"La sanción restaurativa en contextos transicionales" de la Cátedra UNESCO Derechos Humanos y Violencia: Gobierno y Gobernanza, que este año celebra sus veinte años, recoge las investigaciones realizadas en el ámbito transicional colombiano.
The kinds of punishment used in a society have long been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern.
'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out'Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.
An empirically powerful account of why interpersonal violence across the globe exacts a far greater cumulative cost on society than war and terrorism combinedCivil wars, interstate wars, and terrorism receive a great deal of media and policy attention, for good reasons.
An empirically powerful account of why interpersonal violence across the globe exacts a far greater cumulative cost on society than war and terrorism combinedCivil wars, interstate wars, and terrorism receive a great deal of media and policy attention, for good reasons.
'The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.
Killer Looks is the definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and other physical alterations to prisoners, the idea being that by remodeling the face you remake the man.
Killer Looks is the definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and other physical alterations to prisoners, the idea being that by remodeling the face you remake the man.
'A stark depiction of the alligator pond of prison life Rage tempered with compassion [its] emotional core continues to smoulder The New York Times Book ReviewThrill-seeking teenager Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery in the state penitentiary, where terror and chaos reign, corrupt guards inflict casual violence, and men try to preserve their dignity amid isolation and inhumanity.
In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.
A powerful story about hope, humanity, and the possibility of changeThe inspiration for James Graham's OIivier Award winning play PUNCHIn 2011 Jacob Dunne threw a single punch that ended another man's life.
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda BrownRevisit the wold of The Prison Doctor, as she describes stories of her time spent with foreign national prisoners.
¿Por qué en sociedades como las nuestras las personas que han cometido un delito son castigadas de un modo más severo y tenemos muchísimos más presos que los que teníamos hace tres décadas?
🏆 2025 Best Crimemoir: AudioBookReviewer🏆 2025 Winner True Crime: Next Generation Indie Book Awards🏆 2025 Winner True Crime: Indie Reader Discovery Awards🏆 2025 Silver True Crime: Independent Publisher Book Awards🏆 2025 Finalist True Crime: National Indie Excellence Awards🏆 2025 First Place Nellie Bly Journalism: Chanticleer Intl' Book Awards FROM THE BACK COVERAfter three years in Europe, former journalist Carla Conti just wanted to settle her family into the suburbs of Philadelphia.
A book for anybody who has, or works with, children (of any age) with 'out of control' behaviour, including parents, teachers and healthcare professionals.
Wie kann man erlittene Gewalt und Massenmord in den unterschiedlichen Lagern erzählen und eine adäquate Sprache dafür finden, die das Erlittene weder banalisiert noch als überwunden beruhigend automatisiert?
How a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiringMost employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictionsand thus denying opportunities to those who need them most.
El ámbito carcelario constituye un objeto poco estudiado por la academia, a pesar de su importancia para la consolidación de la democracia y los derechos humanos en el Perú y América Latina.
Refundacion penitenciara de Jalisco analiza los diversos sistemas internacionales que se han aplicado, a traves del historial en el ambito penitenciario.
Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world and for a hundred years it has held Glasgow's toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets.
"KRIEGER DES EXILS - PATRIA NOSTRA IN DER FRANZÖSISCHEN FREMDENLEGION" – Tauchen Sie ein in eine Welt voller Abenteuerlust, Opferbereitschaft und Geschichten von mutigen Männern, die den Ruf zum Abenteuer beantworteten.
On a cold, damp January night in 1961, 19-year-old Pearl Gamble made the final goodbye to her Mother an set off excitedly with two friends to the local dance.
De acuerdo a principios internacionales y nuestra propia Constitución Nacional las cárceles poseen como fin último la reinserción social de las personas que cumplen una pena privativa de la libertad, contrario a la noción de castigo que suele poseer la sociedad.
Die Globalisierung, die engen wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen und die unmittelbare Nachbarschaft zwischen Deutschland und Polen sind mit dem steigenden Bedarf an der Übersetzung von Wirtschafts- und Rechtstexten im Sprachenpaar Deutsch-Polnisch verbunden.
Selbst wachsen und Wachstum begleitenDieses Buch ist für jeden gedacht, der das Bedürfnis hat, sich selbst weiter in das Leben und in Beziehungen hinein zu entfalten.
