Penology & Punishment

This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using exte...

A crucial indictment of widely embraced alternatives to incarceration that exposes how many of these new approaches actually widen the net of punis...

New York Times Bestseller Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your target...

This groundbreaking anthology engages the theme of abolition feminisms, a political tradition grounded in radical anti-violence organizing, Black f...

In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and...

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalins Gulagshowing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions   A byword for injust...

Palestinian Political Organizations in Israeli Prisons examines the evolution and changes within the Palestinian Prisoners Movement and the structu...

Honest, heartfelt and moving. ***** The SunThe Prison Officer challenges everything you thought you knew about people in prison.Becoming a prison o...

Convict criminology (CC) is based on the belief that the convicts voice has been traditionally ignored or marginalized in scholarship and policy de...

*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Powerful' Observer 'Superb' Daily Mail 'Brilliant' Radio Times __________Few people leave prison unchanged. It's a pla...

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing p...

Frank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of CriminologyFaculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orlean...

Frank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of CriminologyFaculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orlean...

For decades the high walls of Durham gaol have contained some of the countrys most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it ...

With a foreword by Bruce WesternNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRShortlisted, 2024 Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeThe most...

An electric memoir that follows a young woman from chasing Olympic dreams on the ice rink, through addiction and prison, to finally discovering her...

In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions d...

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

Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This boo...

An original argument that the answer to mass incarceration lies not with experts and pundits, but with ordinary people taking extraordinary actions...

The fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice. Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the...

The unsung heroes who defend the accused from the ultimate punishment What motivates someone to make a career out of defending some of the worst su...

For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Prison rules and staff regulate phone privileges, access to wr...

The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably mo...

An in-depth analysis of the legal entry points and remedies in the school-to-prison pipeline The school-to-prison pipeline is an emerging trend tha...

An eye-opening look at how incarcerated people, health professionals, and others behind and beyond bars came together to problem-solve incarceratio...

'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation sur...

The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. ...

Jails are the largest service providers of mental health in the United States. Unlike prisons, where all incarcerated individuals have been convict...