Kriminalvård & straff

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 book is the first volume to explore criminal justice work and criminological research through the lens of emotional labour. A concept first coined 30 years ago, emotional labour seeks to explore the ways in which people manage their emotions ...

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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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In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implica...

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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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Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Tenth Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance. This edition examines the e...

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Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Tenth Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance. This edition examines the e...

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Forensic CBT: A Handbook for Clinical Practice is an edited collection that represents the first authoritative resource on the utilization of CBT strategies and techniques for offender clients. * Features contributions from leaders of the major sc...

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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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Under många århundraden var avrättningar en offentlig angelägenhet som drogstora och blodtörstiga publikskaror. Denna grymma exposé inleds med romarnasgladiatorspel där tjuvar slets i stycken av vilda djur. Historien fortsättermed medeltiden, då m...

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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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Historikern Roddy Nilsson analyserar i denna bok fängelsets roll i kriminalpolitiken från 1930-talet och ett halvsekel framåt. Två övergripande frågor står i centrum. Dels hur fängelset som företeelse förändrades mot bakgrund av välfärdsstatens fr...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION, 2019 'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' - Barack Obama A Book of the Year according the i, Guardian, Sunday Times, Sunday Mail New...

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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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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 appr...

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Privatising Justice takes a broad historical view of the role of the private sector in the British state, from private policing and mercenaries in the eighteenth century to the modern rise of the private security industry in armed conflict, polici...

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Där sitter han till slut, på andra sidan av ett skottsäkert glas. Fyrtioettåringen hon flugit över Atlanten för att träffa. Mannen som snart ska dö. Han lyfter telefonluren och presenterar sig. När den prisbelönta reportern och kolumnisten Carina ...

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This book charts the historical development of 'forensic objectivity' through an analysis of the ways in which objective knowledge of crimes, crime scenes, crime materials and criminals is achieved. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, with autho...

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For Dear Life chronicles feminist and artist Carol Jacobsen's deep commitment to the causes of justice and human rights, and focuses a critical lens on an American criminal-legal regime that imparts racist, gendered, and classist modes of punishme...

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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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Volume 3 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years

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Prisons have always been a key focus of those interested in human rights and the rule of law. This book looks at the challenges African governments face in dealing with these issues.Written by some of the most eminent researchers from and on Afric...

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The Routledge International Handbook of Forensic Psychology in Secure Settings is the first volume to identify, discuss and analyse the most important psychological issues within prisons and secure hospitals. Including contributions from leading r...

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Denna handbok beskriver svenska förhållanden för psykiskt sjuka lagöverträdare, psykiatrisk tvångsvård, kriminalvård, rättspsykiatriska utredningar, psykiska störningar, missbruk, våldsbrott, mordbrand etc.Vidare behandlas bl.a. rättspsykiatrisk f...

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Volume 2 of the gripping epic masterpiece, The story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for Nearly a decade

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Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view. Inside the walls, imprisoned people all over the world stage theatrical productions that enable them to assert their humanity and capabilities. ...

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A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in ...

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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 second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia contains completely new drawings, text and photographs from Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev. During his fifty years working as a prison guard in St Petersburg's notorious Kresty Pri...

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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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