Penology and punishment

Accounts of female offenders' journeys into the criminal justice system are often silenced or marginalized.

Michael Tonry, an internationally recognized authority on criminology, offers in these pages a comprehensive overview of current research, policy developments, and practical experiences concerning sentencing and sanctions.

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison.

Winner of the 2021 ESC Book Award.

Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others?

This book addresses the impact of a range of destabilising issues on minority rights in Europe and North America.

The Journey from Prison to Community: Developing Identity, Meaning and Belonging with Men in the UK provides a practical guide for practitioners working with men to successfully make the transition between prison and the community.

When is the death penalty considered "e;cruel and unusual punishment"e; or "e;constitutionally permissible"e;?

The work considers the international and European obligations of the UK in the realm of challenging the far-right and assesses the extent to which it adheres to them.

The Use of Force in Criminal Justice addresses the how, why, and when of utilizing force against citizens in a democracy.

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This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council.

This book demonstrates the unique contribution police ethnographies make to our understanding of policing cultures and practices in a variety of international settings.

This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners in every chapter to provide a comprehensive and unique exploration of courts in Australia.

Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

This volume explores ethical aspects relating to claims for mitigation arising from culpable state action (or inaction).

This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community.

This book provides a fresh look at the way the United States is choosing to deal with some of the serious or persistent youth offenders: by transferring juvenile offenders to adult courts.

First published in 1965, the original blurb reads: "e;At the present time more and more public interest centres on crime, prison and prisoners, and the prison population in this country now exceeds 24, 000.

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire.

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.

Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners.

Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe scenes of camaraderie, hospitality and humour.

This book is an in-depth critical examination of all pertinent aspects of life without parole (LWOP).

The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons.

Building on her leading research in creative methodology, in this book Wendy Fitzgibbon explores and illustrates how Photovoice, a participatory, active research tool, can enable new insights and engagement with both marginalised people and those working with them in the criminal justice system.

The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s.

In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East.

A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025This wide-ranging resource provides an authoritative overview of the criminal justice system in America, including its history, legal and philosophical foundations, dimensions of racial and economic inequality, and insights into daily life inside America's complex court and correctional 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.

Correctional policies for Islamist violent extremist offenders are often based on the premise that prisons can be hotbeds of radicalization.

This book offers a unique examination of how violence is situationally induced and reproduced for those inmates living with HIV in a US State prison system.

In 2010, Correctional Service Canada closed two decrepit prisons designated for men.

This book reviews research on psychology and crime in Japan, and compares the findings with similar research conducted in Western industrialised countries.

This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide.

In a liberal democracy, theory suggests that the political order and character of a civil society are closely connected: the political order allows for a dynamic and pluralistic civil society, and people's civic participation encourages support for the political order.

This edited collection is concerned with the ideas, challenges, demands and framework of conditions behind police education from an international perspective.

We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread.

How might we best manage those who have offended but have mental vulnerabilities?

Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity.

Are you the kind of person who watches crime drama and real-life crime documentaries on television?

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.

In recent years law, crime and justice have become increasingly politicised in Hong Kong.

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

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) mainly came into force in March 2003, introducing a new anti-money laundering regime.

The field of prison studies has been dominated by an androcentric outlook, with little attention paid to women.

The Routledge International Handbook of Forensic Psychology in Secure Settings is the first volume to identify, discuss and analyse the most important psychological issues within prisons and secure hospitals.

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