Penology & Punishment

The text is an incredible composite of the literature that has shaped correctional practice. The authors have a great capacity for making research ...

In response to recognition in the late 1960s and early 1970s that traditional incarceration was not working, alternatives to standard prison settin...

An Introduction to Penology is a concise, informative, scholarly guide that will speak to a variety of audiences interested in how the notion of pu...

An Introduction to Penology is a concise, informative, scholarly guide that will speak to a variety of audiences interested in how the notion of pu...

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have a...

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have a...

The United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and most punitive carceral syst...

When we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the...

The United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and most punitive carceral syst...

In many countries, community-based penalties such as probation, electronic monitoring and parole are the most common sanctions used in the punishme...

Unsettling Colonial Automobilities explores the vehicle's role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people and proposes an Indigenous automobility...

Get a frontline look at the field of corrections with Maroun/Siegel/Bartollas' CORRECTIONS TODAY, 5th EDITION. This more concise, visual paperback ...

The project of interpreting contemporary forms of punishment means exploring the social, political, economic, and historical conditions in the soci...

The project of interpreting contemporary forms of punishment means exploring the social, political, economic, and historical conditions in the soci...

Covering all the key topics across the subject of Penology, this book gives you the tools you need to delve deeper and critically examine issues re...

Essays examining how punishment operated in England, from c.600 to the Norman Conquest. Anglo-Saxon authorities often punished lawbreakers with ha...

Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, crit...

Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility ...

In 1976 the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the legality of capital punishment in their ruling on Gregg v. Georgia. In the 46 years sin...

The United States, a single country, locks up a quarter of the worlds incarcerated population. More than 850,000 Americans are currently on parole....

A Criminological Imagination contains a selection of key articles from Pat Carlen's research studies of magistrates' courts and women's imprisonmen...