Penology and punishment Books

This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to be...

An ideal book for courses in corrections, social problems, criminology, and prisoner re-entry, this new edition dramatically expands and revises the previous edition to include more empirical data, significant engagement with current debates and...

This book is the report of a collaborative effort. Frank Porporino and I arrived at the starting point for our work together by very different routes. Originally trained as an experimental psychologist, I had become in­...

The pieces in this collection range from an account of the Skeleton Army riots against the Salvation Army in the early 1880s to the unsuccessful campaign to abolish the death penalty in the aftermath of the Second World War. They include essays on how...

The haunting specter of hanging trees holds a powerful sway on the American imagination, conjuring images of rough-and-tumble frontier towns struggling to impose law and order in a land where violence was endemic. In this thoughtful study, former New...

The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons builds on the critical and commercial success of the first edition and includes new chapters, new sections and new authors to give it a fresh and significantly different feel to its predecessor.

America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and...

Il Sistema Penitenziario D'Inghilterra E D'Irlanda (1874) di Scalia, Martino Beltrani ����� un libro che esamina il sistema penitenziario dell'Inghilterra e dell'Irlanda nel 1874. Il libro offre una descrizione dettagliata di come funzionavano le...

""Entstehen und Entwickelung der Slavisch-Nationalen Bewegung in B������hmen und M�����hren: Im XIX Jahrhundert"" ist ein Buch von Alfred von Skene, das im Jahr 1893 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es beschreibt die Entstehung und Entwicklung der slawischen...

El libro ""Ensayo sobre la justicia de la pena de muerte"" fue escrito por Ignacio Luis Vallarta en 1857. En este ensayo, Vallarta analiza la pena de muerte desde una perspectiva legal y moral, argumentando que la pena capital es necesaria para mantener...

Die Grundbedingungen jeder Gef�����ngnisreform im Sinne der Einzelhaft ist ein Buch von J. Fuesslin, das im Jahr 1865 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch behandelt die Bedingungen, die notwendig sind, um eine Reform des Gef�����ngnissystems...

""Besserungstrafe und Besserungstrafanstalten als Rechtsforderung"" ist ein Buch, das 1864 von Karl David August Roder ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk untersucht der Autor das Konzept der Besserungstrafe und Besserungstrafanstalten als...

The Handbook On Jail, Chaingang And Almshouse Management (1918) by Frank E. Broyles is a comprehensive guidebook that offers a detailed insight into the management of correctional facilities and almshouses. The book is written in a clear and concise...

""The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844"" is a non-fiction book written by Friedrich Engels and first published in 1892. The book is a detailed and comprehensive study of the living and working conditions of the working-class people in...

""Political Prisoners At Home And Abroad"" is a book written by George Sigerson and originally published in 1890. The book explores the issue of political imprisonment, both in Ireland and around the world. Sigerson examines the cases of various...

The First Five Years Of The Sabbath Reform, 1857-62: With Twenty Documents Of The New York Sabbath Committee (1862) is a historical book written by the New York Sabbath Committee. The book recounts the events that took place during the first five years...

Das Buch ""Die K������rperstrafen"" von Richard Wrede, ver������ffentlicht im Jahr 1898, besch�����ftigt sich mit den verschiedenen Arten von k������rperlichen Strafen, die im Laufe der Geschichte angewendet wurden. Der Autor beschreibt ausf�����hrlich...

Histoire Des Institutions Municipales De Senlis (1881) est un livre �����crit par Jules Flammermont. Il s'agit d'une �����tude d�����taill�����e de l'histoire des institutions municipales de la ville de Senlis, en France, depuis l'�����poque romaine...

Canvassing the socio-legal context for youth detention in Australia with a focus on international human rights law and legal frameworks within Australian states and territories, this book examines the recurring children's rights-violations of recent...

Through different legal and criminological angles and perspectives, this book addresses the controversial question of whether prisoners should have the right to vote, as well as the optimal modalities for such a vote.

This volume explores the theory and practice of sentencing in England and Wales, exploring issues such as the role of previous convictions, offender remorse and sentencing female offenders, as well as drawing upon a new and unique source of data from the...

Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and brothers. Using newspapers, archival sources (including petitions and...

Privatisation was introduced into the probation service on the 1st June 2014 whereby work with medium and low risk offenders went to a number of private and voluntary bodies, work with high risk offenders remained with the State. The National Probation...

More than 2 million persons occupy America's prisons and jails today -- the highest per capita incarceration rate in U.S. history. With just 6 percent of the world's population, the United States now holds 25 percent of its prisoners. At what...

The concept of critical criminology - that crime and the present-day processes of criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society - is of more relevance today than it has been at any other time.Written by an internationally renowned scholar,...

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms. Across Europe, there has been a growth in various forms of public-private cooperation in building and maintaining (new) penal...

Thomas Mott Osborne presents a thoughtful and insightful analysis of the prison system and its impact on society. Drawing on his own experiences as a prisoner, Osborne argues for reforms that prioritize rehabilitation over punishment. This book is a...

A newsletter created by the Illinois State Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois, providing updates on prison life and rehabilitation efforts. This issue includes news about educational programs, sporting events, and the day-to-day workings of the prison. A...

Dans ce livre, l'auteur explore les conditions de vie dans les prisons françaises et propose une étude ethnographique de cet environnement particulier. Les lecteurs y trouveront une analyse originale et pertinente sur ce sujet méconnu.This work has been...

This fascinating account of the English penal system during the Victorian era offers a detailed look at the administration of sentences of penal servitude and the conditions endured by inmates in British prisons. Written by a former director of convict...

Tracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many people's everyday lives. Large sections of the population voluntarily use devices and apps to track fitness, medical conditions, sleep, vital signs or their own or others' whereabouts...

One of the largest and most destructive prison riots in British history occurred in Dartmoor Convict Prison in 1932. Between 1932 and into the 1960s the Dartmoor 'mutiny' was the most widely-known outbreak in British prison history. This was partly due...

THE PRISONER MANIFESTO... the declaration and intentions of More Than An Inmate."Within a hell that America has created and abandoned, we have redeemed ourselves...Having redressed ourselves, we then learned how to express ourselves. We will be heard...

The Bloodiest Prison Uprising in US Penal History provides lessons for present-day institutions involved in American corrections.This is the untold story of the man in charge, who was intimately involved in the bloody prison uprising, and how he later...

As Tennessee grew into a modern state, it found itself increasingly beset by crime. In 1831, the legislature approved the construction of the first penitentiary. The pen world was violent and dark, with several major riots, fires, and escape attempts...

The discipline of adult education has been vastly discussed and optimized over the years. Despite this, certain niches in this area, such as correctional education, remain under-researched and under-developed. Strategic Learning Ideologies in Prison...

Neoslavery, Injustice, Genocide, Racism, and Hate live in the bosom chest of the people behind the prison industry complex here in antediluvian times. Wrong turn, Georgia! Particularly the police, legislators, judges, district attorneys, prosecutors,...

A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves.

The History of the Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals is a comprehensive book written by Charles Lawrence in 1905. The book documents the history of the almshouses and hospitals in Philadelphia from their inception to the time of publication. It...

Discover Humor Behind Bars: Real-Life Tales & Comedic Illustrations From Inside the Big House. Unearth the lighter side of prison life. Delve into the pages of Penitentiary Built, a unique compilation of true, factual stories from the inside of a...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

For nearly twenty years, Glasgow has been coined Europe's murder capital, and identified as having the continent's highest drug harms. The Contemporary History of Drug-Based Organised Crime in Scotland examines converging multiple complexities...

""The Story Of A Strange Career"" is an autobiography written by a convict named Stanley Waterloo and was first published in 1902. The book is an authentic document that provides an insight into the life of a criminal and his experiences in prison. The...

Thirteen Years In The Oregon Penitentiary is a memoir written by Joseph Kelley in 1908. The book details Kelley's experiences during his thirteen-year imprisonment in the Oregon State Penitentiary, where he was incarcerated for the crime of murder...

Le livre ""Pr�����servatif contre les opinions erron�����es qui se r�����pandent au sujet de la dur�����e des peines"" (1760) de Georges Louis Liomin est un texte juridique qui aborde la question de la dur�����e des peines inflig�����es aux criminels...

D�����tail exact de l'Institut �����rig����� pour le soulagement des pauvres en 1779 sur les terres de M. le Comte de Buquoy en Boh������me (1784) est un livre �����crit par Fran�����ois C. Le Roy de Lozembrune. Le livre d�����crit en d�����tail...