Penology & punishment books

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From prisoner to PhD student - how one woman turned her jail sentence into an opportunity Kerry Tucker seemed to...  Read More >>

At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts--a good student from a lower-middle-class family--carjacked a man with a...  Read More >>

At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts--a good student from a lower-middle-class family--carjacked a man with a...  Read More >>

Drawing on research from New York State, the contributors argue that, while massive decarceration is taking place,...  Read More >>

Who said finding yourself was easy? When a wild night out in Barcelona in 1972 ends in a savage police beating...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch liefert eine Zwischenbilanz über die Situation des Strafvollzugs. Die Autoren dieses Sammelbandes beleuchten...  Read More >>

Over 3,000 entries from 1850 with crimes listed from petty theft to murder. Includes personal details of convicts...  Read More >>

With reform of parole now on the political agenda, will a more formal process of release operate toconstrain the...  Read More >>

An eye-opening account of how and why evangelical Christian ministries are flourishing in prisons across the United...  Read More >>

Carceral Spaces and Animals develops a framework for exploring embodied, geographical, legal, and ethical resonances...  Read More >>

A rare expert analysis of the law of murder and its faults. Shows how Governments have failed to grapple with defects...  Read More >>

This edited collection utilises recent advances in theories on masculinities to explore and analyse the ways in...  Read More >>

Pentridgetells of prison life and events during the troubled 1970s when rebellion was in the air, and when Pentridge...  Read More >>

This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China. Chen provides empirical...  Read More >>

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In 1923, the Soviet state decided to create a prison camp on the Solovki archipelago, the site of a former monastery....  Read More >>

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This edited collection is concerned with the ideas, challenges, demands and framework of conditions behind police...  Read More >>

Sentencing Policy and Social Justice argues that the promotion of social justice should become a key objective of...  Read More >>

The result is a critical and theoretically informed understanding of prison escapes – which has sofar been absent...  Read More >>

This book examines how the form and function of prisons in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras differ,...  Read More >>