Penology and punishment

In this century the central and quintessential correctional facility program ought to be the library.

In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows.

How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty?

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

Unlike other studies, Committed to the State Asylum shows the important role that the community played in shaping the asylum and tackles the thorny issue of state development, explaining how state asylums developed differently in each province.

Drawing on extensive case studies and his experience as director of psychiatric services at the Regional Treatment Centre in Ontario, Geoffrey Conacher traces the MDO management process from initial assessment, through secure stabilization, to preparation for release and subsequent community supervision.

Rains and Teram trace the history, impact, and subversion of public policies affecting the disposition of delinquent, neglected, and emotionally disturbed anglophone youth in Montreal.

Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; what she will never understand; how she helped him, and when she needed to let him go.

Putting forward a new approach to the study of corrections, this book draws together public health and corrections and explores the importance of this nexus.

A peacemaking approach to criminology is a humane, nonviolent, and scientific approach to the treatment of crime and the offender.

In the 1970's, sociologists found that mentally disordered patients were routinely committed to state hospitals.

Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries.

Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research.

Gaes and his distinguished coauthors offer a comprehensive analysis of public versus private management of prisons, a competition that originated in the 1980s with the introduction of private facilities into the criminal justice system.

Shocking.

n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller.

n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller.

This innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all connected.

This innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all connected.

The Myth of Prison Rape provides a nuanced glimpse into the complex sexual dynamics of American prison.

A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights.

A Kansas Notable BookBrian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001.

Two distinguished social and political philosophers take opposing positions in this highly engaging work.

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today.

This book offers guidance for speech and language therapists and other professionals who are working in a criminal justice setting or who are interested to know more about this dynamic and rewarding client group.

A compelling history of silence as a shaper of the human mind-in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives-from the author of Brilliant.

Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world.

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

An examination of the institutional preconditions for a tolerant criminal justice system.

This book examines the recent prison buildup and its impact on American society.

This book asks why it is morally permissible for the state to punish people for breaking the law.

This book examines the possible end of capital punishment due to new discoveries of innocence.

America is driven by vengeance in Aladjem''s timely analysis, and the fate of democratic justice hangs in the balance.

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

This essential text introduces criminal justice students to the topics of stress and wellness in personal and professional pursuits and provides them with the tools they will need to identify the signs of stress in their own lives and the lives of others.

This 2006 book argues that punitive penal policies were forged by particular social movements.

A comparative exploration of issues around the use or abolition of the death penalty.

An explanation of how we use punishment and compensation to make restraints operative in the world.

This 2005 book examines how women prisoners'' lives changed over time and how they were affected by a new generation of prisons.

This 2005 book examines punishment in different forms, including corporal and economic punishment.

This revised 2002 edition considers new legislation relating to the death penalty in international law.

Wortley examines the control of prison disorder through the application of situational crime prevention principles.

There is increasing pressure, soon to be legislation, for particular offenders to be given a choice of psychological treatment or imprisonment, even if treatment must sometimes be within special prison hospitals or units for offenders.

Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections, the sixth edition, is an invaluable resource for mitigating, managing, or responding to high-risk negotiation incidents.

Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections, the sixth edition, is an invaluable resource for mitigating, managing, or responding to high-risk negotiation incidents.