Penology and punishment

This book explores the growing understanding and evidence base for the role of trauma in sexual offending.

This book examines our contemporary preoccupation with risk and how criminal law and punishment have been transformed as a result of these anxieties.

This book highlights and examines the level, reach and consequences of corruption in international criminal justice systems.

This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia.

This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus.

This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands.

This book brings together a collection of emergent research that moves the debate on desistance beyond a general consideration of individual and social structural influences.

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

What is life like for a child who has a parent in prison?

The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know.

The brank may be described simply as an iron framework; which was placed on the head, closing it in a kind of cage; it had in front a plate of iron, which, either sharpened or covered with spikes, was so situated as to be placed in the mouth of the victim, and if she attempted to move her tongue in any way whatever, it was certain to be shockingly injured.

Two distinguished social and political philosophers take opposing positions in this highly engaging work.

The aims and objectives of this research work is to develop a global movement to replace the institution of prison by alternatives to prison and imprisonment.

Suicide in prison is a growing problem across the developed world.

In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance deals with aspects of punishment, including sentencing, incarceration, and prison conditions, in a variety of settings at local, national, and/or regional levels.

Psychology and Criminal Justice covers the ways that psychology intersects with the criminal justice system, from explaining criminal behavior to helping improve the three criminal justice pillars of policing, courts, and corrections.

The abolishment of flogging in 1850 started the U.

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

Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversations about transgender people within the criminal justice system.

This book interrogates Conservative government penal policy for adult and young adult offenders in England and Wales between 2015 and 2021.

Bringing together a range of first-hand testimonies of captives, this personal and arresting collection provides an overview of what life inside is actually like.

This book offers an original contribution drawing together literature, research, practitioner and service user perspectives around the victimology of sexual crime and offending.

This book offers an original contribution drawing together literature, research, practitioner and service user perspectives around the victimology of sexual crime and offending.

This book introduces readers to the concept of parental alienation (PA), a belief system that is used with increasing frequency in judicial child custody and parenting plan decisions.

This book is a comprehensive guide to setting up, running and growing a successful private therapy practice that resonates with your values and professional goals.

A must-buy for any student of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Policing, An Introduction to Criminology will guide you through the historical development and contemporary operation of criminal justice, and the role played by politics, power, policy, procedure, and people in shaping its past and present form.

This edited collection focuses on the sociology of 'social censure' - the sociological term advocated by Colin Sumner in his seminal writing of the 1980s and 1990s.

Researching Prisons provides an overview of the processes, practices, and challenges involved in undertaking prison research.

Researching Prisons provides an overview of the processes, practices, and challenges involved in undertaking prison research.

This book addresses the core issues in prisoner reentry into society after incarceration.

This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to Prison Tourism across the world.

In this book, Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson turn their well-polished therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room.

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life, concerning both forgiving and being forgiven.

A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights.

Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "e;the world's toughest prison"e; by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961.

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

Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences.

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 book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of criminal psychology in different socio-economic and psycho-sociological contexts.

This book examines the extraordinary nature of the power of preventive detention, which permits executive dispensation of the personal liberty of an individual on the mere apprehension that, if free and unfettered, he may commit acts prejudicial to national security or public order.

This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of criminal psychology in different socio-economic and psycho-sociological contexts.

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

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This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime.

This essential reference volume in the field of suicidology brings forth leading-edge conceptualizations of suicidal behaviour by including emerging trends and recent research advances in the field across the globe.

"En mayo de 2018 una noticia marcó los titulares de los medios: dos jóvenes chilenos que hacían un viaje de aventura turística arriesgaban una condena a morir en la horca por el asesinato de una ciudadana trans en Kuala Lumpur, capital de Malasia.

This book addresses a variety of key issues surrounding mental health and the criminalization of certain individuals and groups by the Criminal Justice System and the impact this can have on their mental health.