Penology & Punishment

Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, crit...

A comprehensive overview of rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration,with real-life examples of successes and failures and the most current resea...

Can punishments ever meaningfully be proportioned in severity to the seriousness of the crimes for which they are imposed? A great deal of attentio...

This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding c...

By focusing on the incarceration of women in Canada and Québec, this book reveals that imprisonment, as a penal device, is surprisingly tenacious.

The iconic New York Times bestseller that 'struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter' (Ibram X. Kendi)Named one o...

The experience of custody is one most of us only usually hear about from outside. All the intricacies of navigating prison life suicide watch, fig...

How do governments and societies use prison to respond to underlying and fundamental social, economic and political issues? Using data on world imp...

***From the bestselling author of A Bit of a Stretch***'It's a cracking book. He really can write.' - James O'Brien, LBC'Eloquent, witty, engaging ...

Research on Restorative Justice to date tends to be gender blind. Gendered Perspectives of Restorative Justice, Violence and Resilience: An Interna...

Louisiana State Penitentiary is one of the largest and most brutal maximum-security prisons in the United States. Built on the grounds of a former ...

How do governments and societies use prison to respond to underlying and fundamental social, economic and political issues? Using data on world imp...

Silencing and punishing critical voices is a project that lies at the heart of Narendra Modi's authoritarian regime in India. The BJP's political d...

IN 12 YEARS, MICHELLE LYONS WITNESSED NEARLY 300 EXECUTIONS.As a reporter and then spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Miche...

When Kate married gangster Ronnie Kray, he introduced her to the most deadly criminals ever known. She persuaded them to talk about their crimes, f...

And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he wants. There is no officer. No handcuff...

What makes a serial killer? How do you spot one? Is there any way of truly knowing?David Canter asked the same questions whilst developing the new ...

How does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve wom...

Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of ab...