Life Without Parole Living and Dying in Prison Today

Name: Life Without Parole Living and Dying in Prison Today
Price: 33.43 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780199774050

ISBN-10: 0199774056

ISBN-13: 9780199774050

Edition: 5th 2010

Authors: Victor Hassine, Robert Johnson, Sonia Tabriz

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $62.63

Marketplace

3 new & used from $33.43

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In 1981, law-school graduate Victor Hassine was convicted of a capital offense and sentenced to prison for life without parole. Based on his experiences as an inmate, this book offers a firsthand account of conditions in contemporary American prisons. It discusses the consequences of the War on Drugs, prison overcrowding, rape, gangs, AIDS, prison politics, and recent demographic changes in inmate populations. Victor hassine passed away in 2008. This new edition will include an afterword by Hassine's collaborator and editor Robert Johnson on suicide in prison.

Book details

Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



About this Book


About the Author


About the Editors


ï¿½Prisonï¿½



ï¿½Life Without: Opening Reflections on Living and Dying in Prison Todayï¿½




In the Beginning



The Architecture of Fear



Gauntlet of Despair



Staying Sane



Things Missed



Playing the Opposites



The Politics of Persecution



Society of Captives



Friends in Low Places



A Kingdom Remembered



Battle in the Big House



Prisons Old, Prisons New



Modern Ghost Towns



The Runaway Train



Stories from the Inside


ï¿½Death Without: Closing Reflections on Living and Dying in Prison Todayï¿½



Appendix: ï¿½Hassine's Life Without Parole in Criminological Perspectiveï¿½



Recommended Readings