Penology and punishment

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Disruptive Prisoners reconstitutes the history of Canada's federal prison system in the mid-twentieth century through a process of collective biography - one involving prisoners, administrators, prison reformers, and politicians.

Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high.

Embodying Punishment offers a theoretical and empirical exploration of women's lived experiences of imprisonment in England.

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.

Welcome to my downside up life!

Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment examines criminal sentencing courts' changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples' identity, culture and postcolonial status.

Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "e;Beto"e; Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist.

When this book was originally published in 1972 very little had been written about prison staff.

The Hollywood Ending of an Adrenaline-Filled and, By Turns, Harrowing and Funny Odyssey of Crime and Redemption in Americas War on DrugsSmugglers Blues, the first book in Richard Strattons memoir of his criminal career, detailed his years as a kingpin in the Hippie Mafia.

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.

The Netflix series Orange is the New Black has drawn widespread attention to many of the dysfunctions of prisons and the impact prisons have on those who live and work behind the prison gates.

Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change - and how and why these changes differ in different contexts.

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.

Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 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.

Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other.

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

The police rely heavily on paid and unpaid informers: without them clear-up rates would plummet, and many crimes would remain undetected.

In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering.

This book is about the increasing significance of DNA profiling for crime investigation in modern society.

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Focusing contemporary democratic theory on the neglected topic of punishment, Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury argues for increased civic engagement in criminal justice as an antidote to the American penal state.

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

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

Recalibrating Juvenile Detention chronicles the lessons learned from the 2007 to 2015 landmark US District Court-ordered reform of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) in Illinois, following years of litigation by the ACLU about egregious and unconstitutional conditions of confinement.

This short book provides a European-wide survey of mental health and probation.

Written by an inmate serving 45 years for a drug conviction when he was 23, this is an in-depth view living behind bars from the perspective of prisoners themselves.

Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form.

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.

Juvenile Justice and Expressive Arts: Creative Disruptions through Art Programs for and with Teens in a Correctional Institution explores art programming as a sustainable educational initiative to support incarcerated teens' successful reintegration to society.

This book examines how young men between the ages of 18 and 21 make the transition to prison life and how they adapt practically, socially and psychologically.

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime.

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland, what we know about it, how it operates, how it is experienced, and how it might be improved.

Along with the settlement of the Texas frontier came rustlers, public drunks, gunfighters, and other outlaws.

This book explores the theoretical and empirical dimensions of community crime prevention in China, examining in particular the role of social capital in a rapidly modernizing economic, social and political context.

Dispatches from behind bars.

This book explores criminal justice responses to Sudanese Australians, crime and victimization.

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.

In Addicted to Incarceration, author Travis C.

The post 9/11 era has produced structured rehabilitation programmes in a wide range of countries including Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, Iraq, and Uzbekistan.

Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the evolution of penality from different standpoints, focusing particularly on the increase of rates of incarceration in relation to the transformations of neoliberal capitalism.

Most people in jail have not been convicted of a crime.

This textbook links theory to policy and practice and takes a comparative, international focus on current issues, making it vital reading for any student of Youth Justice.

This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.

The police, their methods, and their relations with the community had been the focus of considerable criticism and debate in the 1980s.

The history of criminal justice in the U.

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.