Penology and punishment

This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country.

This textbook considers the full breadth of the criminal justice system, going beyond prisons to cover other punishments such as out-of-court disposals and community penalties, as well as issues around rehabilitation and reintegration.

Young people, crime and delinquency are words that are commonly linked in public perception and young people are often blamed for social ills.

This edited collection brings together leading scholars to comparatively investigate national security, surveillance and terror in the early 21st century in two major western jurisdictions, Canada and Australia.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

This book presents both a survey of and commentary upon the penal process of England and Wales between 1945 and 2020 from the primary perspective of prisons and their operational management.

For the first time, the author has explored the intertwinement of written law, Islamic law, and customary law in the highly complex Afghan society, being deeply influenced by traditional cultural and religious convictions.

Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research.

This book offers an ethnographic study of the lives of girls in the juvenile justice system.

Much has been written about reintegration of ex-combatants in a traditional or conventional disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme.

This book highlights the developmental changes in aggression and violence during adolescence from a uniquely psychological perspective.

This volume offers a European overview of the management of religious diversity in prisons and provides readers with rich empirical material and a comparative perspective.

The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery.

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue.

This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council.

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

This book explores the pros and cons of the death penalty and the history of capital punishment.

This book presents a detailed analysis of Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program.

This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book provides a detailed and practical exploration of criminal recidivism and social reintegration in Jamaica.

This edited volume presents research about life in prison for women, discussing both incarcerated women and those working in prisons.

Little is known about life imprisonment and the process of releasing offenders back into the community in Ireland.

This book presents a study of street children's involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka.

The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

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.

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This book explores key issues in relation to parole and public opinion, including the relevance of public opinion to parole boards decision-making and strategies for increasing public confidence in parole.

This book ties restorative justice into the exercise of patriarchal power.

This book explores the development and implementation of Child First as an innovative guiding principle for improving youth justice systems.

This book examines desistance from offending amongst men in County Cork - the largest county in the Republic of Ireland.

This book focuses on the criminalization trend and process regarding the internal migration in contemporary China from the perspective Law-in-Action.

This book aims to apply the new generation of information technology to the research and practice of prison management, promote the reform of prison security, fair law enforcement, educational correction and other management modes brought about by strengthening the police with science and technology, deepen the practice of administering prison according to law, and promote the modernization of prison governance system and governance capacity.

This brief examines proactive steps police can take to lessen the potential for disaster, improve preparedness for disasters that do occur and enhance our ability to respond to and recover from them.

After 13 years of struggling in the music business, Robert Reilly found himself broke and on the edge of despair.

The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics.

This book speaks to those interested in topics related to punitiveness and public attitudes to crime and punishment.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

This book offers guidance for speech and language therapists and other professionals who are working in a criminal justice setting or who are interested to know more about this dynamic and rewarding client group.

"Según reiterada doctrina del TC español, «la constitucionalidad de cualquier medida restrictiva de derechos fundamentales viene determinada por la estricta observancia del principio de proporcionalidad».

Integral Psychedelic Therapy is a groundbreaking, evidence-based collection that explores how psychedelic medicine can be incorporated into contemporary psychotherapy.

Integral Psychedelic Therapy is a groundbreaking, evidence-based collection that explores how psychedelic medicine can be incorporated into contemporary psychotherapy.

Therapy: The Basics is an introductory book to psychotherapy and its different theoretical approaches.

This book uses empirical data gathered using ethnographic methods in two contrasting prisons to provide a rare insight into death and dying in prisons in the UK.

This book uses empirical data gathered using ethnographic methods in two contrasting prisons to provide a rare insight into death and dying in prisons in the UK.

This book explores how prison life is normalized in different countries, with a critical and detailed look at 'Scandinavian exceptionalism' - the idea that Scandinavian prisons have exceptionally humane conditions - and compares these prisons to ones in Belgium.

This book speaks to those interested in topics related to punitiveness and public attitudes to crime and punishment.

The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of law and order, referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons.

In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths.