Penology & Punishment

A pioneering history of incarceration in Western political thought. The prison as we know it is a relatively new institution, established on a lar...

True-life reporting on vicious criminals and the haphazard system that punishes them In 1969, the Supreme Court justices cast votes in secret that...

Exploring the expansion of the penal system in Spain during the first 40 years of democracy, this book puts forward the importance of studying puni...

This book challenges contemporary criminological thinking, providing a thorough critique of mainstream criminology, including both liberal criminol...

This book challenges contemporary criminological thinking, providing a thorough critique of mainstream criminology, including both liberal criminol...

The ultimate expression of power is the ability to act beyond the confines of law, with contemporary society enabling elite groups to wield panoram...

The ultimate expression of power is the ability to act beyond the confines of law, with contemporary society enabling elite groups to wield panoram...

The ultimate expression of power is the ability to act beyond the confines of law, with contemporary society enabling elite groups to wield panoram...

This book critically examines the operation of the partial defence of provocation in a range of comparative international jurisdictions. Centrally ...

China's infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting. Though during the 1980s and 1990s, the Party's...

2012 Winner of the Outstanding Book Award presented by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Academic Title from 2011 by Choice Ma...

A collection of illuminating interviews with leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers, reflecting on the uprisings of summer 2020, the rise of ...

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...