Kriminalvård & straff

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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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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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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Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program inside America's private prison system. Harkening back to the time of gladiators, but watched by millions of live-stream subscribers, prisoners compe...

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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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In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated in the infamous squeegee man. New York City soon became a planetary showcase for an aggressive approach to law ...

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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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Unlike other introductions to Criminology on the market, this is the only one written specifically for students taking Professional Policing. Covering the application of theory and research to practice, it is filled with practical examples and cas...

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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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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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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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Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author

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Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society

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/LÄTTLÄST/ I Sverige sitter nästan sex tusen personer i fängelse. De flesta är män. En del sitter instängda i några veckor, andra i många år. Hur är det att vara inlåst och inte få bestämma över sitt eget liv? Hur är vardagen för fångarna? Hussein...

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**WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ** **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A riveting account of the multiple outrages of the criminal justice system of Alabama. A harrowing masterpiece Guardian Hinton somehow navigates through his rage and despair to ...

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An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-infested seas. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri Charriere, nicknamed Papill...

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The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union wher...

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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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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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The heart-wrenching "New York Times"-bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped. Harden unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin's ...

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#1 New York Times Bestseller | Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Esquire • Time Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction | Winne...

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'A unique social document recording a now disappearing sub-culture. The criminals inhabit as desperate a nether world as you are likely to come across. A hipnotic aspect of art and words. ' - Index This second volume of the Russian Crimi...

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Hotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise. Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one s...

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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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200 years after the invention of the penitentiary - the question of prison abolition has acquired an unprecedented urgency. Amid rising public concern about the proliferation of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits. Angela Davis argues f...

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Beginning with the emergence of Western penal methods in the seventeenth century, the noted French philosopher explores the role of prisons in society and shows that prisons today, as always, simply define, refine, and perpetuate crime. Reprint. NYT.

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This important and original new book reports on a major investigation of the outcomes of probation supervision, is concerned with the key question of what works in probation, and comes at an important moment of change and development for the proba...

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Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with 11th-hour drama, Grisham's first work of nonfiction reads like a page-turning legal thriller. This #1 "New York Times" bestseller is now available in a tall Premium Edition. Reissue.

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The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison. Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experienc...

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With a foreword by Bruce Western Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR The most comprehensive critique of probation and paroleand a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing bothfrom the former Probation Commissioner of New York ...

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