Penology and punishment

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.

Alcohol, opiates, cocaine and marijuana, among other drugs, have been used and abused for millennia.

A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolutionIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas.

An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The "e;deeply researched, groundbreaking"e; first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps (Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker).

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.

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior.

'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.

Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven.

The 5th edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Criminal Justice system.

The authoritative, epic history of the British colonisation of Australia.

More than four hundred years ago, seven people were beheaded in the Tower of London.

The benefit of having skilled nurses working in prisons has been noted in a recent report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons (Home Office 1998).

This book serves as a route map for psychologists and probation officers working in probation services.

Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a group of politicians began to agitate for reform of England's "e;bloody code"e; of criminal statutes.

"e;A gritty, raw, and engrossing voice.

Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society.

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children's rights lens.

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children's rights lens.

Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief.

Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief.

We live in an era of mass mobility where governments remain committed to closing borders, engaging with securitisation discourses and restrictive immigration policies, which in turn nurture xenophobia and racism.

We live in an era of mass mobility where governments remain committed to closing borders, engaging with securitisation discourses and restrictive immigration policies, which in turn nurture xenophobia and racism.

This book makes a unique contribution to the internationalisation of criminological knowledge about gender and desistance through a qualitative cross-national exploration of the female route out of crime in Sweden and England.

This book makes a unique contribution to the internationalisation of criminological knowledge about gender and desistance through a qualitative cross-national exploration of the female route out of crime in Sweden and England.

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms.

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms.

A woman of undeniable courage.

Long sentenced young people are a small but significant part of the juvenile prison population.

Long sentenced young people are a small but significant part of the juvenile prison population.

In 2007, the Corston Report recommended a far-reaching, radical, 'women-centred' approach to women's imprisonment in England and Wales.

In 2007, the Corston Report recommended a far-reaching, radical, 'women-centred' approach to women's imprisonment in England and Wales.

Questions regarding how to improve the transitional phase from prison to life in society after release have gained major importance in the last decade in criminal policy.

Questions regarding how to improve the transitional phase from prison to life in society after release have gained major importance in the last decade in criminal policy.

This book seeks to understand the processes of reintegration of former Jihadist detainees, as well as the role that the police and other frontline professionals play in this process.

This book seeks to understand the processes of reintegration of former Jihadist detainees, as well as the role that the police and other frontline professionals play in this process.

Incarcerating Motherhood explores how initial short period in prisons can negatively impact mothers and their children.

Incarcerating Motherhood explores how initial short period in prisons can negatively impact mothers and their children.

This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946.

This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946.

This book offers a scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice.

This book offers a scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice.

In the context of recent media scrutiny on the state of prisons in the UK, the efficacy of incarcerating large numbers of offenders is an issue which is rising steadily up the political agenda.

In the context of recent media scrutiny on the state of prisons in the UK, the efficacy of incarcerating large numbers of offenders is an issue which is rising steadily up the political agenda.

One of the most important problems faced by the United States is addressing its broken criminal justice system.

One of the most important problems faced by the United States is addressing its broken criminal justice system.

Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others.