Penology and punishment

Prisons are everywhere.

Synthesizing recent scholarship in law and the social sciences on criminal sentencing and corrections, this book provides a thorough, balanced, and accessible survey of the major policy issues in these fields of persistent public interest and political debate.

This book provides and accessible text and critical analysis of the concepts and delivery of community justice, a focal point in contemporary criminal justice.

What does a good prison look like?

Though institutional care for people suffering from mental illness was phased out in the last century, mentally disordered offenders remain the exception to this rule.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

This book analyses the usefulness of terrorist profiling utilised by law enforcement officers as a pre-emptive means to assist them in the detection, prevention and deterrence of terrorism and/or its preparatory activities.

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

Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States.

An unrelenting prison boom, marked by stark racial disparities, pulled a disproportionate number of young black men into prison in the last forty years.

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.

First published in 1977, Angel Face documents the penal life of Walter Probyn, who spent 30 out of 44 years in prison and escaped 15 times.

In a world defined by and lived through media spectacle, nearly every part of human existence can now be documented, watched, and scrutinised.

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.

The last twenty years have seen an explosion in the development of information technology, to the point that people spend a major portion of waking life in online spaces.

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur.

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.

Across the country prisons are jammed to capacity, and in extreme cases, barges and mobile homes are used to stem the overflow.

Al Capone, George "e;Machine Gun"e; Kelly, Alvin Karpis, "e;Dock"e; Barker-these were just a few of the legendary "e;public enemies"e; for whom America's first supermax prison was created.

Offering perspectives from a range of experts, both academic and nonacademic, this reference book examines the development of prisons in the United States and addresses the principal contemporary issues and controversies of our prisons and prison systems.

A useful research resource and handy reference, this book discusses the many important ethical and legal issues that arise in the delivery of health care to prisoners at correctional facilities.

This book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice.

This book brings together Foucault's writings on crime and delinquency, on the one hand, and sexuality, on the other, to argue for an anti-carceral feminist Foucauldian approach to sex crimes.

This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons.

'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism'It is a myth that autistic children grow into 'less autistic' adults.

Can the death penalty be administered in a just way-without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness?

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

This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3).

This updated tenth edition covers all aspects of prisoners' rights, including an overview of the judicial system and constitutional law and explanation of specific constitutional issues regarding correctional populations.

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

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

Analyses the effectiveness and implications of community custody for offenders and society as a whole.

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system?

Victims' Experiences of The Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Abuse: Beyond GlassWalls provides a unique perspective on how victims of domestic abuse experience the justice process.

Building on her leading research in creative methodology, in this book Wendy Fitzgibbon explores and illustrates how Photovoice, a participatory, active research tool, can enable new insights and engagement with both marginalised people and those working with them in the criminal justice system.

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and England.

Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors is a wide-ranging and timely critical history and analysis of legal responses to 'historical' or 'non-recent' child sexual abuse (NRCSA) in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia, each of which represents an evolving and progressive approach to this important and complex issue.

Originally published in 1974 and the recipient of the Denis Carroll Book Prize at the World Congress of the International Criminology Society in 1978, Thomas Mathiesen's The Politics of Abolition is a landmark text in critical criminology.

Continuing previous work exploring why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated in the community, Criminal Careers in Transition: The Social Context of Desistance from Crime follows the completion of a fifth sweep of interviews with members of a cohort of former probationers interviewed since the late-1990s.

Are advantaged offenders defenseless against the harshness of prison life?

Governing through Globalised Crime provides an analysis of the impact of globalisation of crime on the governance capacity of the international criminal justice system.

Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in Criminal Justice and Corrections is the first volume to bring together leading figures from the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Belgium to explore key methodological approaches and issues through the lens of the researchers themselves.

First published in 1962, Capital Punishment and British Politics illuminates the process of political decision-making in Britain by analysing the complex activities that led to the passage of a major piece of social legislation, the Homicide Act of 1957.

During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more.

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system?

The criminal justice system now serves as the chief provider of health care services to a significant portion of society.

A new account of the rise, persistence, and potential fall of mass incarceration – from a criminal justice insider.

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.

Mass Shootings and Civilian Armament provides the first comprehensive multi-methodological analysis of the relationship between mass shootings and firearm purchases (as proxied by background checks) in the US on national level data from 1999-2020.

This book traces the rise of contemporary populism in Western democracies, marked by the return of would-be 'strong men' politicians.