Penology & Punishment

Since the world''''s first juvenile court was founded in Chicago, our legal system has recognised a separate mandate to rehabilitate youth with an ...

Administering justice to juvenile offenders has largely been the domain of the states, and as a result of this the laws that pertain to juvenile of...

Suicide-proofing a room can prevent suicidal behaviour in incarcerated prisoners and in psychiatric patients. The question addressed is this book i...

A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman. With barbed wit, Charles Duff not only writ...

Since colonial days, administration of the death penalty--whether by hanging, firing squad, electrocution, or lethal injection--has persisted as on...