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  • ¡Al llamado del barco!
    Elizabeth García Pérez
    «¡Al llamado del barco!» es el testimonio íntimo y revelador de Elizabeth García Pérez, quien, como trabajadora social, vivió entre 1993 y 1995 en la Colonia Penal Federal de las Islas Marías. A través de una narración honesta, sensible y profundamente humana, la autora nos conduce por la vida cotidiana de colonos, familias y empleados que habitaron este singular modelo peniten...
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    14,04 €

  • Sonrisa tras las rejas
    J. I. Varela
    Múltiples circunstancias pueden cambiar la vida de una persona, pero pasar diez años en la cárcel es probablemente una de las más extremas. J.I. Varela pasó la mayor parte de su condena rodeado por muros de agua, sin que la brisa marina y la vida playera en las Islas Marías pudieran evitar las sensaciones de abandono, soledad y reclusión: el carcelazo.En «Sonrisa tras las rejas...
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    11,44 €

  • Surviving the Prison Place
    Diana Medlicott
    Originally published in 2001, this book sets out to enlarge understanding of the complexities of suicidal feelings and of the part played by some inalienable features of prison life. It does this by presenting and analysing prisoners’ accounts of their most intimate responses to the deprivations of prison. ...
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    55,69 €

  • Probation Governance, Identity, and Practice
    Matt Tidmarsh
    This book explores the making, unmaking, and remaking of the Probation Service in England and Wales. It draws on original, empirical data derived from 38 semi-structured interviews with staff from across the probation estate to scrutinise ongoing changes to probation governance, identity, and practice. ...
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    268,20 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of European Penology
    European penology, the multidisciplinary scientific study of punishment carried out on the European continent, is booming. This Handbook aims to offer an overview of the current state of the art and of cutting-edge penological research in Europe, covering all the regions and Europe’s institutional organisations. ...
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    435,66 €

  • A Vision of Hope
    Andrew Drasen
    Everyone has something to recover from.A Vision of Hope: A Story of Redemption and Purpose is part memoir, part mirror-a deeply personal story that begins in the darkest places and rises into a message of resilience, faith, and possibility. Written behind bars and finished just minutes before release, Andrew Drasen’s memoir is a raw and unflinching account of addiction, incarce...
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    19,45 €

  • A Vision of Hope
    Andrew Drasen
    Everyone has something to recover from.A Vision of Hope: A Story of Redemption and Purpose is part memoir, part mirror-a deeply personal story that begins in the darkest places and rises into a message of resilience, faith, and possibility. Written behind bars and finished just minutes before release, Andrew Drasen’s memoir is a raw and unflinching account of addiction, incarce...
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    26,63 €

  • A Vision of Hope
    Andrew Drasen
    Everyone has something to recover from.A Vision of Hope: A Story of Redemption and Purpose is part memoir, part mirror-a deeply personal story that begins in the darkest places and rises into a message of resilience, faith, and possibility. Written behind bars and finished just minutes before release, Andrew Drasen’s memoir is a raw and unflinching account of addiction, incarce...
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    30,17 €

  • Crisis carcelaria y de seguridad
    Agustín Walker / Alejandro Arévalo / Ana María Stuven / Hernán Larraín / Pablo Zeballos / Valentina Avendaño
    Nuestro país enfrenta una profunda crisis penitenciaria que, en el discurso público, suele reducirse al problema del hacinamiento provocado por una infraestructura insuficiente para albergar a la creciente población penal. Sin embargo, la situación es mucho más compleja: posee raíces estructurales, responde a múltiples causas y se arrastra desde hace décadas, sin que haya exist...
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    30,16 €

  • Youth Desistance in Transition
    Christopher Kay
    This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to be seen in the available desistance literature. ...
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    268,13 €

  • Prisoners of Society
    Martin Davies
    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 members, but to provide a compassionate service in those situations where it was most needed. ...
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    55,81 €

  • Open Prisons
    Howard Jones / Paul Cornes
    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 of exercises designed to assess the social atmosphere of the prison and how they felt about it. ...
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    55,48 €

  • Albany
    Kenneth W. Elliott / Roy D. King
    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 prison’s opening and as far as possible account for them. It was hoped that lessons could be drawn, both for social research and social policy in regard to prisons. ...
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    63,03 €

  • Prisoners and their Families
    Pauline Morris
    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 of men in prison at the time, and covers stars, recidivists, and civil prisoners. ...
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    63,40 €

  • Jail Journeys
    Philip Priestley
    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 of the loneliness, the despair, the squalor, the fights, the friendships, the sex, the humour. ...
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    55,87 €

  • Prison Crisis
    Peter Evans
    In Prison Crisis, originally published in 1980, Peter Evans draws together all of the issues of the time to provide an agenda for public and politicians to use this best chance in one hundred years for a major reform of the prison system. ...
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    55,97 €

  • The Modern English Prison
    L. W. Fox
    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 and up-to-date account, prepared with the approval of the Prison Commissioners. ...
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    55,54 €

  • Prison
    George Mikes
    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 hospital, as well as political prison and concentration camp. ...
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    55,69 €

  • A Taste of Prison
    Rodney Morgan / Roy D. King
    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 both adults and young persons who were held in custody before trial or who were awaiting sentence. ...
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    56,31 €

  • The English Prisons
    D. L. Howard
    In the late 1950s crime and its treatment had never been of greater public interest. In this title, first published in 1960, D.L. Howard used his knowledge of academic criminology and his practical experience of criminals of all ages to produce a book which would be of value to all who were concerned with crime in this country at the time. ...
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    55,85 €

  • The Use of Imprisonment
    Sean McConville
    In the previous few years English penal policy had undergone considerable change. Originally published in 1975, the contributors to this book focus on the use of imprisonment in such a time of transition, and examine various aspects of penal policy - administrative, organizational, staffing, legal, philosophical. ...
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    56,17 €

  • Justice for Juveniles
    Denise Fears / Philip Priestley / Roger Fuller
    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 results of a research project funded by the Home Office Research Unit. ...
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    56,21 €

  • Social Skills in Prison and the Community
    David Flegg / James McGuire / Philip Priestley
    ’Gate fever’ is the name of a non-medical syndrome said to infect men in prison as the date of their discharge draws near. The primary aim of this book, originally published in 1984, is to describe and promote social-skills-based methods for helping offenders cope better with the problems they face in the community. ...
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    55,87 €

  • The Prisoner’s Release
    Keith Soothill
    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. ...
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    63,45 €

  • Prisoners’ Children
    Roger Shaw
    Why are the children of imprisoned parents often penalised the most? The abuse, stigma and neglect experienced by many of these children raise serious questions about the nature of criminal justice. First published in 1992, this title provides an in-depth look at these hidden victims of crime and examines ways in which harm can be reduced. ...
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    55,72 €

  • Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks
    A.E. Stearns
    Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative criminological approach. ...
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    76,63 €

  • Prisoners’ Vote
    Through different legal and criminological angles and perspectives, this book addresses the controversial question of whether prisoners should have the right to vote, as well as the optimal modalities for such a vote. ...
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    76,36 €

  • Growing Up Crazy
    Clarence Wall
    A RUDE AWAKENINGChris awoke in the middle of the night-a common occurrence for him, as he suffered from an overactive bladder condition--and had to get up one or more times most nights to empty his bladder. But this time, something was very different: the greyish walls surrounding around him, the hard bed covered with the thin plastic mattress he had been lying on.It was hardly...
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    43,16 €

  • Criminal Justice in Scotland
    Jamie Buchan / Katrina Morrison / Sarah Anderson
    Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today. ...
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    77,16 €

  • Criminal Justice in Scotland
    Jamie Buchan / Katrina Morrison / Sarah Anderson
    Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today. ...
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    267,88 €