Penology category: 518 books

Traducido por:Cristián D. Quezada González, José ElíasAlejandro Sánchez Ibarra,Sylvia Whitney Beitzel y Vernon E. JantziEste libro tiene que ver con principios e ideas. Buscatal vez presuntuosamenteidentificar y evaluar algunas de las conclusiones básicas que hacemos sobre el crimen,...

La evidente exclusión de la mujer de la esfera pública y las funciones sociales que le son asignadas ha dejado su huella por omisión en una lamentable ausencia de estudios que sirvan como referencia a un análisis histórico de su comportamiento criminal, quedando...

Los Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros (CIE) son estructuras carcelarias dependientes del Ministerio de Interior donde se priva de libertad a las personas que carecen de permiso de residencia. Hasta sesenta días pueden pasar en estas estancias a la espera de ser deportados a su país de origen....

Questa nuova edizione del testo classico dell'Illuminismo italiano viene presentata, con il patrocinio di Amnesty International Italia, in occasione dei duecentocinquant'anni dalla prima pubblicazione. "Dei delitti e delle pene" è un'analisi lucida e articolata del rapporto tra lo Stato...

Crónicas y testimonios de la vida en las cárceles de la Argentina, documentada a través de la voz de los propios presos y de expertos en el sistema penitenciario. A pesar de las restricciones que se imponen a periodistas e investigadores para ingresar en las cárceles, Eduardo Anguita y...

La pena de muerte constituye un tema que ha cobrado enorme importancia en el mbito internacional, debido a que su aplicacin como retribucin justa ante los graves actos delictivos ha puesto en evidencia aristas de cualquier ndole: histricas, jurdicas, filosficas, estadsticas, psicoanalticas y, por...

In Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, the punishment did not always fit the crime, as this fine old illustrated history of wrath and righteousness shows. One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting house, but...

On 15 March 1817 the convict ship the Chapman departed from the Cork with 200 male convicts on board. When it dropped anchor off Sydney Cove on four months later its decks were blood-soaked. The prison doors opened to reveal 160 gaunt and brutalized men. Twelve were dead and twenty-eight lay wounded...

This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the relationship between power, practices of resistance and prisoner subjectivity.

This book explores the development of the global phenomenon of Prison Shakespeare, from its emergence in the 1980s to the present day. It provides a succinct history of the phenomenon and its spread before going on to explore one case study the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble's (Australia) Shakespeare...

“The man who is shut up in a prison is so far from being bettered by the change, that he comes out more resolutely the foe of society than he was when he went in.” This statement is the animating principle of Peter Kropotkin's libertarian classic, IN RUSSIAN AND FRENCH PRISONS, first published...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out. “An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that...

North Carolina's State Prison was typical of American prisons in the 19th century, but with an important difference. North Carolina put most of its inmates outside prison walls to work on road camps and prison farms for the purpose of getting useful work out of them. Opened in 1870, the prison in...

Punishment occupies a central place in our lives and attitudes. We suffer a profound ambivalence about its moral consequences. Persons who have been punished or are liable to be punished have long objected to the legitimacy of punishment. We are all objects of punishment, yet we are also its users....