Penology & Punishment

Research on Restorative Justice to date tends to be gender blind. Gendered Perspectives of Restorative Justice, Violence and Resilience: An Interna...

Louisiana State Penitentiary is one of the largest and most brutal maximum-security prisons in the United States. Built on the grounds of a former ...

How do governments and societies use prison to respond to underlying and fundamental social, economic and political issues? Using data on world imp...

Silencing and punishing critical voices is a project that lies at the heart of Narendra Modi's authoritarian regime in India. The BJP's political d...

IN 12 YEARS, MICHELLE LYONS WITNESSED NEARLY 300 EXECUTIONS.As a reporter and then spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Miche...

When Kate married gangster Ronnie Kray, he introduced her to the most deadly criminals ever known. She persuaded them to talk about their crimes, f...

And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he wants. There is no officer. No handcuff...

What makes a serial killer? How do you spot one? Is there any way of truly knowing?David Canter asked the same questions whilst developing the new ...

How does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve wom...

Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of ab...

Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of ab...

The Law Officers Pocket Manual is a handy, pocket-sized, spiral-bound manual that highlights basic legal rules for quick reference and offers examp...

How much do you know about key issues in crime, crime control, policing and punishment in the UK? This exciting, dynamic and accessible book pres...

A research-to-practice text offering a biopsychosocial approach to treating criminal offendersCorrectional Mental Health is a broad-based, balanced...

Will Attwood was finishing a three-year sentence in prison when he was formally diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome for the first time. After his di...

Confronting the issue of wrongful convictions, this argument contends that these so-called mistakes or failures of the justice system too often tar...

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

Life after Death Row examines the post-incarceration struggles of individuals who have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes, sentenced to death...

In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sen...

Jacana Media is proud to make this important book available again, now with a completely new introduction. First published by Oceanbooks, New York ...

The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thru...

When the crowd gathered to see the hangman launching teenager Robert Smith into eternity on a wet Tuesday in 1868, it was the last time this public...

Crime and Punishment in and about the Cotswold Hills This fully illustrated colour book written by Cotswold publisher Nicholas Reardon shows the re...

The first comprehensive examination of the US Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause, surveying its history and the critical role it can and should pl...

Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United S...

The topic of sexual offending is a deeply complex and challenging one. In the past number of years, there has been a growing interest in sexual cri...

In Their Names busts open the public safety myth that uses victims rights to perpetuate mass incarceration, and offers a formula for what would act...

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from...

There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives'' tale arose because torture ha...

This is the most authoritative and comprehensive British account ever published of the brutal North Korean and Chinese mistreatment of British POWs...