Penology & Punishment

An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure...

Mil-1800, f’Malta, sakemm kienet abolita l-piena tal-mewt, din is-sentenza ngħatat 170 darba. Kien hemm każ ieħor fejn il-kundanna saret barra minn...

'Tense and intimate… an education.' Geoff Dyer'Written with sensitivity and humanity... a remarkable insight into prison life.' Amanda Brown'Authen...

The final volume of Jeffrey Archer’s prison diaries, A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven, covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his event...

This is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found himself locked in a small, underg...

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

Winner of the 2020 Society for Social Work and Research Book Award In Everyday Desistance, Laura Abrams and Diane J. Terry examine the lives of you...

Political leaders and the popular press tell us that society is in the grip of a moral crisis. ‘Where have our values gone?’ our newspapers scream ...

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scho...

`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the ...

`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the ...

Limited critical evaluation on the societal effect of rising incarceration rates and construction of new facilities has been available. Crime is no...

In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addr...

In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master’s degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becomin...

The U.S. crime rate has dropped steadily for more than a decade, yet the rate of incarceration continues to skyrocket. Today, more than 2 million A...

Limited critical evaluation on the societal effect of rising incarceration rates and construction of new facilities has been available. Crime is no...

Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America is the first in-depth study of sexual culture and AIDS in Latin prisons. Psychologists, social worke...

A thoroughly researched pioneering work based on personal interviews with inmates and prison personnel and on data compiled from questionnaires and...

Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America is the first in-depth study of sexual culture and AIDS in Latin prisons. Psychologists, social worke...

Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when...

Whether conveyed through newspapers, photographs, or Billie Holliday’s haunting song “Strange Fruit,” lynching has immediate and graphic connotatio...

In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its borders to 163,000 asylu...

The role of for-profit prisons in the history of oppression and legal discrimination aimed primarily at African American men

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. B...

The hellish noise, the roaring, swelling and clamour, the stench and nastiness, an emblem of hell itself. - Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe. There have...

The Oxford History of the Prison is an informative account of the growth and development of the prison in Western society, from classical times to ...

Radicalisation is a conceptual investigation within Western liberal democratic societies that follows an analytical framework linking expertise the...

Within corrections, women have made notable impacts in policy, cultural changes, and leadership, yet they have received little attention and study....

This book is the first collection to bring together scholars and activists working to end criminal and immigration detention. Employing an intersec...

The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities explores the lived experience of cognitively disabled women incarcerated in ...

Researching Prisons provides an overview of the processes, practices, and challenges involved in undertaking prison research. The chapters look at ...