Sentencing & punishment books

Criminal Procedure and Sentencing has been fully revised with updates including: key recent case law, new legislation...  Read More >>

"This document contains the text of the Guidelines Manual incorporating amendments effective November 1, 2023, and...  Read More >>

Through clients’ stories and historical perspectives, Andrea D. Lyon explains what’s wrong with the criminal justice...  Read More >>

Understanding Victimology: An Active Learning Approach is the only textbook with extensive discussion of both online...  Read More >>

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This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or...  Read More >>

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers...  Read More >>

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically...  Read More >>

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically...  Read More >>

This edited collection offers chapters from international criminology scholars, activists, and practitioners to...  Read More >>

This book presents a comparative study of desistance from crime by analysing and comparing the narratives of English...  Read More >>

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"Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high. This...  Read More >>

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last twenty years and offers a critical...  Read More >>

How four Supreme Court cases in recent years—all argued and won by one indomitable lawyer—are central to the pursuit...  Read More >>

This book systematically defends an account of the institution of legal punishment that draws on both retributive...  Read More >>

A comprehensive analysis of the historical and contemporary challenges faced by LGBTQ+ individuals, intersectionality...  Read More >>

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy presents the results of a worldwide exchange of information...  Read More >>

Offering an important addition to existing critiques of governance feminism and carceral expansion based mainly...  Read More >>

Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tragedy: Modern-day...  Read More >>