Penology & Punishment

From a highly accredited criminal law professor at the University of North Carolina, a provocative and timely exploration of how plea bargaining pr...

Uniquely combining two parts, one critical in the form of a research piece, and the other creative in the form of a fictional novel, this ground-br...

According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.' Connecting t...

During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or...

Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letterspetitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to m...

Sharing experiences of 15 inmates and their battle for care, the author uncovers the truth about capital punishment and what goes on in our prison ...

Leading crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee gained the trust of some of the most infamous convicted killers, having corresponded with them and even ...

A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in th...

The work considers the international and European obligations of the UK in the realm of challenging the far-right and assesses the extent to which ...

Leading crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee gained the trust of some of the most infamous convicted killers, having corresponded with them and even ...

Pulitzer Prize FinalistSilver Gavel Award FinalistA sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various...

Originally from west Kerry, Thomas Ashe was a schoolteacher in north County Dublin and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. During the 1916 R...

Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people when the state flings o...

An unrelenting prison boom, marked by racial disparities, characterized the latter third of the twentieth century. Drawing upon broadly representat...

Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letterspetitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to m...

Law and justice are not always one and the same. On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: Peter...

There are few, if any, state-level prison histories that are as impressively researched. This is an authoritative account that contributes a great ...

The prevalence of police deviance is a much-debated statistic and one that is often rife with problems. While some researchers suggest that corrupt...

There are multiple reasons to prevent juveniles from becoming delinquent or continuing to engage in delinquent behaviour. The most obvious reason i...

The Royal Armouries is Britain's oldest museum, still partly housed in its original buildings in the Tower of London. The core of the collection is...

The paths of a secret paramour, a jilted lover and a reluctant hangman cross in one fateful winter week in Galway, 1885 James Berry was the notori...

The purpose of this book is to describe to practitioners what the research tells us about domestic violence, including its perpetrators and victims...

Girls'''' delinquency has attracted the attention of federal, state, and local policymakers for more than a decade as girls have increasingly becom...

This book explores consumer fraud and identity theft as well as telemarketing fraud which is both the oldest, and in some respects, the most persis...

Controversy has arisen regarding U.S. treatment of enemy combatants and terrorist suspects detained in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations, and ...

The 34 chapters in this book are largely composed of interviews--with the men on death row, with individuals fighting the death penalty, and wit...

This book presents and discusses information in the study of organised crime, gangs and trafficking on a global scale. Topics discussed include org...

In this book, Zoe Colley follows civil rights activists inside the southern jails and prisons to explore their treatment and the differ¬ent respons...

The meaning of the admonitionfour words most often forgotten, ignored or intentionally violated--seems so simple: 'Thou shall not kill.'  Here nine...

Within two decades-if not sooner-at least one in three prisoners in the US will be a senior citizen. Our prisons, however, were designed for a mu...

When family members or loved ones are arrested, things get crazy fast. Inmates want bail bonds and private attorneys, food from the commissary, hea...

This book presents and discusses information in the study of criminal justice and law enforcement. Topics discussed include capital punishment; juv...