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When the author was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she had been when she committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her. Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, she was suddenly forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking. She spent thirteen months...

In this gripping new non-fiction novel from Catherine Marfino-Reiker, author of 999 Officer Down, a veteran police officer is driven to the brink of mental collapse. J U S T O N E S H I F T delves deep into the mind of a big city street cop as he confronts one impossible situation after another during the busiest shift of his career. An intense recounting, which discloses the officers thought process as he makes repetitive, split-second, life and...

In seven chapters, readers will learn the history of the penal system, a weapon against the black population's growth for over 100 years. As it has remain a unique correlation with the institution of slavery from an historical context. The long fought battles that got industries in prisons, forced out but later to return only to thrive and change the entire system into a billion dollar business. The socialization process, and the brutality that under-develops...

Strafgesetzbuch (StGB) inkl. Gesetz über den Verkehr mit Betäubungsmitteln (Betäubungsmittelgesetz - BtMG), Verordnung über das Verschreiben, die Abgabe und den Nachweis des Verbleibs von Betäubungsmitteln (Betäubungsmittel-Verschreibungsverordnung - BtMVV), Einführungsgesetz zum Strafgesetzbuch (EGStGB), Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Jugendgerichtsgesetz (JGG), Gesetz über Ordnungswidrigkeiten (OWiG), Straßenverkehrsgesetz...

A single mother with no salary and few possessions, she devotes her life to helping others, visiting prisoners who have nobody else to turn to. Susan Aldous was on a path to self-destruction when she decided to give her life to others instead of wasting it away in Melbourne's dark underbelly. Working as a Playboy bunny girl, an admirer sponsored her to travel abroad for charity. She left a world of drugs and petty crime behind and moved to Singapore,...

When prison privatization began in the United States in the early 1980s, many policy analysts claimed that the result would be higher costs, declining quality, and an erosion of state authority. Bringing together five of the leading researchers of prison privatization and criminology, this authoritative survey addresses the economic as well as the social implications of prison reform. Economist Ken Avio begins with an analysis of the broader issues...

One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher. Collected in this volume are the three comic books published by the Real Cost of Prisons Project. The stories and statistical information in each comic book are thoroughly researched and documented. Prison Town: Paying the Price tells the...

Joining the conversation on Mass Incarceration and criminal justice reform, a prisoner speaks out with personal experience from inside, serving a 27-year sentence; providing potential solutions for untold topics that affect society as a whole. Each chapter takes a dive into uncomfortable realities while addressing today's prison system, the Coronavirus pandemic, unfair treatment, and psychological warfare.

The classic and groundbreaking study of penal slavery throughout the ages is finally available again. Previously a rare book, despite the fact that it is widely quoted and cited by scholars in the field of sociology, penology, and criminology, this book can now be accessed easily worldwide and be assigned again to classes.Now in its fortieth anniversary edition, Sellin's classic book adds a new Foreword by researcher Barry Krisberg at Berkeley, and...

Cet ouvrage souligne le 40e anniversaire du Département de criminologie de l'Université d'Ottawa, fondé en 1968. On y relate l'histoire du département de ses origines à nos jours en mettant l'accent sur les débats théoriques qui ont influencé son approche critique et autoréflexive de la criminologie. Les articles qui le composent s'inscrivent dans cet ordre d'idée en mettant en question la perspective traditionnelle de la criminologie sur...