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Finding
Life on Death Row : Profiles of Six Inmates by Katya Lezin |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Northeastern Univ Pr Hardcover - 212 pages (September 1999) |
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| From Kirkus Reviews Lezin, a former assistant director at Georgetown University Law Centers career services office, presents a nuanced, original broadside against the death penalty. Her study takes the form of six dramatic narratives of condemned prisoners whose cases have been addressed by attorney Stephen Bright in... Read more |
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How
to Prepare for the Correction Officer Examination (Barrons How to Prepare for the Correction Officer Examination,
1996) by Donald J., Phd Schroeder, Frank A. Lombardo (Contributor) |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Barrons Educational Series Paperback (February 1996) |
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Cowboys
and Cave Dwellers : Basketmakers Archaeology in Utah's Grand Gulch by Fred M. Blackburn, et al |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours School of American Research Press Paperback - 208 pages (April 1997) |
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| Jonathan Haas, Museum Anthropolgy The volume will be of interest to anyone studying the history of archaeology in the U.S. as well as to the wide range of researchers, professional and avocational alike. Read more |
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A
Sin Against the Future : Imprisonment in the World by Vivien Stern |
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| Usually ships in 2-3 days Northeastern Univ Pr Paperback - 432 pages 1695 edition (October 1998) |
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David C. Swanson, December 21, 1998 My first encounter with the idea that prisons might be a bad idea was in reading Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975). He spoke of... Read more |
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Memoirs
from the Women's Prison by Nawal Sadawi, et al |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Univ California Press Paperback - 204 pages Reprint edition (November 1994) |
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| Race Today "A book of unbelievable courage, intelligence, and humour." --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title Read more |
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Down
on Parchman Farm : The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta by William Banks Taylor, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw |
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| Usually ships in 2-3 days Ohio State Univ Pr (Trd) Paperback - 256 pages (August 1999) |
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Asylum,
Prison, and Poorhouse : The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois by Dorothea Lynde Dix, David L. Lightner (Editor) |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) Paperback - 161 pages (June 1999) |
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| The publisher, Southern Illinois University Press , July 2, 1999 Horrific True Tales Told by a Most Compassionate Voice This illustrated collection of annotated newspaper articles and memorials by Dorothea Dix provides a forum for the great mid-nineteenth-century humanitarian and reformer to speak for herself. Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-87) was perhaps the most famous and admired woman in America for much of the... Read more |
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Tortured
Confessions : Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran by Ervand Abrahamian |
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| Usually ships in 2-3 days Univ California Press Hardcover - 284 pages (July 1999) |
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| Book Description The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and... Read more |
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The
Neanderthal Legacy : An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe by Paul Mellars |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Princeton Univ Pr Hardcover (January 1996) |
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| Book Description The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to dominate the area. Seeking to understand the nature of this replacement, which has become... Read more |
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The
Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Y. Davis |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours AK PRESS CD-ROM 1st edition (January 1, 2000) |
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| Book Description Political Criticism. CD format. "Prisons are becoming an integral part of the U.S. economy, which means that there are stakes other than anti-crime stakes that will keep the prison industry expanding. It's acquiring its own momentum which, if we don't intervene and stop it now, we will be into the... Read more |
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Cellblock
Visions : Prison Art in America by Phyllis Kornfeld, Roger Cardinal |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Princeton Univ Pr Hardcover - 112 pages (February 1997) |
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| David Byrne Powerful and beautiful stuff that, once again, makes us question our sometimes stupid definitions of art.... Here is art that evidences deep and personal healing and lasting change. Read more |
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Dead
Wrong : A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment by Michael A. Mello, David Von Drehle |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Univ of Wisconsin Pr Hardcover - 416 pages Reissue edition (March 1998) |
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| From Kirkus Reviews , October 15, 1997 In a season busy with books about the death penalty, here is an idiosyncratic, almost experimental, but authoritative personal critique of the nation's system of capital punishment. Mello is a former postconviction counsel, representing Florida death-row inmates in challenges to their sentence--... Read more |
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| 88. | Seven
Long Times by Piri Thomas |
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| Usually ships in 2-3 days Arte Publico Pr Paperback - 198 pages 2 Ed edition (September 1994) |
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| Book Description Thomas's classic prison memoir Read more |
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An
Essay on Crimes and Punishments by Cesare, Marchese Di Beccaria, A. Caso (Designer) |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Branden Books Paperback - 77 pages (December 1992) |
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The
Rights of Prisoners : The Basic Aclu Guide to Prisoners' Rights (American Civil Liberties Union Handbook) by David Rudovsky, et al |
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| Usually ships in 2-3 days Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) Paperback - 4 pages 4th Rev edition (January 1992) |
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Correctional
Counseling and Treatment by Peter C. Kratcoski |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Waveland Press Paperback - 591 pages 3rd edition (January 1994) |
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| Book Description Provides readers with material on the most widely used treatment and counseling techniques and describes and demonstrates their applicability in correctional settings. Read more |
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| 92. | Descent
into Madness : An Inmate's Experience of the New Mexico State Prison Riot by Mike Rolland |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Anderson Pub Co Paperback (May 1997) |
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A reviewer, July 5, 1999  This book is hard to put down once you start, but.... I thought that the book really keeps the reader interested. But, the author seems to be trying to pass himself off as a hero. Some of the most famous or notorious inmates of the riot were not even mentioned. Overall, it is an interesting book and well worth the price. Read more |
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| 93. | Prehistory
of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago by Peter S. Bellwood |
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| Usually ships in 2-3 days Univ of Hawaii Pr Paperback - 400 pages Revised edition (August 1997) |
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| thunket , November 18, 1999 Extraordinarily informative I found this book very useful in understanding much about the prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago. It was in depth and easily read. I was especially interested in the animistic beliefs the Negritos held, and found it amazing that even christianity had to be adjusted to fit around their... Read more |
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After
the Madness : A Judge's Own Prison Memoir by Sol Wachtler |
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| Amazon.com In November of 1992, New York's Chief Judge Sol Wachtler, an heir aparent to the governor's mansion, was arrested. He was charged and convicted for a humiliating crime stemming from his manic, obsessive harassment of his former mistress. A prominent New York socialite, the woman happened to be pals... Read more |
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| 95. | The
Child Savers : The Invention of Delinquency by Anthony M. Platt |
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| Usually ships in 2-3 days University of Chicago Press Paperback - 240 pages 2Nd&Enlg edition (September 1977) |
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The
Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death and Hope by Drew Leder, Cornel West |
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| Usually ships in 2-3 days Rowman & Littlefield Hardcover - 224 pages (January 1, 2000) |
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| Book Description Co-authored by inmates in a maximum security prison, The Soul Knows No Bars is a unique book. It explores the dynamics of power, violence, race, and sexuality, as well as the flights of spirit possible even in a prison cell. Texts from Nietsche, Foucault, and other contemporary philsophers stimulate... Read more |
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Sensible
Justice : Alternatives to Prison by David C. Anderson |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours New Press Hardcover - 182 pages (January 1998) |
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| The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Barry Krisberg Sensible Justice makes an important contribution to developing an effective national crime strategy. Read more |
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The
Dilemmas of Corrections : Contemporary Readings by Kenneth C. Haas(Editor), et al |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Waveland Press Paperback - 638 pages 4th edition (August 1998) |
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| Book Description Now thoroughly revised to better address issues of vital concern to the correctional system, the Fourth Edition once again provides a comprehensive up-to-date collection of important readings. Read more |
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| 99. | Punishment
and Modern Society : A Study in Social Theory (Studies in Crime and Justice) by David Garland |
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| Back Ordered University of Chicago Press Paperback (June 1993) |
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| 100. | Executing
Justice : The Moral Meaning of the Death Penalty by Lloyd Steffen |
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| Usually ships in 24 hours Pilgrim Pr Paperback - 208 pages (March 1999) |
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