Penology and punishment

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

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

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

This book examines the lives of the sentenced to argue that 'sentencing' should be re-conceived to consider the human perspective.

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

This book analyses the mixed courts of professional and lay judges in the Japanese criminal justice system.

Originally published in 1985, Imprisonment in England and Wales is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in England and Wales from the Medieval period to the present day.

This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years.

The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process.

Sandra Gregory seemed to have the perfect life in Bangkok - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare.

Officially, Western societies are waging a war on obesity.

What good is theological education for those in prison?

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?

This book explores the history of Dartmoor War Prison (1805-16).

Länger als Lebenslänglich?

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 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 handbook provides a unique overview of rehabilitation as practiced internationally in criminal justice.

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

This handbook brings together expertise from a range of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts to address a key question facing prison policymakers, architects and designers - what kind of carceral environments foster wellbeing, i.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 book focuses on the emotional experience of imprisonment.

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

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

This edited collection encourages philosophical exploration of the nature, aims, contradictions, promises and problems of the practice of education within prisons around the world.

This book explores the role that religion plays in the lives of imprisoned homicide offenders.

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 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.

This book explores the history of Dartmoor War Prison (1805-16).

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.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

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

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

This book discusses environmental crime and individual wrongdoing.

This full-colour textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life.

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

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.