Penology & Punishment

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 ...

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 ...