Tammara (Tammy) Johnson is an African-American woman in her fifties, an ex-addict with a 19-year heroin habit and a felony record, who works as the job development trainer for an in-patient drug treat
A critical perspective on the treatment of incarcerated women?and their childrenInside and Out: Women, Prison, and Therapy challenges conventional thinking about the therapeutic issues facing female p
The classic board game, Monopoly, doesn't include a jail in its town for nothing. Jails hold a certain awe for most of us, and in the game or in reality, everyone would rather be "just visiti
Senior Prison Officer Anthony Stokes traces the history of England's Reading Gaol from the 16th century to the present day. Drawing upon extensive archival research, he describes the execution process
An evidence-based, comprehensive examination of the cause, prevention, and control of prison violence. Readers will learn about prisons and prison violence with new research on: Vi o
From drilling holes into the skulls of prisoners, to solitary confinement, to deploying a range of psychological therapies, society has attempted to deal with the problem of criminals in myriad ways
In April 2004, the Abu Ghraib photographs set off an international scandal. Yet until now, the full story has never been told. Tara McKelvey— the first U.S.journalist to speak with female
Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in
Agruesomelyhilarious and fascinatingpop-history account of methods ofexecution from around the world and through the agesIn this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott descri
During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many
The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison.Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Col
Massingill (communications, Sam Houston State U.) and Sohn (journalism and media studies, U. of Nevada-Las Vegas) present an ethnographic study of the "execution capital of the world"--Huntsville, Tex
Drawing on philosophical arguments, criminological evidence, and the legal literature on prisoners' rights, Rethinking Imprisonment defends a normative theory of imprisonment. Such a theory provides a
Inspired by visits inside Louisiana state prisons - where MacArthur Fellow C. D. Wright accompanied portrait photographer Deborah Luster - One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and
African-American males are being imprisoned at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Out of the 10.4 million Black adult males in the U.S. population, nearly 1.5 million are in prisons and jails with a
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what
