Penology and punishment

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

The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery.

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 volume offers a European overview of the management of religious diversity in prisons and provides readers with rich empirical material and a comparative perspective.

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

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

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 explores the dual nature of legitimacy in prison.

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue.

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 closes a gap in decolonizing intersectional and comparative research by addressing issues around the mass incarceration of Indigenous women in the US, Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand.

This book charts the historical development of 'forensic objectivity' through an analysis of the ways in which objective knowledge of crimes, crime scenes, crime materials and criminals is achieved.

This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction information disclosure during pre-employment 'screening'.

This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic countries.

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 presents a study of street children's involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka.

This book offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating strengthening its juvenile justice system.

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

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 provides a detailed and practical exploration of criminal recidivism and social reintegration in Jamaica.

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

This handbook brings together the international research focussing on prisoners' families and the impact of imprisonment on them.

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

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

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.

The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy's penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the 'new normal' under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment.

The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy's penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the 'new normal' under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment.

This handbook brings together the international research focussing on prisoners' families and the impact of imprisonment on them.

Extrait : "Qu'est-ce que l'adultère ?

A father's account of the story that captivated America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his inspiring fight for commonsense gun laws in the aftermath.

In 2016, a record-breaking 7.

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

Urszula Muskus (1903-1972) spent sixteen years as a prisoner of Stalinist Russia.

Looks at Howard's immense achievements and his fascinating life and sheds new light on what drove the UK's most famous prison reformer.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

From the excesses of Puritan patriarchs to the barbarism of slavery and on into the prison-industrial complex, punishment in the US has a long and gruesome history.

Ted Honderich's Punishment is the best-known book on the justifications put forward for state punishment.

This volume of "e;Studies in Law, Politics, and Society"e; presents a unique special issue "e;Is the Death Penalty Dying?

"e;There was a time I believed prisons existed to rehabilitate people, to make our communities safer.

'The sentence of this court is that you be taken from this place to whence you came, and from there to a place of lawful execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you be dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul'-Extract from judicial death sentence, England c.

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

Winner of the 2008 British Society of Criminology Book PrizeSex offenders, particularly those who offend against children, feature prominently in contemporary law and order debates.

The first special juvenile court was created in 1899.

WINNER OF THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017, THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2017THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'An absolutely fascinating book, rich in fact and anecdote.

In 1993, Dominic Stevenson left a comfortable life with his girlfriend in Kyoto, Japan, to travel to China.

Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons.

From role-plays with street gangs in the USA to Beckett in Brixton; from opera productions with sex offenders to psychodrama with psychopaths, the book will discuss, analyse and reflect on theoretical notions and practical applications of theatre for and with the incarcerated.