Penology & Punishment

The controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predators When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex of...

The controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predators When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex of...

In Criminals, Nazis, and Islamists, Vera Mironova examines conflicts and cooperation between inmates in male prisons in the former Soviet Union. Sh...

More than the citizens of most countries, Americans are either religious or in jail--or both. But what does it mean when imprisonment and evangeliz...

Over seven percent of all children in the United States--more than 5 million children--have experienced a parental incarceration, and an estimated ...

«Multidisciplinary and comparative, Camps of Transit, Sites of Memory brings new materials and approaches to the study of Fascist, wartime and post...

Michigan is the only state in the country that has a death penalty prohibition in its constitution - Eugene G. Wangers compelling arguments against...

One of the most comprehensive examinations of US torture policy, from the Cold War to the War on Terror to the debate over accountability Waterboar...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

This book explores the origins of the so-called 'punitive turn' in penal policy across Western nations over the past two decades. It demonstrates h...

Sanaz Alasti leaves the mainstream alternatives to incarceration to examine a different, seemingly archaic approach, physical (but non-carceral) pu...

This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The c...

This unique book provides a rare insight into the debilitating impact of regimes that fail to respond to the complex and gender specific needs of w...

Exploring the way in which criminal punishment is interpreted and narrated by offenders, this book examines the meaning offenders ascribe to their ...

In recent years the death penalty has sharply declined across Africa, but this trend belies actual public opinion and the retributivist sentiments ...

Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy examines case law and legislation in regards to reproduction, pregnancy, and infancy. Cusack explores ...

This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal...

An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.Critics of abolition sometimes castiga...

An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible. Critics of abolition sometimes casti...