Kriminalvård & straff

Jag sträckte upp armarna i luften och skakade försiktigt på benen på samma sätt som jag brukade göra inför mina dagliga löparrundor i skogarna runt campus. Sedan var det dags. Jag drog ytterligare ett djupt darrande andetag, kastade mig ut i den m...

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America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million peopleor one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop of this unprecedented mass imprisonment, punishment permeates everyday life, carrying with it complex ...

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Denna femte översedda och ombrutna upplaga innehåller för första gången illustrationerna ur den franska originalutgåvan. Varför intar fängelset en så dominerande plats i dagens straffsystem? Den frågan står i centrum för Michel Foucaults Övervakni...

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The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year. John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he's going to join the...

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Där sitter han till slut, fyrtioettåringen hon flugit över Atlanten för att träffa. Mannen som snart ska dö. I en bur. På andra sidan av ett skottsäkert glas. Han ser hur hon tittar på vakterna i skottsäkra västar som står några steg bakom buren. ...

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Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier,...

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Janne Raninen har suttit i fängelse i över två decennier, i både Sverige och Finland. Han är dömd för två mord och har just avtjänat sitt straff. I Bakom murarna har han samlat sina minnen från åren bakom galler. Allt som händer på kåken stannar v...

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In a brilliant synthesis of the work of Foucault, Durkheim, Weber, Kircheimer, and Marx, this book develops a completely new, comprehensive, and highly stimulating theory of punishment.

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Här kommer 14 kvinnor mellan 23 och 61 år till tals: de sitter respektive har suttit i fängelse kortare eller längre tid, dömda för bland annat stölder och missbruksrelaterade brott. De har djupintervjuats av Annica Carlsson Bergdahl. Vad gör det ...

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Expertly drawing on international examples and existing literature, Penal Populism closes a gap in the field of criminology. In this fascinating expose of current crime policy John Pratt examines the role played by penal populism on trends in cont...

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THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND NETFLIX'S THE LINCOLN LAWYER THE PATH TO JUSTICE CAN BE PAVED WITH LIES Defense attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - rides the wave of freeing a wrongfully convicted man from prison.Inundated with pleas ...

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'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. The...

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The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracia...

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Knutby, NK, Gamla stan och Varberg är några av de platser som har varit föremål för massmedias och allmänhetens intresse efter vad som betraktats som vansinnesdåd, vilka begåtts av gärningspersoner med psykiska problem. När problemen är så stora a...

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'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode tha...

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Over the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised as an index of governments' competence. New and worrying developments, such as ...

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Tidigare förvarades fångar i gemensamma logement eller fängelserum. År 1847 öppnades cellfängelset i Karlstad och fängelse blev den centrala påföljden i 1864 års strafflag. Vid Karlstads länsfängelse var flera av Sveriges mest ökända brottslingar ...

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'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed? ...

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An international best seller dissects the globalization of penal policies made in U.S.A. as part of the spread of neoliberalism In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offen...

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Drawing on the latest evidence, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to assess the early causes of offending and what works best to prevent it. Preschool intellectual enrichment, child skills training, parent management training,...

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Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing ...

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The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior. Drawing upon the ...

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Att bli omhändertagen av samhället är ett djupt ingrepp i en människas liv. De individuella mötena med anstalten uppmärksammas sällan, men i Inspärrad får vi följa personer som varit intagna på sinnessjukhus, sanatorier, fängelser, uppfostrings- o...

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Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and d...

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Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas Prize A leading authority on sheriffs in America investigates the impunity with which sheriffs police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, l...

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For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankinds very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of...

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This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology. It surveys both the ways in which the work of Foucault has been applied in criminology, but also how his work can be used t...

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The iconic New York Times bestseller that 'struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter' (Ibram X. Kendi) Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly Slate C...

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This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any langu...

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'This beautifully written and harrowing book bears witness to the devastating experience of imprisonment; it shows the centrality of faith; and tenderly details the prayers, communities and acts of resistance that sustained these prisoners wh...

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