Penology and punishment

This book offers practical advice on designing, conducting and analyzing interviews with 'elite' and 'expert' persons (or 'socially prominent actors'), with a focus on criminology and criminal justice.

This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.

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

The Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture will be an essential reference point, providing international coverage and thematic richness.

This book offers a systematic, sociological and penological exploration of the most up-to-date uses of electronic tagging (also known as electronic monitoring).

This book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice.

The first comprehensive collection of its kind, this handbook addresses the problem of knowledge production in criminology, redressing the global imbalance with an original focus on the Global South.

This book, the first of two volumes edited by McCartan and Kemshall, focusses on perceptions of sexual offenders, and how risk is used by policy makers, stakeholders, academics and practitioners to both construct and respond to unknown and known sex offenders within the contexts of criminal justice, health and social policy.

Based on the lived experiences of incarcerated persons and staff, this book explores the symbolic significance of prison foodways to normalization, autonomy, identity construction, power, group formation and security.

This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people.

This volume explores the role that European institutions have come to play in regulating national prisons systems.

This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community.

This book presents both a new theoretical framework for the criminalisation of hate, referred to as "e;law as social justice liberalism"e;, and a comprehensive analysis of hate crime laws that have been enacted globally.

This edited collection addresses the topic of prison governance which is crucial to our understanding of contemporary prisons in Latin America.

This book offers Walters's latest evolution of criminal lifestyle theory.

This edited volume presents nine new state-of-the-science chapters covering topics relevant to psychology and law, from established and emerging researchers in the field.

This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally when many prisons diminish both hope and humanity?

This book focuses on the emotional experience of imprisonment.

This book provides  the first complete, literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first edition of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.

The meaning of 'forgiveness' and its role within restorative justice are highly contested.

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

This book offers a unique examination of how violence is situationally induced and reproduced for those inmates living with HIV in a US State prison system.

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning.

This book examines the contemporary rise in community violence across the United States and globally from sociological and criminological perspectives.

This book, the second of two volumes edited by Kemshall and McCartan, focuses on responses to sexual offending, and how risk is used by policy makers, stakeholders, academics and practitioners to both construct and respond to unknown and known sex offenders within the contexts of criminal justice, health and social policy.

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.

This book critically explores the intersections between male rape, masculinities, and sexualities.

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of major issues in the field of sexual abuse, both established and emerging, and asks how we can develop the most evidence-based, fit-for-purpose approach in responding to and preventing it.

This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs.

This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime and delinquency.

This book expands the field of prison research by drawing on six months of unique, ethnographic research in Santa Monica prison, the largest women's prison in Lima, Peru.

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families.

This book examines American solitary confinement - in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time - and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny.

This handbook provides a holistic and comprehensive examination of issues related to criminal justice reform in the United States from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This edited collection is concerned with the ideas, challenges, demands and framework of conditions behind police education from an international perspective.

This book brings together leading authorities from the fields of international human rights law, criminology, legal medicine, and political science with international human rights judges and UN experts to analyze the current situation of detainees in Europe, the Americas and Africa.

Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration.

This book aims to increase understanding of alibis and corroborators, examining the role alibis play - or fail to play - in innocence cases.

This collection considers human rights and incarceration in relation to the liberal-democratic states of Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services.

This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery.

Dieses Buch liefert eine Zwischenbilanz über die Situation des Strafvollzugs.

In diesem Band 2 der Edition „Forschung und Entwicklung in der Strafrechtspflege“ entfalten und vertiefen die Autoren das Konzept der Sozialen Strafrechtspflege und analysieren die Stärken und Schwächen der Umsetzung in die Praxis der Strafverfolgung und Strafvollstreckung – sowohl auf der Ebene des Einzelfalls als auch des Managements und der Systementwicklung.

Das Buch liefert aus rechtlicher und kriminologischer Perspektive einen aktuellen Blick auf den Strafvollzug und die Wiedereingliederung nach der Entlassung.

This book tells a story of successful prison reform that brought the recidivism rate of prisoners down from 44% to 24%.

This book offers a broad overview of transition practices for incarcerated youth, shaped by local culture, politics, ideologies, and philosophies.

This book uses popular films to understand the convergence of crime control and the ideology of repression in contemporary capitalism.

This collection presents a unique and diverse range of contributions on challenges faced by criminal justice in England and Wales in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic.