Penology & Punishment

An exploration of the 1932 prison riot in Dartmoor Convict Prison. One of the most notorious and destructive in English prison history, it received...

Polish vs. American Courtroom Discourse brings together the fields of discourse analysis and socio-legal studies to identify, illustrate and explai...

For courses in Introduction to Corrections and Corrections Theory and Policy Brief. Affordable. Visual. Corrections provides an afford...

What do refugee and concentration camps, prisons, terrorist and guerrilla training camps and prisoner of war camps have in common? Arguably they ha...

Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to ki...

Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focus...

This volume addresses critical questions about how to achieve the best outcomes from police and security providers by reviewing and critiquing the ...

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers...

Emotions remain largely invisible in the management of criminal justice practice. This book seeks to uncover some of the underground emotional work...

Emotions remain largely invisible in the management of criminal justice practice. This book seeks to uncover some of the underground emotional work...

Offender supervision in Europe has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years. However, the emergence of mass supervisi...

This volume follows one mans revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolinas death row, where he was g...

Offender supervision in Europe has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years. However, the emergence of mass supervisi...

The Uninnocent is so elegantly crafted that the pleasure of reading it nearly overrides its devastating subject matter. Blake is an investigator of...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A BIT OF A STRETCH'It's a cracking book. He really can write' James O'Brien, LBC'Eloquent, witty, engaging and enrag...

This volume follows one mans revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolinas death row, where he was g...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Letters from prison testifying to deeply felt ethical principles have a long history, extending from antiquity to the present day. In the early mod...

The Tudors as a dynasty executed many people, both high and low. But the nobility were the ones consistently involved in treason, either deliberate...

Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the Fr...

Abolition Labor chronicles the national movement to end forced labor, much of it unpaid, in American prisons. It draws on interviews with formerly ...