Experts on both side of the issue--including Paul Cassell, Alexander Kozinski, Louis Pojman, Stephen Bright, Hugo Bedau, Bryan Stevenson, Joshua Marquis, and Governor George Ryan--speak out both for and against capital punishment and the rationale behind their individual beliefs.
The Death of the American Death Penalty: States Still Leading the Way
by Larry W Koch, Colin Wark, and John F. Galliher
Incarceration and Human Rights (Oxford Amnesty Lectures)
A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. What do human rights concerns dictate about the practices that we tolerate in places of incarceration? And conversely, what can prisons, their hard facts and the ideas underpinning them, tell us about human rights?The book offers a diversity of voices: from the inside view of Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons to the words of a poet and former...
The convict origins of European settlement in Australia have long attracted the attention of novelists and historians. But what effect have these origins--and Australian society's preoccupation with them-- had on later institutions and modes of punishment? This book explores the question through a study of imprisonment and other forms of punishment in Australia since European settlement. It examines the social, cultural, political, and historiographical aspects of this important subject, and sho...
Involuntary Institutionalization
Controversial Issues in Corrections
by Charles B Fields and Steven A. Egger
Controversial Issues in Corrections is part of a new series of books published by Allyn & Bacon for Criminal Justice. It utilizes a unique debate format to discuss controversial issues in the field of corrections. Anyone with an interest in prisons and the correctional process will find this book an invaluable resource. Topics addressed in this book were chosen with a conscious effort to include those that are the most controversial. The contributing authors come from a variety of backgrounds,...
Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners' needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? In The Puz...
Dutch Prisons
Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp--a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an...
Based on Save the Children's experience of working with prisoners' families, this guide helps agencies or individuals working in the community to identify: the needs of prisoners' children and their families; the questions they may ask at each stage of the criminal proceedings; and ways of providing both emotional and practical support.
Presidents and Mass Incarceration: Choices at the Top, Repercussions at the Bottom
by Linda K Mancillas
Penal Policy, Justice Reform and Social Exclusion (Heuni: European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, #48)
The Effective Corrections Manager: Correctional Supervision for the Future
by Richard L. Phillips and Charles R McConnell
Effective management is essential to the stability and safety of correctional facilities. The Effective Corrections Manager: Correctional Supervision for the Future, Second Edition provides current information on management and supervision, and offers practical advice based on direct experience. Managing a correctional agency hinges on effectively recruiting, training, directing, and motivating people. This book teaches readers how to be successful in those endeavors.
Incarceration and Generation, Volume II (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)
This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects. Volume II examines intergenerational relations issues within contexts of incarceration. It focuses on the intergenerational continuities in imprisonment; intergenerational justice and citizenship; the impacts of incarceration on multiple generatio...
Correctional Counseling
by Ph D Robert D Hanser, Ph D Scott M Mire, and M a Alton Braddock
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history.New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain Anthony sets sail on the Catalpa to rescue the men from the stone walls of this hell on Earth known...
Late-Medieval Prison Writing and the Politics of Autobiography (Oxford English Monographs)
by Joanna Summers
Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy has long been taken as one of the seminal works of the Middle Ages, yet despite the study of many aspects of the Consolation's influence, the legacy of the figure of the writer in prison has not been explored. A group of late-medieval authors, Thomas Usk, James I of Scotland, Charles d'Orleans, George Ashby, William Thorpe, Richard Wyche, and Sir Thomas Malory, demonstrate the ways in which the imprisoned writer is presented, both within and outside the Boethi...