Penology & punishment books

"""A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers""--"  Read More >>

"“Teaching in the jail system is a surreal experience, a whole other existence. In this bizarreness you encounter...  Read More >>

An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction...  Read More >>

From Margaret Thatcher's first government to austerity politics, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to imprisonment...  Read More >>

Far more than a building of brick and mortar, the prison relies upon gruesome stories circulated as commercial media...  Read More >>

Personal narratives about life for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people illuminating the shared experiences...  Read More >>

First published in 1978, Crime and Penal Policy is primarily addressed to non-professional people interested in...  Read More >>

Through an immersive and enlightening tour of select institutions, this volume provides students with a unique overview...  Read More >>

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This original study of the lives of prisoners' families adds a feminist perspective on the understanding of carceral...  Read More >>

A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers --  Read More >>

If you love Katie Flynn and Pam Howes, you'll love Chrissie Walsh's WWI story of love, loss and triumph!Kitty and...  Read More >>

If you love Katie Flynn and Pam Howes, you'll love Chrissie Walsh's WWI story of love, loss and triumph!Kitty and...  Read More >>

If you love Katie Flynn and Pam Howes, you'll love Chrissie Walsh's WWI story of love, loss and triumph!Kitty and...  Read More >>

EDGAR AWARD FINALIST • A private investigator revisits the case that has haunted her for decades and sets out on...  Read More >>

"With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest...  Read More >>

"With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest...  Read More >>

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Charles Bronson is surely the best-known prisoner in the British penal system, and has served for far longer than...  Read More >>

An electric memoir that follows a young woman from chasing Olympic dreams on the ice rink, through addiction and...  Read More >>

On a beautiful California evening, in the early spring of 2002, I was driving my Jeep Wrangler with my niece, on...  Read More >>

In Theology, Empowerment, and Prison Ministry Meins G.S. Coetsier offers a new account of Karl Rahner’s theological...  Read More >>

This social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central...  Read More >>

With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest...  Read More >>

This social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central...  Read More >>