Penology & Punishment

Few state issues have attracted as much controversy and national attention as the application of the death penalty in Texas. In the years since th...

Why have generations of philosophers failed or refused to articulate a rigorous challenge to the death penalty, when literature has been rife with ...

Fatna El Bouih was first arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she...

By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been writt...

Why have generations of philosophers failed or refused to articulate a rigorous challenge to the death penalty, when literature has been rife with ...

Crime and Intelligence Analysis: An Integrated Real-Time Approach, 2nd Edition, covers everything crime analysts and tactical analysts need to know...

The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from i...

Killing Times begins with the deceptively simple observation—made by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic—that the death penalty mechanical...

This book examines what it means to be a family within the restrictive, disruptive, and often distressing context of imprisonment. Drawing on origi...

A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane ...

This distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression are lived, portrayed and imagined. ...

The Morality of Revolution offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The bo...

The Morality of Revolution offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The bo...

In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the centu...

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 ...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Recent decades have seen a widespread effort to imprison m...

Henry Pontell convincingly demonstrates that despite the expenditure of millions of dollars, the enactment of many new laws exacting harsher punish...

In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the centu...

This riveting book is the first comprehensive investigation into the organized crime and corruption that plague Russia today. Describing a society ...

Could you forgive the murderer of your husband? Your mother? Your son?Families of murder victims are often ardent and very public supporters of the...

In this book Alana Barton explores the social control and disciplining of unruly and 'deviant' women from the early nineteenth century to the prese...

First published in 2005. This is a wide-ranging study of flagellation in all its aspects - disciplinary, religious, educational and erotic. It pres...

`[A] useful and informative book. ...I would recommend it to students wanting a good introduction to the current issues in criminal justice and pro...

Sir Leon Radzinowicz is one of the key figures in the development of criminology in the twentieth century. This account of the development of crimi...

In 1949, Annie Samuelli and her sister were seized by the Communists in a mass arrest of Romanians working for US and British legations. After near...

Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves....

The United States arrests, punishes, and locks up far more people-both juveniles and adults-than any other democratic country in the world. Indeed,...

In 1970 Tony Parker was permitted by the Home Office to make a series of visits to HMP Grendon Underwood, the UK's first psychiatric prison, there ...

The role of education in prisons, prisoners' decisions regarding education, the impact of prison culture on either encouraging or discouraging such...

P&P Brantingham’s enormous contribution to criminology has paved the way for major theoretical and empirical developments in the understanding ...

The role of education in prisons, prisoners' decisions regarding education, the impact of prison culture on either encouraging or discouraging such...

In his seminal text Society of Captives, Gresham Sykes discusses the general pains of imprisonment to which all prisoners are subjected: the depriv...

P&P Brantingham’s enormous contribution to criminology has paved the way for major theoretical and empirical developments in the understanding ...