Prison Book Reviews Samples For Students

The selected chapters in this book highlight the following subjects; teenage delinquency, crime, positive change and determination. They are themes which are evident in society.
Chapter five outlines how Wes had exhibited violent behavior towards people around him. He was sent to military school by his mother in a bid to shape his behavior. He tried to find a way to escape from the institution but failed. Some time back, Wes had impregnated a girl known as Alicia. He began seeing another girl who came from his locality. One evening a man known as Ray who appeared to be involved with this ...

The Count of Monte Christo is a classic adventure tale written by renowned French author, Alexandre Dumas. The novel published in 1944 is one of Durmas’ most popular works. The setting of the story is early 19th Century Europe, particularly Italy, France, and some Mediterranean islands. The novel is touches on several key points that are based on the political events of the time. The novel makes reference to Napoleon Bonaparte, the great French dictator and his political actions influence a significant part of the novel. The Count of Monte Christo follows the adventures of the main character, Edmond Dantes, a young ...

Book Review: Fugitive Thought Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice

Book Review: Fugitive Thought Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice
Seldom are prisoners viewed as people with ideas that can influence the world positively. In most cases, people see the prisoners as lawbreakers and people who are out to cause havoc and disorder in the society. Michael Hames-García however tries to demystify the view that prisoners are bad people out to hurt the society. In his book, Fugitive Thought Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice, he refers to the prisoners on the same level as the judges and philosophers. He says that the prisoners ...

Book Review

Williams, S. T., & Barbara Cottman B. (1998). Life in prison. New York: Morrow Junior Books.
The book is a non-functional preface by a Swiss legislator explaining why he nominated Williams for a Nobel Prize, and an effusive if evasive foreword by collaborator Becnel, quickly get out of the way for the real appeal of this volume. A cofounder of the notorious Crips gang in California gives an account of his life on death row, convicted for four murder charges. Williams opens his account of what it feels like to be in a death row at by stating, “Prison is hell. This is ...

ABSTRACT

This paper will discuss an in depth look at Corrections and the Criminal Institution. I will discuss what exactly crime is? I will also discuss how a criminal gets from being a criminal to being in a criminal Institution. This paper will discuss the repayment of victims by criminals. This paper will also discuss the sentencing of criminals. I will discuss the rights of a criminal. I will discuss the employment that is offered inside the criminal institution. This paper will also show the different types of abuse that happens inside the criminal institution. This paper will discuss the Juvenile Justice Detention Center. ...

Main theme in the book

The main theme of this book is correction services in the prisons. The author was a prison warden who got a first-hand account of what happens in the correctional facilities in the United States. The book explores the problems faced by the inmates as they undertake their daily chores in the prisons. Ted shows that the prisoners dislike the wardens and view them as sadists and authoritarian who do not take any point from the prisoners. This makes the prisoners view the wardens as bad guys thus triggering a crisis between the prisoners and the correctional officers.

Plot of the book

The book is set in ...

1. What is Angela Davis’s overall objective (purpose) in writing this book? What is her overall THESIS (argument—her position on prisons)?
Since the 1970s, the growth of prisons has been exponential, and Angela Y. Davis worries why the community allows such a thing to happen. The growth is associated with the larger economic and social situations of the country. Davis argues that the growth of prisons is rarely seen, but it creates a cycle of incarceration and joblessness. She argues that prisons permit individuals to disassociate from the issues in their community (such as social, economic ...

The book titled ‘Random Family,’ written by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc gives an account of the lives of four youngsters for a period of ten years, from 1993 to 2003. The author spent time with four people in the city of Bronx, including their families, trials, friendships, love affairs, joyful moments, struggles and despair . The book falls in the genre of nonfiction and impresses the readers who have a special interest in the prison life of the American fabric. The four youngsters namely, Jessica, a beautiful teenager, Boy George, a drug dealer, Cesar, Jessica’s younger brother and Coco, Cesar’s lover, who belong ...

A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill

A saint on death row is a story that was written by an Irish-American author Thomas Cahill. In this tragic and heart wrenching story of a death row inmate known as Dominique Green, Thomas brings out the injustices and flaws that surround the American legal system. The issue of racism also comes up because the death row inmate (Dominique Green) was African American.

About the Author

Thomas Cahill is an American scholar born in New York in 1940 to Irish- American parents. Cahill grew up in Queens and the Bronx. He studied at Greek and Latin Literature, scripture and theology as well as medieval ...

Introduction

Lu Hsiu-Lien depicts her dreadful struggle for democratization in Taiwan in her political autobiography “My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power.” The title of the book itself tells that this story is about a political journey of a common woman that she spent in prison and became vice president. She has released a fascinating memoir that tells her political life with humor in her recent book. It is considered as a rare political memoir that is presented with candid and self-aware. “My Fight for a New Taiwan” narrates the Taiwan’s unique coalesce of autochthonic and Chinese culture. ...

Jeffrey Reiman published his book, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice, in 2003. Jeffrey Reiman has written this book as if it is a text book for students studying Criminology, citing numerous sources and taking a teaching approach. From the very first chapter, it becomes obvious that Reiman has written this book to educate. It seems as though Reiman gained a deeper insight into the American culture, at the roots, and this prompted him to share the information with the public. In the first chapter of the book, Reiman emphasizes on four complex issues; ...

I. Summary
This is a story about Richard Kuklinski, a psychopath who killed people for a living without remorse or compunction. And as he had told the book author, he liked what he did.
A hit man for the Mafia, he did jobs for the crime syndicate for two decades --murdering maybe more than a hundred people in New York and other states and in a career that spanned more than two decades.
But more than a hit man, Kuklinski, who was Polish, also killed people sometimes out of rage as he had a violent temper. He would kill people simply for disrespecting ...

Introduction

The book Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore is a true account of the happenings in the Gilmore family. The author is a brother to Gary Gilmore who was sentenced to death after refusing all attempts to block his execution. He instead demanded that he be put to death for the crimes that he had committed earlier on. He was therefore executed by a firing squad in 1977. After Gary’s death, Mikal was faced by some irresistible emotion of loss and dissociation from his family past. However, after some time he found it necessary to explore the dark events that ...

The novel The Blinding Absence of Light tells the story of a group of men that are in a Moroccan prison. It depicts he torture and means of compensating, or coping, experienced by the men in the prison. More specifically, the story is narrated by Salim, a man who was imprisoned for his involvement in a political coup. He is placed in an isolated prison, or an underground prison, where it was always dark. The prisoners are in small chambers, and are fed only enough to survive. They are tortured both mentally and physically, by beatings and by things ...

In her book, "My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power", Lu Hsiu-lien details a long history of Taiwan, one that is primarily dominated by Chinese Empire. She states that much of Taiwan's history was developed in the shadow of its large neighbor to the northwest, China. In her book, she paints a picture of present-day Taiwan as well and maps a course for the future of the small island nation.
Taiwan's traditions are rooted in Confucianism, a type of philosophy that can trace its origins to China about three millennia ago, a philosophy promulgated by Confucius which underlies ...

Book Review: Bringing Adam Home, the Abduction that Changed America

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This paper gives a review on the book Bringing Adam home: the abduction that changed America. It also considers not only the main themes of the story but also gives examples of how this horrible case changed the society and the whole system of searching missing children. Adam’s parents made a great job for the American society: they changed the system, made TV lineups telling about the most dangerous murderers, created different organizations. The main conclusion is that this story is an example of an eternal love of parents to their children and how they can be brave ...

Drug addiction and brotherly love. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin.
Drug addiction and brotherly love. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin.
African American literature frequently reveals the suffering of people who live in the world full of racism. The Western society used to put African American people in unfavorable conditions throughout the whole history and life in this condition may lead to tragic circumstances. The following essay concerns the story named “Sonny’s Blues” which was written by James Baldwin. It will discuss the main themes of the story which are struggling of people who live in the ...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. By Michelle Alexander (New York, The New Press, 2012) 1- 289 pp. Reviewed by (Name), November, 3, 2014>

Introduction

Michelle Alexander is a celebrated civil rights advocate who has been an active participant in the anti- racial profiling campaign in the United States. Born in 1967, Alexander has been persistently advocating reforms in the US criminal justice system. As a law professor and a writer, her name is hugely synonymous to the struggle for racial justice in the United States and has been fighting the war on racial segregation in law enforcement ...

Introduction: Book Information

This book is a memoir that is non-fiction of a Hungarian medical doctor that is Jewish. This man had operated and not horrible "research" on his fellow Jewish inmates. This man participated in killing Jews alongside with the help of the evil Dr. Josef Mengele who was known as the "Angel of Death." When the Nazis invaded the country the book explains how in 1944, the Nazis took most of the Jews from Hungary straight into Auschwitz death camp. Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jew and a medical doctor, managed to escape from death in order to become a pawn of evil. This evil was ...

Book Review: Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eye­witness Account by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli

Introduction: Book Information

This book is a memoir that is non-fiction of a Hungarian medical doctor that is Jewish. This man had operated and not horrible “research” on his fellow Jewish inmates. This man participated in killing Jews alongside with the help of the evil Dr. Josef Mengele who was known as the "Angel of Death." When the Nazis invaded the country the book explains how in 1944, the Nazis took most of the Jews from Hungary straight into Auschwitz death camp. Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jew and a medical doctor, managed to ...

ABSTRACT

Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism, Patricia Hill Collins deals with the complex problems of gender and sexual politics in the black community, within the context of a racist and heterosexist society, in which blacks have internalized many of the prejudices and stereotypes held by whites. Although there has been considerable progress in civil rights, women’s rights and gay rights in the U.S. since the 1950s and 1960s, blacks still face the highest levels of poverty, discrimination, poor housing, education and healthcare and HIV/AIDS compared to any other group. Young black ...

WWII – Book Review

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. She has written a book with two historical plots intertwined. One is the personal experience of the airman Louis Zamperini and the other is a historical view of World War II (WWII). Zamperini was a famous track star for the U.S. He participated in the Olympic track events in Berlin, Germany where he ran the 5000 meter race. Zamperini has published his autobiography titled The Devil at my Heels but Hillenbrand’s ...

In the past, the churches have always avoided engaging in political activities. According to theologians, church and politics are two separate things. Engaging in politics was thought to be wrong and therefore Christians were not allowed to engage in politics according to the Christianity beliefs (Espinosa, 34). However, churches have started engaging in political activities. Among the churches that have encouraged the Christians to engage in political activities are the Catholics and Protestants. This research paper will evaluate the intersection of religion and political activism.
The rights of the women in the society have been voiced by the ...

In his book “the Origins Of The Second World War In Europe” AJP Taylor makes the argument that the underlying causes of World War II, in contrast to popular sentiment, was the general complexity of political will and international relations at the time, rather than Hitler's dominating influence alongside Fascism and Nazi ideologies. Instead, the various powers, with their individual desires and relational struggles, embarked on the same path which nobody, not even Hitler, had wanted to pursue. Despite the devastation of the Second World War, it is difficult to pin its inception on any one individual. While Hitler ...

Alex Kotlowitz follows the lives of two young boys, Lafeyette Rivers and Pharaoh Rivers, in their Chicago neighborhood, living in the Henry Horner Project, a housing scheme for underclass black people. The boys grow up in a rough neighborhood, where the only option is to join a gang once they enter adolescence. Their mother is 35 years old, and she had eight children, among whom, one is serving a jail term and the second born, an eighteen-year-old, has been arrested for a record forty-six times, making him a strong candidate to serving jail terms like his elder brother. When ...

Part 4 and Part 5 Final Paper

Actual changes that are eminent in the expounded Chapter three of ‘A History of Usury and Debts’ entails an in-depth insight of the connection between war, capitalism, Protestants as well as their significance in the development of banking and debts around the world, an ordeal which reflects the current status of financial markets. The author well explains Protestants' connection to usury and debt, and how the selection from the Roman Catholic influenced other themes in the chapter, such as war and capitalism (Geisst 107).
Actual changes include the way the three themes related in the previous part is construed ...

The novel “Unbillable Hours: A True Story” by Ian Graham is a story about how a struggling fourth-year associate discovered that lawyering is not all about the money and prestige and found the deeper meaning of his profession when he took the case of a wrongly convicted indigent client and helped him win his freedom. Graham recounts how he started his career as a young lawyer after he landed a job at the prestigious law firm of Latham and Watkins located in L.A., where he was offered a substantial income. Initially, he knew that he was in the right ...

“The Orphan Master’s Son” is by Adam Johnson. It centers on the idea of identity, how it is defined, and who gets to define it for someone. The novel examines the Orwellian life in the Republic of Korea and the influence of media on the setting, especially the western media. Themes of loss and love, incarceration, and freedom, propaganda, lies and truth, North Korean State power and technological surveillance are also covered. It follows the life of Jun Do, an orphan, who surrenders to the oppression from the government of North Korea which is cruel and impetuous. Jun ...

We begin by reading a tragic denouement ending of Mark’s story. Jesus is arrested by the authorities and leads to desertion. Jesus second sermon speaks of powers that are toppled by Human. When Mark narrates the moment, disciples were caught off guard. The passion narrative is filled with execution. We cannot understand this message and the hope it bears unless we come to terms with terrible realism. Mark begins the Passion narrative with two stories where Jesus is the King and the other one a Banquet. Each prepares the reader for the tragic turn. The plot is about to take ...

Rudolf Hoess, who should not be confused with Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s Deputy Fuehrer who flew to England in 1941, was a career S.S. officer whose memoirs are one of the most important primary sources about the Holocaust. No other camp commander produced an autobiography or wrote so extensively about his career, and none occupied a more important position in the machinery of extermination. Hoess introduced Zyklon-B (Cyclone-B) gas to Auschwitz in 1941, mainly because he thought it would be the most efficient method of mass killing, and his camp became the largest ‘customer’ for this cyanide gas, which had ...

Book review

David Copperfield
David Copperfield was born half orphaned - six months after his father's death. In the childhood David was surrounded by love and care of his mother and nurse Peggotty. But his mother married a second time. After the wedding his mother has changed: now she is afraid to caress him and always obeys her husband Mr. Murdstone. When they have settled the sister of Mr. Murdstone, the boy's life becomes completely unbearable. The boy is taught at home, under the angry look of his stepfather and his sister; he grows dull from fear and can not answer ...

8. From Postwar Demobilization Toward Great Power Status, 1865 – 1898
9. The Birth of an American Empire, 1898 – 1902
The Mexican Governor Valeriano Weyler initiated the re-concentration policy to cede independence to United States. America watched the Cuban war from a bird’s eye view since they were opposed to the humanitarian issue while any disruption effort to avert the war would threaten American investments. The American nation proclaimed neutrality while it was hard to maintain the coastal patrols, and it was costly to prosecute offenders. According to the authors, President McKinley was pro-intervention since he considered concentrating ...

Introduction

In the history of genocide crimes, the question of responsibility always crops up. International organizations of justice have always argued that responsibility for genocide and war crimes is a collective and individual responsibility. Everyone is responsible in their own right but also it is the duty of the society as a whole to work against forces that would otherwise promote occurrence of war atrocities. This paper is a comparative piece drawing evidences and incidents between the works of Slavenka Drakulic in the book “They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague” and Heda Margolius Kovaly works in ...

Book Review of Robert Hare’s “Without Conscience”

Robert Hare’s book “ Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us” is a transformational book that takes the reader deep into the woods where one gets in contact with the psychology of those we consider out order with our usual human emotions. While reading this book, one gets the feeling of being in one with the mind of a psychopath. In addition, the book answers questions of our mind revolving around the mindset of psychopaths as well as the protective measures to take to shield oneself from the attacks of a psychopath. Besides giving a detailed examination of a psychopath, Hare’s ...

Meursault is the main character of the novel “The Stranger,” in which Camus wanted to emphasize the problem of belief in contemporary society. According to Camus, the most serious issue is the inability to believe in reality, observe what happens in the moment, and the inability to live life as it is rather than being concerned with nihilism and contemplating the absurd (Francev, 2010).
The novel shows three stages of development, through which Meursault eventually learns to deal with the lack of meaning in life. In the first part of the book, Meursault is an isolated being who ...

This book is the great work of a renowned scholar throughout the field that deals with weapons of the nuclear origin and also international relations. The book tries to examine the crisis of order emerging due to existence of mass destruction weapons. Therefore the book is majorly skewed towards the issue of nuclear power and if there could be any measures aimed to control the impasse caused by this problem.
The book cites that the key problem regarding the international order originated in the period of nineteenth century, a time when new sciences were coming about, industrialization was also on ...

This book is piece that highlights the vulnerability of the justice system. The book is based on the modern society where corruption and other ills are part and parcel of our society. In the book the author is keen to note that the justice system is filled with social ills and it becomes for anyone to get justice. According to the author the jury is body where one with power or money can influence its decisions. In the modern society it is a general opinion that courts and the justice system is controlled by the mighty and powerful. The innocent ...

There are two radically different and competing versions of family and community in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. One of these is the semi-feudal status quo of rigid divisions by race, gender, caste and social class and the other a more democratic, integrated and humane community of the future symbolized by Atticus Finch, his children and supporters. Broadly speaking, these two conflicting ideologies are not simply taking place in the small, fictional community of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. They are in conflict throughout the entire country and perhaps the world, and are not confined to one particular ...

Abstract

This paper summarizes the story of the Motley Crew as narrated in the book “the dirt confession of the world’s most notorious rock band’’. The essay chronicles their lifestyles from formation, rise to power, moral decadency, and distinct highs and lows among other aspects. It concentrates on most remarkable events of the group as demonstrated in the autobiography. The work goes further to depict frightening scenarios of the Crew events taking place on and out of stage.

Introduction

The Motley crew depicts a group of hardcore Rock Music heroes who begun life at the very center of poverty. The most ...