Penology and punishment

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors.

Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind.

Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland is an edited collection of chapters from leading experts that builds and expands upon the success of the 2010 publication Criminal Justice in Scotland to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of Scottish criminal justice and its relation to wider social inequalities and social justice.

First published in 1976, this book examines rehabilitation within the penal system in Britain in the 1970s.

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.

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.

Prisons are everywhere.

This book examines the possible end of capital punishment due to new discoveries of innocence.

Exploring why prison officers leave His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the processes and trajectories involved in returning to 'civilian life', this book examines the reasons that prison officers want to leave HMPPS and how they transition back to 'civvy street'.

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Creative Arts Therapies uses a case-based approach to provide practical guidance for practitioners on the skillful application of ethical decision-making in art therapy.

Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system.

This volume explores an important, yet under-researched, area of sentencing law and practice: the use of mitigating and aggravating factors.

The politics of criminal sentencing has recently crystallised around the issue of whether and how a system of structured sentencing should inform judicial approaches to punishing criminals.

This book distils thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

Including a peer-support workbook with exercises, this book demonstrates the therapeutic value of art practice, both inside and outside institutions, as a more humane approach for children and adolescents affected by mass incarceration.

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families.

This book provides a socio-legal examination of the media's influence on the development and implementation of criminal justice policy.

Creative Ways to Learn Ethics is an accessible, easy-to-read guide that compiles a variety of ethics trainings to help professionals stimulate their minds, relieve stress, and increase engagement and memory retention.

Social workers have their hands in a lot of big sociopolitical issues.

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

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

Revealing the cross utility potential of multiple disciplines to advance knowledge in crime studies, History & Crime showcases new research into crime from across the interdisciplinary perspectives of early modern and modern history, criminology, forensic psychology, and legal studies.

The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972.

This book explores the dual nature of legitimacy in prison.

In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed.

What happens inside Latin American prisons?

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

First published in 1978, Crime and Penal Policy is primarily addressed to non-professional people interested in criminal law and the penal system, such as magistrates, prison visitors, and anyone accused or convicted of criminal offences.

This book reconceptualises the concept of moral economy in its relevance for, and application to, the criminal justice system in England and Wales.

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

Justice is one of the most debated and reinterpreted of concepts within the fields of law, criminology and criminal justice.

This book examines case studies of recent prison riots in five states, including the 1971 radical uprising in Attica, New York, and the infamous 1981 bloodbath at the New Mexico Penitentiary.

Unique in its focus, this book provides an evidence-based framework for assessing work-related neurological and psychological injuries.

This volume provides an important and exciting contribution to the knowledge on punishment across Europe.

This book explores the dual nature of legitimacy in prison.

This book offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to criminology in Ireland.

Drawing on original research on community-based alternatives to offender rehabilitation, this book provides an up-to-date depiction of the challenges faced by front-line workers at the interface between criminal justice and welfare systems striving to address needs and provide multifaceted solutions.

Depression is amorphous.

Recalibrating Juvenile Detention chronicles the lessons learned from the 2007 to 2015 landmark US District Court-ordered reform of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) in Illinois, following years of litigation by the ACLU about egregious and unconstitutional conditions of confinement.

Most people assume that criminal offenders have only been convicted of a single crime.

Sentencing and corrections issues are much the same in every Western country and increasingly efforts are being made to import policies and practices that have succeeded elsewhere.

Bringing together a variety of diverse international contributors from the Convict Criminology community, Convict Criminology for the Future surveys the historical roots of Convict Criminology, the current challenges experienced by formerly incarcerated people, and future directions for the field.

The growth of Islam in Europe is reflected in the increasing numbers of Muslims in British and French prisons, but authorities have responded differently to the challenges presented by Muslim prisoners in each country.

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.

The UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty detailed many children's poor experiences in detention, highlighting the urgent need for reform.

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

This historical interdisciplinary book contextualises the Rorschach ink blot test and embeds it within feminist action and queer liberation.

This book presents the first-ever English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717).

This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to the expansion of the criminological imagination.