Penology & Punishment

What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that separates it from the cruel and unusual? In legal discourse, the distinction betwe...

The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is unders...

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment. Using interdiscip...

This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal ju...

Handbook on Punishment Decisions: Locations of Disparity provides a comprehensive assessment of the current knowledge on sites of disparity in puni...

This volume provides up-to-date and nuanced analysis across a wide spectrum of capital punishment issues. The essays move beyond the conventional l...

This volume provides an essential update on current thinking, practice and research into the use of restorative justice in the area of family viole...

The question of what works in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years. On...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into ...

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to und...

The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limi...

A Life for a Life is packed with chilling true tales of the world's worst serial killers behind bars and the crimes that put them there for life!

Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in Criminal Justice and Correc...

Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in Criminal Justice and Correc...

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union. It looks at the ways in which...

An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System (1969) sets the main features of modern Soviet law against their background in Russian legal history and...

Rethinking Community Sanctions: Social Justice and Penal Control redresses the invisibility of community sanctions in a popular imaginary dominated...

Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongly accused of drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991. He was arrested, tried, and convicted u...

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States more than quadrupled during the last fo...

Exploring why prison officers leave His Majestys Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the processes and trajectories involved in returning to c...

Exploring why prison officers leave His Majestys Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the processes and trajectories involved in returning to c...

Soviet Russia Fights Crime (1934) examines the workings of the Soviet penal system in the pre-war years of the Soviet Union. It is a valuable insig...

In this stirring book, William H. Barnwell tells the stories of prison inmates and the Kairos Prison Ministry volunteers who work with them. Set mo...

This book builds on Heffernan's last book Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice by examining the class and racial dispa...

This book provides a wide-ranging, global exploration of policies and practices which have sought to undermine dissent during recent and less recen...

Im österreichischen Justizsystem werden Personen, die aufgrund einer psychischen Erkrankung gegen geltendes Recht verstoßen haben, in speziellen fo...

This book critiques the practices of managerialism and their effects on those who live and work in prisons. It draws upon ethnographic research con...

This book draws on an in-depth ethnographic study to explore the meanings and consequences of race and ethnicity in daily life within two Finnish m...

In the first edition of A Country Called Prison, Mary Looman and John Carl presented persuasive data calling for downsizing of America's prisons. T...

What good is theological education for those in prison? For more than fifteen years, students in a Georgia prison for women have participated in a ...

Is it easy to come home after being in jail?Ideal for use with children aged 6-11, this is a vital resource for supporting the wellbeing of childre...

This edited book explores new and enduring themes in the gendered experience of incarceration across the world. Capturing global debates and resear...