Penology and punishment

Written by two nationally recognized experts, this book provides a comprehensive review of the legal and clinical aspects of the death penalty as it relates to intellectual disability.

Handbook on Punishment Decisions: Locations of Disparity provides a comprehensive assessment of the current knowledge on sites of disparity in punishment decision-making.

First published in 1937, Prison from Within is a first-person account of a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months for fraud.

Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration offers invaluable insight into how Shakespeare appears in prison.

The spy business often results in a sudden exchange of the dark shadows of the clandestine back room for the bright lights of the open courtroom.

Bringing together a range of first-hand testimonies of captives, this personal and arresting collection provides an overview of what life inside is actually like.

Sentencing is one of the fastest moving areas of law, with frequent legislative changes and hundreds of reported appellate decisions each year.

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

Debate has long been waged over the morality of capital punishment, with standard arguments in its favour being marshalled against familiar arguments that oppose the practice.

A groundbreaking work of reportage on the hidden consequences of America's prison boom Life On the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine-a first offense under New York's harsh Rockefeller drug laws.

This comprehensive guide provides an accessible introduction to the philosophy of restorative justice and its practical application in a wide range of settings, showing how it can help both victims and offenders when harm has been done.

In recent decades there has been a vast increase in the use of imprisonment and penal supervision, and to many this development appears to be qualitatively as well as quantitatively different.

Based on a comprehensive study of three counties in Texas, this work examines the idea of differential handling of minority youth offenders.

Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social harm.

Sexual Offences Against Children in India examines the evolution of the law pertaining to sexual violence against children, the judicial decisions since the inception of the POCSO Act till date with respect to aspects of the POCSO Act and the best practices from other developed jurisdictions for handling cases and victims of child abuse.

Can punishments ever meaningfully be proportioned in severity to the seriousness of the crimes for which they are imposed?

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The rise of CCTV and surveillance technologies has been one of the key developments in contemporary society, but its impact has often been analysed in a fragmented manner.

This book aims to present key aspects of the prison-based bullying research which has taken place over the last few years.

Examining two overlapping aspects of the prison experience that, despite their central importance, have not attracted the scholarly attention they deserve, this book assesses both the degree to which prisoners can withstand the rigours of solitude and how they experience the passing of time.

Policing the Pandemic explores how police agencies in United Kingdom and the United States have adjusted to their changing environments, both during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and later, when the restrictions have been relaxed and the societies have begun to develop their new normal.

After 13 years of struggling in the music business, Robert Reilly found himself broke and on the edge of despair.

The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan's presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs.

A useful research resource and handy reference, this book discusses the many important ethical and legal issues that arise in the delivery of health care to prisoners at correctional facilities.

Through a study of ten commercially published prison autobiographies, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution unveils how prison is narrativized and socially represented as an abject and uncanny institution, shedding new light on what prison is and does in Western carceral imaginations.

This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus.

Forensic practitioners work in a diverse range of settings, with a wide variety of groups and with a large number of agencies.

This book traces the rise of contemporary populism in Western democracies, marked by the return of would-be 'strong men' politicians.

Offering rare insiders perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations.

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.

Originally published in 1988, Policing by the Public opened up an entirely new field within criminology and the sociology of deviance.

For most of the 20th Century, sentencing purposes and procedures were virtually the same in all American jurisdictions.

This moving book provides an inside-view of life in prison, and people's remarkable ability to make sense of their lives there as they learn to meditate.

Offering a range of theoretical and conceptual ideas as well as practical examples, this book provides a detailed insight into holistic opportunities for promoting desistance, reducing reoffending, and supporting (re)settlement and (re)integration.

This book takes a holistic approach by providing insight into the behavior and nature of sex offenders within the church.

Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social harm.

Through the author's experiences, investigations and discussions with artists, art therapists and inmates from around the world, Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity comprehensively explores the efficacy, methods, and outcomes of art and art therapy within correctional settings.

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

This book takes a holistic approach by providing insight into the behavior and nature of sex offenders within the church.

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.

This book examines protest policing and the toolbox of options available to police commanders in response.

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

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

A Columbia Law School team’s in-depth examination of one man’s 1989 wrongful conviction and execution for murder.

Thousands of intact ceramic bowls and plates as well as fragments made in the medieval Byzantine empire survive to this day.

The increase in the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty since the end of the Second World War shows a steady trend towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment.

Tracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many people's everyday lives.

The movement of humans across borders is increasing exponentially'some for benign reasons, others nefarious, including terrorism, human trafficking, and people smuggling.

States around the world imprison people for their beliefs or politically-motivated actions.