Penology and punishment

Corruption is a problem in prisons about which we hear very little, except when there is an escape from custody or other scandal that makes the media.

This book offers the first ethnographic account of prison managers in England.

This book explores the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities as victims, offenders and staff within the criminal justice system.

This book demonstrates that alternative approaches to criminal rehabilitation succeed in developing pro-social attitudes and in improving mental, physical and spiritual health for youth and adults in prison and community settings.

This book applies the psychopathy concept toward the understanding of crime.

This book reconceptualises the concept of moral economy in its relevance for, and application to, the criminal justice system in England and Wales.

This book shows how the overall impact of the penal policy agenda of the Coalition Government 2010-2015 has not led to the intended 'rehabilitation revolution', but austerity, outsourcing and punishment, designated here as 'punitive managerialism'.

This unique collection brings together international contributors from a range of disciplines to explore crime and responses to crime through a religious/faith-based lens.

This book explores the critical questions of how and why criminal justice policies emerge, and examines how criminal justice policy is understood and applied by practitioners.

This book explores the perceptions and role of juvenile justice educators.

This book explores the development of the global phenomenon of Prison Shakespeare, from its emergence in the 1980s to the present day.

This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment.

In recent years the death penalty has sharply declined across Africa, but this trend belies actual public opinion and the retributivist sentiments held by political elites.

Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003.

Why do we punish?

This book challenges contemporary criminological thinking, providing a thorough critique of mainstream criminology, including both liberal criminology and administrative criminology.

In-cell television is now a permanent feature of prisons in England and Wales, and a key part of the experience of modern incarceration.

Young people, crime and delinquency are words that are commonly linked in public perception and young people are often blamed for social ills.

Young Offenders provides one of the most in-depth studies of young males seeking, if often failing, to find a life beyond crime and punishment.

The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography provides an expansive overview of the challenges presented by qualitative, and particularly ethnographic, enquiry.

Community reparation for young offenders involves unpaid work such as painting and decorating, litter picking and graffiti removal.

This book critically analyses how men in prison act out their masculine identities.

This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders.

This volume explores the theory and practice of sentencing in England and Wales, exploring issues such as the role of previous convictions, offender remorse and sentencing female offenders, as well as drawing upon a new and unique source of data from the Crown courts.

Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields.

Offender supervision in Europe has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years.

The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses.

This book brings together a collection of essays by leading criminologists to explore the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice.

This book argues that punishment's function is to communicate a message about an offenders' wrongdoing to society at large.

This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland.

Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members.

Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice.

Exploring the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, the HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book provides the most comprehensive coverage of this research to date, following the progress of individual prisoners' through therapy and highlighting the key essentials for prisoners to address their motivations and criminal behaviour.

Emotions remain largely invisible in the management of criminal justice practice.

China's infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting.

This collection, from a range of leading international scholars, looks at penal practice in a variety of different European countries.

This comprehensive edited collection draws together the latest international literature on offender compliance during penal supervision and after court orders expire.

This is a provocative collection of timely reflections on the state of social democracy and its inextricable links to crime and justice.

This volume addresses critical questions about how to achieve the best outcomes from police and security providers by reviewing and critiquing the scientific literature and identifying best practice guidelines.

Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines three interconnected problems: the tendency of the prison to obscure other social problems and conceal its own failings, the pursuit of greater levels of human security through repressive and violent means and the persistence of the belief in the problem of 'evil'.

Get crucial ethical and clinical knowledge as it relates to the legal system Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with legal processes in forensic settings.

Get crucial ethical and clinical knowledge as it relates to the legal system Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with legal processes in forensic settings.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents' choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected.

Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years.

Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.