Penology & punishment books

First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging....  Read More >>

Prison memoir book by Stephen Jackley, who spent 12 years in various different establishments across the UK. Reflects...  Read More >>

Prison memoir book by Stephen Jackley, who spent 12 years in various different establishments across the UK. Reflects...  Read More >>

Ideal for correctional psychology practitioners, students of correctional and forensic psychology, and those interested...  Read More >>

The Journey from Prison to Community: Developing Identity, Meaning and Belonging with Men in the UK provides a practical...  Read More >>

Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on Criminology and Criminal Justice ideologies and practices,...  Read More >>

Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on Criminology and Criminal Justice ideologies and practices,...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the historical role of punishment in the management of labour, examining a variety of cases...  Read More >>

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 >>

"Dorothea Lynde Dix's groundbreaking work on prison reform is a poignant and powerful call for change. Her fifth...  Read More >>

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

An indispensable guide to the feminist case for prison abolition  Read More >>

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

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

This book interrogates Conservative government penal policy for adult and young adult offenders in England and Wales...  Read More >>

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

This book investigates the penal cultures in France and Germany - how it is shaped in politics, media, and public...  Read More >>

Providing an in-depth, international perspective of women’s resilience, Gendered Perspectives of Restorative Justice,...  Read More >>

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