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Although they have existed in Britain for over a thousand years, it was not until the nineteenth century that prisons became the cornerstone of the penal system. This book looks at the development of prison buildings, life and labour of prisoners, and the position of prison officers.

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This book explores how virtual reality can be used to improve traditional cognitive behavior therapy, a widely used therapeutic technique used to treat offenders, by offering a controlled environment where offenders can learn new skills, role play, and practice scenarios that they may find when back in the community.

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This is a comprehensive examination of the contemporary movement against drunk driving, emphasizing the rationales behind, controversies surrounding, and effectiveness of new strategies and developments to combat drunk driving.

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This is a comprehensive examination of the contemporary movement against drunk driving, emphasizing the rationales behind, controversies surrounding, and effectiveness of new strategies and developments to combat drunk driving.

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Their War Stories, along with the stories of 13 other students in a Western Civilization class, are chronicled here by the teacher who earned their respect and trust while tracing the paths that brought them together behind the walls of a maximum security prison.

Americans are vitally concerned about crime.

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Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults - a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. This book explains how we got into the trap and how we can get out of it: to cut both crime and the prison population.

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Arguing that the capital punishment must be stopped, this book exposes us to the realities of state killing and examines its foundations in ideas about revenge and retribution. It takes us inside the courtroom of a capital trial, and presents interviews with jurors and lawyers who make decisions about life and death.

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Damian Marrett's penetrating yet darkly comic insights into undercover work reveal a style of policing that is often shrouded in secrecy.

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This reference guide documents white-collar crimes by individuals and businesses over the past 150 years, offering the most comprehensive array of documents and interpretations available.

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In the white-collar world, from government corruption and financial fraud to malpractice, upper-class misconduct has become an obsession. The third edition of this text has been updated to include details of fraud in science, murder in the workplace and the media's portrayal of white-collar crime.

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The first history of the Irish juvenile justice system -- .

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Drawing on government data and interdisciplinary expertise, this timely book seeks to explain why the changing economic and legal status of women has not reduced the gender gap in criminal offending.

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The significance of the historical treatment of women is also examined, in addition to the women's movement, the rise in women's crime and victimization, theoretical and statistical approaches, and prominent literature in the field.

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An historical examination of women and the death penalty in the United States from 1900 to 1998. It considers the penal codes in the various states regarding the death penalty, and the personal stories of women who have been executed or who are currently on death row.

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From the Foreword by George Henderson: Perhaps nothing captures the debilitating effects of sexism more vividly than [this] in-depth study of women incarcerated in our correctional institutions.

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