BOOKS

Prison Homicide: Killing and Dying in Prison Today
Joshua S. Long

The media frequently hype the notion that US prisons, overcrowded and understaffed, are deadly places. Are they correct? How many people actually die in prison, and from what causes? Who are    More >

Prison Life in Popular Culture: From "The Big House" to "Orange Is the New Black"
Dawn K. Cecil

Through the centuries, prisons were closed institutions, full of secrets and shrouded in mystery. But modern media culture has opened the gates. Dawn Cecil explores decades of popular    More >

Prison Sex: Practice and Policy
Christopher Hensley, editor

Sex in prison remains a taboo topic, largely ignored by scientists and society alike. This comprehensive volume explores prison sex, presenting original research on consensual and    More >

Prisoner Reentry at Work: Adding Business to the Mix
Melvin Delgado

Convicted offenders need jobs when they leave prison—but few people want to hire them. Spotlighting this thorny issue, Melvin Delgado explores the potential role of business    More >

Privileged Places: Race, Residence, and the Structure of Opportunity
Gregory D. Squires and Charis E. Kubrin

Now priced for course use! In the United States today, quality of life depends heavily on where one lives—but high levels of racial segregation in residential communities make it    More >

Problem-Oriented Policing and Crime Prevention, 2nd edition
Anthony A. Braga

Instead of merely reacting to crimes once they've been committed, can police agencies learn how to prevent offenses from occurring? Anthony Braga’s comprehensive analysis    More >

Problem-Oriented Policing: From Innovation to Mainstream
Johannes Knutsson, editor

The ten papers in this anthology discuss how to expand the impact of problem-oriented policing on the everyday worold of policing and crime prevention.    More >

Profiting from Peace: Managing the Resource Dimensions of Civil War
Karen Ballentine and Heiko Nitzschke, editors

Providing both a means and a motive for armed conflict, the continued access of combatants in contemporary civil wars to lucrative natural resources has often served to counter the    More >

Progress of the World's Women 2002:  Volume 2, Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals
United Nations Development Fund for Women

Tackling the challenges of tracking and determining progress for women relative to the commitments made in the Millennium Development Goals of 2000, this report outlines goals, targets, and    More >

Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability
UNIFEM

Progress of the World’s Women 2008/2009 presents new data providing clear evidence that women's empowerment and gender equality are key drivers for reducing poverty, building food    More >

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