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  • A HANDBOOK ON HANGING

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

    de 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., ... Leer más

    $2.55 USD

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  • Just Mercy

    A Story of Justice and Redemption

    de Bryan Stevenson ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • A Secret History of the Bangkok Hilton

    de Chavoret Jaruboon, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol ...
    Bang Kwang Prison is one of the most notorious penal institutions in the world. Located seven miles north of Bangkok city in the Nonthaburi Province, the prison is home to over 8,000 inmates, among them ruthless killers, rapists, drug traffickers, conmen and thieves.The Bangkok Hilton is understaffed, overcrowded, and filled with inmates who struggle with insanity as they spend the first months of ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Hot House

    Life Inside Leavenworth Prison

    de Pete Earley ...
    A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation’s hardest criminals do hard time.“A page-turner, as compelling and evocative as the finest novel. The best book on prison I’ve ever read.”—Jonathan KellermanThe most dreaded facility in the prison system because of its fierce population, Leavenworth is governed by ruthless clans competing ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • A Good Death

    Making the Most of Our Final Choices

    de Sandra Martin ...
    Having a good death is our final human right, argues Sandra Martin in this updated and expanded version of her bestselling and award-winning social history of the right to die movement in Canada and around the world.Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, finalist for both the Donner Prize in Public Policy and the Dafoe Prize for History, A Good Death has a new chapter on Canada ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Prison Angel

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Death of Punishment

    Searching for Justice among the Worst of the Worst

    de Robert Blecker ...
    For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers' poignant circumstances should lead us to mercy; others show clearly why they should die. After thousands of hours ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD

  • Maximum Security

    de Karen Farrington ...
    Maximum Security tells the stories of the world's harshest prisons, and the people on either side of the locked door.From Alcatraz and Devil's Island to La Santé, France and Boscobel, USA 'supermax', this book is about the eternal cat and mouse game played out between convicts and the warders who try to keep them behind the four tall walls of 'the Big House'.These pages are packed with accounts of ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • For the Children?

    Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State

    de Erica R. Meiners ...
    “Childhood has never been available to all.” In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the differentiation between child and adult often equates to access to stark disparities. And what is ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Furnace of Affliction

    Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America

    de Jennifer Graber ...
    Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.Initially, state and prison officials welcomed Protestant reformers' and ministers' recommendations, particularly their ideas ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Blackstone's Prison Law Handbook 2014-2015

    de Margaret Obi ...
    An ideal first source of reference for practitioners, judges, and legal representatives working on any case affecting prisoners, Blackstone's Prison Law Handbook is a complete practical guide to the main areas that give rise to prisoner complaints which include sentence calculation, Independent Adjudications, licence recall, and Parole Board hearings. The Handbook emphasises practical ... Leer más

    $78.99 USD

  • Emissaries of Satan - Serial Killers Under the Microscope

    de Christopher Berry-Dee ...
    MICHAEL ROSS. KENNETH BIANCHI. JOHN SCRIPPS. THESE ARE TRULY THE SERVANTS OF HELL, THREE SAVAGE KILLERS WITHOUT A SHRED OF SOUL BETWEEN THEM.Emissaries of Satan is a gripping, if chilling, forensic examination of three evil men - two American, one British - who between them brutally murdered 29 innocent young women, together with a devoted mother and son.MICHAEL ROSS - 'The Roadside Strangler', a ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD