Penology & Punishment

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and c...

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and c...

Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishme...

Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversat...

Challenging the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment-and-society, Punishment in Latin America draws on innovat...

Should architecture be used for punishment? How might the spaces we inhabit nurture or damage us? How can we begin to start over after the worst ha...

An eye-opening look at participatory defense, the innovative practice that allows the loved ones of those charged with crimes to help influence the...

Justice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Francis Cull...

This edited book explores how requests and complaints by prisoners are being dealt with by prison governors/administrations or independent bodies (...

In May 1824 twenty women under sentence of transportation languished in the gaol at Lancaster Castle. Some had been there for years and amongst the...

This authoritative, balanced, and accessible reference resource provides readers with a wide-ranging survey of capital punishment in America, inclu...

This book uses settler colonialism, critical race, and tribal critical race theories to examine the relationship between settler colonialism and In...

This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration. In a system bereft of opportunities for persona...

In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reprodu...

In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reprodu...

This book examines the role of agencies and agency-like bodies in the EUs Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ).When the Maastricht Treaty e...

A scathing critique of the colonial legal systems denial of childrens rights One afternoon in 2016, law professor Robin Hansen receives a call. On...

A scathing critique of the colonial legal systems denial of childrens rights One afternoon in 2016, law professor Robin Hansen receives a call. On...

Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceA Wall Street J...

Fifty years ago, a small unit in HM Prison Barlinnie, Glasgow, became a radical experiment whose approach polarised opinion. It encouraged shared d...

First published in 1937, Prison from Within is a first-person account of a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months for fraud. It is ...

Many people will find it hard to believe that deep within key aspects of the Law of England and Wales there lie significant defects - such is t...

An intriguing investigation into over 50 elusive artworks that were stolen and never recovered.Mona Lisa, Starry Night, Birth of Venus. People trav...

In the field of criminal justice, public policy is designed to address the problems brought on by criminal behavior and the response to that behavi...

THE ALL-TIME KOREAN CLASSIC OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD, +100 REPRINTS Reflections from Prison is the collected letters and essays written by reno...

This book draws on a four-year ethnographic study conducted in the prisons and on the streets of Greater Manchester, England, to examine gangs and ...