Product Description: Over the past three decades, the United States has embraced the death penalty with tenacious enthusiasm. While most of those countries whose legal systems and cultures are normally compared to the United States have abolished capital punishment, the United States continues to employ this ultimate tool of punishment...read more

In the sequel to Saratoga, British officer Captain Jamie Skoyles is given the mission of infiltrating the inner circle of General George Washington and his rebel forces as a double agent at Valley Forge, where he finds himself increasingly torn between his British loyalties and his growing admiration for the American cause. 30,000 first printing.

A first installment of a series on the Revolutionary War finds British Army captain Jamie Skoyles struggling to compensate for the costly mistakes of overconfident British leaders, enduring a pivotal battle at Saratoga, and imagining life after the war. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

A first installment of a series on the Revolutionary War finds British Army captain Jamie Skoyles struggling to compensate for the costly mistakes of overconfident British leaders, enduring a pivotal battle at Saratoga, and imagining life after the war.

Product Description: La cultura del control presenta los cambios dramáticos en la vigilancia del delito y la justicia penal que se han producido en los últimos 25 años. En un fascinante y complejo estudio, David Garland ilustra como la caída de los índices de criminalidad ha ido acompañada, paradójicamente, de un creciente encarcelamiento, de la reducción de las libertades civiles y la estigmatización como subclase de una amplia minoría...read more

This major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of the phenomenon of mass imprisonment. Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor. Other countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This book describes mass imprisonment's impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture. This is a book that all penologists and poli (view table of contents)

Product Description: Situational crime prevention has drawn increasing interest in recent years, yet the debate has looked mainly at whether it 'works' to prevent crime. Little attention has been paid to how it alters conceptions and strategies of crime prevention in modern society, and to the ethical questions concerning its potential impact on freedom and privacy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Why we punish, who we punish and how we punish are central elements of any discussion of the role of law in modern society. In this impressive and timely collection, two leading experts on the theory of punishment have selected a range of articles which have made important and influential contributions to the ways in which punishment is understood in contemporary society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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