Lifers

Author : John Irwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113596629X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifers written by John Irwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society’s purposes of imprisonment, and offenders’ reformability. Through the lifers’ stories, he reveals what happens to prisoners serving very long sentences in correctional facilities and what this should tell us about effective sentencing policy.

Author : M. A. Griffin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338065548
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifers written by M. A. Griffin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of James Dashner and Scott Westerfeld, a riveting sci-fi thriller about a boy in the not-so-distant future who stumbles upon a secret prison for teens underneath his city. Fear haunts the streets of Preston's city: a girl has disappeared. Preston is drawn to investigate, exploring the city in the hunt for his missing friend. And deep in the bowels of a secret scientific institute, he discovers a sinister machine used to banish teenage criminals for their offenses.Captured and condemned to a cavernous dimension, Preston is determined to escape. But this is no ordinary jail. Friendships will be forged and lives will be lost in a reckless battle for freedom, revenge--and revolution. Set in a world all too similar to our own, Lifers is thrilling, pulse-pounding storytelling of the highest degree.

Author : Simone Deegan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000364224
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juvenile Lifers written by Simone Deegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into risky and violent situations that culminate in murder. Drawing on interviews with every juvenile under sanction of life imprisonment in the State of South Australia (2015–2019), it investigates links in the chain of events that led to the lethal violence that probably would have been broken had there been appropriate intervention. Specifically, the book asks whether the existing criminal justice frame is the appropriate way to deal with children who commit grave acts. The extent to which prison facilitates and/or inhibits the mental, emotional, and social development of juvenile ‘lifers’ is a critical issue. Most – if not all – will be released at some point, with key issues of risk (public protection) and rehabilitation (probability of desistance) coming sharply to the fore. In addition, this book is also the first to capture how significant others including mothers, fathers, grandparents, and siblings are affected when children kill and the level of commitment these relatives have towards supporting the prisoner in his or her quest to build a positive future. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, andpenology; practitioners working in social policy; and all those interested in the lives and backgrounds of juvenile offenders.

Author : Barry Cummins
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717162745
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifers written by Barry Cummins and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have never been so many killers in Irish prisons. Nearly 1 in 10 Irish prisoners are serving life sentences for murder — and many more are on temporary release. Hardened crime reporter Barry Cummins tells the shocking true stories of some of Ireland's most notorious murderers and their horrific crimes. Lifers covers savage killings going back more than 50 years. This book gives a full account of these depraved crimes, through the investigation, trial and sentencing of the killers to life in prison. They include: - Father-of-five John Crerar, convicted on DNA evidence from a semen sample 23 years after he brutally raped, battered and strangled an innocent young woman who had been out Christmas shopping; - Mark Nash, who stabbed a couple to death in a frenzied attack and seriously assaulted another woman in a house where six children lay sleeping; - Brian Willoughby, who jumped and danced on his teenage victim's head, while out on bail for three horrific random assaults on men in Dublin city.As this harrowing but compelling book shows, the criminals may not get away with murder, but it's the victims' families who really suffer a life sentence.

Author : Victor A. Cordova
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468509020
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifers - A Secret Society written by Victor A. Cordova and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allow yourself to awaken from the slumber of monotony you exist in and there is where you may find the answers which your heart most desires. Under the cloak of control and power you wait anxiously for signs of salvation which you are not capable of seeing. Pull away the layers of theory, religion and politics and face what is real. And although I am only 11 years old, I tell you with full confidence, your beginning is near and soon you too will realize that there is more to what you might have believed about life, death, failure and success. Look around you and open your mind to the possibility that all is not black and white or even right or wrong. We live among you and although you may never sense us, we are here and we are real. Consider me your guide in a world very few are fortunate enough to see. I am like you and I struggle to understand what I am to do with this life I have been given. Yet what is truly important is that you understand that your existence is complex and I shall venture to say that your definition of "The Circle of Life" will change forever. Believe it or not? I dare you...double dare you to turn to the next page.

Author : Pamela N. Mueller
Publisher : Boynton/Cook
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifers written by Pamela N. Mueller and published by Boynton/Cook. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pam Mueller's pseudponyms for the twenty-two very real high school students she researched, observed, interviewed, and worked closely with, in preparation for this powerful narrative.

Author : Meredith Huey Dye
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538113031
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Lifers written by Meredith Huey Dye and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of women in United States prisons has increased dramatically since the 1980s, and has in proportion outpaced that of men’s incarceration. Despite these numbers, incarcerated women, and women lifers specifically, represent a relatively small percentage of the overall correctional and lifer populations. As such, women lifers are easy to overlook, discount, and diminish as such a small group. Many women lifers perceive themselves as a forgotten group; most often those whom we “lock up” and “throw away the key”. They feel excluded from prison programming within and from their own families outside. They feel stigmatized by staff and other women in prison. Aging fast, many have real fears about declining health and losing family members over lengthy stretches of time. However, women lifers are some of the most resilient and strongest women who survive life in prison with the support of each other and religious faith, often transforming themselves in the process of doing time. While most of the women had extensive histories of trauma, abuse, and mental health issues, few had prior experience as offenders. Despite the term “lifer”, many of these women will be released from prison after serving long sentences. Beyond this basic profile, there is much more to learn and share about the lives of women lifers. Focusing on women’s pathways into prison, the ways they cope with life behind bars, and their diverse reentry needs, Meredith Dye and Ronald Aday give voice to women lifers and place their experiences within the larger context of penal harm policies. The authors look at their physical and mental health, family connections, adjustment to prison, prison supports and activities, and experiences with abuse/trauma; while also looking at the growing public and policy concerns over mass incarceration in general. Women Lifers provides insight into the lives of incarcerated women before, during, and following a life sentence, especially the population of those serving life sentences. With the growing numbers of women lifers in the United States, the authors emphasize the importance for the public and policymakers to understand the unique circumstances that brought these women to prison, the policies that keep them there, and the major challenges they face in carving out a successful life in prison and beyond.

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Publisher : Your Ebook Team
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life with Lifers written by and published by Your Ebook Team. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Harvey-Berrick
Publisher : Harvey Berrick Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781912015696
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifers written by Jane Harvey-Berrick and published by Harvey Berrick Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan Kane is newly released from prison, but it's not back into the loving arms of his family. Small town gossip can be harsh, and it's only when he meets the pastor's daughter, Torrey Delaney, that he encounters true compassion.

Author : Jeff Somers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537026558
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifers written by Jeff Somers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three twentysomething guys who transitioned from collegiate underachieving to corporate bottom feeding sketch out a plan to make a grab for some dignity. They will rob the publishing house that employs their only stable member and insults him on a daily basis. Being the bright, perceptive fellows they are, they all quickly realize it isn't about the money. For Phil "Dub" Dublen, it's a pissed off statement against a dull, meaningless job. For self-styled poet Trim, it's a chance to actually be as outrageous and anarchic as he needs to be. For Trim's roommate Dan, it seems to be something he does for the same reason he does everything: to vent some anger, having nothing to do. By the time their master plan is all said and done, nothing has been solved, nothing is better, and nothing, really, has changed. And in the slightly fractured wisdom of the larcenous trio, this surpises none of them.