Penology and punishment

Incorporating the authentic voices and real-life experiences of women, this ground-breaking book focuses on pregnancy and new motherhood in UK prisons.

Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English juvenile reformatory system.

The women's movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in the workplace.

The use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the rise of the modern penitentiary during the first half of the nineteenth century and his since remained a feature of many prison systems all over the world.

Political instability is nearly always accompanied by fuller prisons, and this was particularly true during the long Second World War, when military mobilization, social disorder, wrenching political changes, and shifting national boundaries swelled the ranks of the imprisoned and broadened the carceral reach of the state.

This book distils thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments.

This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years.

Feminist philosophers Barrett Emerick and Audrey Yap bring theoretical arguments about personhood and moral repair into conversation with the work of activists and the experiences of incarcerated people to make the case that prisons ought to be abolished.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities: A Practitioner's Guide explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs).

This book draws on a four-year ethnographic study conducted in the prisons and on the streets of Greater Manchester, England, to examine gangs and organised crime in the North of England.

Predictive Sentencing addresses the role of risk assessment in contemporary sentencing practices.

This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands.

The abolishment of flogging in 1850 started the U.

Incorporating the authentic voices and real-life experiences of women, this ground-breaking book focuses on pregnancy and new motherhood in UK prisons.

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.

Criminal Justice Internships: Theory Into Practice, Tenth Edition, guides the student, instructor, and internship site supervisor through the entire internship process, offering advice and information for use at the internship site as well as pre-planning and assessment activities.

This edited collection articulates a future direction for research at the nexus of criminology and human rights by bringing together experts from different branches of criminology and criminal justice who, while they may be sceptical about certain aspects of human rights theory or practice, share an interest in realising many of the objectives set out in human rights instruments.

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

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

Winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before.

Unsettling Colonial Automobilities explores the vehicle's role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people and proposes an Indigenous automobility that reclaims sovereignty over place and centricity.

Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy examines case law and legislation in regards to reproduction, pregnancy, and infancy.

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

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

What do refugee and concentration camps, prisons, terrorist and guerrilla training camps and prisoner of war camps have in common?

The Cincinnati Penal Congress of 1870 ushered in the era of "e;progressive"e; penology: the use of statistical and social scientific methodologies, commitment to psychiatric and therapeutic interventions, and a new innovation--the reformatory--as the locus for the application of these initiatives.

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

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

Originally published in 1971, volunteers in the social services were being asked to undertake increasingly demanding and responsible work, particularly in the field of prison after-care.

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason at all.

Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel.

American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess.

Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice.

Everyday Prison Governance in Myanmar analyses prison life in Myanmar during a short-lived period of democratic transition.

This book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media.

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children's rights lens.

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

This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology.

This book seeks to understand how women's experiences both within and outside prisons shape their ability to engage in crime-free living after the experience of prison.

Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world.

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

Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a group of politicians began to agitate for reform of England's "e;bloody code"e; of criminal statutes.

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

Analysis of criminal cases reveals that women suspected of killing their newborn children are some of the most vulnerable in our society and that infanticide is not just a historical issue but one that has modern implications.

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

The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies.