Penology and punishment

The impact of the United Nations "e;Healthy Prisons"e; initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health promotion in incarcerated populations.

Twenty-four hours is a lot of time in prison, and here is a moment to moment guide of how each one goes by.

Will 'what works' in one country work in another?

Our knowledge of crime is based on three types of sources: the criminal justice system, victims, and offenders.

The volume uses an ethnographical approach to examine all three stages of the Correctional Services Canada's federal Correctional Officer Training Program offered for recruited individuals.

Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writingand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representationand formal aesthetics, the "e;value"e; or "e;values"e; of literature,textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-criticalmethodologies.

The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of U.

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire.

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world's most vulnerable populations, and their numbers are increasing.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of how statutory and third sector organisations have faced the challenge of dealing with former 'terrorists'.

Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice.

Addressing common myths and misconceptions about sexual offending, this book highlights the current state of scientific knowledge about the origins and the development of sexual offending.

Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive.

Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet is an examination of the development and impact of digital frontier technologies (DFTs) such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of things, autonomous mobile robots, and blockchain on offending, crime control, the criminal justice system, and the discipline of criminology.

Although criminal justice systems vary greatly around the world, one theme has emerged in all western jurisdictions in recent years: a rise in both the rhetoric and practice of severe punishment at a time when public opinion has played a pivotal role in sentencing policy and reforms.

Set in different national contexts (Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Laos, Norway, Thailand) and in different social science disciplines, the chapters of this volume aim at questioning anti-trafficking policies and their practical impact on sex work regulation.

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Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors.

This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction information disclosure during pre-employment 'screening'.

This volume explores an important, yet under-researched, area of sentencing law and practice: the use of mitigating and aggravating factors.

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory.

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.

"e;The gripping and deeply moving account of a man's lifelong struggle to reach freedom, driven by an indomitable will to survive in Mao's China.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the methods used in the Criminal Justice system in the United States to counsel and treat offenders.

The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversity that exists cross-culturally in the political, social, and economic context of the correctional system.

This book explores criminal justice responses to Sudanese Australians, crime and victimization.

InThe Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject,provides a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty, making the process of informed consideration not only possible but fascinating as well.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies.

Can the criminal justice system achieve justice based on its ability to determine the truth?

This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime.

This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain.

This handbook brings together the international research focussing on prisoners' families and the impact of imprisonment on them.

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag.

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is used and experienced, and how human rights are upheld.

The book examines some of the most important forms of normativity and the relation between facts and values in the context of criminological investigation.

This book focuses on the experience of imprisonment from the perspectives of individuals with sexual convictions.

The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy's penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the 'new normal' under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment.

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

This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty.

How does someone come to live a life of activism, supporting the fight to abolish the death penalty in the US; to defend Indigenous peoples' rights in the US, Central and South America; and to free prisoners of conscience in South Korea, Indonesia, Chile, Sudan, and South Africa?

This comprehensive and factual study of the penal systems of South America is the outgrowth of an extended tour made by the author in 1944.

With a new Foreword by David Ormerod of the Law Commission.

Taking an innovative approach, this book looks at how U.

An intriguing investigation into over 50 elusive artworks that were stolen and never recovered.

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms.

In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse.

This edited collection encourages philosophical exploration of the nature, aims, contradictions, promises and problems of the practice of education within prisons around the world.