Sentencing & punishment books

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Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account

Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account

Author: Kjell Anderson (University of the Fraser Valley, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367194826
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Focusing on the relationship between the micro level of perpetrator motivation and the macro level normative discourse,...  Read More >>

Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions

Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology...

Author: Mark Godsey
ISBN: 9780520305632
Format: Paperback
$40.95

Awarded Digital Book World’s Best Book Published by a University Press  In this unprecedented view from the trenches,...  Read More >>

The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody: Circles of Support and Accountability

The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody: Circles...

Author: David Thompson (University of Sheffield, UK) ,  Terry Thomas (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367227111
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Circles of Support and Accountability is a voluntary initiative that assists people with convictions for sexual...  Read More >>

Transforming Summary Justice: Modernisation in the Lower Criminal Courts

Transforming Summary Justice: Modernisation in the Lower...

Author: Jenni Ward (Middlesex University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367226091
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book details changes to ‘summary justice’ in the lower tier magistrates’ courts in England and Wales. It contextualises...  Read More >>

Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner

Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner

Author: Diana Johns (Aberystwyth University, Wales)
ISBN: 9780367227227
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book casts new light on men’s experience of release from prison. Drawing on research conducted in Australia,...  Read More >>

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

Author: Mariana Valverde (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367226541
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book explores the contribution of Michel Foucault to criminology, law and justice, surveying both the ways...  Read More >>

Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections

Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections

Author: Rose Ricciardelli (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) ,  Dale C. Spencer (Carleton University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367227142
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections critically assesses of what is meant by the term ‘sex offender’, and acknowledges...  Read More >>

Perpetrators of International Crimes: Theories, Methods, and Evidence

Perpetrators of International Crimes: Theories, Methods,...

Author: Alette Smeulers (University of Groningen) ,  Assistant Professor Maartje Weerdesteijn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9780191868375
Format: Undefined
$303.60

Why would anyone commit a mass atrocity such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or terrorism? This...  Read More >>

A System of Pleas: Social Sciences Contributions to the Real Legal System

A System of Pleas: Social Sciences Contributions to...

Author: Vanessa A Edkins (Florida Institute of Technology) ,  Professor Allison D Redlich (Department of Criminology Law and Society George Mason University)
ISBN: 9780190689278
Format: Undefined
$153.12

"Over 95% of criminal convictions are by guilty plea. Trials are the rarity, and while much has been written on...  Read More >>

The Criminal Case Review Commission

The Criminal Case Review Commission

Author: Director Carolyn Hoyle (Centre for Criminology) ,  Mai Sato (Australia National University)
ISBN: 9780191836022
Format: Undefined
$277.20

This book reveals what happens to applications for post-conviction review when those in England, Wales, and Northern...  Read More >>

Imagining a Greater Justice: Criminal Violence, Punishment and Relational Justice

Imagining a Greater Justice: Criminal Violence, Punishment...

Author: Samuel H. Pillsbury
ISBN: 9781138354197
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Acknowledging that public fear and anger about criminal violence drive the punitive impulse that created the mass...  Read More >>

Imagining a Greater Justice: Criminal Violence, Punishment and Relational Justice

Imagining a Greater Justice: Criminal Violence, Punishment...

Author: Samuel H. Pillsbury
ISBN: 9781138354173
Format: Hardback
$347.00

Acknowledging that public fear and anger about criminal violence drive the punitive impulse that created the mass...  Read More >>

‘Doing’ Coercion in Male Custodial Settings: An Ethnography of Italian Prison Officers Using Force

‘Doing’ Coercion in Male Custodial Settings: An Ethnography...

Author: Luigi Gariglio (University of Turin, Italy)
ISBN: 9780367207991
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book offers a sustained study of on one feature of a prison officer’s job: ‘doing’ coercion. Adopting an interactionist...  Read More >>

Life Imprisonment: A Global Human Rights Analysis

Life Imprisonment: A Global Human Rights Analysis

Author: Dirk Van Zyl Smit ,  Catherine Appleton
ISBN: 9780674980662
Format: Hardback
$120.95

Life imprisonment has replaced the death penalty as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide....  Read More >>

Race and Ethnicity in the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems: Contemporary issues of offending behavior and judicial responses

Race and Ethnicity in the Juvenile and Criminal Justice...

Author: Jennifer Peck (University of Central Florida, Florida, USA) ,  Senem Aydin-Duzgit (Sabanci University, Turkey)
ISBN: 9780367139117
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This edited collection of research aims to highlight contemporary issues surrounding the overrepresentation of racial...  Read More >>

Criminal Accusation: Political Rationales and Socio-Legal Practices

Criminal Accusation: Political Rationales and Socio-Legal...

Author: George Pavlich
ISBN: 9780367185633
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Accusing someone of committing a crime arrests everyday social relations and unfurls rituals that decide on who...  Read More >>

Why Did the Policewoman Cross the Road? to Bring Some Order to the Chaos: Lined Journal Notebook

Why Did the Policewoman Cross the Road? to Bring Some...

Author: Yespen Yespencil
ISBN: 9781794343306
Format: Paperback
$18.35

Are you in search for an entertaining gift for a policewoman? This spacious 8.5'' x 11'' notebook provides plenty...  Read More >>

Condemned to Die: Life Under Sentence of Death

Condemned to Die: Life Under Sentence of Death

Author: Robert Johnson (American University)
ISBN: 9780815362395
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in American prisons and the enormous suffering caused...  Read More >>

Condemned to Die: Life Under Sentence of Death

Condemned to Die: Life Under Sentence of Death

Author: Robert Johnson (American University)
ISBN: 9780815362333
Format: Hardback
$347.00

Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in American prisons and the enormous suffering caused...  Read More >>

Prosecuting the President: How Special Prosecutors Hold Presidents Accountable and Protect the Rule of Law

Prosecuting the President: How Special Prosecutors Hold...

Author: Professor of Law Andrew Coan (University of Arizona)
ISBN: 9780190948184
Format: Undefined
$79.07

"""The perfect book for the present moment. Prosecuting the President is magnificent."" -- David Marcus, Professor...  Read More >>

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