Penology & Punishment

In this memoir, Eric Newhall traces his life and political evolution with a particular focus on his time inside Lompoc Federal Correctional Inst...

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration  Prison ...

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration  Prison ...

Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units...

Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color  The U.S. Bureau of Ju...

Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color  The U.S. Bureau of Ju...

The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille Drunken and debauched husban...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003. This book examines justi...

Childhood has never been available to all. In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racia...

There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world. This book is about their problems, human rights and how they ...

This comprehensive edited collection draws together the latest international literature on offender compliance during penal supervision and after c...

This comprehensive edited collection draws together the latest international literature on offender compliance during penal supervision and after c...

This volume explores the theory and practice of sentencing in England and Wales, exploring issues such as the role of previous convictions, offende...

Exploring the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, the HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book provides the most comprehensive c...

Exploring the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, the HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book provides the most comprehensive c...

This book offers a focused and detailed insight into the health and wellbeing of prison staff, specifically focussing on prison leaders and manager...

Winner, 2024 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological AssociationPolicing is violent. And its violence is not dist...

Winner, 2024 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological AssociationPolicing is violent. And its violence is not dist...

The award-winning radically original (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called totally sensible and tota...

The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detai...

Holding On reveals the results of an unprecedented ten-year study of justice-involved families, rendering visible the lives of a group of American ...