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 man…

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 Övervakning…

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. Hu…

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 Be…

Inget land i världen har den defensiva straffrätt som Sverige har. 1989 genomfördes en straffrättsreform vars uttalade syfte var att så få som möjligt skulle sitta i fängelse. Reformen hade sina rötter i det radikala 1970-talet. Det allmänna sades i…

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innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?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

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to…

"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." --TimeVolume 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…

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 att…

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 languag…

"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." --TimeVolume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner's towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Ann…

"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." --TimeVolume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by…

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…

A RIVETING, GROUNDBREAKING ACCOUNT OF HOW THE WAR ON CRIME HAS TORN APART INNER-CITY COMMUNITIES Forty years in, the tough on crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black com…

Fängelset är en sluten miljö, en institution som allmänheten oftast inte vet så mycket om. I denna bok delar runt 150 kvinnor som sitter fängslade i Sverige med sig av starka livsöden, erfarenheter och visdom. Vad förde dem till fängelset? Vad tänke…

Ted Honderich's Punishment is the best-known book on the justifications put forward for state punishment. This enlarged and developed edition brings his writing to a new audience. With new chapters on determinism and responsibility, plus a new concl…

Ted Honderich's Punishment is the best-known book on the justifications put forward for state punishment. This enlarged and developed edition brings his writing to a new audience. With new chapters on determinism and responsibility, plus a new concl…

Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling story of a man who went from being a convicted murderer to becoming a lecturer at the University of Michigan, a mentor and motivational speaker at conferences like TED and Aspen I…

A New York Times Best Art Book of the Year An ARTnews Best Art Book of the Year An Art Newspaper Best Art Book of the Year A National Book Foundation "Literature for Justice" Reading List Selection A Smithsonian Favorite Book of the Year A powerful…

Winner of the 2016 PEN First Amendment Award Winner of the 2016 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence Winner of the 2016 Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest Winner of the 2013 Peacema…

In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantanamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthin…

In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantanamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthin…

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX - A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one of the most bril…

Now an original comedy-drama series from Netflix, Piper Kerman's New York Times-bestselling memoir of the time she served in a US jail is fascinating, heartbreaking and hilarious.

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- och…

Ur recensionerna:”Boken i sin helhet är gjord med omsorg och lockar till läsning. Sammanfattningsvisen välskriven kulturhistoria i ett, tyvärr, intressant ämne.”Finn Hagberg, Bibliotekstjänst”Viktig och intressant bok om dödsstraff…

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition m…

"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time"It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century." --David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner's towering m…

When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies conti…

A review of the most recent evidence from cursuses, and ideas on their interpretation, with contributions as follows: Introduction (J Harding and A Barclay) , the radiocarbon problem (A Barclay and A Bayliss) , symbolic territories (J Harding) , pro…

In a liberal democracy, theory suggests that the political order and character of a civil society are closely connected: the political order allows for a dynamic and pluralistic civil society, and people's civic participation encourages support for…

In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. Drawing on theorists from Durkheim to Foucault, he insightfully critiques the entire spectrum…

* Why should offenders be punished - what should punishments be designed to achieve? * Why has imprisonment become the normal punishment for crime in modern industrial societies? * What is the relationship between theories of punishment and the actu…

SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAs seen on BBC BreakfastHorrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent being a doctor behind bars.Violence. Drugs. Suicide. Welcome t…

Now a major motion picture The true story of Billy Moore's struggle to survive in Thailand's notorious "Bangkok Hilton" prison. "Has heartfelt elements of self-betterment, vulnerability, and moments of strength that gave his character depth and a be…

WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE 2017 BANCROFT PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK FOR 2016 * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE BOSTON GLOBE, NEWSWEEK,…

Charles Bronson is the most feared and the most notorious convict in the prison system. Renowned for serial hostage taking and his rooftop sieges, he is a legend in his own lifetime. Yet behind the crime and the craziness, there is a great deal more…

Följ en livstidsdömds trippelmördares vardag på ett av Sveriges tuffaste fängelser. Ricard A R Nilsson har suttit inlåst i över 14 år, nu berättar han om ett år på säkerhetsanstalten Tidaholm. Som ena halvan av författarduon Nilsson & Larancuent…

Winner of the 2019 Christopher AwardOprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection The Instant New York Times Bestseller A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime…

An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantanamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780 pris…

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978.

New York Times bestselling author Damien Echols and his wife Lorri Davis reveal their intimate and affecting letters, written while Echols was wrongfully imprisoned on death row. An explosive bestseller, Life After Death turned a national spotlight…

In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria. Six months later this massive effort was over. On January 4, 2016,…

In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria. Six months later this massive effort was over. On January 4, 2016,…

Justice is one of the most debated and reinterpreted of concepts within the fields of law, criminology and criminal justice. Bringing together 35 leading thinkers, analysts and campaigners from around the world, this collection presents a range of o…

Justice is one of the most debated and reinterpreted of concepts within the fields of law, criminology and criminal justice. Bringing together 35 leading thinkers, analysts and campaigners from around the world, this collection presents a range of o…

"Gato's head snapped back... We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn't look back." Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg of cocaine, Pieter Tri…

FOUR DAYS IN 1971 CHANGED THE COURSE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. THIS IS THE TRUE STORY FROM THE MAN AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL. In the summer of 1971, the New York's Attica State Prison is a symbol of everything broken in America - abused prisoners, rampant…

From the simple fist and the boot, to the thumbscrew, rack and hallucinogenic drugs, torture has been used throughout history to punish, intimidate or obtain a confession. Long associated with absolute monarchies and totalitarian regimes, since the…

This text looks at torture tools and techniques used throughout history and upto 20th century inventions, such as the use of electrons to administer electric shocks, as well as enduring instruments such as the rack, which was first mentioned in Anci…

A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. This is a 37 year old man's account of 25 years behind bars.

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 scho…

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 scho…

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners'…

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners'…

HMP Grendon hosts the UK's only prison-based therapeutic community, inhabited by around 200 residents, almost all convicted of crimes against the person, and about half of whom have killed. This is an inside account of the work, and the theory behin…

No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big chunk. In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 1988 I published - in order to celebrate having survived half a century - a little book called Essays in Criminal Law, containing seven articles. The present sister volume, also containing seven articles, is meant as a celebration of my retiremen…