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  • Power and Pain in the Modern Prison

    The Society of Captives Revisited

    Edited by Ben Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith, Mark Halsey ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 years. However, the continued relevance of Sykes' seminal publication often passes unremarked by many contemporary scholars working in the very field that such works helped to define. This book combines a series of timely reflections on authority, power and governance in modern prison institutions as well as a ... Read more

    $88.19 USD

  • Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood

    Adaptation, Identity and Time

    by Ben Crewe, Susie Hulley, Serena Wright ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at various sentence stages and over 300 surveys, it explores the ways in which long-term prisoners respond to their convictions, adapt to the various ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Understanding Prison Staff

    Edited by Jamie Bennett, Ben Crewe, Azrini Wahidin ...
    The past decade has seen dramatic growth in every area of the prison enterprise. Yet our knowledge of the inner life of the prison remains limited. This book aims to redress this research gap by providing insight into various aspects of the daily life of prison staff. It provides a serious exploration of their work and, in doing so, will seek to draw attention to the variety, value and complexity ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Prisoner Society

    Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison

    by Ben Crewe ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    While the use of imprisonment continues to rise in developed nations, we have little sociological knowledge of the prison's inner world. Based on extensive fieldwork in a medium-security prison, The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison provides an in-depth analysis of the prison's social anatomy. It explains how power is exercised by the institution, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Prisoner

    Edited by Ben Crewe, Jamie Bennett ...
    Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accounts of prison life manage to convey some of its most profound and important features: its daily pressures and frustrations, the culture of the wings and landings, and the relationships which shape the everyday experience of being imprisoned.The Prisoner aims to redress this by foregrounding prisoners ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Effects of Imprisonment

    Edited by Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna ...
    Series series Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
    As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners. This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the complex issues this has raised, to assess the implications and results of research in this field, and to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Home Truths About Domestic Violence

    Feminist Influences on Policy and Practice - A Reader

    Edited by Jalna Hanmer, Catherine Itzin ...
    While men's violence to women is an everyday culturally supported activity, this reader demonstrates: that men's violence can be curtailed and that women and children can be assisted effectively; that state policies and provision can be improved; and that women can actively participate in the resolution of their difficulties. Bringing together new work and key papers Home Truths About Domestic ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Youth in Crisis?

    'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence

    Edited by Barry Goldson ...
    Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Paradoxically, youth researchers have conventionally been reluctant to even use the term 'gang' but, more recently, such reluctance has receded. Indeed, it is increasingly claimed that – in particular urban 'territories' – youth gangs are commonplace, some young people are deeply immersed in violence and the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Law and Order

    An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control

    by Robert Reiner ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    Law and order has become a key issue throughout the world. Crime stories saturate the mass media and politicians shrilly compete with each other in a race to be the toughest on crime. Prisons are crammed to bursting point, and police powers and resources extended repeatedly. After decades of explosive increase in crime rates, these have plummeted throughout the Western world in the 1990s. Yet fear ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Gender, Crime and Victimisation

    by Pamela Davies ...
    Gender, Crime and Victimisation is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book, exploring gender patterns in both offending and victimisation. It offers a thorough examination of how these patterns in society are variously established and represented, researched, explained and responded to by policy makers and criminal justice agencies.Bringing together key theory, research and policy developments, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Women, Policing, and Male Violence (Routledge Revivals)

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Jalna Hanmer, Jill Radford, Elizabeth Stanko ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, this book focuses on the policing of male violence against women. It is an issue that has been criticised substantially in the past, and the book shows how even police themselves have sometimes admitted that women have received inadequate treatment. The book includes contributions from North America, Australia, and Western Europe and looks at different approaches that have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Handbook on Prisons

    Edited by Yvonne Jewkes, Jamie Bennett ...
    The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays on a wide range of topics concerning prisons and imprisonment. Bringing together three of the leading prison scholars in the UK as editors, this new volume builds on the success of the first edition and reveals the range and depth of prison scholarship around the world.The Handbook contains ... Read more

    $91.99 USD