Edition:- 2000
Editor:-Michael Tonry
Publisher:- Oxford University Press
Size:- 45.02 MB
Page:- 832 Pages
Price:- $58.50
ISBN:- 0195140605
Features:- Crime is one of the most significant political issues in contemporary American society. Crime control statistics and punishment policies are subjects of constant partisan debate, while the media presents sensationalized stories of criminal activity and over-crowded prisons. In the highly politicized arena of crime and justice, empirical data and reasoned analysis are often overlook or ignored. The Handbook of Crime and Punishment, however, provides a comprehensive overview of criminal justice, criminology, and crime control policy, thus enabling a fundamental understanding of crime and punishment essential to an informed public. Expansive in its coverage, the Handbook presents materials on crime and punishment trends as well as timely policy issues. The latest research on the demography of crime (race, gender, drug use) is included and weighty current problems (organized crime, white collar crime, family violence, sex offenders, youth gangs, drug abuse policy) are examined. Processes and institutions that deal with accused and convicted criminals and techniques of punishment are also examined. While some articles emphasize American research findings and developments, others incorporate international research and offer a comparative perspective from other English-speaking countries and Western Europe. Editor Michael Tonry, a leading scholar of criminology, introduces the 28 articles in the volume, each contributed by an expert in the field. Designed for a wide audience, The Handbook is encyclopedic in its range and depth of content, yet is written in an accessible style. The most inclusive and authoritative work on the topic to be found in one volume, this book will appeal to those interested in the study of crime and its causes, effects, trends, and institutions; those interested in the forms and philosophies of punishment; and those interested in crime control.
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2. Book Title:- International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice
Edition:- First Edition
Edited by:- Shlomo Giora Shoham,
Ori Beck ,
Martin Kett
Ori Beck ,
Martin Kett
Publisher:- CRC Press
Size:- 9.2 MB
Page:- 800 pages
Price:- $144.95
ISBN:- 1420053876
Features:- The first comparative study of the subject, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced review of the philosophy and practicality of punishment. It analyzes the efficacy of both traditional methods and thinking as well as novel concepts and approaches to produce an objective and sober appraisal of the theory, practice, history, and empirical evidence surrounding crime prevention, identification, retribution, and incarceration. It considers changing attitudes in penal practice, sociology of prisoners, abolition of the capital punishment, non-incarcerative and alternative punishment as well as several methods for achieving measurable crime prevention. It also presents case studies that illustrate the concepts discussed.
Beginning with a study of the changing attitude of penal practice in Florida from one of offender transformation to one of risk-management, imprisonment, surveillance, and control, this volume embarks on an objective and sober appraisal of every aspect of the field. Contributions consider the sociology of incarcerated prisoners including the increasing prevalence of prison suicides. The book evaluates arguments regarding the world-wide abolition of capitol punishment from moral, utilitarian, and practical positions. It examines non-incarcerative and alternative punishments such as financial restoration and restrictions of liberty, as well as the positive effects of Victim Offender Mediation. It also considers several methods aimed at achieving measurable crime prevention including identifying at-risk juveniles and minimizing crimes of opportunity, as well as the pros and cons of employing the coercive power of police.
Further essays consider subjects such as international policing, the roles of prosecution and defense attorneys, current discretionary sentencing practices, and the role and treatment of victims. The volume concludes with two chapters of case studies that provide a "hands-on" feel for the interplay of the concepts discussed.
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Edition:- 2007
Author:- Theodore L. Dorpat
Publisher:- Algora Publishing
Size:- 5.22 MB
Page:- 306 pages
Price:- $24.95
ISBN:- 0875865631
ISBN:- 0875865631
Features:- This groundbreaking book by an award-winning psychoanalyst and forensic psychiatrist presents a comprehensive exploration of a timely but often taboo topic: the failure of punishment to deter crime and violence, an issue that affects us both individually and as a culture.
Written at the culmination of the author s fifty-year career as a psychoanalyst, forensic psychologist and scholar, this wide-ranging work identifies the origins of violence and investigates the surprising consequences of punishment from a multitude of perspectives. In his treatment of the topic, Dr. Dorpat utilizes scientific research; ethical reasoning, and his vast clinical experience and insight. He also suggests the benefits of new and emerging humane alternatives to the revenge/punishment model currently entrenched in our society, such as restorative justice. In contrast to most contemporary measures, these new approaches while still imprisoning dangerous individuals effectively stress reparation and forms of sanctioning other than incarceration. When restitution replaces revenge, everyone benefits.
Crimes of Punishment examines four key, interrelated social methods of punishment. These are (1) the corporal punishment of children, (2) the incarceration of adults in prisons, (3) capital punishment the death penalty, and (4) emotional (verbal) abuse. As he elucidates and analyzes each of these forms of punishment, Dr. Dorpat clearly and logically makes the case that punishment is not only ineffectual but that it also engenders more of what it ostensibly aims to stop: violence and misbehavior. Both children and adults who are subjected to punishment tend to become more violent individuals.
In covering the full scope of our contemporary justice system Dr. Dorpat brings to the forefront those who are often overlooked or dismissed: the victims of crime. His concluding chapters present and clarify the psychological wounds and needs of these individuals, and demonstrate how restorative justice is effective in attending to victims in an ethical and healing manner. In a humane and ethically evolved society restitution replaces punishment.
Market Comparison-- Crimes of Punishment is unique in that it covers not just one but four different types of punishment (the corporal punishment of children, the incarceration of adults, the death penalty, and verbal [emotional] abuse). Two earlier books written by psychiatrists expose the terrible conditions in America s prisons. They are The Crime of Punishment (New York: Viking, 1968) by Karl Menninger, and Prison Madness by Terry Kupers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999). This book differs in two important ways from the books written by Menninger and Kupers. First, The Crimes of Punishment covers other kinds of punishment, while those authors deal only with the punishment of incarceration. Secondly, the reforms they recommend are merely piecemeal modifications of the present criminal justice systems, whereas Dr. Dorpat argues for a radical change that includes the abolition of today s punitive prison (Retributive Justice) system and the establishment of a new and different system, namely Restorative Justice, a system that has been developed over the past decade in Australia and New Zealand. The Crimes of Punishment differs from Menninger s book in covering the many changes that have occurred in prisons since 1968. In several short chapters on restorative justice, the book also explores this exciting new approach and serves as an informed introduction to a new, important, and effective moral approach to the treatment of criminals.
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Edition:- 2001
Edited by:- Andrew Barrett
Publisher:- Andrew Barrett (Routledge)
Size:- 1.7 MB
Page:- 360 pages
Price:- $130.00
ISBN:- 1857288718
Features:- This is the first single-volume introduction to the national history of crime and punishment. From the medieval period to the present day, this survey synthesizes the wealth of case study and local level material and standardizes the debates and issues for readers with an interest in social history and criminology.
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5. Book Title:- Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective
Edition:- 2004
Authors:- Terance D. Miethe,
Hong Lu
Hong Lu
Publisher:- Cambridge University Press (November 22, 2004)
Size:- 1.6 MB
Page:- 252 pages
Price:- $68.00
ISBN:- 052184407X
Features:- "...the many lessons for Canadian criminologists contained in this superb text permit me to conclude that it is quite a "gem." Canadian Journal of Criminology and criminal Justice, Gilles Renaud, Ontario Court of Justice
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This book identifies and examines the sources of similarities and differences in types of economic punishments, incapacitation devices and structures, and lethal and non-lethal forms of corporal punishment over time and place. The authors survey punishment responses to crime and deviance across different regions of the world and in specific countries like the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia.
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6. Book Title:- Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Themes in Islamic Law)
Edition:- 2006
Author:- Rudolph Peters
Publisher:- Cambridge University Press
Size:- 1.34 MB
Page:- 232 pages
Price:- $60.00
ISBN:- 0521796709
Features:- Rudolph Peters' book is about crimes and their punishments as laid down in Islamic law. In recent years some of the more fundamentalist regimes, such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the northern states of Nigeria have reintroduced Islamic law in place of western criminal codes. Peters gives a detailed account of the classical doctrine and traces the enforcement of criminal law from the Ottoman period to the present day. The accounts of actual cases which range from theft, banditry, murder, fornication and apostasy shed light on the complexities of the law, and the sensitivity and perspicacity of the qadis who implemented it. This is the first single-authored account of both the theory and practice of Islamic criminal law. It will be invaluable for students, and scholars in the field, as well as for professionals looking for comprehensive coverage of the topic.
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7. Book Title:- Rehabilitation (Key Ideas in Criminology Series)
Edition:- 2007
Author:- Tony Ward,
Shadd Maruna
Shadd Maruna
Publisher:- Routledge
Size:- 1 MB
Page:- 204 pages
Price:- $34.15
ISBN:- 0415386438
Features:- Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them. In fact, the pendulum’s swing back from a pure punishment model to a rehabilitation model is arguably one of the most significant events in modern correctional policy. This comprehensive review argues that rehabilitation should focus both on promoting human goods (i.e. providing the offender with the essential ingredients for a 'good' life), as well as reducing/avoiding risk. Offering a succinct summary and critique of the scientific approach to offender rehabilitation, this intriguing volume for students of criminology, sociology and clinical psychology gives a comprehensive evaluation of both the Risk-Need Model and the Good Lives Model. Rehabilitation is a value-laden process involving a delicate balance of the needs and desires of clinicians, clients, the State and the public. Written by two international leading academics in rehabilitation research, this book argues that intervention with offenders is not simply a matter of implementing the best therapeutic technology and leaving political and social debate to politicians and policy makers.
Reviews“ [This book] introduces ideas which will be of intense interest to those working in any capacity to support rehabilitation and an approach which, in its values and practicality, will appeal strongly to practitioners themselves. It deserves to be read and discussed widely.
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8. Book Title:- Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
Edition:- 2005
Edited by:- Jeremy Travis and
Christy Visher
Christy Visher
Publisher:- Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
Size:- 1,03 mbMB
Page:- 274 pages
Price:- $24.91
ISBN:- 0521613868
Features:- Public Safety and Prisoner Reentry in America is about the relationship between the large numbers of people coming out of prison and public safety, especially in the U.S. The book's main purpose is to provide new information about the public safety consequences of released prisoners. It also presents some suggestions about how to reduce the crime threat these persons may present to the public. Other books on prisoner reentry do not discuss the public safety issues associated with the 650,000 persons being released from prison each year. What are the characteristics of persons coming out of prison? Should cities and neighborhoods be concerned about these released prisoners? What can be done to keep released prisoners from committing new crimes?
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9. Book Title:- Canada's Big House: The Dark History of the Kingston Penitentiary
Edition:- 1999
Author:- Peter H. Hennessy
Publisher:- Dundurn Press
Size:- 9.91 MB
Page:- 244 Pages
Price:- $22.99
ISBN:- 1550023306
Features:- Kingston Penitentiary shall " . . . be a place by every means not cruel and not affecting the health of the offender, [but] shall be rendered so irksome and so terrible that during his lifetime he may dread nothing so much as a repetition of the punishment . . . " -- 1883 report calling for the construction of a penitentiaryThe obvious contradiction within the historical mandate of Kingston Penitentiary bedeviled the entire history of the jail. Its turbulent and controversial history is the subject of Canada's Big House: The Dark History of the Kingston Penitentiary by Peter Hennessy.A local writer and historian, Hennessy lays bare in cool prose the rapid descent from puritanical purpose to merely punitive management.Canada's Big House sketches the penitentiary's 165-year history as a backdrop to recent events within the institution. Hennessy uses ancient documents, newspaper articles and committee reports, interviews inmates, guards and management, and draws from his experience as a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee to describe the conditions in the prison over its lifetime. He examines the inhumane living conditions of the 1800s, the riots of 1932, 1954 and especially the devastating riot of 1971, and the struggles with human rights, cruel and unusual punishment and poor management in the past decade.Penitence through silent reflection was the original high moral purpose of Kingston Penitentiary. Unfortunately, not long after the first convicts arrived in 1835, this mandate drifted into the foggy realm of official myth. The prison seems to have always suffered from faulty leadership and confusion of purpose. Is Kingston Penitentiary doomed to repeat its sordid history, or is there hope for a brighter future?
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10. Book Title:- Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States
Edition:- 2nd edition, 2008
Author:- Louis J. Palmer, Jr.
Publisher:- McFarland
Size:- 15 MB
Page:- 613 Pages
Price:- $95.00
ISBN:- 0786432632
Features:- This updated encyclopedia provides ready information on all aspects of capital punishment in America. It details virtually every capital punishment decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court through 2006, including more than 40 cases decided since publication of the first edition. Entries are also provided for each Supreme Court Justice who has ever rendered a capital punishment opinion. Entries on jurisdictions cite present-day death penalty laws and judicial structure state by state, with synopses of common and unique features. Also included are entries on significant U.S. capital prosecutions; legal principles and procedures in capital cases; organizations that support and oppose capital punishment; capital punishment's impact on persons of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American descent, on women, and on foreign nationals; and the methods of execution. Essential facts are also provided on capital punishment in more than 200 other nations. A wealth of statistical data is found throughout.
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11. Book Title:- Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities (Volume -II)
Edition:- 2004
Editor:- Mary Bosworth
Publisher:- Sage Publications
Size:- 10.01 MB
Page:- 1377 pages
Price:- $340.00
ISBN:- 076192731X
Features:- This encyclopedia features 400 alphabetically arranged, signed entries on the history and current state of imprisonment in America. The varied topics include prison architecture (Cottage system, Supermax prisons); life in prison (Gangs, Islam in prison, Lawyer’s visits); security (Electronic monitoring, Minimum security); prisoner characteristics (Drug offenders, Mothers in prison, Native American prisoners); and technicalities of punishment (Habeas corpus, Three-strikes legislation), among others. Although there are entries for some other English-speaking countries, such as Australia and Canada, emphasis is on the U.S. In the introduction, the editor remarks that the high incarceration rate in the U.S. is now an indelible part of the country’s collective cultural imagination.
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12. Book Title:- Prisons and Prison Systems: A Global Encyclopedia
Edition:- 2005
Writer:- Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher:- Greenwood Press 2005
Size:- 22.75 MB
Page:- 392 Pages
Price:- $78.95
ISBN:- 0313328560
Features:- Prison, also known at different times and in different countries as band house, bate sohar, big house, big pasture, bit kili, calaboose, kalabus, and quod, plays a significant role in the society and history of a nation. This global encyclopedia provides a glimpse into important prisons, prison reformers, famous prisoners, prison architecture, prisoner culture, and more. According to editor Roth, "this book is dedicated to offering the most current research available on all the prison systems in the world, past and present." Because of the limitations inherent in a one-volume encyclopedia, larger ethical issues such as the death penalty were purposely excluded, as were war-related prisons such as POW camps, concentration camps, and internment camps.
Arrangement is alphabetical. Entries range in size from a few sentences to a few pages and include sources consulted. The material is well written and easy to digest. A substantial number of the more than 450 entries cover individual countries and their prison systems; these are complemented by more specific entries, such as Gulag and Midnight Express.
Introductory material includes an alphabetical list of entries, a topical list of entries, and a chronology of the world's prisons from circa 1900 BCE to 2004. The encyclopedia also offers a bibliography and 14 appendixes on a variety of topics, including writings by prisoners and prison employees, prison museums, famous prisoners, and general, French, and Soviet prison slang.
Several titles, including Garland's The Encyclopedia of American Prisons (1996), Facts On File's Encyclopedia of American Prisons (2003), and Sage's Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities (2005), offer a U.S. perspective on prisons, prison facilities, and broader prison issues, like death row, parole, and escapes. Roth's encyclopedia is unique in its coverage of global prisons and prison systems. It is recommended for academic libraries, particularly those with criminal justice, political science, or international studies programs.
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13. Book Title:- Punishment in America: A Reference Handbook
Edition:- 2005
Writer:- Cyndi Banks
Publisher:- ABC-CLIO
Size:- 3.47 MB
Page:- 319 pages
Price:- $55.00
ISBN:- 1851096760
Features:- From the Salem witch trials to death row, a gripping analysis of the evolution of punishment practices, policies, and problems in America. Workhouses. Insane asylums. Prisons. Strait-jackets. Solitary confinement. The death penalty. Since colonial times, American society has endeavored to find effective ways to punish its offenders. How have methods of punishment changed over time, and do any of them really deter crime? From Puritan ducking stools and activist Dorothea Dix to boot camps and supermax prisons, Punishment in America investigates the evolution of punishment in the United States. Intriguing inquiries into penitentiaries, parole, capital punishment, and other sanctions reveal how the rationales behind them-retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence-reflect changes in society, culture, and values. Reaching beyond the typical focus on prisons and incarceration to extralegal lynchings and vigilante operations and the treatment of the poor and the mentally challenged, this remarkable review also explores the impact of moral panics regarding pedophiles and drugs, and the effects of three strikes legislation and truth in sentencing. This thought-provoking work will help readers understand the conflicting roles that punishment has played in delivering justice and promoting rehabilitation.
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14. Book Title:- Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System
Edition:- 1991
Author:- Norval Morris,
Michael Tonry
Michael Tonry
Publisher:- Oxford University Press, USA
Size:- 14.94 MB
Page:- 304 pages
Price:- US$34.99
ISBN:- 0195071387
Features:- Across the country prisons are jammed to capacity and, in extreme cases, barges and mobile homes are used to stem the overflow. Probation officers in some cities have caseloads of 200 and more--hardly a manageable number of offenders to track and supervise. And with about one million people in prison and jail, and two and a half million on probation, it is clear we are experiencing a crisis in our penal system.
In Between Prison and Probation, Norval Morris and Michael Tonry, two of the nation's leading criminologists, offer an important and timely strategy for alleviating these problems. They argue that our overwhelmed corrections system cannot cope with the flow of convicted offenders because the two extremes of punishment--imprisonment and probation--are both used excessively, with a near-vacuum of useful punishments in between. Morris and Tonry propose instead a comprehensive program that relies on a range of punishment including fines and other financial sanctions, community service, house arrest, intensive probation, closely supervised treatment programs for drugs, alcohol and mental illness, and electronic monitoring of movement. Used in rational combinations, these "intermediate" punishments would better serve the community than our present polarised choice. Serious consideration of these punishments has been hindered by the widespread perception that they are therapeutic rather than punitive. The reality, however, Morris and Tonry argue, "is that the American criminal justice system is both too severe and too lenient--almost randomly." Systematically implemented and rigorously enforced, intermediate punishments can "better and more economically serve the community, the victim, and the criminal than the prison terms and probation orders they supplant."
Between Prison and Probation goes beyond mere advocacy of an increasing use of interdediate punishments; the book also addresses the difficult task of fitting these punishments into a comprehensive, fair and community-protective sentencing system.
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Edition:- 2006
Author:- Rosevelt L. Noble
Publisher:- LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
Size:- 11.31 MB
Page:- 316 pages
Price:- US$75.00
ISBN:- 1593321007
Features:- Noble's thesis is that African-American inmates transport "black rage" into the prison subculture, which significantly affects prison violence rates. He finds previous studies superficial and raises the bar for future examinations by proposing a sensitive and taboo theory to explain the strong racial patterns observed in prison victimization. Noble's work supports the importation theory of the inmate subculture proposed by Irwin and Cressey. He builds on their theory by advocating for the inclusion of race and other cultural factors concerning the inmate and staff populations into predicative models. He concludes that prisons with greater racial disparities between the inmate and staff populations experience higher staff assault rates.
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Edition:- 2008
Author:- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher:- Blackstone Audio
Size:- 15.18 MB
Page:- 743 Pages
Price:- US$12.99
ISBN:- 1433209772
Features:- One of the greatest works of fiction ever written, Crime and Punishment is an intense psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary.
Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders a despicable pawnbroker, transgressing moral law to ultimately "benefit humanity." Crime and Punishment takes the listener on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil who cannot escape his own conscience.
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William Tregea, Marjorie Larmour"The Prisoners' World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge (Issues in Crime & Justice)" Lexington Books | 2009-02-28 | ISBN: 0739129163 | 364 pages | PDF | 2.15 MB $85.00
Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching prison college and volunteer classes in eleven Michigan and California prisons, The Prisoners’ World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge strives to make the “prisoners’ voice” come alive for regular college
students.
The book starts off by tracing shifts in social definitions of criminality, and lays out the premises of the U.S. incarceration binge in the 1986 war on drugs laws and subsequent mandatory sentencing and policing.
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Jeffrey Ferro, "Prisons (Library in a Book)"
Publisher: Facts on File | 2005 | ISBN 0816060355 | PDF | 314 pages | 12.3 MB $45.00
Clear and comprehensive, "Prisons" examines the state of U.S. prisons and related issues. It focuses on the development of prisons in the United States and how the competing goals of punishment and rehabilitation have shaped the evolution of corrections. The financial costs of running prisons and the mixed record of private prisons are examined, and laws and legislation relating to issues of incarceration are reviewed.
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Graham Towl, David Crighton, “Psychology in Prisons” Wiley-Blackwell | 2008-04-11 | ISBN: 1405160101 | 320 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB $54.69
Edited by the Head of Psychology for HM Prison Service and the National Probation Service, and fully updated to take account of structural changes within these Services, Psychology in Prisons takes an in-depth look at the work of psychologists in prisons strengthened by in-depth consideration of diversity issues such as age, gender, socio-economic group, sexuality and ethnicity.
Focuses exclusively on the prison environment and prioritises practical information for practitioners working in prisons
Contextualises psychological work in prisons, and covers evidence based practice in key areas such as drug misuse and sex offending
Focused on the needs of the client group
Features a section on the practicalities of psychological assessment and interventions
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Speaking of Crime: Narratives of Prisoners
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press | ISBN: 0803286082 | edition 2000 | PDF | 206 pages | 6,86 mb $30.00
Speaking of Crime explores how inmates speak of their lives and in particular how they speak of crime. What is the power of speech for prisoners? What do their uses of pronouns and choices of verbs reveal about them, their experiences of violence, their relationships with other prisoners, and their likelihood for change? In this fascinating book, Patricia E. O'Connor probes beneath the surface of prison speech by examining over one hundred taped accounts of narratives of violence made by African-American inmates of a U.S. maximum security prison. The inmates' manner of speaking about their lives and acts of violence—not just what they talk about but how they talk about it—supplies important clues to their senses of identity and feelings of agency. The use of second-person pronouns when speaking about themselves and a reliance on distinctive verbal devices such as irony and constructed dialogue provide important insights into the way prisoners see their world and help condition how they interact with it.
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Wesley Cragg, "The Practice of Punishment: Towards a Theory of Restorative Justice (Readings in Applied Ethics)"
Publisher: Routledge | 1992 | ISBN 041504149X | PDF | 223 pages | 10.3 MB $150.00
In the latter half of the twentieth century, there has been a sharp decline in confidence in sentencing principles, due to a questioning of the efficacy of punishment. It has been very difficult to develop consistent, fair, and humane criteria for evaluating legislative, judicial and correctional advancements. The Practice of Punishment offers a comprehensive study of punishment that identifies the principles of sentencing and corrections on which modern correctional systems should be built. The theory of punishment that emerges is built on the view that the central function of the law is to reduce the need to use force in the resolutions of disputes. In this text, Wesley Cragg argues that the proper role of sentencing and sentence administration, as well as policing and adjudication, is to sustain public confidence in the capacity of the law to fulfill that function. Cragg believes that sentencing and corrections should be guided by principles of restorative justice, and he contends that inflicting punishment is in itself not a legitimate objective of criminal law.
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Christopher Bennett “The Apology Ritual: A Philosophical Theory of Punishment"
Cambridge University Press | 2008-10-31 | ISBN: 0521880726 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,05 MB $88.00
Christopher Bennett presents a theory of punishment grounded in the practice of apology, and in particular in reactions such as feeling sorry and making amends. He argues that offenders have a 'right to be punished' - that it is part of taking an offender seriously as a member of a normatively demanding relationship (such as friendship or collegiality or citizenship) that she is subject to retributive attitudes when she violates the demands of that relationship. However, while he claims that punishment and the retributive attitudes are the necessary expression of moral condemnation, his account of these reactions has more in common with restorative justice than traditional retributivism. He argues that the most appropriate way to react to crime is to require the offender to make proportionate amends. His book is a rich and original contribution to the debate over punishment and restorative justice.
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Dale Jacquette - Dialogues on the Ethics of Capital Punishment
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. | 2008-11-28 | ISBN: 0742561437 | PDF | 128 pages | 1.09 MB $32.95
One in the series New Dialogues in Philosophy, edited by the author himself, Dale Jacquette presents a fictional dialogue over a three-day period on the ethical complexities of capital punishment. Jacquette moves his readers from outlining basic issues in matters of life and death, to questions of justice and compassion, with a concluding dialogue on the conditional and unconditional right to life. Jacquette's characters talk plainly and thoughtfully about the death penalty, and readers are left to determine for themselves how best to think about the morality of putting people to death.
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David W Garland - Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd | 2001-07-12 | ISBN: 0761973249 | PDF | 192 pages | 1.26 MB $125.00
The growth of the US prison population is a social phenomenon without precedent. It has increased every year for the last 25 years, producing a rate of imprisonment that is by far the highest of any western democratic nation. There are now 2 million people incarcerated in the USA, 5 times as many as there were in 1973. Other comparable nations lock up their citizens at a rate that is 6 to 10 times lower than that of the USA.
Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. In a nation where 13% of the population is black 11% Hispanic, the ethnic composition of the prison population is two-thirds minority. 1 out of every 3 young black men aged 20-29 is currently in prison, in jail, on probation or on parole. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor, and above all for young black and Hispanic men.
America is only now beginning to face up to the consequences of this emerging institution. And other countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of this phenomenon. It describes its impact upon crime, upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture. It is a book that all citizens and policy makers should read.
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Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration By Bert Useem, Anne Morrison Piehl Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2008 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 052188585X | PDF | 1 MB H-$89.00 P-$24.58
During the past 25 years, the prison population in America shot upward to reach a staggering 1.53 million by 2005. This book takes a broad, critical look at incarceration, the huge social experiment of American society. The authors investigate the causes and consequences of the prison buildup, often challenging previously held notions from scholarly and public discourse. By examining such themes as social discontent, safety and security within prisons, and the impact on crime and on the labour market, Piehl and Useem use evidence to address the inevitable larger question, where should incarceration go next for American society, and where is it likely to go?
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Frederick M. Lawrence - Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes under American Law
Publisher: Harvard University Press | 2002-09-30 | ISBN: 067400972X | PDF | 282 pages | 5.74 MB $28.50
Bias crimes are a scourge on our society. Is there a more terrifying image in the mind's eye than that of the burning cross? Punishing Hate examines the nature of bias-motivated violence and provides a foundation for understanding bias crimes and their treatment under the U.S. legal system.
In this tightly argued book, Frederick Lawrence poses the question: Should bias crimes be punished more harshly than similar crimes that are not motivated by bias? He answers strongly in the affirmative, as do a great many scholars and citizens, but he is the first to provide a solid theoretical grounding for this intuitive agreement, and a detailed model for a bias crimes statute based on the theory. The book also acts as a strong corrective to recent claims that concern about hate crimes is overblown. A former prosecutor, Lawrence argues that the enhanced punishment of bias crimes, with a substantial federal law enforcement role, is not only permitted by doctrines of criminal and constitutional law but also mandated by our societal commitment to equality.
Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, from law and criminology, to sociology and social psychology, to today's news, Punishing Hate will have a lasting impact on the contentious debate over treatment of bias crimes in America.
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Punishing Juveniles: Principle and Critique
Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK) | ISBN: 1841132845 | edition 2002 | PDF | 224 pages | 1,1 mb $86.00
The first special juvenile court was created in 1899. Since then, juvenile justice has had a chequered history, and is now more controversial than ever. Should our treatment of young offenders differ in its aims or principles from that of adult offenders? What role should ideas of punishment or retribution play? Should our aims be rehabilitative and educative rather than punitive? Should we divert young offenders from the criminal justice system altogether, opting for 'restorative' rather than 'retributive' justice? These questions are addressed in this inter-disciplinary volume, which brings together criminologists, educationalists, psychologists and philosophers. Part I traces the history ofjuvenile justice , identifying patterns, and signs of what the future might hold. Part II tackles fundamental normative issues of punishment, moral education and restoration, with particular emphasis on the role of communication. Part III attends to the role that such emotions as shame and guilt should play injuvenile justice, paying particular, and critical, attention to Braithwaite's conception of reintegrative shaming.
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Carl Sifakis, "The Encyclopedia of American Prisons"
Facts on File | 2003 | ISBN: 0816045119, 0816050724 | 384 pages | PDF | 4,1 MB $78.21
The United States currently holds the highest incarceration rate per capita of all western nations. There are over two million men and women incarcerated in the U.S., and over 1,500 more are being locked up weekly. Prisons are such a fundamental part of criminal justice today that it is hard to imagine our society without them. The Encyclopedia of American Prisons is a comprehensive reference work covering the full gamut of the American penal system. From the early Pennsylvania and Auburn models, both of which drove many prisoners mad, to limited contemporary efforts to privatize prisons, this book covers the entire history of prisons in America. Entries include important figures such as famous and infamous wardens, notable prisoners, prisons, escapes, prison riots, fires, prison society, convict labor, scandals and triumphs, reformers, terminology, and much more. The Encyclopedia of American Prisons also covers key social issues connected to prisons such as overcrowding, mistreatment of prisoners, and the cost of maintaining prison programs. Subjects covered include: - Abuse and torture in prison - George V. Bennett - David Berkowitz (aka Son of Sam) - Disease in prison - Dorothea Dix - Capital punishment - Good-time credits - Juvenile delinquency - Mentally ill inmates - Ed Morell, tortured convict and reformer - Punishments and prisons in Colonial America - Recidivism - Women's prisons.
The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America By Marie Gottschalk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2006 | 466 Pages | ISBN: 0521864275 | PDF | 2 MB H- $96.00 P-$25.16
Over the last three decades the United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding children and the elderly, is incarcerated today, a rate unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. What are some of the main political forces that explain this unprecedented reliance on mass imprisonment? Throughout American history, crime and punishment have been central features of American political development. This book examines the development of four key movements that mediated the construction of the carceral state in important ways: the victims' movement, the women's movement, the prisoners' rights movement, and opponents of the death penalty. This book argues that punitive penal policies were forged by particular social movements and interest groups within the constraints of larger institutional structures and historical developments that distinguish the United States from other Western countries.
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