Penology and punishment

In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong's revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society.

In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus.

This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous "e;Gulag Archipelago by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex.

Journalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned its focus on reform and rehabilitation and returned to cell time and punishment.

A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin’s Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often administered as death camps.

The statistics are startling.

A powerful account of how coerced migration built the British Empire In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women, and children from their homelands and sending them to far-flung corners of the empire to be sold off to colonial masters.

Gaes and his distinguished coauthors offer a comprehensive analysis of public versus private management of prisons, a competition that originated in the 1980s with the introduction of private facilities into the criminal justice system.

A Kansas Notable BookBrian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

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

Crime scenes within correctional facilities present investigators with myriad challenges, not only in working, investigating, and collecting evidence but also in obtaining reliable eyewitness accounts.

This collection presents a diverse set of case studies and theoretical reflections on how criminologists engage with practitioners and policy makers while undertaking research.

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

'The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess.

The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot be explained by sociologic or psychologic explanations alone.

Most people in jail have not been convicted of a crime.

This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind.

Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth.

This book is the first history of the Irish juvenile justice system.

This book is the first history of the Irish juvenile justice system.

Will Attwood was finishing a three-year sentence in prison when he was formally diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome for the first time.

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of issues relating to the evaluation of criminal justice/corrections 'interventions', this unique reference draws on a variety of theoretical, cultural and epistemological perspectives with authors from a range of disciplines and countries.

Crime and Its Correction: An International Survey of Attitudes and Practices offers a groundbreaking exploration into the global landscape of corrections.

This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland.

This book provides an important, critical, feminist perspective on desistance theory and practice.

This book provides a unique analysis of prisons and the violence at work inside them.

This book examines the impact and implications of the relationship between risk and criminal justice in advanced liberal democracies, in the context of the 'revolt against uncertainty' which has underpinned the rise of populist politics across these societies in recent years.

This book is the first dedicated collection aimed at examining teaching and learning issues within criminology.

This book advances conceptualisations and empirical understanding of the prison cell.

This edited volume brings together a diverse group of contributors to create a review of research and an agenda for the future of dog care and training in correctional facilities.

This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women's prison system in crisis.

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.

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.

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 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.