Penology & Punishment

This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal...

As the United States approaches its 50th year of mass incarceration, more children than ever before have experienced the incarceration of a parent....

Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly rele...

This book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media. Exploring a range ...

Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song for...

Gender and punishment in Ireland explores womens lethal violence in Ireland. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, including government docum...

Why mass incarceration endures in the face of reforms, and how to truly change America's vast criminal justice system Critics on both the left and...

Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJTrapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at prom...

In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. H...

What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that pri...

People organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of secondhand bookstores for the las...

This book is an overview of the Healthy Marriage Initiative. The purpose of this book is also to understand more fully the strategies for improving...

A condensed but equally compelling version of the best-selling corrections book on the market, AMERICAN CORRECTIONS IN BRIEF, 3rd Edition, introduc...

Discussion of the histories, meanings, and assumptions of restorative justice have enriched the development of its theory, research, and practices....

New Bones Abolition addresses those of us broken enough to grow new bones in order to stabilize our political traditions that renew freedom struggl...

Punitive practices are highly revealing of a society's social fabric, its normative order, and power structure. Punishment in International Society...

Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life. - The New StatesmanCambridge Un...

Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels peopl...

Convict criminology (CC) is based on the belief that the convicts voice has been traditionally ignored or marginalized in scholarship and policy de...

Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are interven...