Penology and punishment

This book explores the religious experiences of two notable figures who endured severe trials under authoritarian regimes: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) within the Islamic tradition, and Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) within the Russian Orthodox Christian tradition.

This book explores criminal justice responses to Sudanese Australians, crime and victimization.

This book is the first to examine trauma-informed criminal justice responses to the commission of crime and its impact through empathy and humanity.

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This book contributes conceptually, theoretically and morally to a deeper understanding of the distinctive Asian perceptions of punishment, justice and human rights.

The volume uses an ethnographical approach to examine all three stages of the Correctional Services Canada's federal Correctional Officer Training Program offered for recruited individuals.

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics.

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

Rats, tainted food, leaky sewage pipes: they only began to hint at the anarchy inside the Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange.

This book contributes conceptually, theoretically and morally to a deeper understanding of the distinctive Asian perceptions of punishment, justice and human rights.

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

This book builds on Heffernan's last book Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice by examining the class and racial disparities at the heart of current law - disparities that, according to many, generate a system of criminal injustice.

Thirteen personal accounts of solitary confinement's devastating impact in the United States criminal justice system.

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics.

Mass incarceration has been an ongoing problem in the United States.

Exploring the role of food in enabling people with convictions to live a "e;good life"e;, this book examines the tangible ways in which growing food, cooking, and eating together has the potential to be both transformative and small steps incremental in facilitating desistance journeys for people with convictions.

Taking a unique approach to bring the theories of desistance and of development criminology to life, the chapters in this book are framed around a single individual's life-story which have inspired rigorous, evidence-based and scholarly chapters on key issues in criminology.

Exploring the role of food in enabling people with convictions to live a "e;good life"e;, this book examines the tangible ways in which growing food, cooking, and eating together has the potential to be both transformative and small steps incremental in facilitating desistance journeys for people with convictions.

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today.

This book discusses the validity, ethics, and usefulness of professional public commentary of politician's mental health and provides an alternative model for professionals to do so in an ethical manner.

This book discusses the validity, ethics, and usefulness of professional public commentary of politician's mental health and provides an alternative model for professionals to do so in an ethical manner.

This is the first research methods book on the application of using a co-production approach for physical activity for health research.

Wie kann man erlittene Gewalt und Massenmord in den unterschiedlichen Lagern erzählen und eine adäquate Sprache dafür finden, die das Erlittene weder banalisiert noch als überwunden beruhigend automatisiert?

This book analyses the nature, causes, logic, and culture of prison victimisation in an English young offender institution for young men aged 18-21 years old.

This book analyses the nature, causes, logic, and culture of prison victimisation in an English young offender institution for young men aged 18-21 years old.

Mass incarceration has been an ongoing problem in the United States.

Taking a unique approach to bring the theories of desistance and of development criminology to life, the chapters in this book are framed around a single individual's life-story which have inspired rigorous, evidence-based and scholarly chapters on key issues in criminology.

Psychoanalysis is not just about what happens in the room - it is also about the structure that holds it all together.

This is the first research methods book on the application of using a co-production approach for physical activity for health research.

This engaging book presents a critical approach to understanding prison conditions in the United States in the era of mass incarceration.

This engaging book presents a critical approach to understanding prison conditions in the United States in the era of mass incarceration.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

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

Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America.

Have you ever wondered whether crime dramas reflect the reality of police work?

How a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiringMost employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictionsand thus denying opportunities to those who need them most.

This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of prison life, that of prisoner leadership.

This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of prison life, that of prisoner leadership.