Sentencing & punishment books

In the eloquent tradition of Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, an award-winning leader in the movement to end mass incarceration...  Read More >>

Exploring the expansion of the penal system in Spain during the first forty years of democracy, this book puts forward...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, Crime, Criminal Justice and the Probation Service is a thought-provoking analysis of the...  Read More >>

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia....  Read More >>

This book provides a socio-legal examination of the media’s influence on the development and implementation of criminal...  Read More >>

This book argues that the expressivist justice model, which has the capacity to create a historical narrative of...  Read More >>

This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of...  Read More >>

This collection of research and evaluation explores issues in mental health and probation across the globe. The...  Read More >>

This book provides a detailed exploration of the responses of the criminal justice system to domestic abuse in Northern...  Read More >>

This book explores the challenges of transitional justice in West Africa, specifically how countries in the region...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons;...  Read More >>

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

The Twentieth Anniversary edition of Rethinking What Works with Offenders contains the original text along with...  Read More >>

Punishment for the Greater Good examines the justification of punishment in the here and now, recognizing that we...  Read More >>

This volume in the Advances in Criminological Theory series takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and...  Read More >>

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The Rule-Out Method of Criminal Defense brings defense advocacyback to its intended strengths, teaching readers...  Read More >>

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The National Registry of Exonerations reports more than 3,499 exonerations since 1989, reflecting more than 31,900...  Read More >>

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"""This volume presents essays evaluating the similarities and differences between the legal, political, ethical,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections assesses and analyses the status of community corrections...  Read More >>

Using real world cases, this book reveals the tendency of magistrates' courts to prioritise efficiency over substantive...  Read More >>

This volume provides a valuable companion for all those working, not only with adults, but also with children and...  Read More >>