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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

'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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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:...

'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...

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,...

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....

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...

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....