An NBC Dateline producers cinematic account of his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent menIn 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBCs Dateline, received a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774871266)
An urgent examination of the intergenerational imprisonment of Indigenous people in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Generations of Indigenous people have experienced the injustices wrought by institutional confinement. Widespread c...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803998879)
The story of Englands cruellest prison against the backdrop of radical protests and harsh punishments introduced by William Pitts government, and the forces of radical change in Georgian and Victorian Britain...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1976, A Taste of Prison deals with a very sensitive area of concern in the system of trial and imprisonment in Britain at the time. It describes the conditions at Winchester Prison and Winchester Remand Centre for bo...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1965, this study was the first attempt in this country to look at the problems of the families of prisoners on a national scale. The survey attempts to portray objectively the conditions of life for the families of a wide range...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1977, Open Prisons presents research carried out in a number of prisons in the UK both open and closed intended to compare their effectiveness. Information was collected from inmates and prison staff through a number...Lasīt vairāk
An awareness that the effects of prison on offenders were rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful. In this title, first published in 1974, it is argued that there was still the need in society for a commitment, not to reform its deviant me...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1989, this title presents the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. First-hand accounts of life inside chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1963, this title was an attempt to discover what had been learnt from a range of prison experience taking prison to be any form of enforced separation from the world of normal life. Including chapters on mental asylum and hosp...Lasīt vairāk
So far we have successfully avoided loss of life during serious disturbances but if the present trend continues there will be a serious loss of control In such circumstances there is a probability of both staff and prisoners being killed. ...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1974, this book was the first full-scale work published in this country evaluating carefully whether an active policy of finding suitable employment for men immediately on their release from prison had beneficial results....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1977, this title attempts to document and analyse some of the changes which happened in the first five and a half years of the prisons opening and as far as possible account for them. It was hoped that lessons could be dra...Lasīt vairāk
The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s. Discussion had been strong on opinion and short on facts; this book, originally published in 1977, supplied some much-needed evidence, based on the...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1950, this Lags Lexicon was compiled for a variety of reasons, with the object of entertainment, amusement, or enlightenment. The amateur authority on slang could derive pleasure in picking it to pieces and finding...Lasīt vairāk
In the previous few years English penal policy had undergone considerable change. Originally published in 1975, the contributors to The Use of Imprisonment focus on the use of imprisonment in such a time of transition, and examine various...Lasīt vairāk
Justice, it is said, is about acquitting the innocent and punishing the guilty. Why then, asks Roger Shaw, are the children of imprisoned parents often penalised the most? The abuse, stigma and neglect experienced by many of these children raise s...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1987, the purpose of Stress, Crowding, and Blood Pressure in Prison was to present, in a single location, the rationale, background, methods, principal results, analyses, interpretations, and conclusions of the autho...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1934, this title was prepared in the belief that among the growing literature of crime and the treatment of crime, there should be some room for some account of the English prison system as it stood. Here is the authoritative an...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1985,this title is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in England and Wales from the Medieval period to the present day. It is one of the few attempts to provide an overall view of the instit...Lasīt vairāk
In the late 1950s crime and its treatment had never been of greater public interest. In The English Prisons, originally published in 1960, D.L. Howard used his knowledge of academic criminology and his practical experience of criminals of a...Lasīt vairāk
