Penology & Punishment

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...

Jacana Media is proud to make this important book available again, now with a completely new introduction. First published by Oceanbooks, New York ...

The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thru...

When the crowd gathered to see the hangman launching teenager Robert Smith into eternity on a wet Tuesday in 1868, it was the last time this public...

Crime and Punishment in and about the Cotswold Hills This fully illustrated colour book written by Cotswold publisher Nicholas Reardon shows the re...

The first comprehensive examination of the US Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause, surveying its history and the critical role it can and should pl...

Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United S...

The topic of sexual offending is a deeply complex and challenging one. In the past number of years, there has been a growing interest in sexual cri...

In Their Names busts open the public safety myth that uses victims rights to perpetuate mass incarceration, and offers a formula for what would act...

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from...

There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives'' tale arose because torture ha...

This is the most authoritative and comprehensive British account ever published of the brutal North Korean and Chinese mistreatment of British POWs...