 Whether executing violent offenders deters murder and violent crime is a major aspect of the... |
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 Women on Probation and Parole: A Feminist Critique of Community Programs and Services (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)Best Price: $22.30 So far there has been very limited research on the effectiveness of gender-responsive as... |  Prisons: Inside the New America: From Vernooykill Creek to Abu GhraibBest Price: $2.19 This powerful exposè reveals how America's ailing prison system undermines the public... |  The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)Best Price: $18.00 In April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis... |  Sentencing and Penal Policy (Law in Context) |  The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal: Penal Policy and Social Purpose (Storrs Lectures on Jurisprudence) |
 Corporal Punishment of Children in Theoretical PerspectiveBest Price: $59.97 Despite being commonplace in American households a generation ago, corporal punishment of... |  Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners |  The Death Penalty and Racial Bias: Overturning Supreme Court Assumptions (Contributions in Legal Studies)Best Price: $65.19 Russell tests the U.S. Supreme Court's assumption that the procedure used to select jurors... |  Living in Prison: A History of the Correctional System with an Insider's ViewBest Price: $60.95 Everyone really needs to buy this book. This book is from a mind of a real live killer. The... |  Prison Diary 3Best Price: $6.53 In the Open Prison at North Sea Camp, Archer fell on his feet straightaway. One of the... |
 Live from Death RowBest Price: $6.96 In this collection of essays and columns, Mumia brings us backinto reality. It is necessary for... |  Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's PrisonBest Price: $8.25 Wow. I loved this book, Piper is very funny! It made me laugh and cry. Maybe it's because I... | Careers in the Corrections System (Careers in Criminal Justice) Best Price: $29.25 | Long Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him Best Price: $0.01 Jovan Mosley was a 19 year old caught up in witnessing a murder, and ended up having his... | Stay of Execution: Saving the Death Penalty from Itself (Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society) Best Price: $8.49 Lane is that worst species of death penalty supporter: one who won't admit that the... |
| The Gulag Archipelago, VOLUME 3: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Section V-VII (Library Edition) Best Price: $84.95 [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition of VOLUME 3 in vinyl case.] **Time Magazine's... | The Gulag Archipelago, VOLUME 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Section III-IV (Library Edition) Best Price: $106.67 [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition of VOLUME 2 in vinyl case.] **Time Magazine's... | Bound for Botany Bay: The Story of British Convict Transportation to Australia The story of an extraordinary period in British criminal history, told through the surviving... | Women In Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb Best Price: $6.89 I found it difficult to believe some of the sentences these women drew for the "petty... | Teaching the Arts Behind Bars Best Price: $31.00 Teaching the Arts Behind Bars is a fantastic book because its contributors are people who know... |
| Women on Probation and Parole: A Feminist Critique of Community Programs and Services (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law) Best Price: $22.30 So far there has been very limited research on the effectiveness of gender-responsive as... | Prisons: Inside the New America: From Vernooykill Creek to Abu Ghraib Best Price: $2.19 This powerful exposè reveals how America's ailing prison system undermines the public... | |||
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