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For anyone trying to understand what 'drives' some people to commit serious, heinous and sometimes unspeakable crimes - and what is achievable through therapy - the first-hand 'tales' in this book merit close study. For over forty years Grendon Prison with its 'Therapuetic Communities' of high security 'residents' has remained unique among Britain's prisons. In 2000 researcher Ursula Smartt was given extensive access to interview residents and prison staff - governors, prison officers, therapists and probation officers - and to observe their day-to-day routines. The result is Grendon Tales, a perceptive, insightful and at times shocking account of life inside a unique and world famous establishment. Grendon houses many dangerous, disturbed and disruptive criminals (ranging from armed robbers to paedophiles, to rapists and murderers). For many of them, it is 'the last chance saloon' - a final opportunity to alter their thinking patterns and behaviour and maybe to convince the authorities that their security category should be downgraded with a view to future safe release back into the community.

From the tragic Mary Bell and Jamie Bulger murder cases to events world-wide, this book provides an analysis of what is a global, not just a UK phenomenon. It includes a chapter which reviews the position in Canada.

After explaining 'What is transgender?' this first book on transgender in a prison setting looks at the entire HM Prison Service regime for such people.

The definitive guide from two leading authors central to developments in the field. An invaluable book which covers everything from theoretical and community research to precisely what is known about prisoners and the risk of their committing suicide.

Why do serial killers gravitate towards certain kinds of occupation? Jobs with minimum oversight or ties, the opportunity to leave the radar and that bring them into proximity with potential victims and whilst hiding in plain sight. Why also do they target certain types of victim?

Written by one of the UK's best-remembered defence lawyers, Both Sides of the Bench takes the reader behind the scenes of life as a busy lawyer, judge and family man. A valuable social history due to its descriptive passages of parts of London and England and Wales.

Bob tells how he overcame multiple disadvantages: dyslexia, being wrongly categorised as educationally subnormal, drug and alcohol misuse and 20 years on-and-off as a guest of Her Majesty.

A collection of writings by leading developmental psychologist Patricia M Crittenden, highlighting her vast contribution to attachment theory and research.

In this first full-length account of Helena Normanton's life and career, Judith Bourne tells of her fight to join the Bar of England and Wales and open it up to women.

Examines all aspects of the history, present practices, causes and prevention prospects connected to self-injury and suicide in women's prisons.

This intriguing book highlights differences in how crime is portrayed in the arts compared to reality, focusing on the roles of the police, courts and forensic investigators. Of interest to criminologists, sociologists, lawyers and other criminal justice personnel, it will also appeal to anyone interested in crime and punishment.

Written by experts with first-hand experience working with troubled mothers, this is the first book taking motherhood as a focus for criminal/social justice interventions. Covers the entire sequence affecting mothers caught up in such processes. A workbook for course providers and students across a range of disciplines.

Rough Justice recounts the experiences of victims of police and criminal justice failings through the stories of some who fought back, often with amazing commitment and courage.

Mary Brown's engaging book describes the 'lifeline' work of the prison chaplaincy. Written by a Quaker chaplain, it shows how important to prisoners this contact is and how it blends into the ever-pressing world of prison regimes.

Identifies a lost ingredient of criminal justice: showing where criminal justice 'went wrong'; why it needs to recover and change direction; and contains important new proposals.

By someone who spent years as a runaway living on the streets of London. Justin Rollins has a remarkable ability. His poems emerge not from agonising over a blank sheet of paper, but in rap-like fashion, in full-flow and in their complete form.

The diary of one man's experiences of his time in prison written over 300 days as he reels from and makes sense of being under lock and key.

The most straightforward overview available covering the entire criminal justice system. A 'no frills' explanation for beginners.

An absorbing and highly innovative work by one of the UK's leading experts on prisons and penal reform. This book charts developments across a fifty year time frame beginning in 1980 at the start of a growth in the prison population of England and Wales (and other parts of the world) and ends with a prospective view taking events up to 2030

The case of Ian Hay Gordon involves a miscarriage of justice brought about in circumstances of privilege, patronage and the social and religious divides existing in Northern Ireland in the decades following World War II.

A largely hidden story of power, wealth, and allegations of attempts to re-write history in the pursuit of a vast inheritance, linked to Jane Austen's own family.

Ben Ashcroft's heart-rending account of abandonment, loneliness and rejection in family life, the care system and beyond begins at age nine and ends with him turning his life around after being moved from pillar to post, crime, drugs, 'going missing' and custody.

**Winner of a Koestler Trust Silver Award*** and the only book of its kind by a serving lifer.

An entertaining diversion for Lawyers and others, Twenty Famous Lawyers focuses on household names and high profile cases. Contains valuable insights into legal ways and means and looks at the challenges of advocacy, persuasion and the finest traditions of the Law.

This is the book that inspired the TV series Dark Angel. Mary Ann Cotton is not just the first but perhaps the 1st's most prolific female serial killer, with more victims than Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Beverly Allit or male predators such as Jack the Ripper and Dennis Nilsen.

For any of the five million people who saw the prime-time BBC series "e;Garrow's Law"e; this is an absorbing book. It is written by expert commentator John Hostettler who has studied Garrow extensively. The book uses the facts on which the programme was based to compare drama and reality.

Informative, entertaining, against the grain, Her Majesty's Philosophers highlights the artificiality of prison life. By a Guardian correspondent (and with extracts to be published in that newspaper) this book is set to be a penal affairs classic which every student of crime and punishment should read.

Recovery Stories is a collection of first-hand accounts by people in recovery from or affected by drugs or alcohol. Invaluable for those looking to find new, addiction-free ways to live. It contains insights into the lives of real people who hit 'rock bottom' but came back again. Of interest across a wide-range of disciplines, including health, education and social services.

The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of the title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading justices, an upstart legal profession whose lower orders developed various ways to line their own pockets and magistrates and clerks who often preferred dealing with those cases which attracted fees.

Creative writing and exercises for offenders and those at risk. Ideal for people who work with or support offenders and those at risk.