Penology & Punishment

This is a first-hand account of the often appalling conditions in prisons, police stations, psychiatric institutions, detention centres and other p...

The death penalty issue has become the epitome of the unresolvable issue, the question which people answer on the basis of gut reactions rather tha...

The last few years have seen a marked change in attitudes to the rehabilitation and management of offenders. It is now impossible to ignore evidenc...

Tom Sorell's book concerns not simply capital punishment but the use of philosophical theories of right and wrong. He argues that such theories are...

There is increasing pressure, soon to be legislation, for particular offenders to be given a choice of psychological treatment or imprisonment, eve...

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to prod...

Whilst they retain a recognisable common core, probation systems round the world are enormously varied, and many are in a state of rapid change. Pr...

Nicola Lacey presents a new approach to the question of the moral justification of punishment by the State. She focuses on the theory of punishment...

Whilst they retain a recognisable common core, probation systems round the world are enormously varied, and many are in a state of rapid change. Pr...

Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States. In their own w...

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene st...

In the context of recent media scrutiny on the state of prisons in the UK, the efficacy of incarcerating large numbers of offenders is an issue whi...

Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking budgets have increasingly welcomed "faith-based" providers offering services at n...

Every day children exiled to prison are exposed to abusive and neglectful treatment, yet their plight is hidden. Based on wide-ranging research and...

This is Volume VII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1952, this is an account of the prison a...

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the ...

This book, first published in 1965, describes the British penal system as it existed in the 1960s. It describes how the system defined, accounted f...

Restorative justice is an innovative approach to addressing conflict and bullying, as well as disruptive, challenging and criminal behaviour. A res...

This intriguing book gathers together the stories of 120 criminals hanged at both Lincoln Castle Prison and HMP Lincoln on Greetwell Road between 1...

Over the years the high walls of Liverpool's Walton Gaol have contained some of the most infamous criminals from the north of England. Taking over ...

Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world and for a hundred years it has held Glasgow's toughest and most violent men, swept up f...

For over 800 years Newgate was the grimy axle around which British society slowly twisted. This is where such legendary outlaws as Robin Hood and C...

This fascinating volume explores the darkest aspects of crime and punishment in Yorkshire over the centuries - a history by turns gruesome, intrigu...

'My name is Ronnie Thompson. Being a prison officer was something I used to be proud of. I soon realised the truth of what its like working as a sc...

Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the places where ex...

The guillotine is a most potent image of revolutionary France, the tool whereby a whole society was 'redesigned'. Tracing the development of the gu...

James Crosbie was Britain's most wanted man in 1974. With a successful business and an enviable lifestyle, he seemed to have everything going for h...

Containing 200 archive images from the NCCL Galleries of Justice in Nottingham, this book is intended for those with an interest in the history of ...

There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during t...

This compelling book, first published in 1995, changed historians' understanding of the history of public penance, a topic crucial to debates about...

Boot camps-what are their effects on criminal behavior?Public and political support for boot camps as alternative correctional facilities has rarel...

This book addresses a number of key themes and developments in restorative justice, and is based on papers originally presented at the 6th Internat...