Penology and punishment

Little is known about life imprisonment and the process of releasing offenders back into the community in Ireland.

This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China.

This book provides  the first complete, literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first edition of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.

This edited collection utilises recent advances in theories on masculinities to explore and analyse the ways in which prisons shape performances of gender, both within prison settings and following release from prison.

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.

This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life.

This book, the second of two volumes edited by Kemshall and McCartan, focuses on responses to sexual offending, and how risk is used by policy makers, stakeholders, academics and practitioners to both construct and respond to unknown and known sex offenders within the contexts of criminal justice, health and social policy.

This book, the first of two volumes edited by McCartan and Kemshall, focusses on perceptions of sexual offenders, and how risk is used by policy makers, stakeholders, academics and practitioners to both construct and respond to unknown and known sex offenders within the contexts of criminal justice, health and social policy.

This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community.

This volume explores the role that European institutions have come to play in regulating national prisons systems.

This book examines American solitary confinement - in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time - and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny.

This book presents a detailed analysis of Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program.

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.

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 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).

This critical textbook looks beyond the immediate data on knife crime to try and make sense of what is a global phenomenon.