Penology & Punishment

In Imprisoned Minds, Erik Maloney tells the stories of men in prison that few people ever hear. Six gripping, first-person narratives of incarcerat...

In this concise and valuable collection of essays, Louis J. Gesualdi provides readers with an understanding of peacemaking criminology. Peacemaking...

A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reformIn th...

Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on th...

Most forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers involved in the assessment of sex offenders today have a good grasp of where the fiel...

Generativity or giving back is regarded as a common life stage, occurring for many around middle age. For the first time, this book offers qualitat...

Its Kina Hard Da Cry: Art and Writing by Adults Incarcerated by Save the Kids (STK) is one of the only books with a collection of writing and art b...

This book offers a concise and authoritative overview of the full scope of crime prevention, including foundations, theory, application, and techni...

This book offers a concise and authoritative overview of the full scope of crime prevention, including foundations, theory, application, and techni...

This balanced book illuminates Republican and Democratic responses and attitudes toward crime, police work, sentencing, incarceration, and rehabil...

This short book provides a European-wide survey of mental health and probation. Drawing on a significant study, it explores the knowledge and attit...

Originally published in 1969, Sallie Trotter was the first woman social worker ever appointed in Britain to work inside an all-male prison Wandswo...

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways i...

This book examines protest policing and the toolbox of options available to police commanders in response. The right to peacefully protest is intri...

What is evidence-based policing and how is it done? This book provides an answer to both questions, offering an introduction for undergraduate stud...

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people ...

Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years....

Prisoners in Prison Societies is a study of criminal career patterns over time, demonstrating specifically how and in what ways imprisonment has a ...

This brief explores the justification of the death penalty, using the 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, as ...

A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases In 1978 Warren McCleskey, a black man, k...

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

Introduction to Criminal Justice, Tenth Edition, offers a student-friendly description of the criminal justice processoutlining the decisions, prac...

This book examines the criminalization of Black men and the need for penal system reform that allows for their mental, physical, financial, and emo...

This book is concerned to explore the idea of imaginary penalities and to understand why the management of criminal justice and criminal justice sy...

Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management provides the most accessible and up-to-date account of the origins and development of the Probation ...

Jeanne Stinchcombs book makes an excellent contribution to the field of corrections serving as a substantial resource for those teaching correction...

The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is unders...

This volume provides analyses of a range of subjects and issues in the death penalty debate, from medicine to the media. The essays address in part...

What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that separates it from the cruel and unusual? In legal discourse, the distinction betwe...

The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is unders...

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment. Using interdiscip...

This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal ju...

Handbook on Punishment Decisions: Locations of Disparity provides a comprehensive assessment of the current knowledge on sites of disparity in puni...

This volume provides up-to-date and nuanced analysis across a wide spectrum of capital punishment issues. The essays move beyond the conventional l...

This volume provides an essential update on current thinking, practice and research into the use of restorative justice in the area of family viole...

The question of what works in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years. On...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into ...

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to und...

The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limi...