Penology & Punishment

Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines three interconnected problems: the tendency of the prison to o...

Shame punishment has existed for perhaps as long as people have been punished, and the issue has been revisited in recent years to help improve cri...

A CounterPunch Best Book of the YearA Lone Star Policy Institute Recommended BookIf you care, as I do, about disrupting the perverse politics of cr...

Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become...

This book explores the religious experiences of two notable figures who endured severe trials under authoritarian regimes: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (...

Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing...

Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers a...

Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers a...

Sensory Penalities reflects an explosion in explorations of the sensory and disrupts conventional expectations of both form and focus by expanding ...

Analysis of criminal cases reveals that women suspected of killing their newborn children are some of the most vulnerable in our society and that i...

The United States has by far the worlds largest population of incarcerated people. More than a million Americans are imprisoned; hundreds of thousa...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes commi...

The threat of terrorism, if not adequately managed, is likely to increase exponentially. As terrorist groups influence and networks spread globally...

This book is the first attempt to establish 'economic crime' as a new sub-discipline within criminology. Fraud, corruption, bribery, money launderi...

Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective examines organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of networks. Th...

A collection of original contributions by philosophers working in the ethics of punishment, gathering new perspectives on various challenging topic...

The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, vict...

In Community Punishment: European perspectives, the authors place punishment in the community under the spotlight by exploring the origins, evoluti...

A new paradigm for supervising offenders in the community   Environmental Corrections is an innovative guide filled with rich insights and strategi...

Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Sons Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; what she will ...