Penology and punishment

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.

Correctional psychiatry has received increasing recognition as an area of practice with unique skills and knowledge.

The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens.

The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens.

Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement.

Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily.

Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily.

An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it.

An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it.

Can punishments ever meaningfully be proportioned in severity to the seriousness of the crimes for which they are imposed?

Can punishments ever meaningfully be proportioned in severity to the seriousness of the crimes for which they are imposed?

'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out'Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.

'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?

The New York Times bestseller and 'Bible of a social movement' (San Francisco Chronicle)Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement.

There is the guard who delivers blows with no visible traces.

In his talks to communities throughout the length and breath of Ireland, John Lonergan finds himself coming back to one theme: the importance of kindness.

This book foregrounds the provision of education for young people who have been remanded or sentenced into custody.

This handbook brings together expertise from a range of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts to address a key question facing prison policymakers, architects and designers - what kind of carceral environments foster wellbeing, i.

Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences.

This book examines the extraordinary nature of the power of preventive detention, which permits executive dispensation of the personal liberty of an individual on the mere apprehension that, if free and unfettered, he may commit acts prejudicial to national security or public order.

This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to the expansion of the criminological imagination.

This book discusses environmental crime and individual wrongdoing.

This book combines the latest in sociology, psychology, and biology to present evidence-based research on what works in community and institutional corrections.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first time.

This full-colour textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life.

This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse and new aspects of health research in prison settings.

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).

During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more.

A useful research resource and handy reference, this book discusses the many important ethical and legal issues that arise in the delivery of health care to prisoners at correctional facilities.

This book explores the role that religion plays in the lives of imprisoned homicide offenders.

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

Death Penalty Cases presents significant verbatim excerpts of death-penalty decisions from the United States Supreme Court.

“Toni walks us through the experience of having foster children with undiagnosed mental illness .

This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and crimmigration practices, with a specific focus on research conducted in places that may be considered peripheral and semi-peripheral jurisdictions.

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

A comprehensive study of the pervasive misogyny that left women behind while British society moved toward the Age of Enlightenment.

A comprehensive study of the pervasive misogyny that left women behind while British society moved toward the Age of Enlightenment.

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is used and experienced, and how human rights are upheld.

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is used and experienced, and how human rights are upheld.

This book moves beyond rehabilitative strategies in corrections to engage a more holistic understanding of the communal experiences behind prison walls.

An eye-opening look at how incarcerated people, health professionals, and others behind and beyond bars came together to problem-solve incarceration.

This handbook provides a unique overview of rehabilitation as practiced internationally in criminal justice.

This book foregrounds the provision of education for young people who have been remanded or sentenced into custody.

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame, to analysing criminal law and justice responses, and factors that impact individual responsibility.

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

Now more than ever, the criminal justice system, and the programs, policies, and practices within it, are subject to increased public scrutiny, due to well-founded concerns over effectiveness, fairness, and potential unintended consequences.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica.

Psychology and Criminal Justice covers the ways that psychology intersects with the criminal justice system, from explaining criminal behavior to helping improve the three criminal justice pillars of policing, courts, and corrections.