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1	Are Prisons Obsolete? more books like this by Angela Yvonne Davis add to wishlist World-renowned activist Angela Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison, and the obscene profits the system generates. see all copies from $4.60! new only from $11.44! \| SVS
2	Inside: Life Behind Bars in America more books like this by Michael G Santos add to wishlist American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year, and it is estimated that six to seven percent of the population will be confined in their lifetimes. Despite these disturbing numbers, little is known about life inside beyond the mythology of popular culture. Michael Santos has dedicated the last two decades of his life to ... see all copies from $7.07! new only from $8.41! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam more books like this by Monika Jensen-Stevenson, William Stevenson add to wishlist Provides evidence that American POWs were left behind at the end of the Vietnam War and that the American Government has regularly thwarted the efforts of private citizens to discover the truth. The book delves into a world of secret information, anonymous sources and censored testimony. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $56.81! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis more books like this by Christian Parenti add to wishlist Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? "Lockdown America" not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains the political and economic history behind the massive crackdown. This fully updated and expanded edition ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	It's about Time: America's Imprisonment Binge more books like this by John Irwin, James Austin add to wishlist This book is a brief critical examination of American society's tendency to use prisons as the sole way of dealing with crime and criminals. The book also looks at the devastating impact both have on individuals within the prison system. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation more books like this by Joseph T Hallinan add to wishlist In this study, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hallinan links the fact that prisons are economically lucrative for communities that build them with the tendency of politicians to commit themselves to "tough on crime" stances. Here, he explores America's penal system, finding prisons overcrowded, violent, and unable to foster the reform prisoners ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.58! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in Man's Prison more books like this by T J Parsell add to wishlist When seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would "own" him. Forced to remain silent about ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $8.81! \| SVS
8	Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America more books like this by David J Rothman add to wishlist This book is a contribution to American social history and social policy in its own right, as well as forming a sequel to Rothman's earlier book, "The Discovery of the Asylum". Here, Rothman explores the origins and consequences of the programmes that have dominated criminal justice, juvenile justice and mental health in the past century. He also ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.70! \| first editions \| SVS
9	American Penology: A History of Control more books like this by Thomas G Blomberg, Karol Lucken add to wishlist The purpose of "American Penology" is to provide a story of punishment's past, present, and likely future. The story begins in the 1600s, in the setting of colonial America, and ends in the present. As the story evolves through various historical and contemporary settings, America's efforts to understand and control crime unfold. The context, ... see all copies from $21.80! new only from $21.80! \| SVS
10	Hot House more books like this by Pete Earley add to wishlist An account of life behind bars at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Their Own Words more books like this by Jeff Evans, Jimmy Santiago Baca (Foreword by), Craig W Haney (Afterword by) add to wishlist This anthology of autobiographical prison writings seeks to bring the reader inside the hidden world of some of America's two million prisoners. The 36 pieces represent works by the young and old, unknown and infamous, minimum security cheque forgers and death row inmates. see all copies from $11.92! new only from $17.75! \| SVS
12 view cover	Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture more books like this by Michael H Tonry add to wishlist Crime is an American preoccupation. Campaigns such as "the war on drugs," zero tolerance policing, and three strikes and you're out--not to mention the ever-shrill coverage of crime stories--all suggest a perpetually outraged nation determined to keep its criminal element at bay, no matter the cost. But is this really what average Americans think ... see all copies from $2.68! new only from $13.58! \| SVS
13 view cover	Controlling the Dangerous Classes: A History of Criminal Justice in America more books like this by Randall G Shelden, Michael Hallett (Foreword by) add to wishlist This text covers the history of criminal justice from a critical perspective and explores the historical biases of the criminal justice system. The overall theme of this book is that both the making of laws and the interpretation and application of these laws throughout the history of the criminal justice system has, historically, been class, ... see all copies from $31.78! new only from $54.25! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Future of Imprisonment more books like this by Michael H Tonry (Editor) add to wishlist The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have become worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitute for capital and corporal punishment and banishment. ... see all copies from $18.91! new only from $25.27! \| SVS
15 view cover	Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime more books like this by Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins add to wishlist In this, the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, Professors Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance of restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature on incapacitation effects, review the existing empirical research on the topic, report a new study, and explore in detail the links between what ... see all copies from $4.68! new only from $7.08! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration more books like this by Anne Morrison Piehl, Bert Useem add to wishlist During the past 25 years, the prison population in America shot upward to reach a staggering 1.53 million by 2005. This book takes a broad, critical look at incarceration, the huge social experiment of American society. The authors investigate the causes and consequences of the prison buildup, often challenging previously held notions from ... see all copies from $7.94! new only from $7.94!
17 view cover	Exploring Corrections in America more books like this by John T Whitehead add to wishlist see all copies from $3.83! new only from $16.20!
18 view cover	The American Jail: Cornerstone of Modern Corrections more books like this by Gary F Cornelius add to wishlist This is a book about the local jail--how it developed, how they work, and what jail staffs are doing to protect the public and keep inmates safely confined. Written from a practitioner's point of view, its goal is to give the reader a realistic view of this often overlooked institution. Critical issues such as the traits of offenders, the climate ... see all copies from $7.43! new only from $18.91! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Dilemmas of Corrections: Multidisciplinary Perspectives more books like this by Kenneth C Haas add to wishlist see all copies from $15.24! new only from $28.77!
20 view cover	Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt more books like this by Jim Goad add to wishlist Jim Goad's brief career as an underground celebrity has been studded with controversy, from an obscenity trial over a much-reviled "rape issue" of his magazine Answer Me, to a White House shooting in which the perpetrator quoted Goad's writing, to a two-and-a-half-year stint in prison for assault. Shit magnet is his manifesto, written while he was ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $9.92! \| SVS
21 view cover	Behind Prison Walls: The Real World of Working in Today's Prisons more books like this by Tom Martin add to wishlist If you want to know what today's murderers, gangbangers and street predators are really like, take a step behind prison walls. A veteran prison guard reveals the truth behind staff rivalries, incarcerated killers, old-time cons, racial tension, inmate threats and ingenuity, and the darker sides of prisoner behavior. see all copies from $12.42! new only from $12.42! \| SVS
22	March to Calumny: The Story of American POW's in the Korean War more books like this by Albert D Biderman add to wishlist see all copies from $11.98! first editions
23 view cover	Prisons and Prison Life: Costs and Consequences more books like this by Joycelyn M Pollock add to wishlist Joycelyn M. Pollock's "Prisons and Prison Life: Costs and Consequences" describes and analyzes prisons and the costs of imprisonment for all involved. Beginning with a short history of imprisonment in the U.S., the text covers all aspects of prisons, including profiles of prisoners, a description of life in prison, women's prisons, correctional ... see all copies from $15.45! new only from $161.72!
24 view cover	Americas Prisons 06 more books like this by Clare Hanrahan add to wishlist The United States imprisons more persons than any other nation. The social and economic costs impact every citizen. This collection of opposing viewpoints provides students an opportunity to weigh the merits of arguments that support or oppose the operation of America's prisons. see all copies from $5.98! new only from $31.76! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration more books like this by Mary E Pattillo (Editor), David Weiman (Editor), Bruce Western (Editor) add to wishlist More than half a million prisoners in the United States are released to their home communities each year. What are the social costs to the communities from which this vast incarcerated population comes. "Imprisoning America goes beyond a narrow focus on crime to examine the connections between incarceration and family formation, labor markets, ... see all copies from $8.39! new only from $22.58! \| SVS

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