Penology & Punishment

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over in...

Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of priso...

Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate s...

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States...

Have you ever wondered whether crime dramas reflect the reality of police work? Or what the future of policing could look like in the context of re...

Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century B...

Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate s...

In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics...

Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent ...

In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics...

It's official. The gulags of Siberia are no more. Solzhenitsin's nightmare of the absurd does not exist. The prisons are still there, of course, wi...

Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' ef...

Few social issues have received more public attention and scholarly debate than the death penalty. While the abolitionist movement has made a succe...

"Tackling prison overcrowding" is a response to controversial proposals for prisons and sentencing set out in by Lord Patrick Carter's "Review of P...

Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of brandi...

For the first time in four decades, prison populations are declining and politicians have reached the consensus that mass imprisonment is no longer...

Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of brandi...

The aim of this book is to examine the qualities of leadership and decision-making in the police service. Based on groundbreaking research using un...

Cesare Beccaria's influential treatise On Crimes and Punishments is considered a foundational work in the field of criminology. Three major themes ...

This important and original new book reports on a major investigation of the outcomes of probation supervision, is concerned with the key question ...

Millions in our nation are under some type of judicial sanction, with some individuals behind bars but the majority serving their sentences while l...

In the 1980s a poor farmer's son from Recife, Brazil, joined the Brazilian navy and began selling cocaine. After his arrest in Rio de Janeiro he sp...

The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michae...

The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hi...

Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home...

Winner of the 2019 Intersectional Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women & Crime​Complicated Lives focuses on ...

2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Supermax” prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted ...

2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice.  Staff from pri...

Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home...

In the 1980s a poor farmer's son from Recife, Brazil, joined the Brazilian navy and began selling cocaine. After his arrest in Rio de Janeiro he sp...

Winner of the 2019 Intersectional Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women & Crime​Complicated Lives focuses on ...

Sir Leon Radzinowicz is one of the key figures in the development of criminology in the twentieth century. This account of the development of crimi...

Are you a prison officer who feels nervous about dealing with Muslims on the wings? Are you a prison chaplain who wants to know how your chaplainc...