Penology & Punishment

This book tackles the important issue of the effects of co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders on criminal offenders as they make...

However repugnant, torture has been practised, either publicly approved or clandestinely, for thousands of years. From the rack to electrodes, from...

Restorative justice has attracted increasing support world-wide, but it sits uncomfortably alongside entrenched attitudes towards punishment and re...

In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sen...

In March 2017, researchers, advocates and NGOs from twelve countries came together in Rotorua, New Zealand, for the first conference of the Interna...

I learned that the problems were much deeper than a flawed criminal justice system, and that our work needed to begin in our relationships with eac...

Christo Brand was a South African farm boy, born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid to persecute black people and claim superio...

Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective storybeautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in...

For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universa...

Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical householdher parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rationed rice ...

**Winner of a Koestler Trust Silver Award*** and the only book of its kind by a serving lifer. Contains a Foreword by Tim Newell, former Prison Gov...

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Wa...

Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines ...

From a highly accredited criminal law professor at the University of North Carolina, a provocative and timely exploration of how plea bargaining pr...

Uniquely combining two parts, one critical in the form of a research piece, and the other creative in the form of a fictional novel, this ground-br...

According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.' Connecting t...

During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or...

Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letterspetitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to m...

Sharing experiences of 15 inmates and their battle for care, the author uncovers the truth about capital punishment and what goes on in our prison ...

Leading crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee gained the trust of some of the most infamous convicted killers, having corresponded with them and even ...