Penology & Punishment

Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offences at age 20, and sent to high-security prison. He was released eight years later, and allowed ...

'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation sur...

Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from t...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN, JAMIE FOXX, AND BRIE LARSON. A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, ESQUIRE, AND...

Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark ...

Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark ...

'A sincere and delicate inquiry that moves with grace between public and private pain.' Helen Garner'Brave and brilliant... this book will change y...

n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Har...

n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Har...

Make working in the field of corrections more understandable with this unique, insightful collection of essays that connects scholarship and practi...

Corrections looks at the correctional system and offers arguments for and against the practice of the laws and policies that comprise corrections, ...

Winner of the 2022 British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Novelist Alia Trabucco Zeran has long been fascinated not only with th...

At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then so...

From the end of the Civil War through 1941, a total of 168 North Carolinians lost their lives to lynching. This form of mob violence was often j...

A call to replace Canadas incarceration model, which has proven destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and most of all unnece...

'Revolutionises our understanding of the carceral state' - Fidelis Chebe, Director of Migrant Action During 2019-20 in England and Wales, over 17 ...

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. W...

This book tackles the important issue of the effects of co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders on criminal offenders as they make...

However repugnant, torture has been practised, either publicly approved or clandestinely, for thousands of years. From the rack to electrodes, from...

Restorative justice has attracted increasing support world-wide, but it sits uncomfortably alongside entrenched attitudes towards punishment and re...

In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sen...

In March 2017, researchers, advocates and NGOs from twelve countries came together in Rotorua, New Zealand, for the first conference of the Interna...

I learned that the problems were much deeper than a flawed criminal justice system, and that our work needed to begin in our relationships with eac...

Christo Brand was a South African farm boy, born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid to persecute black people and claim superio...

Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective storybeautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in...

For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universa...

Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical householdher parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rationed rice ...

**Winner of a Koestler Trust Silver Award*** and the only book of its kind by a serving lifer. Contains a Foreword by Tim Newell, former Prison Gov...

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Wa...

Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines ...