Sentencing & punishment books

This book is the first examination of the history of prison policy in Ireland. Despite sharing a legal and penal...  Read More >>

This book is the first examination of the history of prison policy in Ireland. Despite sharing a legal and penal...  Read More >>

This book confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in...  Read More >>

A practical and straightforward guide to the criminal process in England and Wales, from the start of criminal proceedings...  Read More >>

This book confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in...  Read More >>

This book analyses the process of international sentencing in the ICTY and ICTR and suggests a more coherent system...  Read More >>

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<p>Prisoners' Rights: Principles and Practice considers prisoners' rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives,...  Read More >>

This book provides an analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from...  Read More >>

Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending,...  Read More >>

Describes and analyses internationally significant theoretical and empirical work on offender supervision, and addresses...  Read More >>

Describes and analyses internationally significant theoretical and empirical work on offender supervision, and addresses...  Read More >>

Far from being a utopian, soft and ineffectual concept, Meyer shows that mercy already operates within the law in...  Read More >>

Is there room for mercy in a system of justice?  Read More >>

<p> Every good criminal attorney knows two things a precise understanding of the law is crucial when representing...  Read More >>

"The United States stands alone as the only Western democracy that still practices capital punishment. Yet the American...  Read More >>

Blackstone's Criminal Practice provides in a single, portable and superbly-referenced volume all the material essential...  Read More >>

Blackstone's Criminal Practice provides in a single, portable and superbly-referenced volume all the material essential...  Read More >>

Blackstone's Criminal Practice provides in a single, portable and superbly-referenced volume all the material essential...  Read More >>

Blackstone's Criminal Practice provides in a single, portable and superbly-referenced volume all the material essential...  Read More >>

Essays which span several periods in the history of capital punishment in America and the professional career of...  Read More >>

Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one...  Read More >>

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

What acts truly deserve the death penalty? And how equitably do we apply this ultimate punishment? Cathleen Burnett...  Read More >>