Penology & punishment books

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The first definitive history of America's most notorious jail and the violent rise of New York City's law enforcement...  Read More >>

This text presents the foundations of correctional treatment and intervention, including overviews of the major...  Read More >>

The first definitive history of America's most notorious jail and the violent rise of New York City's law enforcement...  Read More >>

David Fraser offers a sobering indictment of post-war British governments, who have overseen and fostered a spectacular...  Read More >>

Licence to Kill demonstrates that the death penalty was an effective deterrent to homicide but does not argue for...  Read More >>

Changing of the Guards is the first comprehensive assessment of how for- and not-for-profit private organizations...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1983, examines in detail the training of the key group of people within the British...  Read More >>

Evidence of Innocence attests to the reality that the more serious the charge, the harder it is to prove innocence...  Read More >>

Illiterate Inmates tells the story of the emergence, at the turn of the nineteenth century, of a powerful idea -...  Read More >>

Ninety-five percent of the millions of American men and women who go to prison eventually get out. What happens...  Read More >>

First collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration....  Read More >>

"""The other Dr. Gilmer is a work of nonfiction. Some names and identifying details have been changed, and some...  Read More >>

"The death penalty was Virginia's longest continuing tradition, dating back to 1608 when Capt. George Kendall was...  Read More >>

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This thoughtful examination of incarceration in the United States from the 1980s to the current time offers for...  Read More >>

This book establishes a new framework for the architectural design of prisons in non-repressive prison models to...  Read More >>

Based on two empirically rigorous studies, this book analyses how prisoners attempt to adapt and control their emotions....  Read More >>

"This general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Pich and Kevin Walby features articles...  Read More >>

The gruesome and compelling tale of Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard, the longest-serving executioner for the colony of...  Read More >>

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This book explores Sydney’s contemporary night-time economy as the product of an intersection of both local and...  Read More >>

This edited collection addresses the topic of prison governance which is crucial to our understanding of contemporary...  Read More >>

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin...  Read More >>

Offering an important addition to existing critiques of governance feminism and carceral expansion based mainly...  Read More >>