Penology
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A Murderer’s Guide to Cleaning: And Other Stories from My Life as a Probation Officer
$28.95 Read moreCould you sit across from a murderer, listen to their crimes, empathise and help them change? Welcome to the Probation Service.
Elizabeth Baxter has heard it all. Thieves, rapists, drug dealers, burgl- Author: Baxter, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1836431678
- Language: English
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Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy
$45.00 Add to cartAn original transatlantic history of the invention of the corrections profession and of ensuing debates about punishment’s purposes and prisoners’ rights.
Impermissible Punishments explores the history
- Author: Resnik, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: October 10 2025
- ISBN10: 022675474X
- Language: English
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The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence
$32.00 Add to cartFor readers of His Name Is George Floyd and Under the Skin
A landmark investigation into forensic medicine that exposes the systematic concealment of state-sanctioned violence through death investiga- Author: Keel, Terence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0807017515
- Language: English
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Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison
$20.99 Add to cartA vivid exploration of the food crisis affecting millions of incarcerated Americans, Eating Behind Bars sheds new light on the power–and peril–of what’s on our plates
“This eye-opening book will co- Author: Soble, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978407
- Language: English
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Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement
$22.95 Add to cartThe injustice, cruelty, and degradation that are so enmeshed within the US carceral system find their barbaric apogee in the practice of solitary confinement. Once judged by the US Supreme Court to b
- Author: Blackwell, Christopher William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745351271
- Language: English
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Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement
$39.95 Add to cartPeople organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of secondhand bookstores for the last seventy years, reading letters written by incarcera
- Author: Marquis, Dave Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820365874
- Language: English
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Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
$27.99 Add to cartA powerful personal investigation of the insidious ways white supremacy compromises criminal justice reform, from the award-winning, formerly incarcerated activist and Soros Justice Fellow
Despite re
- Author: Deweaver, Emile Suotonye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1620977885
- Language: English
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The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits
$20.99 Add to cartA meticulous expos? of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition
Based on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises–best known for campaig
- Author: Tylek, Bianca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978393
- Language: English
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The Jailer’s Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America
$28.95 Read moreHow does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a million dollars? In America, your liberty–or even your l… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Kevin B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1538192381
- Language: English
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Spirituality and Abolition
$20.00 Read moreAbolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual commitment. What does abolition mean and how can we get there as a collective and improvisational project?
To posit the spiri
- Author: Crawley, Ashon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173725
- Language: English
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Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement
$35.95 Read moreBased on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in wh… [more below]
- Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society
- Author: Hattery, Angela J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1978823789
- Language: English
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El Color de la Justicia: La Nueva Segregación Racial En Estados Unidos
$31.15 Read moreEn este revolucionario trabajo que ha permanecido por m s de dos a os en la lista de los libros m s vendidos del New York Times, Michelle Alexander argumenta que “no hemos erradicado las castas racial… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972743
- Language: Spanish
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Real Cost of Prisons Comix
$16.95 Read moreOne out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going eve
- Author: Ahrens, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1604860340
- Language: English
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The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration
$24.95 Add to cartMass incarceration is a lived, sensory experience.
The most eye-popping statistics alone cannot relate the enormity of its psychological and societal impacts. This concise, illustrated primer is a coll
- Author: Kilgore, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887440422
- Language: English
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Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail
$24.99 Add to cartBrian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class at the jail for the foreseeable future was mid-March … [more below]
- Author: Daldorph, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0700632166
- Language: English
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Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-And How to Achieve Real Reform
$32.00 Read moreA groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates
In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most c- Author: Pfaff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0465096913
- Language: English
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Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
$39.95 Add to cartJournalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned i
- Author: Hoffman, Ethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0295743980
- Language: English
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How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners
$22.95 Read more‘Those who want to understand the nature of today’s political regime in India need to read this book’ Christophe Jaffrelot, Professor, King’s College London
‘A telling account of repression and resist
- Author: Vijayan, Suchitra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745347983
- Language: English
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Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality
$17.95 Add to cart“Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year.”
– Malcolm X (a former auto worker)Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were
- Author: Livingston, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1682193497
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising
$24.95 Add to cart“A modern horror story told in graphic detail. Morris’s meticulous documentation traces prison corruption . . . proving the tragedy could have been avoided. I recommend this book without reservation.”
- Author: Morris, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0826310621
- Language: English
