Penology & punishment books

A powerful look at authoritarian India through the experiences of political prisoners  Read More >>

"Louisiana State Penitentiary is one of the largest and most brutal maximum-security prisons in the United States....  Read More >>

Policing Freedom explores the history of punishment in Brazil, intersecting with studies on the global history of...  Read More >>

This book ignites debates about the history and persistence of judicial corporal punishment in criminal justice...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the criminalization trend and process regarding the internal migration in contemporary China...  Read More >>

After matriculating from a top Jewish school, Nikki Munitz finds herself in the clutches of a heroin addiction....  Read More >>

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Before her two-year federal prison sentence, Collin Ruiz took her Buddhist vows and dedicated her incarceration...  Read More >>

The amazing true story of how Britain's most notorious criminal fell in love with her prison guard and their attempted...  Read More >>

Volume 51 is a thematic volume on Prisons and Prisoners. Since 1979, the Crime and Justice series has presented...  Read More >>

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Based on insights from interviews with key participants in 3 Australian jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the...  Read More >>

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Louisiana State Penitentiary is one of the largest and most brutal maximum-security prisons in the United States....  Read More >>

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"When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball...  Read More >>

"When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball...  Read More >>

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This Textbook addresses a gap in the market, as currently there are no contemporary books exploring nursing within...  Read More >>

For the first time, this book offers qualitative research on the lives and social relationships of older imprisoned...  Read More >>

Building on Louk Hulsman's work and providing an English translation of a key text, this anthology highlights the...  Read More >>

This book ​presents an original synthesis of the leading international research on children in conflict with the...  Read More >>

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"When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball...  Read More >>

In Criminals, Nazis, and Islamists, Vera Mironova examines conflicts and cooperation between inmates in male prisons...  Read More >>