Penology and punishment

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to probation.

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

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 1989, Guards Imprisoned provides an in-depth look into the work and working life of prison guards as they perceive and experience it.

First published in 1989, Guards Imprisoned provides an in-depth look into the work and working life of prison guards as they perceive and experience it.

This book aims to make the case for and provide some of the resources necessary to reimagine rehabilitation for twenty-first-century criminal justice.

This book aims to make the case for and provide some of the resources necessary to reimagine rehabilitation for twenty-first-century criminal justice.

Television shows that we might call 'prestige television' represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive, sometimes powerful, and sometimes exceedingly complex.

Television shows that we might call 'prestige television' represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive, sometimes powerful, and sometimes exceedingly complex.

A condensed but equally compelling version of the best-selling corrections book on the market, AMERICAN CORRECTIONS IN BRIEF, 3rd Edition, introduces you to the dynamics of corrections in a way that captures your interest and encourages you to enter the field.

This book investigates the general correctional offender population and the psychotherapy services they receive.

Analyses the effectiveness and implications of community custody for offenders and society as a whole.

This 2006 study examines all facets of exile during the Roman Republic.

This book distils thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments.

This text addresses the how, why, and when of utilizing force against citizens in a democracy.

This book distils thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments.

This book investigates the general correctional offender population and the psychotherapy services they receive.

This volume explores an important, yet under-researched, area of sentencing law and practice: the use of mitigating and aggravating factors.

This volume explores an important, yet under-researched, area of sentencing law and practice: the use of mitigating and aggravating factors.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain.

This collection provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the American federal criminal justice system.

This textbook considers the full breadth of the criminal justice system, going beyond prisons to cover other punishments such as out-of-court disposals and community penalties, as well as issues around rehabilitation and reintegration.

This book examines the increasing retention and use of previous criminal record information, within and beyond the criminal justice system.

This book addresses the core issues in prisoner reentry into society after incarceration.

This book is a collection of essays by a unique group of authors about the political destruction of the probation service in England and Wales.

This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands.

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

This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia.

This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case.

Much has been written about reintegration of ex-combatants in a traditional or conventional disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime.

This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more).

This book responds to the claim that criminology is becoming socially and politically irrelevant despite its exponential expansion as an academic sub-discipline.

This new edition of The Prison and the Factory, a classic work on radical criminology, includes two new, long essays from the authors and a foreword from Professor Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley).

Offering a timely reanalysis of the issue of Japan's capital punishment policy, this cutting edge volume considers the de facto moratorium periods in Japan's death penalty system and proposes an alternative analytical framework to examine the policy.

This collection presents a diverse set of case studies and theoretical reflections on how criminologists engage with practitioners and policy makers while undertaking research.

This book highlights the developmental changes in aggression and violence during adolescence from a uniquely psychological perspective.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of how statutory and third sector organisations have faced the challenge of dealing with former 'terrorists'.

This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system.

This book explores the idea of the prison boundary, identifying where it is located, which processes and performances help construct and animate it, and who takes part in them.

Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel.

This volume poses a series of key questions about the practice of probation as an integral part of the European criminal justice system.

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP).

This book addresses the idea that victims remain contested and controversial participants of justice in the twenty-first century adversarial criminal trial.

Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy examines case law and legislation in regards to reproduction, pregnancy, and infancy.

What do refugee and concentration camps, prisons, terrorist and guerrilla training camps and prisoner of war camps have in common?

This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country.

This unique book explores criminalized identities and the idea of 'viscous culture' to provide new understandings of crime, punishment and justice.