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The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power

2 reviews
Garry Wills

Mariner Books, 2002

Insightful Study of America's First Family
Garry Wills is one of the most popular contemporary historians. He is the former Henry R. Luce Professor of American Culture at Northwestern University and the author of numerous books, including "Reagan's America," "Nixon Agonistes," and "Lincoln at Gettysburg," for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. "The Kennedy Imprisonment" is one of his best, a book filled with intriguing insights into the ...

American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Ageof Mass Imprisonment

3 reviews
Sasha Abramsky

Beacon Press, 2008

a fierce warning of the self-perpetuating cycle of violence
"When the annals of our era are written, the United States will... come to be defined as a prison state." Not to spoil the ending, but this is the last, haunting sentence of American Furies, Sasha Abramsky's scathing indictment of the U.S. prison system. If you still believe that America is a just democracy where everyone is treated equal, then you really have to read this book. I found myself ...

Conspiracy And Imprisonment, 1940-1945 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works)

Fortress Press, 2006

This volume, published in the year of the one hundredth anniversary of Bonhoeffer's birth, documents Bonhoeffer's life under the increasing restraints and fateful events of World War II Germany. In hundreds of letters, including ten never-before-published letters to his fiancée, Maria von Wedemeyer, as well as official documents, short original pieces, and a few final sermons, the volume sheds light on Bonhoeffer's active resistance to and ...

Rethinking Imprisonment (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice)
Richard Lippke

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Drawing on philosophical arguments, criminological evidence, and the legal literature on prisoners' rights, Rethinking Imprisonment defends a normative theory of imprisonment. Such a theory provides an account of the justified conditions of prison confinement - the restrictions and deprivations that can be legitimately imposed on serious offenders in the name of punishment. The theory of legal punishment upon which this account builds combines ...

Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar

17 reviews
Moazzam Begg

New Press, 2007

We become what we hate.
Begg is a phenomenal writer. For the moment, strip away the politics of all this, and what he went through. Begg knows how to write. He knows how to pull you in, to write sentences which fully describe reality, to provide all the details to make you turn page after page, rushing to find out what will happen next. Yes, Begg writes as an apologist for Islam, and sometimes his historical ...

It's About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge

2 reviews
James Austin

Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2009

I highly recommend this book for the truth about prison.
At last I have found a book which takes a realistic look at the problems of crime and prison. I taught Texas inmates for eight years during the recent prison expansion. People were usually surprised when I told them how much I enjoyed teaching inmates. The longer I worked in prison, the more I became concerned about the misinformation, based on fear instead of fact, which the public had been ...

The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

7 reviews
Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Frederick

University of California Press, 2008

A Harrowing Tale of Desertion and Redemption
The Reluctant Communist is the harrowing tale of Charles Robert Jenkins' life in North Korea following his desertion from the US Army in 1965. The story is bookended with an exposition of his life before desertion and his ultimate escape in 2003 and new life in Japan. On the book's cover, we see Jenkins staring out from the cover of the Reluctant Communist with a near-expressionless face that ...

Ironies of Imprisonment
Michael F. Welch

Sage Publications, Inc, 2004

From the Foreword "Michael Welch's book is an invitation to think. It is an invitation to grow intellectually and critically, as a consumer of crime policy and an observer of the American scene. Written by a scholar who has dedicated his work to uncovering the hidden ironies of formal crime policy, this is a collection of essays of depth and significance." -Todd R. Clear, Distinguished Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice ...

Relation of My Imprisonment: A Fiction

1 review
Russell Banks

Harper Perennial, 1996

An interesting book, especially as a work of SF
By SF I mean speculative fiction. This is an alternate history, where an entire religion has sprung up around the worship of the dead. Banks has invented a Bible and theology that's highly interesting, and this book is worth reading for just his creation of an interesting world. The book itself is a form of Puritan works, sent by the jailed practitioners to the congregation. Banks manages to ...

Parade of the Dead: A U.S. Army Physician's Memoir of Imprisonment by the Japanese, 1942-1945

2 reviews
John R., M.D. Bumgarner

McFarland & Company, 1995

holy smokes
Just finished the book, and it's pretty hard to put into words what I feel. If I were Japanese, I would be ashamed, humiliated, and very concerned that my culture could/?can reach the depths of depravity that Dr. Bumgarner so matter-of-factly describes. The treatment of their POWs is almost beyond belief, as is the fact that any of the prisoners survived at all. The book is well-written and ...

Judgment Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment During World War II (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series ...

5 reviews
Tetsuden Kashima

University of Washington Press, 2003

Diaries, contemporary sources, and official communications
Judgment Without Trial is a college-level survey of Japanese American imprisonment during World War II and reveals that even before Pearl Harbor, the US government was making plans for the eventual internment of the Japanese American population. Newly discovered records traces this back to the 1920s and plans to prepare for a possible war with Japan. This plus new information on experiences of ...

The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 ...
Rebecca McLennan

Cambridge University Press, 2008

In the Age of Jackson, private enterprise set up shop in the American penal system. Working hand in glove with state government, contractors in both the North and the South would go on to put more than half a million imprisoned men, women, and youth to hard, sweated toil for private gain by 1900. Held captive, stripped of their rights, and subject to lash and paddle, convict laborers churned out vast quantities of goods and revenue, in some ...

The Crisis of Imprisonment

Cambridge University Press, 2008

America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular protest, and political crisis that characterized early American prisons. She details the debates surrounding prison reform, including the limits of state power, the influence of market forces, the ...

The Future of Imprisonment

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitute for capital and corporal punishment and banishment. So what went wrong? How can prisons be made simultaneously more effective and more humane? Who should ...

The Effects of Imprisonment (Cambridge Criminal Justice)

1 review

Willan Pub, 2006

Great service, great product!
Thank you for your promptness. The book was in perfect condition. Thanks again.

Resistance, Imprisonment, and Forced Labor: A Slovene Student in World War II (Studies in Modern European ...

3 reviews
Metod M. Milac

Peter Lang Publishing, 2002

A stark reminder, gently given
The holocaust in Europe during the years of World War II, from approximately 1939 to approximately 1945, resulted in the deaths of approximately 50 million people, most of them civilians. Some of this is approximate because the killings began earlier and continued after these dates, with many of the names and places forgotten. That this tragedy befell millions of Jews is well known, that ...

My Imprisonment And The First Year Of Abolition Rule At Washington (1863)
Rose O. Greenhow

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

With Liberty For Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America

4 reviews
Scott Christianson

Northeastern, 2000

Read this before you vote
I am distressed by Americans who ask "how could the German citizens have tolerated the Nazi horrors" but who keep voting for tougher and tougher treatment of prisoners. This well written and well researched book describes the history of prisons (and you will be surprised by some of the earlier ideas about the purpose and functioning of prisons) for the past 500 years. I wish it would be ...

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