Penology and punishment

For the first time, the author has explored the intertwinement of written law, Islamic law, and customary law in the highly complex Afghan society, being deeply influenced by traditional cultural and religious convictions.

This book seeks to break new ground in the way in which adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse is understood.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of major issues in the field of sexual abuse, both established and emerging, and asks how we can develop the most evidence-based, fit-for-purpose approach in responding to and preventing it.

This handbook provides a holistic and comprehensive examination of issues related to criminal justice reform in the United States from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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

This book discusses environmental crime and individual wrongdoing.

This full-colour textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life.

This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book offers a unique examination of how violence is situationally induced and reproduced for those inmates living with HIV in a US State prison system.

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an English prison responded to viewing five contemporary British prison films.

The profile of prisoners across many Western countries is strikingly similar - 95% male, predominantly undereducated and underemployed, from the most deprived neighbourhoods.

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

This book combines the latest in sociology, psychology, and biology to present evidence-based research on what works in community and institutional corrections.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first time.

Addressing common myths and misconceptions about sexual offending, this book highlights the current state of scientific knowledge about the origins and the development of sexual offending.

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 book explores the growing understanding and evidence base for the role of trauma in sexual offending.

This book examines our contemporary preoccupation with risk and how criminal law and punishment have been transformed as a result of these anxieties.

This book contributes to current debates about "e;queer outsides"e; and "e;queer outsiders"e; that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom.

This book illustrates the importance of conflicting narratives in understanding and dealing with crime, based on a variety of cutting-edge research.

This book explores the pros and cons of the death penalty and the history of capital punishment.

This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse and new aspects of health research in prison settings.

This edited volume presents research about life in prison for women, discussing both incarcerated women and those working in prisons.

This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council.

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 examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland.

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.

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.