Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice. Fully updated to cover the most recent changes in the Criminal Justice System, the new edition: Outlines contemporary policy debates on sentencing, staffing, youth custody and overcrowding. Explores growing inequalities in the criminal justice system including issues of race, religion, gender and sexuality, with new content on faith, and transgender prisoners. Considers the impact of privatisation on the probation service.Discusses the most recent debates around the parole process, including high-profile cases and attempts at reform. The book is supported by online resources for lecturers and students, including chapter PowerPoints, sample syllabus, summaries of key legislative acts, bills and official reports, a list of recommended further reading for each chapter, and links to important Penal Agencies and Organisations, Law Reform Organisations, and other useful academic sites. Essential reading for students of criminal justice and criminology, studying penology, punishments and the penal system.
Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice. Fully updated to cover the most recent changes in the Criminal Justice System, the new edition: Outlines contemporary policy debates on sentencing, staffing, youth custody and overcrowding. Explores growing inequalities in the criminal justice system including issues of race, religion, gender and sexuality, with new content on faith, and transgender prisoners. Considers the impact of privatisation on the probation service.Discusses the most recent debates around the parole process, including high-profile cases and attempts at reform. The book is supported by online resources for lecturers and students, including chapter PowerPoints, sample syllabus, summaries of key legislative acts, bills and official reports, a list of recommended further reading for each chapter, and links to important Penal Agencies and Organisations, Law Reform Organisations, and other useful academic sites. Essential reading for students of criminal justice and criminology, studying penology, punishments and the penal system.
Mick Powis describes the novel threat posed to the British war effort by the raids of German airships, or Zeppelins, and the struggle to develop effective defences against them. Despite their size and relatively slow speed, the Zeppelins were hard to locate and destroy at first. They could fly higher than existing fighters and the early raids benefited from a lack of coordination between British services. The development of radio, better aircraft, incendiary ammunition, and, above all, a more coordinated defensive policy, gradually allowed the British to inflict heavy losses on the Zeppelins. The innovative use of seaplanes and planes launched from aircraft carriers allowed the Zeppelins to be intercepted before they reached Britain and to strike back with raids on the Zeppelin sheds. July 1918 saw the RAF and Royal Navy cooperate to destroy two Zeppelins in their base at Tondern (the first attack by aircraft launched from a carrier deck). The last Zeppelin raid on England came in August 1918 and resulted in the destruction of Zeppelin L70 and the death of Peter Strasser, Commander of the Imperial German Navy s Zeppelin force.
Two Slough House Novellas**THE DROP**'It is time Mick Herron was recognised in his own right as the best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday ExpressOld spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone cafe, he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent encounter. But in relaying his suspicions to John Bachelor, who babysits retired spies like Solly, he sets in train events which will alter lives. Bachelor himself, a hair's breadth away from sleeping in his car, is clawing his way back to stability; Hannah Weiss, the double agent whose recruitment was his only success, is starting to enjoy the secrets and lies her role demands; and Lech Wicinski, an Intelligence Service analyst, finds that a simple favour for an old acquaintance might derail his career. Meanwhile, Lady Di Taverner is trying to keep the Service on an even keel, and if that means throwing the odd crew member overboard, well: collateral damage is her speciality.A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information.It's also what happens just before you hit the ground.**THE LIST**'Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven't read him yet, you NEED to' Mark BillinghamDieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account - and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets.**previously published as two separate editions**
Bad Actors is #1 bestselling novel and the eighth book in the critically acclaimed Slough House series by Mick Herron, now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman
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A child’s imagination takes flight in this charming and poignant picture book.Wouldn’t moving house be magical, if your house could move with you?When a boy is told that they are moving house, he envisions his house lifted by cranes, winding its way through narrow streets, and even sailing across the sea… But his mother helps him understand: even if they must leave their house behind, the two of them will still be on an adventure.
Mabel Taylor has a new red sledge. Just look at it! It has a rope for pulling it round and a shiny bottom to make it go extra-fast... When Mabel Taylor receives a shiny red sledge for Christmas, she can't wait to try it out! But ... oh. No snow. No snow at all. And there's no snow the next day, either ... or the next. So, instead, Mabel imagines herself on the most extraordinary of adventures, becoming a bobsleigh champion, a polar explorer, and even Father Christmas! And just when she’s stopped waiting and watching for the snow to fall, her world is transformed by a thick blanket of brilliant white…Brimming over with the joy of imaginary and outdoor play, this is a timeless winter storybook penned by a Booker-shortlisted writer.
There is a train which has beds in their own small cabins so that you can sleep while the train rolls through the night. I went on one, not long ago…Just as it’s starting to get dark, a little girl and her family board the sleeper train – they’ll travel all through the night, and reach their destination in the morning. But as the train rocks from side to side, the little girl can’t sleep. It’s all too exciting! So, instead, she travels through her memory to all the different places she has slept – from her room at home, to a tent in the wild, to Mum’s old room at Grandma and Grandad’s house... But will that help her to drift off?Gloriously illustrated in rich colours throughout, this captivating bedtime story will take readers on a journey through the vast Indian countryside, and carry them straight on to dreamland.
A child’s imagination takes flight in this charming and poignant picture book by the Booker-shortlisted author Mick Jackson and award-winning artist Rashin Kheiriyeh.Selected for the 2025 Bologna Ragazzi Award's Amazing Bookshelf.Wouldn’t moving house be magical, if your house could move with you?When a boy is told that they are moving house, he envisions his house lifted by cranes, winding its way through narrow streets, and even sailing across the sea… But his mother helps him understand: even if they must leave their house behind, the two of them will still be on an adventure.
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A personal memoir illustrated with 60 original photographs - 32 of them in colour. Fresh from University, the author was sent in 1967 with the British Volunteer Programme to teach at a remote University in Central India. Based on his letters and diaries of the time, and illustrated with 60 original photographs, he recounts his discovery of that recently independent nation, his integration into a society very different from his own and the pleasures and frustrations of working in a new university. Personal anecdotes are interspersed with reflections on decolonisation and the place of foreign volunteers. Initially stereotyped as a white "sahib", he found this a role which did not correspond to his North of England working class background. This first volume recounts his first year at Sagar. Later ones will describe his second year and his wider travels in India. Extracts: I went out to India in 1967. At 21, I was six months older than the independent country itself and the same age as the remote University in which I had been sent to teach. The world was in a ferment of decolonization. The decade had already been swept by MacMillan's "wind of change" with over 20 British colonies negotiating their independence and new democratic constitutions. Apartheid South Africa was excluded from the British Commonwealth and subject to international sanctions. America's neo-colonial war continued to escalate in Vietnam. The Third World was a new concept and we in the West tended to speak - depending on our degree of optimism - of Developing, Underdeveloped or even Backward Countries. Despite the initial stereotyping I faced as a fresh-faced European in post-colonial India, I was not a natural sahib.... "We have arranged a room for you in the University Guest House. Please come in," said the Professor. Two or three khaki-clad male servants were hovering around. One of them unlocked the padlock on a door and we were shown into the suite in which I would live for over a year... We finished our tour with the bathroom. "The toilet is behind the partition," said the professor, putting his head round. "Oh no " he exclaimed, horror-struck. "It's Indian style I hadn't realised." "It doesn't matter," I mumbled. I had already used a squat toilet in Bombay without doing myself any damage. "No, no. It's out of the question. You won't be able to use it." "But..." "I know Professor Mishra has a Western style toilet and his house is only 500 yards away. I will arrange for you to use his toilet." The idea of trekking over to a stranger's house whenever I needed a crap appalled me. "No, no, really. There's no need. I know how to use this. I've done it before." ... I asked for a ticket to Kishangarh but the conductor didn't realise I was with Khare and didn't believe me - so he gave me a ticket to Bijawar instead. This was the last town on the route, small, but not too small to be the capital of a former Princely State of the same name. At Bijawar we stopped in the shelter of the Maharaja's rather dilapidated palace for tea, meeting friends of Khare's & cursing the driver for his crazy driving. At the edge of town, where the pukka tarmacked road gave way to a dirt track through the jungle, we stopped and underwent a transformation from "village bus" to "shikar bus". In other words, the bus was adapted for a big game hunt. A makeshift spotlight was set up on the roof, where the hunters lay on the luggage platform with their guns and we drove on through the forest, shining our light from side to side and stopping whenever one of the shikaris banged on the roof over our heads. Once we saw a tiger - it was so big I thought it was a cow. Despite much manoeuvring, the driver couldn't get his bus into a good position for a shot, so we moved on. ...
Barry Wilmot lives frugally on benefits until he has the option of buying a flat screen TV or pint of Stella. With a newly acquired mobility scooter, Harlow New Town opens up to him like an oyster. With a new means to explore he encounters several like minded souls who arrange a beano to Clacton.A good time was had by all but Big Barry hides a secret in a locked room. One which he believes nobody should know or could understand.
