Highlighting the complex human realities that exist within the criminal justice system, this book foregrounds scholars and activists who harness their own encounters with policing, courts, and imprisonment to recast criminological theory, method, and policy, proving lived experience as an important aspect of criminological and sociological enquiry.
Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course explores the life-courses of convicts who, after being transported to Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, and released from servitude, died in pauper establishments.
Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course explores the life-courses of convicts who, after being transported to Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, and released from servitude, died in pauper establishments.
Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders.
Highlighting the complex human realities that exist within the criminal justice system, this book foregrounds scholars and activists who harness their own encounters with policing, courts, and imprisonment to recast criminological theory, method, and policy, proving lived experience as an important aspect of criminological and sociological enquiry.
The story of a French journalist who infiltrated the country's police force, revealing a culture of racism and violence in which officers act with impunity.
This book uncovers the controversies around the suspended prison sentence, its main aims and features, and the role that it occupies within the wider criminal justice context.
This book uncovers the controversies around the suspended prison sentence, its main aims and features, and the role that it occupies within the wider criminal justice context.
How America's prisons turned a "e;brutal and inhumane"e; practice into standard procedureOriginally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.
How America's prisons turned a "e;brutal and inhumane"e; practice into standard procedureOriginally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.
Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations.
Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations.
Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations.
This brief provides readers with a broad, but detailed framework to understand, evaluate, and apply trauma-informed techniques suitable for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated populations using movement, breath practices, and other embodied, mindfulness-based exercises.
This brief provides readers with a broad, but detailed framework to understand, evaluate, and apply trauma-informed techniques suitable for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated populations using movement, breath practices, and other embodied, mindfulness-based exercises.
This edited book provides a comprehensive study of punitive practices in modern-day Lithuania, highlighting its significance as a democratic European state navigating the continuing consequences of its Soviet-era criminal justice system.
This edited book provides a comprehensive study of punitive practices in modern-day Lithuania, highlighting its significance as a democratic European state navigating the continuing consequences of its Soviet-era criminal justice system.
Through qualitative interviews with formerly incarcerated veterans, this book focuses on the lived experiences, and behaviors associated with the incarceration of veterans.
Through qualitative interviews with formerly incarcerated veterans, this book focuses on the lived experiences, and behaviors associated with the incarceration of veterans.
This volume offers a diverse set of scholarly essays on the imaginative potential of corrections and sentencing research/practice that centers on the lived experience of the criminal legal system.
This volume offers a diverse set of scholarly essays on the imaginative potential of corrections and sentencing research/practice that centers on the lived experience of the criminal legal system.
Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison re-examines how mental health is managed within the male open prison, focusing on the under-explored role of peer support during transfer, transition, and adaptation.
Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison re-examines how mental health is managed within the male open prison, focusing on the under-explored role of peer support during transfer, transition, and adaptation.
This book, featuring a trainer manual and facilitator resources, provides correctional agencies with a comprehensive approach to enhancing criminal thinking interventions.
The book provides a compelling and comprehensive explanation of the puzzling resilience of the gangs that have operated in Rio de Janeiro since the 1980s.
The book provides a compelling and comprehensive explanation of the puzzling resilience of the gangs that have operated in Rio de Janeiro since the 1980s.
Using case law, this book explores the controversial issues associated with excited or hyperactive delirium with severe agitation, including the appropriate use of tasers, and the inhumane practice of applying bodyweight pressure on subjects by placing them face down in the prone position, depriving them of the ability to breathe.
Using case law, this book explores the controversial issues associated with excited or hyperactive delirium with severe agitation, including the appropriate use of tasers, and the inhumane practice of applying bodyweight pressure on subjects by placing them face down in the prone position, depriving them of the ability to breathe.
This book, featuring a trainer manual and facilitator resources, provides correctional agencies with a comprehensive approach to enhancing criminal thinking interventions.
Seeking to redress the traditional focus of historical criminology on the West and Global North, Imperial Crime and Punishment brings a fresh perspective to this burgeoning field by drawing instead on imperial contexts.
This book offers an unprecedented exploration of Greece's immigration detention system, uncovering its hidden histories, systemic violence, and the struggles of those confined within its walls.
Seeking to redress the traditional focus of historical criminology on the West and Global North, Imperial Crime and Punishment brings a fresh perspective to this burgeoning field by drawing instead on imperial contexts.
This unique and insightful volume presents the findings of a four-year investigation into the learning experiences of former offenders and outlines a novel framework for guiding those affected by the judicial system towards pathways of hope and possibility through community education initiatives.
This book investigates the unintended and deadly consequences of criminal justice reforms through observing the effects of prison depopulation sentencing reform on county jails.
This book investigates the unintended and deadly consequences of criminal justice reforms through observing the effects of prison depopulation sentencing reform on county jails.
