Penology and punishment

Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "e;the world's toughest prison"e; by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961.

Prison-reformation has been a controversial and politically charged issue in Kenya.

This book tells a story of successful prison reform that brought the recidivism rate of prisoners down from 44% to 24%.

Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences.

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.

This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of criminal psychology in different socio-economic and psycho-sociological contexts.

This book examines the extraordinary nature of the power of preventive detention, which permits executive dispensation of the personal liberty of an individual on the mere apprehension that, if free and unfettered, he may commit acts prejudicial to national security or public order.

This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of criminal psychology in different socio-economic and psycho-sociological contexts.

This book offers a broad overview of transition practices for incarcerated youth, shaped by local culture, politics, ideologies, and philosophies.

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This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime.

"En mayo de 2018 una noticia marcó los titulares de los medios: dos jóvenes chilenos que hacían un viaje de aventura turística arriesgaban una condena a morir en la horca por el asesinato de una ciudadana trans en Kuala Lumpur, capital de Malasia.

This book addresses a variety of key issues surrounding mental health and the criminalization of certain individuals and groups by the Criminal Justice System and the impact this can have on their mental health.

This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime.

The aims and objectives of this research work is to develop a global movement to replace the institution of prison by alternatives to prison and imprisonment.

"e;Although the topics dealt with are complex, the author has been very successful in presenting and exploring them clearly.

First published in 1969, African Penal Systems is the first book to explore the problems of African criminology.

Putting forward a new approach to the study of corrections, this book draws together public health and corrections and explores the importance of this nexus.

Are you interested in exploring a unique perspective on crime and punishment?

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Mit der Einführung des ersten Strafgesetzbuches der DDR im Jahr 1968 galten Prostituierte nach Paragraph 249 als ›Asoziale‹ und konnten strafrechtlich verfolgt werden – ein Schritt zur Umsetzung ideologischer Ansprüche durch die staatliche Führung und zur moralischen Abgrenzung von der Bundesrepublik.

Was ist Radikalisierung und wie wird sie begünstigt?

Resozialisierung hat im Justizvollzug eine bereits im Strafvollzugsgesetz verankerte zentrale Bedeutung.

Etwa elf Millionen Menschen leben weltweit in Gefängnissen.

This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration.

This book offers a focused and detailed insight into the health and wellbeing of prison staff, specifically focussing on prison leaders and managers.

Das Buch liefert aus rechtlicher und kriminologischer Perspektive einen aktuellen Blick auf den Strafvollzug und die Wiedereingliederung nach der Entlassung.

Bestselling phenomenon Simon McCleave is back with another Anglesey-set gripping, crime thriller full of twists that will keep you guessing until the last page.

In diesem Band 2 der Edition „Forschung und Entwicklung in der Strafrechtspflege“ entfalten und vertiefen die Autoren das Konzept der Sozialen Strafrechtspflege und analysieren die Stärken und Schwächen der Umsetzung in die Praxis der Strafverfolgung und Strafvollstreckung – sowohl auf der Ebene des Einzelfalls als auch des Managements und der Systementwicklung.

Dieses Buch liefert eine Zwischenbilanz über die Situation des Strafvollzugs.

Abolition Labor chronicles the national movement to end the exception in the 13th Amendment that permits forced labor in U.

This book addresses a variety of key issues surrounding mental health and the criminalization of certain individuals and groups by the Criminal Justice System and the impact this can have on their mental health.

We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread.

Since 1993, crime in the United States has fallen to historic lows, seeming to legitimize the country's mix of welfare reform and mass incarceration.

This book offers a useful theoretical overview of key approaches to the subject of crime and community and considers the ways in which these have been applied in more practical settings.

This collection provides new insights into the 'Age of Revolutions', focussing on state trials for treason and sedition, and expands the sophisticated discussion that has marked the historiography of that period by examining political trials in Britain and the north Atlantic world from the 1790s and into the nineteenth century.

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.

This collection considers human rights and incarceration in relation to the liberal-democratic states of Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services.

This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery.

Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration.

This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs.

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 compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime and delinquency.