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£21.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781770416215 | ISBN 10: 1770416218
“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus Reviews
An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, t ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914240317 | ISBN 10: 1914240316
"So deeply gripping and inspiring...It will stay with me, always."(Annie Macmanus)
In 2008, 21-year-old Lady Unchained got involved in a fight in a club while trying to protect her sister. Serving 11 months of her prison sentence, her life changed ... more
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£25.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914603204 | ISBN 10: 1914603206
Motherhood In and After Prison focuses on how imprisonment impacts incarcerated mothers’ maternal identity, emotions and role. It explores both the short and longer-term consequences of sending mothers to prison. It reveals the devastating and ofte ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781841883335 | ISBN 10: 1841883336
Step inside one of Britain's most notorious prisons...
During her time as a prison teacher Mim Skinner met every type of criminal. But her job was not to judge them, it was to teach.
In this compelling, inspirational memoir Mim takes you b ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911231271 | ISBN 10: 1911231278
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement — in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana — all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woo ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781473647763 | ISBN 10: 1473647762
Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women.
Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, loc ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781841883328 | ISBN 10: 1841883328
Darkly funny, heartbreakingly poignant and stark in its revelations about the UK’s attitude towards people on the fringes of society and women in general, JAILBIRDS is this year’s book you need to read.
“Did you know:
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783785155 | ISBN 10: 1783785152
The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decide ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785371615 | ISBN 10: 1785371614
The Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz were first published in 1932 as a classic of feminist literature. Now restored to their original form by leading Markievicz expert, Lindie Naughton, this new edition features previously unpublished letters th ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781909976610 | ISBN 10: 190997661x
As a young student and activist for a different social order, Gladys Ambort fell victim to political repression in the Argentina of the 1970s. Denounced by her college professor, she was incarcerated for three years, during part of which she underwen ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781631491177 | ISBN 10: 1631491172
An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa’s apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against politi ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999619503 | ISBN 10: 1999619501
In 1979, Nasrin Parvaz returned from England, where she had been studying, and became a member of a socialist party in Iran fighting for a non-Islamic state in which women had the same rights as men. Three years later, at the age of 23, she was betra ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785924989 | ISBN 10: 1785924982
Bringing together a range of first-hand testimonies of captives, this personal and arresting collection provides an overview of what life inside is actually like. Drawing on memoirs of captives - including those imprisoned for stealing money, murder, ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702243 | ISBN 10: 1784702242
Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya’s Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There, Ngugi lives in a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786891136 | ISBN 10: 1786891131
An unflinching and deeply moving collection of stories by a debut writer currently serving a life sentence in Michigan’s prison system. His stories form a vivid portrait of prison life, painted from behind bars.
A man sits collect-calling ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780525436614 | ISBN 10: 0525436618
A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal schol ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408849323 | ISBN 10: 1408849321
Born in Somerset in 1957 to itinerant Scottish parents, Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home and subject to the whims of various caregivers after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first cr ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786891853 | ISBN 10: 1786891859
The first and only diary written by a Guantanamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previous censored material restored. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay in 2002.There he suffered the worst of what the prison had to ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786632241 | ISBN 10: 1786632241
Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors — overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786632289 | ISBN 10: 1786632284
Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States.
In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount their lives leading up to incarceration a ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780717172474 | ISBN 10: 0717172473
Looking back over the last six, almost seven decades, the images that flash through my mind are hardly believable – sometimes, it feels like I’m remembering someone else’s life. The truth is, I’ve lived three very different lives: the one bef ... more
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£13.50 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849351744 | ISBN 10: 1849351740
Angels with Dirty Faces is no romanticized tale of crime and punishment. The three lives in this creative nonfiction account are united by the presence of actual harm - sometimes horrific violence. Imarisha, dealing with the complexities of her own e ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780748634 | ISBN 10: 1780748639
After Ann Walmsley was mugged near her house in Hampstead, she found she was unable to walk alone down the street and it shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people. In Canada a few years later, when her friend Carol asked her to participa ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473637221 | ISBN 10: 1473637228
The reissue of four unforgettable books by acclaimed poet, novelist and dissident Irina Ratushinskaya.
If it ever falls to you, my reader (though God forbid!) to see your name written on a prison wall and followed by the letters 'LYMTL', that wi ... more
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£22.50 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909976337 | ISBN 10: 1909976334
This re-issue with a new Preface of a classic work by John Hostettler looks at the political and other social dynamics behind law, order and punishment. A timeless work by one of the UK’s leading commentators and now with pointers to key developmen ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847178152 | ISBN 10: 1847178154
Bobby Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special C ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745336336 | ISBN 10: 0745336337
This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O'Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades, fellow prisoners and prison wardens, to provide a ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781620971376 | ISBN 10: 1620971372
The first major trade book about the prison sentence worse than death, featuring a dozen haunting firsthand accounts of life in solitary
"Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day f ... more
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£16.50 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849352345 | ISBN 10: 1849352348
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together curr ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785033032 | ISBN 10: 1785033034
A moving, tragic and controversial memoir from one of Britain's most violent ex-criminals.
Jimmy Boyle grew up in Glasgow's Gorbals. All around him the world was drinking, fighting and thieving. To survive, he too had to fight and steal... ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783350780 | ISBN 10: 1783350784
There is a saying in Russian jails. Never ne boysya ne prosi: don't trust, don't fear, don't beg. Don't trust because life here will always disappoint you. Don't fear because whatever you're scared of, you are powerless to prevent it. And don't beg b ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781620970676 | ISBN 10: 1620970678
A brilliant overview of the defining human rights crisis in America today.
We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our crimin ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781771642095 | ISBN 10: 1771642092
"Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear, mild, nuanced, but clear. His examination of his culture is perceptive and rigorous. Of course he must be saved from the dreadful sentence against him and the appalling conditions of his imp ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784186012 | ISBN 10: 1784186015
A key player in the worst prison riot in British history at Strangeways Prison in April 1990, Alan Lord was always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was drawn to trouble like water to a sponge. After experiencing a troubled childhood during wh ... more
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£17.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780816692415 | ISBN 10: 0816692416
In Slaves of the State Dennis Childs argues that the incarceration of black people and other historically repressed groups in chain gangs, peon camps, prison plantations, and penitentiaries represents a ghostly perpetuation of chattel slavery. ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780894010 | ISBN 10: 1780894015
Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives.
Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his ... more
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£4.50 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781604880588 | ISBN 10: 1604880589
The unbending dignity, truthfulness, and integrity of the five Cubans framed up by the US government and today serving draconian sentences in federal prisons has won them the admiration and respect of prominent figures around the world and thousands ... more
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£23.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781137455109 | ISBN 10: 1137455101
Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Award, 2013.
Includes a new foreword by Professor Joe Sim, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
Nation states around the globe are struggling with increasing concerns over human a ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781608462728 | ISBN 10: 1608462722
"Somehow, Shakespeare always seems to have something to say to us."(Nelson Mandela)
The prison authorities on apartheid South Africa's Robben Island strictly censored the reading materials inmates received from the outside world. Yet, the prisoner ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781687734 | ISBN 10: 1781687730
A fascinating exchange between the punk-philosopher and the philosopher-punk.
We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908643407 | ISBN 10: 1908643404
In 1920s French-controlled Algeria, Kaci is in the frame for the brutal murder of his French boss. He is faced with a stark choice: win freedom by naming the killer and thus condemning him to the guillotine, or keep quiet and face a never-ending sent ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780956353948 | ISBN 10: 0956353940
This book confronts and challenges many preconceived ideas held about prisoners and prisons.
The Queen vs Trenton Oldfield: A Prison Diary is a timely expos of a personal experience of British justice and incarceration. It brings together ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689545 | ISBN 10: 1851689540
Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's presidential election, believing he'd return to his pregnant fiancee, Paola, in just a few days, a week at most. In fact he would spend the next three months in Iran's most notorious prison ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780330519540 | ISBN 10: 0330519549
Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape...
Twenty-seven years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of N ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781604865004 | ISBN 10: 1604865008
In 1887, Clment Duval joined the tens of thousands of convicts sent to the dry guillotine of the French penal colonies. Few survived and fewer were able to tell the stories of their life in that hell. Duval spent fourteen years doing hard labor ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781604865752 | ISBN 10: 160486575x
Winner of the 2008 PASS Award (Prevention for a Safer Society) from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He became ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781904380832 | ISBN 10: 1904380832
As Frankie Owens writes in The Little Book of Prison (LBP), Society wants to know about prison life, an interesting place to visit but you wouldnt want to live there.
* An easy-to-read prison survival guide of do's and don'ts.
* P ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781595586438 | ISBN 10: 1595586431
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discrimin ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781780880518 | ISBN 10: 1780880510
Show Me the Prisoner is written from the perspective of a prison teacher who later served on the prison monitoring body. It covers a 15-year period of involvement in two of Northern Irelands prisons during the troubles, when terrorists hogged ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781901677751 | ISBN 10: 1901677753
In May of 1895, the most dazzling man of letters of the nineteenth century was sentenced to two years with hard labour for acts of gross indecency with another male person. On his release he moved to France, where he wrote the Ballad: an anguished ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781609801373 | ISBN 10: 1609801377
Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women's imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get t ... more
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£35.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781843928089 | ISBN 10: 1843928086
Prisoners Rights: Principles and Practice considers prisoners rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives, and assesses the advantages and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment. At a time of record levels of imprisonment an ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780956240170 | ISBN 10: 0956240178
This book is a powerful contribution to the genre of the prison memoir in Africa. Jack Mapanje presents a moving account of a poets imprisonment by the state, his struggle to probe the hidden motives for his arrest, his attempt to provide an unforge ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780954437299 | ISBN 10: 0954437292
From death row, award-winning journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal introduces us to fellow prisoners who litigate against their jailers, risking punishment or even death to win justice for themselves and other prisoners.
The Introduction presents the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086306 | ISBN 10: 1844086305
'In prison you see only the moves of the enemy. Prison is the hardest place to fight a battle.'
117 Days is Ruth First's personal account of her detention under the iniquitous '90-day' law of 1963. There was no warrant, no charge and no tri ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847171825 | ISBN 10: 1847171826
At the end of his court-martial on August 16th, 1920, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, greeted his sentence of two years in jail by declaring: I have decided the term of my imprisonmentI shall be free, alive or dead, within a month.
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£17.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781595584540 | ISBN 10: 1595584544
In Prison Profiteers, co-editors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to maximize profits (Publishers Weekly). From investme ... more
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£34.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780761960041 | ISBN 10: 076196004x
"Punishment and Prisons is a scholarly, powerful and inspirational critique. With passion and humanity, Joe Sim strips neo-liberal penal policies of their reformist pretensions and demonstrates that prisons will continue to be brutal enforcers of gro ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007302994 | ISBN 10: 0007302991
"It is amazing to think that a game that people take for granted all around the world, was the very same game that gave a group of prisoners sanity - and in a way, gave us the resolve to carry on the struggle"(Anthony Suze, Robben Island Prisoner)
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£25.00 hardback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199557677 | ISBN 10: 0199557675
Ever since its foundation in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility has become the symbol for many people around the world of all that is wrong with the 'war on terror'. Secretive, inhumane, and illegal by most international standards, it has be ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780230614413 | ISBN 10: 0230614418
In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for a bounty of $3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to U.S. for ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846270536 | ISBN 10: 1846270537
When Eugene de Kock, commanding officer of the apartheid death squads, was sentenced to 212 years for crimes against humanity, the black South Africans outside Pretoria's surpreme court cheered and danced: the killer who had been nicknamed 'Prime Evi ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781843544999 | ISBN 10: 1843544997
Kang Chol-hwan is the first person to escape successfully from the gulags of North Korea and tell the story of his imprisonment. In collaboration with Pierre Rigoulot, Kang exposes the appalling truth about life in the camp: the forced labour, the pu ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780743259521 | ISBN 10: 0743259521
In December 1995, as newly appointed Chief Inspector of Prisons, David Ramsbotham carried out an unannounced inspection of HM Prison Holloway. He was appalled by the conditions he found there, but soon discovered that poor management was endemic in ... more
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£30.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781843920762 | ISBN 10: 184392076x
Thsi book aims to provide a critical analysis of both political and professional developments in policy and practice relating to non-custodial penalties. It takes full account of the creation of the National Probation Service, the National Offender ... more
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£30.99 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780631203612 | ISBN 10: 0631203613
For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracis ... more
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