Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962
by Raymond Gard
Prisons and the Voluntary Sector
by Shane Bryans, Roma Walker, and Clive Martin
From 2002 there has been a major initiative to engage the voluntary sector and wider community in the work of prisons, part of a general trend in Government policy. This work edited by three experts and containing contributions by a range of informed commentators seeks to enable both parties to understand what is involved, the history of voluntary work in prisons - which dates back several hundred years - and how to set about devising a scheme or promoting an idea. It gives practical advice and...
A critical alternative analysis of key issues in the current policy debate about incarceration and prison overcrowding, including who goes to prison, contemporary prison conditions, maximum security, and release policies.
The first authoritative volume to look back on the last 50 years of The Open University providing higher education to those in prison, this unique book gives voice to ex-prisoners whose lives have been transformed by the education they received. Offering vivid personal testimonies, reflective vignettes and academic analysis of prison life and education in prison, the book marks the 50th anniversary of The Open University.
Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
by David Dow
Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons April 1995 - March 1996 (House of Commons Papers, 1996-97 44)
by David Ramsbotham
Zuwanderung Und Arbeitsmarkt: Deutschland Und Danemark Im Vergleich
by Klaus F. Zimmermann
Quantifying Resistance (Studies in Economic History)
by Wayne Geerling and Gary Magee
This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime. By studying serious political resistance from a quantitative historical perspective, the book opens up a new avenue of research for economic history. The database underpinning the book was painstakingly compiled from official state records of treason and/or high treason tried before the German P...
How do our hopes and dreams help define who we are? What qualities must a person have to overcome obstacles in life? What kind of courage does it take to live in an uncertain world? Drawing on the political and geographic history of Iran before the 1979 Revolution, Kian Parsi's true story is about survival amidst hardship, a need to adapt to harsh circumstances, no matter how difficult they may be, and the need to appreciate life and the importance of taking risks. Reading about Parsi's memorab...
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
by Franklin E. Zimring
Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved? In Contradictions in American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil surrounding the death penalty reflects a deep and long-standing division in American values, a division that he predicts will soon bring about the end...