Penology & Punishment

People organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of secondhand bookstores for the las...

This book is an overview of the Healthy Marriage Initiative. The purpose of this book is also to understand more fully the strategies for improving...

A condensed but equally compelling version of the best-selling corrections book on the market, AMERICAN CORRECTIONS IN BRIEF, 3rd Edition, introduc...

Discussion of the histories, meanings, and assumptions of restorative justice have enriched the development of its theory, research, and practices....

New Bones Abolition addresses those of us broken enough to grow new bones in order to stabilize our political traditions that renew freedom struggl...

Punitive practices are highly revealing of a society's social fabric, its normative order, and power structure. Punishment in International Society...

Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life. - The New StatesmanCambridge Un...

Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels peopl...

Convict criminology (CC) is based on the belief that the convicts voice has been traditionally ignored or marginalized in scholarship and policy de...

Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are interven...

Introduction to Criminal Justice, Tenth Edition, offers a student-friendly description of the criminal justice processoutlining the decisions, prac...

Winner of the 2021 ESC Book Award. Despite its dramatic proliferation and diversification in recent decades, supervisory forms of punishment in the...

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance deals with aspects of punishment, including sentencing, incarceration, and prison c...

This work asks readers to reconsider punishment contracts in the United States. It illustrates the importance of state accountability and responsib...

There are almost 86,000 people in the prison system in the United Kingdom, held in 118 prisons and nine immigration removal centres. People in the ...

A first-hand account of the death penalty's wholly destructive nature. In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique of shifts in sentencing l...

Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a...

Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a...

One of the first contemporary works to bring together research focused on community corrections officers, Professional Lives of Community Correctio...

Covering all the key topics across the subject of Penology, this book gives you the tools you need to delve deeper and critically examine issues re...

Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishme...

The text is an incredible composite of the literature that has shaped correctional practice. The authors have a great capacity for making research ...

In response to recognition in the late 1960s and early 1970s that traditional incarceration was not working, alternatives to standard prison settin...

An Introduction to Penology is a concise, informative, scholarly guide that will speak to a variety of audiences interested in how the notion of pu...

An Introduction to Penology is a concise, informative, scholarly guide that will speak to a variety of audiences interested in how the notion of pu...

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have a...

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have a...

The United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and most punitive carceral syst...

When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the...

The United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and most punitive carceral syst...

In many countries, community-based penalties such as probation, electronic monitoring and parole are the most common sanctions used in the punishme...

Unsettling Colonial Automobilities explores the vehicle's role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people and proposes an Indigenous automobility...