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  • SOCIAL SKILLS IN PRISON AND THE COMMUNITY
    PHILIP PRIESTLEY / JAMES MCGUIRE / DAVID FLEGG / VALERIE HEMSLEY / DAVID WELHAM / ROSEMARY BARNITT
    ‘Gate fever’ is the name of a non-medical syndrome said to infect men in prison as the date of their discharge draws near. Its symptoms are euphoria and anxiety, mixed with irrational thinking; and the unfailing cure of the condition is the cold douche of reality which awaits the victim outside the prison gate. The primary aim of this book, originally published in 1984, is to d...

    $840.00

  • JAIL JOURNEYS
    PHILIP PRIESTLEY
    Originally published in 1989, Jail Journeys was a contemporary history of the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. More than 1000 extracts from more than 150 first-hand accounts of life ‘inside’ chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell of the loneliness, the despair, the squalor, the fights, the ...

    $840.00

  • JUSTICE FOR JUVENILES
    PHILIP PRIESTLEY / DENISE FEARS / ROGER FULLER
    The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s. Discussion had been strong on opinion and short on facts; this book, originally published in 1977, supplied some much-needed evidence, based on the results of a research project funded by the Home Office Research Unit. It also discusses the origins of the Act and its consequences...

    $840.00

  • OFFENDERS OR CITIZENS?
    PHILIP PRIESTLEY
    The punitive prison currently dominates the practice of Anglo-American criminal justice, stigmatising its victims as perpetual 'offenders' and failing to change a majority of them for the better. Books of academic 'readings' sometimes profess neutrality over the controversies they invigilate. Offenders or Citizens? sits on no such fences, its pages reflect the fiercely partisan...

    $1,360.00