A judge hands down a stretch in a local, state, or federal prison. It's time for some serious life lessons. With the crime rates soaring in the United States and the prison population growing faster than at any time in American history, staying alive and well -- both mentally and physically -- is tougher than ever.

Behind Bars: Surviving Prison

Politics & Social Sciences

Ross, Jeffrey Ian

Richards, Stephen C.

Social Sciences

Alpha

Identifies the most pressing issues affecting the correctional system today. Maintaining a solutions-focus, the book organizes problems into two distinct categories: those impacting the convicts and correctional facilities and those impacting the correctional officers and administrators. It examines long-standing, and emerging issues from a critical perspective, grounding discussion in empirical research and current events. Using the consistent voice of a single author, the book offers a no nonsense approach to explaining the problems of correctional officers, correctional managers, prisoners, and the public.

Special Problems in Corrections

Pearson College Div

CONVICT CRIMINOLOGY is a collection of chapters written by criminologists, half of whom are ex-convicts. The book includes provocative discussions of rehabilitation, recidivism, drug addiction, life inside different prison systems, transincarceration, discrimination against felons, fathers in prison, and children in adult jails. The book merges autobiographical stories with criminological research to introduce a convict perspective that includes new ideas, vocabulary, and policy recommendations. CONVICT CRIMINOLOGY is a comprehensive text that covers all major topics related to prison life, prisoner reentry to the community, and research on prisons, in an engaging, thought-provoking style.

Convict Criminology (Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series)

Cengage Learning'

International and interdisciplinary--as well as historical and contemporary--in scope and coverage, this encyclopedia provides background information and authoritative analysis on a broad array of questions and issues related to the intersection of religion and violence. It offers a comprehensive but concise approach to the most important individuals (those who advocated violence as well as those who opposed it), historical events, groups and practices, theories, movements and processes, causes and effects connected to religious-driven violence. Religion and Violence integrates scholarly analysis with current events, and discusses the global ramifications of religious violence both historically and in today's world. It covers major religions of the world and their different approaches to violence, along with country and regional studies. More than 130 signed A-Z articles provide in-depth perspectives on a wide variety of subjects and issues connected with religion and violence, including Osama bin Laden, Gerry Adams, the Crusades, Rwandan genocide, September 11th, Falun Gong, al Qaeda, skinheads, witchcraft, anti-abortion protests, new religious movements, the Internet, and much more. Photos and tables accompany select entries, and all entries include bibliographic citations.

Religion and Violence: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present (3 volume set)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Routledge

This series looks at the many aspects of terrorism: its role in history, the goals of terrorists, the many terrorist groups throughout history and their most infamous attacks as well as the steps nations are taking to protect their citizens from radical groups bent on doing harm.

Will Terrorism End? (Roots of Terrorism)

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Chelsea House Pub

Dynamics Of Political Crime

In The Dynamics of Political Crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross provides the most comprehensive and contemporary discussion of the phenomenon of political crime -- crimes committed both by and against the state -- in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom during the past three decades. Ross discusses both violent and nonviolent oppositional crimes, as well as state crimes such political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations. Written by a recognized critical criminologist, this volume develops a new theory of political crime and thoroughly reviews definitional and conceptual issues, causes of political crimes, and ways to control it, and effects of different types of political crime. Recommended for both scholarly and classroom use at either the upper-division undergraduate or graduate levels.

Dynamics of Political Crime

Sage Publications, Inc.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Controlling State Crime (Garland Reference Library of Social Science:current Issues in Criminal Justice)

Garland Science

Political Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach

The salient feature of this book is its comprehensive but concise approach to the field of terrorism – particularly its causes and effects – and the application of this information to selected case studies. Political Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach is easy to read and designed to answer common questions asked by undergraduate and graduate students without prior exposure to the study of terrorism. This book is accessible to practitioners (those individuals working, or aspiring to work, in the fields of criminal justice and national security) and policymakers in the counterterrorism field as well as members of the mass media covering stories on terrorism. Political Terrorism is sensitive to the global ramifications of terrorism and the responses to it. This book maintains a balance between realism and sensationalism and offers a more comprehensive understanding of the causes and effects of terrorism than do most other texts. Political Terrorism integrates scholarly analysis with current events by relying on recent media accounts and information gathered by responsible news outlets. The text features end-of-chapter questions as well as «exhibit» boxes that provide background details on items of interest to students and instructors.

Foreign & International Law

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

The salient feature of this book is its comprehensive but concise approach to the field of terrorism – particularly its causes and effects – and the application of this information to selected case studies. Political Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach is easy to read and designed to answer common questions asked by undergraduate and graduate students without prior exposure to the study of terrorism. This book is accessible to practitioners (those individuals working, or aspiring to work, in the fields of criminal justice and national security) and policymakers in the counterterrorism field as well as members of the mass media covering stories on terrorism.  Political Terrorism is sensitive to the global ramifications of terrorism and the responses to it. This book maintains a balance between realism and sensationalism and offers a more comprehensive understanding of the causes and effects of terrorism than do most other texts. Political Terrorism integrates scholarly analysis with current events by relying on recent media accounts and information gathered by responsible news outlets. The text features end-of-chapter questions as well as «exhibit» boxes that provide background details on items of interest to students and instructors.

Key Issues in Corrections

Key Issues in Corrections is a fascinating book that critically analyzes the most important challenges affecting the correctional system in the United States. Jeffrey Ian Ross, an expert in the field, builds on his acclaimed book Special Problems in Corrections to examine both long-standing and emerging issues, grounding the discussion in empirical research and current events.   This fully updated edition integrates new scholarship, lawsuits, and the use of technology; introduces and evaluates new corrections policies and practices; and features two new sections, The Privatization of Prisons” and The Death Penalty,” as well as links to a companion website. Offering a no-nonsense approach to the problems faced by correctional officers, correctional managers, prisoners, and the public, this solutions-focused book will be a vital resource for students of criminology.

Policy Press

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Behind Bars: Surviving Prison

Special Problems in Corrections

Convict Criminology (Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series)

Religion and Violence: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present (3 volume set)

Will Terrorism End? (Roots of Terrorism)

Dynamics of Political Crime

Controlling State Crime (Garland Reference Library of Social Science:current Issues in Criminal Justice)

Political Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Political Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Key Issues in Corrections