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Managing Fear: The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk
Managing Fear examines the growing use of risk assessment as it relates to preventive detention and supervision schemes for offenders perceived to be at a high risk of re-offending, individuals...
Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison
With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money...
Imprisoning Resistance
Nominated in the True Crime Category for the 8th Davitt Awards. These awards recognise the best crime novels and true crime books written by Australian women, published in 2007. 29...
Offending Girls
This text examines acts of delinquency such as under-age drinking, dope smoking, illicit sex, shoplifting and truancy, and looks at girls who fall into the hands of the justice authorities,...
The Politics of Cruelty: Essay on the Literature of Political
This work sets out a new theory of politics for today, and offers a harrowing view of the modern state based on the practice of torture as a method of...
The Prison Book Club
Ten years ago Ann Walmsley was mugged outside her house in Hampstead. She suffered PTSD and for a long time afterwards was afraid to walk down the street alone. A...
Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye
An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in Port Arthur, one of the most remote and feared convict locations in...
The Executioner's Song
If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons,...
The Fatal Shore
'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
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...
Mutiny or Murder?: The Bloodsoaked Voyage of the Chapman Convict Ship
Comprehensive account of one of the darkest episodes in the history of penal transportation history. On 15 March 1817 the convict ship the Chapman departed from the Cork with 200...
Dumbest Criminals
p>A humorous insight into some of history's dumbest criminals./p>p>You'll have heard about a bank robbery going wrong? Picture someone going into a bank, robbing the teller, all proceeding as planned,...
Marching Powder
Marching Powder is the story of Thomas McFadden, a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrested in Bolivia and thrown inside the notorious San Pedro prison. He found himself in...
Inside Broadmoor: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic.Since opening as an asylum for...
Eye for An Eye: The Richard & Judy Winter 2024 Book Club thriller that
OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.UNTIL NOW...'Emily' is a devoted single mother. 'Jack' starts a new job in a new town. They both share the same secret:...
Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive
'One of the best books about prison I've ever read' Kimberley ChambersA chilling look into the brutality of life behind bars and what it's like to be locked away with...
Dumbest Criminals
p>A humorous insight into some of history's dumbest criminals./p>p>You'll have heard about a bank robbery going wrong? Picture someone going into a bank, robbing the teller, all proceeding as planned,...
Weekends with Daisy: How a Very Special Puppy Changed My Life
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I'm half crazy, all for the love of you . . .Daisy is a mischievous ball of yellow fluff who enjoys chasing her tail and wrestling with her favourite toys....
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon.Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like...
States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System
A crucial book for our current moment, uncovering the history of mass incarceration in the United States and engaging with the major challenges of contemporary prison and police abolition activism....