刑罰学

密着取材で浮かび上がる「袴田事件」再審の戦い。事件発生から58年を経て、ついに再審判決の時を迎えた「袴田事件」。支え続けた姉・ひで子さんの献身、死刑判決を書いた元裁判官の告白と謝罪など…

'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever seen.' Andrew Kirby, former inmate Welcome to Pentridge, Australia's most infamous prison. In the long-awaited return to his bestselling true crime series on life behind bars, James Phelps has...

A true story of survival, faith, and the radical act of rising again. Behind closed doors, Caddie Phoenix endured the quiet, devastating violence of coercive control. Behind prison walls, she found her voice. Journey to the Rainbow is her powerful memoir.

Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain's earlier program of sending convicts - including women - to North America....

Early one morning in the summer of 1999, authorities in the tiny West Texas town of Tulia began a roundup of suspected drug dealers....

Ashley Wilkes of Gone with the Wind helped to seal Rock Island's reputation as the "Andersonville of the North". McAdams separates truth from fiction about the Rock Island Barracks, the prison that held tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers....

One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are 23, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about what motivates young people to change. Nell Bernstein eloquently argues that there is no right way to lock up a child. The...

FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system–through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy “Correction...

A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities....

Überwachen und Strafen. Die Geburt des Gefängnisses schließt an Foucaults Bücher über die »Geburt« der Klinik und des Irrenhauses an: Es zeichnet die Frühentwicklung einer anderen totalen Institution nach.

Let Sarah take you on her incredible journey from a comfortable career running her own business in the Home Counties, to some of the most dark and dangerous places the criminal justice system had in store for her.

Wieder ein Buch von Astrid Wagner, das die Leser durch packende Schilderung, Authentizität und Empathie mitreißt. Die in diesem Buch...

When a cocksure father hatches a simple insurance fraud scheme, he has no idea its failure will lead his family into the maelstrom of America’s most violent prison riot.

Recalling her 25 years in Britain's probation service, Elizabeth Baxter offers a fresh perspective on care within the criminal justice system.

The Fascinating Sunday Times Top 10 Best Seller Assaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides. Hooch. Weapons. It's all in a week's work at HMP Parkhurst. After 28 years working as a prison officer, with 22 years at HMP Parkhurst, once one of Britain's most high...

Return to HMP Parkhurst in this raw and fascinating account of life as a prison officer. David Berridge returns with more stories from his time as a prison officer at HMP Parkhurst, giving a uncompromising look at the harsh reality of working in British prisons. From dealing with inmate violence...

At just nineteen years old, David R. Carrillo was facing a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. Thrown into some of Colorado’s most violent prisons, he survived gang politics, solitary confinement, and the crushing weight of a sentence that promised he would die behind bars.

In the first edition of A Country Called Prison, Mary Looman and John Carl presented persuasive data calling for downsizing of America's prisons. Their novel approach continues in their second edition, shifting the beliefs many people have about prisons and their role in the American society...

Jack was forced to move down the wall toward the front...he could see the young mother's face. He watched her intently as she clutched a little brown teddy bear and a picture of her daughter, who now lay only feet away in a small casket....

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish...