Penology & Punishment

In 12 years, Michelle Lyons witnessed nearly 300 executions.First as a reporter and then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Jus...

This is one of the best books on writing that I've ever read. I couldn't put it down. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow The Senten...

This groundbreaking double-volume engages the theme of abolition feminisms, a political tradition grounded in radical anti-violence organizing, Bla...

Justice is on trial in the United States. From police to prisons, the justice system is accused of overpunishing. It is said that too many American...

In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while...

The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. F...

How do we select those who will be subject to capital punishment? How do we identify the worst of the worst and decide who among them can and shoul...

Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been u...

On 15 March 1817 the convict ship the Chapman departed from Cork with 200 male prisoners on board. When it dropped anchor off Sydney Cove four mont...

In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their ...

Generation after generation has come up with new forms of punishment to inflict on those guilty (and sometimes innocent) of crimes against property...