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- History 301
- Imprisonment 163
- Criminal justice, Administration of 100
- Prisoners 87
- Prisons 86
- Politics and government 81
- Social conditions 66
- False imprisonment 59
- Social aspects 59
- History and criticism 47
- World War, 1939-1945 46
- Criminals 39
- Punishment 38
- Rehabilitation 37
- Civil rights 35
- Crime 35
- Women prisoners 35
- Alternatives to imprisonment 32
- Women 32
- Political aspects 31
- Corrections 30
- Political prisoners 29
- African Americans 27
- Legal status, laws, etc 26
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration 25
- Children of prisoners 24
- Prisoners of war 24
- Race relations 24
- Human rights 23
- Social life and customs 23
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Imprisonment.
Published 2019Subjects: “…Imprisonment History.…”
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The effects of imprisonment / edited by Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna.
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The harms of imprisonment: thawing out the 'deep freeze' program -- pt. 2. …”
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Chaplains to the Imprisoned : Sharing Life with the Incarcerated.
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The Crisis of Imprisonment : Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1 Strains of Servitude: Legal Punishment in the Early Republic; 2 Due Convictions: Contractual Penal Servitude and Its Discontents, 1818-1865; 3 Commerce Upon the Throne: The Business of Imprisonment in Gilded Age America; 4 Disciplining the State, Civilizing the Market: The Campaign to Abolish Contract Prison Labor; 5 A Model Servitude: Prison Reform in the Early Progressive Era; 6 Uses of the State: The Dialectics of Penal Reform in Early Progressive New York.…”
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Mass imprisonment : social causes and consequences / edited by David Garland.
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…The meaning of mass imprisonment / David Garland -- The causes and consequences of prison growth in the United States / Marc Mauer -- Fear and loathing in late modernity : reflections on the cultural sources of mass imprisonment in the United States / Jonathan Simon -- Television, public space and prison population : a commentary on Mauer and Simon / Thomas Mathiesen -- Governing social marginality : welfare, incarceration, and the transformation of state policy / Katherine Beckett and Bruce Western -- The macho penal economy : mass incarceration in the United States--a European perspective / David Downes -- Novus ordo saeclorum? …”
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Imprisoned apart : the World War II correspondence of an Issei couple / Louis Fiset.
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Ironies of Imprisonment.
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Health care crisis behind bars -- HIV/AIDS : metaphors and morality -- Prisoners with HIV/AIDS as a problem population -- Tuberculosis in corrections -- Aging prisoners -- The phenomenology of imprisonment and suffering -- Conclusion -- End-of-chapter questions -- 6. …”
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Decisions to imprison : court decision-making inside and outside the law / Rasmus H. Wandall.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Inside and outside the law -- The legal framework of decisions to imprison -- Decisions to imprison : a statistical point of view -- Description of the court and of the case-handling -- Organizing courtroom communication -- Decisions to imprison in the courtroom -- Ideologies of imprisonment in the courtroom -- Decisions to imprison inside and outside the law -- Closing perspectives.…”
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Philosophy imprisoned : the love of wisdom in the age of mass incarceration / edited by Sarah Tyson and Joshua M. Hall.
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The politics of imprisonment : how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders / Vanessa Barker.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Imprisonment and the democratic process -- Explaining penal regime variation : political structures and collective agency -- The case of California : neopopulism and retribution -- Washington State deliberates : from fortress prison to de-escalation -- New York : elite pragmatism and managerialism -- Democratic governance, social trust, and penal order.…”
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Imprisoned in English : the hazards of English as a default language / Anna Wierzbicka.
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Against imprisonment : an anthology of abolitionist essays / David Scott ; with a foreword by Emma Bell.
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright and publications details; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; About the author; The author of the Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Against Imprisonment; The penal utopia (or how we learn to stop worrying and to love the prison); The penal dystopia (or punishing the poor with a good conscience); Table 1: Social Background of Prisoners in England and Wales in 2016; The point is to change it (or act upon a bad conscience); Walking Among the Graves of the Living; Learning from the chaplains; Bearing witness to denial; Contradictions, tensions and abolitionist praxis.…”
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After Imprisonment : Special Issue.
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Experiencing the Carceral Continuum of Imprisonment and Reentry; Introduction; After Imprisonment: A Conceptual Framing of Reentry.…”
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The stains of imprisonment : moral communication and men convicted of sex offenses / Alice Levins.
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Punishing rape : feminisms and the carceral conversation -- Communicating badly : prisons as morally communicative institutions -- Distorting institutions : structuring the moral dialogue -- Managing guilt : living as a 'sex offender' in prison -- Maintaining innocence : contesting guilt and challenging imprisonment -- Moralising boundaries : staff-prisoner relationships and the communication of difference -- Denying community : social relationships and the dangers of acknowledgement -- Judging prisons : the limitations and excesses of denunciatory punishment.…”
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Imprisoned Fathers and Their Children.
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…""Imprisoned Fathers and their Children""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""1 Setting the Scene""; ""2 Characteristics and Perceptions of Prisoner Fathers""; ""3 The Effects of Father Imprisonment upon Children""; ""4 Provision for Fatherâ€?…”
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Imprisoned Fathers and Their Children.
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…""Imprisoned Fathers and their Children""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""1 Setting the Scene""; ""2 Characteristics and Perceptions of Prisoner Fathers""; ""3 The Effects of Father Imprisonment upon Children""; ""4 Provision for Fatherâ€?…”
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