Penology and punishment

Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions.

Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions.

The Lived Experiences of Claiming Wrongful Conviction in Prison focuses on the lived experience of maintaining innocence in the prison environment and highlights the struggles and pain that such a claim can cause.

Officially, Western societies are waging a war on obesity.

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

When this book was originally published in 1972 very little had been written about prison staff.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of correctional psychology, considering the history and future of the practice.

In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloe Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century.

Dispatches from behind bars.

The Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health, Crime, and Punishment covers many topics on the numerous ways in which mental and physical health and criminal justice system contact influence one another and are intricately intertwined.

Bringing together cutting-edge theory and research that bridges academic disciplines from criminology and criminal justice, to developmental psychology, sociology, and political science, Thinking About Victimization offers an authoritative and refreshingly accessible overview of scholarship on the nature, sources, and consequences of victimization.

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

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of correctional psychology, considering the history and future of the practice.

In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloe Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century.

Bringing together cutting-edge theory and research that bridges academic disciplines from criminology and criminal justice, to developmental psychology, sociology, and political science, Thinking About Victimization offers an authoritative and refreshingly accessible overview of scholarship on the nature, sources, and consequences of victimization.

When this book was originally published in 1972 very little had been written about prison staff.

Between 1932 and 1953, a fleet of ordinary cargo ships was pressed into extraordinary service.

An extensive survey of the pros and cons, evolution, and current issues surrounding one of the hottest topics in today's social debates.

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This engaging textbook provides a broad and unique coverage of the key historical events that shaped ideas in criminology, criminal justice and policing from the late seventeenth century to the early twenty-first century in England and Wales.

This book uses settler colonialism, critical race, and tribal critical race theories to examine the relationship between settler colonialism and Indigenous and Black disproportionality in the criminal justice systems of the English-speaking Western liberal democracies of the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.

This two-volume encyclopedia provides a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the history and current character of American prisons and jails and their place in the U.

Written by an inmate serving 45 years for a drug conviction when he was 23, this is an in-depth view living behind bars from the perspective of prisoners themselves.

Can the morality of a nation really be judged by how it treats its prisoners?

In one of the lengthiest, noisiest, and hottest legal debates in U.

During the 20th century, only six women were legally executed by the State of New York at Sing Sing Prison.

The Handbook on Prisons and Jails brings together some of the brightest scholars and thinkers in the field to offer a wide range of perspectives for understanding the experiences of persons incarcerated or working/volunteering within carceral institutions.

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.

A diverse, critical analysis of racial and ethnic disparities within the American criminal justice system that encourages critical thinking by providing various sides to the issues.

A diverse, critical analysis of racial and ethnic disparities within the American criminal justice system that encourages critical thinking by providing various sides to the issues.

This book uses settler colonialism, critical race, and tribal critical race theories to examine the relationship between settler colonialism and Indigenous and Black disproportionality in the criminal justice systems of the English-speaking Western liberal democracies of the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.

The Handbook on Prisons and Jails brings together some of the brightest scholars and thinkers in the field to offer a wide range of perspectives for understanding the experiences of persons incarcerated or working/volunteering within carceral institutions.

This innovative work tells the story of a unique partnership between a state prison administration and a team of incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, artists, and students known as The WoW Collective due to their joint efforts in developing a peer mentoring program called "e;Women's Words/Women's Worlds (WoW).

First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging.

Research on Restorative Justice to date tends to be gender blind.

Research on Restorative Justice to date tends to be gender blind.

First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging.

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

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

In the mid-1990s, policymakers in more than half the states and the federal government responded to escalating crime rates and a series of sensationalized crimes by passing laws that imposed lifetime sentences on repeat offenders.

Tracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many people's everyday lives.

Tracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many people's everyday lives.

As jihadist extremism, and its manifestation as Al Qaeda, began to spread - even in the years before 9/11 - Saudi Arabia became a principal target.

Given the over-involvement of young men in crime and young men's disproportionally high rates of reoffending, it is surprising that more research has not explored young men's experiences of prison.