Sentencing & punishment books

This volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldest and most contested questions...  Read More >>

The U.S. has become the world's leading jailer, housing 22.4% of the world's inmates, but has only 4.6% of its population....  Read More >>

This book provides a critical analysis of the intricate relationships between the punishment of women, community...  Read More >>

Testimony on battered woman syndrome (BWS), as a widely used self-defense strategy, has been accepted in all state...  Read More >>

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Identifies a lost ingredient of criminal justice: showing where criminal justice 'went wrong'; why it needs to recover...  Read More >>

"Back Page This book is a ""must have"" for any American undergoing federal prosecution or sentencing. Some of the...  Read More >>

Prisons and imprisonment have become a commonplace topic in popular culture as the setting and rationale for fiction...  Read More >>

The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather...  Read More >>

The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather...  Read More >>

The United States Sentencing Commission submits this report at the request of Congress on a subject of deep concern...  Read More >>

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This volume brings together classic journal articles on sentencing selected from the work of leading, international...  Read More >>

This book examines the penal differences between Anglophone and Scandinavian countries and explores how these two...  Read More >>

First published in 1976, this book examines the practical workings of the English criminal court system, focusing...  Read More >>

A bold questioning of culture-based reparative justice initiatives – the political culture that inspired them and...  Read More >>

No es algo comun, por desgracia para la transmision del conocimiento, encontrar trabajos de estudiantes universitarios...  Read More >>

Summer was to be over in less than a month and, like any ordinary teenager, Ruby wanted to spend her last few days...  Read More >>

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Marieke's Last Summer is a true story of a Dutch woman from Costa Blanca in Spain. In early 2012, she was told that...  Read More >>

Why is punishment not more effective? Why do we have such high re-offending rates? How can we deal with crime and...  Read More >>

This work brings together all the up-to-date material on sentencing and presents it in a concise and logical form....  Read More >>

What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered?...  Read More >>