Penology & Punishment

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the role of the prison as a source of political ideas and site of political engagement, ...

Conversations about rehabilitation and how to address the drugs-crime nexus have been dominated by academics and policymakers, without due recognit...

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings – composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege...

First published in 1976, this book examines rehabilitation within the penal system in Britain in the 1970s. It argues that the ‘rehabilitative idea...

This volume provides an overview of intervention and management strategies for dealing with terrorist and extremist offenders in prisons. The manag...

This unique book examines how U.S. domestic policy regarding the death penalty has been influenced by international pressures, in particular, by fo...

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer. It incorporates the significant increase in knowledge...

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer. It incorporates the significant increase in knowledge...

The criminal justice system has been in a state of flux in recent decades, accompanied by growing levels of insecurity and intolerance of crime and...

Policing is in a profound period of change, the result of recent government reform, a renewed drive for professionalism as well as the need to adap...

A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment provides a concise and detailed history of the death penalty. Incorporating and synthesizing public op...

This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the study of organised crime - about those who commit it, the effect it has on individuals,...

In this unique study, authors Komanduri Murty, Angela Owens, and Ashwin Vyas examine the life histories of Black male prisoners in the U.S. Federal...

This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the study of organised crime - about those who commit it, the effect it has on individuals,...

Prison is where Zeke Caligiuri is. Powderhorn Park in South Minneapolis, dubbed “Murderapolis” the year he turned eighteen, is where he comes from....

This book addresses a number of key themes and developments in restorative justice, and is based on papers originally presented at the 6th Internat...

Global Lockdown is the first book to apply a transnational feminist framework to the study of criminalization and imprisonment. The distinguished c...

Prisons systematically dehumanise the imprisoned. Visualised through mugshots and surveillance recordings, the incarcerated lose control of their o...

A groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the first women’s prisonA Ms. ...

A convincing argument that mass incarceration neither reduces crime nor ensures safety Over two million people are incarcerated in America’s prison...

This book explores probation staff understandings of professionalism in the aftermath of the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms to services i...

Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writingand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary repre...

Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. In those years some 7,000 men...

The first special juvenile court was created in 1899. Since then,juvenile justice has had a chequered history, and is now more controversial than e...

Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writingand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary repre...

When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real priso...

`The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified. David Garland and his excellent range of c...

More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons - one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours st...

An intimate collection of African American women's voices on their lives in prison The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 perce...

Inspired by the George Floyd Rebellion, States of Incarceration examines the ongoing reconfiguration of mass incarceration as crucial for understan...

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies...

This poignant play, written by current and formerly incarcerated authors, uses gripping truths and soulful dialogue to reveal the human cost of Ame...

Power on the Inside is the first book to examine the historical development of prison gangs worldwide, from those that emerged inside mid-nineteent...

This accessible book introduces the key concepts and theoretical developments of queer criminology and explains what they mean for modern criminal ...

The Lone Brit on 13 is a gripping true story of violence, degradation and adventure penned in the confines of a grim Malaga prison cell. Imprisoned...