Reaching Beyond Prison Walls

Author : Eric Corson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798985269307

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Reaching Beyond Prison Walls by Eric Corson Pdf

What is it like to visit in prison? Why would someone want to do that if they didn't know the prisoner? How does it feel to receive prison visits from a stranger? These questions are answered in a new book, "Reaching Beyond Prison Bars: Stories of Volunteer Visitors and the Prisoners They See." Edited by Eric Corson, who for 40 years was the director of Prisoner Visitation and Support - a nationwide program that pairs volunteers with prisoners in the U.S. federal and military prisons who rarely receive visits, the book contains stories about visiting in prison from the perspective of visitors and prisoners, in their own words.

Author : G. Franklin Allee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Prisons
ISBN : WISC:89065278202

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Beyond Prison Walls by G. Franklin Allee Pdf

"The story of Frank Novak, once a desperate criminal and convict, now National Prison Chaplain No.1 by the grace of God"--t.p.

Author : Tobias Brandner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620324639

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Beyond the Walls of Separation by Tobias Brandner Pdf

Beyond the Walls of Separation is an essential and easy-to-read guidebook for chaplains and volunteers working in the context of prison, and for all those who are professionally or through family links related to those in prison. The book tells the story of what life behind bars is, and how inmates experience transformation through Christian faith: People at the crisis points of their life, where they are shattered, and where little is left of what made them, may experience life as fragile and as a transparent filter for the mysterious. Yet they also may experience God's life-giving presence. Love, expressed in forgiveness--against all odds, against all merits and previous experiences--lies at the root of many stories of transformation that emerge from prison. The book guides visitors to approach inmates without condescension, with an awareness of the social dimension of power and inequality, and with sensitivity to the suffering and alienation that individual prisoners experience. The many years of prison ministry in different cultural contexts and with inmates from all nations have taught the author that Christ does not need to be brought to prison through visitors, through evangelistic events, or through Christian outreach. He is already powerfully present in prison.

Author : McMay, Dani V.,Kimble, Rebekah D.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799830573

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Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls by McMay, Dani V.,Kimble, Rebekah D. Pdf

Numerous studies indicate that completing a college degree reduces an individual’s likelihood of recidivating. However, there is little research available to inform best practices for running college programs inside jails or prisons or supporting returning citizens who want to complete a college degree. Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls examines program development and pedagogical techniques in the area of higher education for students who are currently incarcerated or completing a degree post-incarceration. Drawing on the experiences of program administrators and professors from across the country, it offers best practices for (1) developing, running, and teaching in college programs offered inside jails and prisons and (2) providing adequate support to returning citizens who wish to complete a college degree. This book is intended to be a resource for college administrators, staff, and professors running or teaching in programs inside jails or prisons or supporting returning citizens on traditional college campuses.

Author : Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781317267188

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Global Organized Crime by Mitchel P. Roth Pdf

In the maelstrom of globalization and cyberspace, organized crime continues to defy definition. A diverse array of activities is perpetuated by criminal organizations, criminal groups and associations, and gangs, and it is clear that one specific label is no longer adequate. This book offers a uniquely global approach to organized crime and the multitude of forces that shape it in the 21st century. As well as discussing definitions of and the historical roots of organized crime, this book examines various forms of organized crime around the world in the US, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, Russia and Europe, Asia and Africa. This revised and updated new edition includes coverage of: the rise of the ’Ndrangheta in Italy and their global expansion; the impact of drug legalization on organized crime and the problem of methamphetamine; organ trading, money laundering, and animal poaching; changes in gang traditions and gangland penitentiaries; the decentralization of Mexican cartels, the growth of opium production in Myanmar, and the drug war in Africa; and the advancement of ISIS and the emergence of the Silk Road and the Dark Net. This book is essential reading for students engaged in the study of global and transnational organized crime, with features including chapter overviews, key terms, critical thinking questions, and case studies.

Author : Dominique Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317169789

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Carceral Geography by Dominique Moran Pdf

The ’punitive turn’ has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers. Carceral geography offers a geographical perspective on incarceration, and this volume accordingly tracks the ideas, practices and engagements that have shaped the development of this new and vibrant subdiscipline, and scopes out future research directions. By conveying a sense of the debates, directions, and threads within the field of carceral geography, it traces the inner workings of this dynamic field, its synergies with criminology and prison sociology, and its likely future trajectories. Synthesizing existing work in carceral geography, and exploring the future directions it might take, the book develops a notion of the ’carceral’ as spatial, emplaced, mobile, embodied and affective.

Author : Dr Dominique Moran
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781472406835

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Carceral Geography by Dr Dominique Moran Pdf

Carceral geography offers a geographical perspective on incarceration, and this volume accordingly tracks the ideas, practices and engagements that have shaped the development of this new and vibrant subdiscipline, and scopes out future research directions. By conveying a sense of the debates, directions, and threads within the field of carceral geography, it traces the inner workings of this dynamic field, its synergies with criminology and prison sociology, and its likely future trajectories. Synthesizing existing work in carceral geography, and exploring the future directions it might take, the book develops a notion of the ‘carceral’ as spatial, emplaced, mobile, embodied and affective.

Author : M. David Eckel,Bradley L. Herling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441127112

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Deliver Us From Evil by M. David Eckel,Bradley L. Herling Pdf

Evil is a problem that will not go away. For some it is an inescapable fact of the human condition. For others "evil" is a term that should only be used to name the most horrible of crimes. Still others think that the worst problem lies with the abuse of the term: using it to vilify a misunderstood enemy. No matter how we approach it, "evil" is a concept that continues to call out for critical reflection. This volume collects the results of a two-year deliberation within the Boston University Institute for Philosophy of Religion lecture series, bringing together scholars of religion, literature, and philosophy. Its essays provide a thoughtful, sensitive, and wide-ranging consideration of this challenging problem-and of ways that we might be delivered from it.

Author : Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789143249

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Power on the Inside by Mitchel P. Roth Pdf

Power on the Inside is the first book to examine the historical development of prison gangs worldwide, from those that emerged inside mid-nineteenth-century Neapolitan prisons to the new generation of younger inmates challenging the status quo within gang subcultures today. Historian-criminologist Mitchel P. Roth examines prison gangs throughout the world, from the Americas, Oceania, and South Africa to Southeast Asia, Europe, and beyond. The book examines the many variables that influence the evolution of prison subcultures, from colonialism and population demographics to prison architecture and staff-prisoner relations. Power on the Inside features eighty historical and contemporary images and will inform professionals in the field as well as general readers who want to know more about the realities of prison gangs today.

Author : Tomas Mott Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499238227

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Within Prison Walls by Tomas Mott Osborne Pdf

Author : Anthony W. Fontes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520969599

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Mortal Doubt by Anthony W. Fontes Pdf

The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US deportation, maras (transnational gangs) have become the face of this new era of violence. They are brutal organizations engaged in extortion, contract killings, and the drug trade, and yet they have also become essential to the emergence of a certain kind of social order. Drawing on years of fieldwork inside prisons, police precincts, and gang-dominated neighborhoods, Anthony W. Fontes demonstrates how gang violence has become indissoluble from contemporary social imaginaries and how these gangs provide cover for a host of other criminal actors. Ethnographically rich and unflinchingly critical, Mortal Doubt illuminates the maras’ role in making and mooring collective terror in Guatemala City while tracing the ties that bind this violence to those residing in far safer environs.

Author : Patrick T. Dunleavy
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781612341149

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The Fertile Soil of Jihad by Patrick T. Dunleavy Pdf

On January 26, 1993, a young Palestinian man named Abdel Nasser Zaben was arrested and incarcerated in New York City for kidnapping and robbery. Just thirty days later, while he remained locked up, radical Islamic fundamentalists detonated a bomb in the World Trade Center. These two events, connected by common threads, signaled the coming of jihad to America. From the seemingly insulated environment of prison, this same young man, thought to have been merely a common criminal, swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden and began to convert other young minds to the cause. A dangerous terrorist recruitment "cell” had been born. How did it happen? Through the story of Abdel Nasser Zaben’s recruitment efforts in prison,The Fertile Soil of Jihad explores in vivid detail how the American prison subculture fosters terrorism. Dunleavy shows how Zaben carefully and knowingly selected the most likely candidates for conversion to his cause. He reveals how Zaben used his apprentice role in the prison chaplain’s office as a cover for his work and how prison resources were used in the service of terrorism. This book yields invaluable insights for intelligence and corrections professionals as well as informed citizens eager to learn what progress the U.S. government is making in countering terrorism.

Author : Lynden Harris
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021421

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Right Here, Right Now by Lynden Harris Pdf

Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: “All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that's love.” Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person stories of dozens of men on death rows across the country. From childhood experiences living with poverty, hunger, and violence to mental illness and police misconduct to coming to terms with their executions, these men outline their struggle to maintain their connection to society and sustain the humanity that incarceration and its daily insults attempt to extinguish. By offering their hopes, dreams, aspirations, fears, failures, and wounds, the men challenge us to reconsider whether our current justice system offers actual justice or simply perpetuates the social injustices that obscure our shared humanity.

Author : Michael J. Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197671238

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Born Innocent by Michael J. Sullivan Pdf

Over seven percent of all children in the United States--more than 5 million children--have experienced a parental incarceration, and an estimated 2.7 million children currently have a parent who is incarcerated. An additional 5 million children under age 18 live with at least one parent who is unauthorized to be in the United States and faces deportation. Children and other dependents suffer the collateral consequences of "preventive justice" measures increasingly used by liberal democratic countries to combat a broad range of suspected crime and anti-state activities. But what does the state owe to the innocent dependents of accused caregivers? In Born Innocent, Michael J. Sullivan explores the impact of vicarious punishment on children, with a particular focus on children in socioeconomically disadvantaged and racialized communities that are disproportionately subject to family separation based on their identity, allegiances, and immigration status. Sullivan advocates a turn from retribution to rehabilitation for convicted offenders, with a view towards helping them to become more effective caregivers who can continue to support their dependents during their sentence. Born Innocent goes beyond the children's rights literature on the collateral consequences of punishment to consider how "punishment drift" creates problems for both retributive and utilitarian theories of punishment. He draws on care ethics theory to widen our understanding of the range of collateral victims of punishment as well as possible rehabilitative and restorative measures. Sullivan also considers the limits of this approach, especially where it pertains to offenders who victimize their families, and those who resist rehabilitation and persist in anti-state actions that harm others. Original and compelling, Born Innocent provides one of the first unified treatments of state-sponsored family separation and its impact on disadvantaged citizens and immigrants.

Author : Rory McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472517

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Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda by Rory McCarthy Pdf

This challenging new perspective on Tunisia's al-Nahda movement focuses on the lived experience of Islamist activism.