Penology & Punishment

Deterrence is a theory which claims that punishment is justified through preventing future crimes, and is one of the oldest and most powerful theor...

From childhood, Ma Thida dreamed of helping otherscaring for the sick, sharing information despite censorship, and standing up for peoples rights. ...

2012 Winner of the Outstanding Book Award presented by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Academic Title from 2011 by Choice Ma...

Abolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual commitment. What does abolition mean and how can we get there as a coll...

Criminal justice is primarily designed to serve the public interest in relation to criminal acts. Restorative justice is designed to address the ha...

Explore the American corrections system from the perspective of both the corrections worker and the offender in AMERICAN CORRECTIONS, 10E, Internat...

Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking budgets have increasingly welcomed faith-based providers offering services at no ...

Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners that was established in 1926 in West Papua. This book argues that Digul is the key to unders...

Across Europe, restorative justice has gained acceptance as a way of resolving disputes and mitigating the harm of crime in the community. Practiti...

While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United Sta...

Crime science is precisely what it says it is: the application of science to the phenomenon of crime. This handbook, intended as a crime science ma...

In The Margin's 2024 Social Justice Recommendation List In The Incarceration of Native American Women, Carma Corcoran examines the rising number of...

Legacy of the Lash is a compelling social and cultural history of the Brazilian navy in the decades preceding and immediately following the 1888 ab...

In a liberal democracy, theory suggests that the political order and character of a civil society are closely connected: the political order allows...

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 p...

Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units...

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 p...

Afghanistan is often viewed as a failing state. The international intervention, following 9/11, could fit with the countrys domestic modernisation ...

Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging ...

As scores of death row inmates are exonerated by DNA evidence and innocence commissions are set up across the country, conviction of the innocent h...