Penology & Punishment

Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines three interconnected problems: the tendency of the prison to o...

Shame punishment has existed for perhaps as long as people have been punished, and the issue has been revisited in recent years to help improve cri...

A CounterPunch Best Book of the YearA Lone Star Policy Institute Recommended BookIf you care, as I do, about disrupting the perverse politics of cr...

Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become...

This book explores the religious experiences of two notable figures who endured severe trials under authoritarian regimes: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (...

Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing...

Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers a...

Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers a...

Sensory Penalities reflects an explosion in explorations of the sensory and disrupts conventional expectations of both form and focus by expanding ...

Analysis of criminal cases reveals that women suspected of killing their newborn children are some of the most vulnerable in our society and that i...

The United States has by far the worlds largest population of incarcerated people. More than a million Americans are imprisoned; hundreds of thousa...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes commi...

The threat of terrorism, if not adequately managed, is likely to increase exponentially. As terrorist groups influence and networks spread globally...

This book is the first attempt to establish 'economic crime' as a new sub-discipline within criminology. Fraud, corruption, bribery, money launderi...

Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective examines organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of networks. Th...

A collection of original contributions by philosophers working in the ethics of punishment, gathering new perspectives on various challenging topic...

The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, vict...

In Community Punishment: European perspectives, the authors place punishment in the community under the spotlight by exploring the origins, evoluti...

A new paradigm for supervising offenders in the community   Environmental Corrections is an innovative guide filled with rich insights and strategi...

Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Sons Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; what she will ...

This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal...

As the United States approaches its 50th year of mass incarceration, more children than ever before have experienced the incarceration of a parent....

Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly rele...

This book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media. Exploring a range ...

Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song for...

Gender and punishment in Ireland explores womens lethal violence in Ireland. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, including government docum...

Why mass incarceration endures in the face of reforms, and how to truly change America's vast criminal justice system Critics on both the left and...

Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJTrapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at prom...

In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. H...

What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that pri...

People organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of secondhand bookstores for the las...

This book is an overview of the Healthy Marriage Initiative. The purpose of this book is also to understand more fully the strategies for improving...

A condensed but equally compelling version of the best-selling corrections book on the market, AMERICAN CORRECTIONS IN BRIEF, 3rd Edition, introduc...

Discussion of the histories, meanings, and assumptions of restorative justice have enriched the development of its theory, research, and practices....

New Bones Abolition addresses those of us broken enough to grow new bones in order to stabilize our political traditions that renew freedom struggl...

Punitive practices are highly revealing of a society's social fabric, its normative order, and power structure. Punishment in International Society...

Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life. - The New StatesmanCambridge Un...

Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels peopl...

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

Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are interven...