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  • In the Shadow of Death

    Restorative Justice and Death Row Families

    by Elizabeth Beck, Sarah Britto, Arlene Andrews ...
    The press called Martin's actions a "crime spree." Already convicted of armed robbery, Martin was facing the death penalty. In less than two weeks the jury would decide his fate. Terrified that his son would be sentenced to die, Phillip did the only thing he felt he could do: in an act of faith and desperation in his garage with the car exhaust running, Phillip made the consummate sacrifice to ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The Complete Parkhurst Tales

    Behind the Locked Gates of Britain's Toughest Jails

    by Norman Parker ...
    Norman Parker spent twenty-five years of his life in a high security Category A prison. Convicted of murder and manslaughter in the 1970s, he was sentenced to life at the notorious Parkhurst Prison. An institution filled with the most sinister and violent criminals, Parkhurst is certainly not for the faint-hearted. Norman Parker has certainly seen a lot during his time on the inside, and this is ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Gangster

    The biography of the international drugs trafficker John Gilligan

    by John Mooney ...
    Gangster is the critically acclaimed biography of John Gilligan, the biggest drugs trafficker to emerge from the Irish underworld. The book is an extraordinarily account of how a young Dubliner became a multi-millionaire criminal. It uses first-hand interviews with Gilligan, his thugs, friends, family, enemies, anti-drugs activists, members of the IRA and the police. It tells of violence, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Prison Angel

    Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail

    by Mary Jordan, Kevin Sullivan ...
    The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually moved into a cell to live among drug king pins and petty thieves. She has led many of them through ... Read more

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  • Don't Shoot! I'm the Guitar Man

    by Buzzy Martin ...
    This is the story of lifelong musician Buzzy Martin, music teacher to the hardened criminals inside the walls of San Quentin Prison-and what he learned, note by incredible note. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A HANDBOOK ON HANGING

    Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution ...

    by Charles Duff ...
    Charles Duff’s 1928 study of state sanctioned-killing, botched executions and the relative merits and demerits of decapitation. ‘A Handbook on Hanging’ is an anti-capital punishment polemic in the honourably ironic tradition of Jonathan Swift and Stephen Leacock. Duff updated his ‘Handbook’ in 1938, 1948 and in 1961, but this version is the original 1928 edition.Charles Duff (Enniskillen, N.I., ... Read more

    $3.55 CAD

  • Hell Is a Very Small Place

    Voices from Solitary Confinement

    by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, Sarah Shourd ...
    "An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement" from the prisoners who have survived it ( New York Review of Books ).On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on ... Read more

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  • The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard

    by Ivan Chistyakov ...
    Translated by The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard Arch Tait ...
    In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp.Ivan Chistyakov was sent to the Gulag in 1935, where he worked at the Baikal-Amur Corrective Labour Camp for over a year. Life at the Gulag was anathema to Chistyakov, a cultured Muscovite with a nostalgia for pre ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Guillotine

    The Timbers of Justice

    by Robert Frederick Opie ...
    The guillotine is undoubtedly the most potent image of revolutionary France, the tool whereby a whole society was "redesigned". Yet what came to be seen as an instrument of terror was, paradoxically, introduced as the result of the humanitarian feelings of men intent on revising an ancient and barbaric penal code.Robert Frederick Opie takes the reader on a sometimes terrifying journey through the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence

    Practical Techniques for Early Intervention

    by Chris Newman, Kate Iwi ...
    Child protection and family workers can complete training without learning about how to work with domestic abuse perpetrators - but intervening at an early stage can make a real difference to increasing family safety.This concise book equips practitioners with the knowledge and techniques they need to make the most of limited client contact with perpetrators. It outlines how to briefly assess ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Just Mercy

    A Novel

    by Dorothy Van Soest ...
    Bernadette Baker lives through every mother's worst nightmare when her adopted sixteen-year-old daughter, Veronica, is brutally murdered in a shocking and random act of violence. Ten years later the murderer, Raelynn Blackwell, is facing execution for her crime, and despite being united in their grief over Veronica, the Baker family is deeply divided on the subject of the death penalty. On one ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Why Punish?

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Punishment

    by Rob Canton ...
    Why do we punish? Is it because only punishment can achieve justice for victims and 'right the wrong' of a crime? Or is it justified because it reduces crime, by deterring potential offenders, offering rehabilitative treatment to others and incapacitating the most dangerous? The complex answers to this enduring question vary across time and place, and are directly linked to people's personal, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD