Penology & punishment books

This title was first published in 2000:  Between 1900 and 1950 130 women were sentenced to death for murder in England...  Read More >>

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MEDITATION FOR PRISONERS I started studying meditation because I firmly expected to go to prison as a result of...  Read More >>

This book offers a systematic, sociological and penological exploration of the most up-to-date uses of electronic...  Read More >>

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This book offers a unique examination of how violence is situationally induced and reproduced for those inmates...  Read More >>

This book contributes to current debates about “queer outsides” and “queer outsiders” that emerge from tensions...  Read More >>

Tina Maschi and Keith Morgen offer a data-driven and compassionate analysis of the lives of incarcerated older people....  Read More >>

This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an English prison responded to viewing five contemporary...  Read More >>

Bringing together a variety of international voices from the Convict Criminology community, this edited volume surveys...  Read More >>

This book combines the latest in sociology, psychology, and biology to present evidence-based research on what works...  Read More >>

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The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese...  Read More >>

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families. It provides...  Read More >>

The profile of prisoners across many Western countries is strikingly similar – 95% male, predominantly undereducated...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of...  Read More >>

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

During the American Civil War, more than four hundred women were arrested and imprisoned by the Union Army in the...  Read More >>

Provides the first comprehensive history of Texas prisons. Bob Alexander and Richard Alford chronicle the significant...  Read More >>

Combining works by various authors, it presents diverse perspectives on prison violence: in countries ranging from...  Read More >>

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