Penology
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Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
$28.32 Add to cartThe nationally acclaimed “engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking” (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist
“Nell Bern
- Author: Bernstein, Nell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1620971313
- Language: English
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Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row
$24.95 Add to cartUpon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: “All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, … [more below]
- Author: Harris, Lynden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1478014113
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Restorative Justice: Four Classic Justice & Peacebuilding Books in One Volume
$24.99 Add to cartFor the first time, the four most popular restorative justice books in the Justice & Peacebuilding series–The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated, The Little Book of Victim Offend… [more below]
- Series: Justice and Peacebuilding
- Author: Zehr, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 168099056X
- Language: English
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Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times
$28.99 Add to cartDoes the criminal justice system actually help victims and offenders? What does justice look like for those who have been harmed? For those who have done harm? Twenty-five years after it was first pub
- Author: Zehr, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0836199472
- Language: English
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
$22.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state’s violent response, and the victim’s decades-long quest for justice. – Thompson served as the Hist… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Heather Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1400078245
- Language: English
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Worse Than Slavery
$20.00 Add to cartIn this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era–and … [more below]
- Author: Oshinsky, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0684830957
- Language: English
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Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
$18.00 Add to cartAn accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals.
The United States incarcerates more of its- Series: Myths Made in America
- Author: Law, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0807029521
- Language: English
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Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920
$34.98 Read moreA groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the first women’s prison
What if prisoners were to write the history of their own p- Author: The Indiana Women’s Prison History Proje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1620975394
- Language: English
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New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner
$20.00 Read moreJoy James has a long, well regarded career marked by praise from author/activists including Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelly, Howard Zinn, Manning Marable and reviews in trade, academic, and popular pre… [more below]
- Author: James, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173741
- Language: English
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Rikers: An Oral History
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have
- Author: Rayman, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593134214
- Language: English
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These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America’s Jails
$28.00 Read more“A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead to create safety and justice.” –Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing
In the tradi- Author: Fedderly, Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982193913
- Language: English
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Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
$26.99 Read more95 percent of the millions of American men and women who go to prison eventually get out. What happens to them?
There’s Arnoldo, who came of age inside a maximum security penitentiary, now free after n
- Author: Kessler, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1728236517
- Language: English
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Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom
$34.98 Read moreWith a foreword by Bruce Western
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR
The most comprehensive critique of probation and parole–and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both–f- Author: Schiraldi, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978172
- Language: English
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Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
$24.95 Add to cartA collection of intimate portraits told directly by people whose lives have been devastated by solitary confinement in America.
- Series: Voice of Witness
- Author: Pendergrass, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 02, 2018
- ISBN10: 1608469565
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Restorative Justice
$8.99 Add to cartOver 150,000-copies sold Author Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming our understanding of justice.
Here Zehr proposes workab- Series: Justice and Peacebuilding
- Author: Zehr, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1561488232
- Language: English
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This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
$18.99 Read moreA “profound, sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking” (The New York Times) view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody… [more below]
- Author: Poor, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0593238885
- Language: English
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
$19.00 Add to cartA brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.
In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 0679752552
- Language: English
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Inside: Life Behind Bars in America
$24.00 Add to cartBefore Orange is the New Black, there was Inside.
American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year. Despite these disturbing numbers, little is known about life inside beyond the- Author: Santos, Michael G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0312343507
- Language: English
