Penology & Punishment

As Elizabeth Johnston walked among the convicts in an Alabama prison mining camp, she was stunned to see teenage boys working alongside hardened cr...

This volume explores ethical aspects relating to claims for mitigation arising from culpable state action (or inaction). It answers the important...

In Imprisoned Minds, Erik Maloney tells the stories of men in prison that few people ever hear. Six gripping, first-person narratives of incarcerat...

In this concise and valuable collection of essays, Louis J. Gesualdi provides readers with an understanding of peacemaking criminology. Peacemaking...

A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reformIn th...

Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on th...

Most forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers involved in the assessment of sex offenders today have a good grasp of where the fiel...

Generativity or giving back is regarded as a common life stage, occurring for many around middle age. For the first time, this book offers qualitat...

Its Kina Hard Da Cry: Art and Writing by Adults Incarcerated by Save the Kids (STK) is one of the only books with a collection of writing and art b...

This book offers a concise and authoritative overview of the full scope of crime prevention, including foundations, theory, application, and techni...

This book offers a concise and authoritative overview of the full scope of crime prevention, including foundations, theory, application, and techni...

This balanced book illuminates Republican and Democratic responses and attitudes toward crime, police work, sentencing, incarceration, and rehabil...

This short book provides a European-wide survey of mental health and probation. Drawing on a significant study, it explores the knowledge and attit...

Originally published in 1969, Sallie Trotter was the first woman social worker ever appointed in Britain to work inside an all-male prison Wandswo...

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways i...

This book examines protest policing and the toolbox of options available to police commanders in response. The right to peacefully protest is intri...

What is evidence-based policing and how is it done? This book provides an answer to both questions, offering an introduction for undergraduate stud...

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people ...

Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years....

Prisoners in Prison Societies is a study of criminal career patterns over time, demonstrating specifically how and in what ways imprisonment has a ...

This brief explores the justification of the death penalty, using the 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, as ...

A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases In 1978 Warren McCleskey, a black man, k...