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Although prison suicide is a global problem, there is little knowledge about the investigations occurring after prison suicides. Addressing this gap, this book provides the first detailed case study of the investigations that follow prison suicides: using England and Wales. Despite the large range of institutions that monitor English and Welsh prisons, suicides reached a record high in 2016, with the rate having doubled since 2012. These deaths represent the sharp end of a continuum of suffering, self-harm, despair and distress within prisons, which affects prisoners, their families and prison staff. This book details and critiques the lengthy and expensive police, ombudsman and coroner investigations that follow prison suicides. Drawing on extensive document analysis, including analysis of over 100 Prison and Probation Ombudsman fatal incident investigations, and original semi-structured interviews with stakeholders undertaken between 2016-2017, this book provides a novel analysis of prison oversight

When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal corrections. Private prisons are criticized for making money off mass incarceration—to the tune of

Intro; Contents; Preface*; Introduction; Chapter 1; The Life of Charles Peace; I. His Early Years; II. Peace in London; III. His Trial and Execution; Chapter 2; The Career of Robert Butler; I. The Dunedin Murders; II. The Trial of Butler; III. His Decline and Fall; Chapter 3; M. Derues; I. The Climbing Little Grocer; II. The Game of Bluff; Chapter 4; Dr. Castaing; I. An Unhappy Coincidence; II. The Trial of Dr. Castaing; Chapter 5; Professor Webster; Chapter 6; The Mysterious Mr. Holmes; I. Honour amongst Thieves; II. The Wandering Assassin; Chapter 7; The Widow Gras; I. The Charmer

Cover; Copyright and publication details; Table of Contents; Publisher's note; Acknowledgements; About the Author; The author of the Foreword; Dedication; Foreword; An Overview of the Case; The Main Players; Two Material Witnesses; Three Days' Events -- 3 and 4 October and 5 November 1975; Police Interrogation; More Questions; A Confession to Murder; The Medical Evidence and Dr Edward Tierney; Further Events; Stefan's 'Detention' at the Police Station; The Court Hearings; Preparations for Trial; Advice on Evidence; The Trial; The Trial Judge Sums Up; The First Appeal Against Conviction.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Thanks; Prologue; Part I: Explaining Genocide; 1. Perceptions and Perspectives; 2. A Defining Problem; 3. The Evolution of Genocide; Part II: Genocide at Work; 4. The Race Factor; 5. The Holocaust as Paradigm; 6. Lesser-Known Genocides; 7. The Elements of Genocide; 8. Rescue and Intervention; Part III: Aftermath of Genocide; 9. Denialism; 10. Punishment and Impunity; 11. The Legacies of Genocide; Part IV: Genocide: The Prospects; 12. Better Angels?; 13. Genocide Prevention Today; Epilogue; Reading Guide; References; Index; About the Authors.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Life Imprisonment of Women in America: Gender, Punishment, and Agency -- 2. Carmela: "Blurred Boundaries" -- 3. Beginning the Prison Journey -- 4. Ann and Crystal: Juvenile Lifers as "Minnows in a Shark Tank" -- 5. Actively Doing Life -- 6. Desiree: A Journey toward Self-Actualization -- 7. Correctional Officers or "Us" vs. "Them": Preserving and Challenging the Binary -- 8. Eating the Life-Sentence Elephant: "One Day at a Time" -- 9. Candace: "God Is My Answer" -- 10. The Way Forward: Policy Solutions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

2. The Debate in the United States3. The Debate in Western Europe; 4. General Conclusion; 10. Organized Crime: The Forms It Takes, Background and Methods Used to Control it in Western Europe and the United States; 1. Introduction; 2. The Forms in which Organized Crime Appears; 3. The Background of Organized Crime; 4. Methods to Control Organized Crime; 5. Conclusion; 11. Organized Crime and Anti-Organized Crime Efforts in Western Europe: An Overview; 1. Introduction; 2. Images of Organized Crime in Western Europe; 3. The Containment of Organized Crime in Western Europe; 4. Conclusion

In 2014, the arrest and detention of thousands of desperate young migrants at the southwest border of the United States exposed the U.S. government's shadowy juvenile detention system, which had escaped public scrutiny for years. This book tells the story of six Central American and Mexican children who are driven from their homes by violence and deprivation, and who embark alone, risking their lives, on the perilous journey north. They suffer coercive arrests at the U.S. border, then land in detention, only to be caught up in the battle to obtain legal status. Whose Child Am I? looks inside a vast, labyrinthine system by documenting in detail the experiences of these youths, beginning with their arrest by immigration authorities, their subsequent placement in federal detention, followed by their appearance in deportation proceedings and release from custody, and, finally, ending with their struggle to build new lives in the United States. This book shows how the U.S. government got into the business of detaining children and what we can learn from this troubled history

This insightful book focuses on developments since the publication in 2007 of the Corston Report into women and criminal justice. While some of its recommendations were accepted by government, actual policy has restricted the scale and scope of change. The challenges of working with women in the current climate of change and uncertainty are also explored, seeking to translate lessons from good practice to policy development and recommending future directions resulting from the coalition government's Transforming Rehabilitation plans. This timely analysis engages with wide-ranging considerations for policy makers, providers and practitioners of services and interventions for women who offend, and questions whether women should be treated differently in the criminal justice system

Over the past 20 years, there have been many changes to probation governance in England and Wales aimed at controlling it from central government. However, the changes introduced under the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda, introduced in 2013, are unprecedented: the service has been divided and part-privatised and no longer exists as a unified public body. This topical book looks at the attitudes of probation practitioners and managers to the philosophy, values, and practicalities of TR. Based on a unique online survey of over 1300 respondents which found that they were unequivocally opposed to its broad aims and objectives, it provides unique insights into the values, attitudes and beliefs of probation staff and their delivery of services. Including broader discussion of the privatisation/marketisation debate, the context of privatisation of criminal justice services and questions of legitimacy and governance, this is essential reading for everyone interested in the future of the service

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus -- 1. American Youth Violence -- 2. The Power Politics of Juvenile Court Transfer in the 1990s -- 3. Juvenile Sexual Offenders -- 4. The School-to-Prison Pipeline -- 5. Education behind Bars? -- 6. A Tale of Two Systems -- 7. Juvenile Criminal Record Confidentiality -- 8. Minority Overrepresentation -- 9. The Once and Future Juvenile Brain -- 10. On Strategy and Tactics for Contemporary Reforms -- About the Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: leaving the tricks and the trade -- 2. All in a day's work: the good, bad, and ugly -- 3. Getting in: from the streets to the program -- 4. Getting on: role distancing -- 5. Still getting on: embracing a new role and identity -- 6. Getting out: remaining out of sex work -- Methodological appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author