Penology and punishment Books

This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain. By presenting a detailed discourse analysis of 650 broadsides printed across Britain between the years 1800-1850, this book...

This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime. This ever-growing field has become increasingly relevant as questions of serious issues regarding sentencing, probation and the penal system...

This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus. With a particular focus on women's penal policy, Birkett uncovers how reform strategies have augmented and developed under...

This book addresses the core issues in prisoner reentry into society after incarceration. The chapters are written by academic scholars who have much experience researching and writing about prisoner reentry and by people who work in the...

This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at...

Offering a timely reanalysis of the issue of Japan's capital punishment policy, this cutting edge volume considers the de facto moratorium periods in Japan's death penalty system and proposes an alternative analytical framework to examine the policy...

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration. Rather than focusing on the bricks and mortar of institutional spaces, this volume's inventive engagements in 'thinking through carcerality' touch on more elusive...

Over the past decade the death penalty has sharply declined across the African continent, and the number of executions outside of North Africa has fallen to a trickle. While this would seem to fit within the general global decline in executions and the...

This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland. Through the voices of female and male combatants, it demonstrates that women remained marginal in the...

Dies ist eine kritische Untersuchung der Todesstrafe und ihrer moralischen Implikationen aus Sicht der Vernunft und des Christentums. Es bietet eine scharfsinnige Analyse der ethischen Fragen rund um die Todesstrafe und ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur...

From a nine-by-eleven cell in a maximum-security prison, Byron Case, a one-time child prodigy wrongfully convicted of murder at age twenty-three, began blogging. Composed on an electronic typewriter, his dispatches take many forms-richly textured...

Holly's Hell is a remarkable story of trauma and redemption.At the age of 29, Holly Deane-Johns was found guilty of attempting to post 15 grams of heroin to Australia from Bangkok.She narrowly avoided the death penalty but received a 31-year prison...

This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women's prison system in crisis. Through in-depth historical research conducted in the Australian state of Victoria that spans the 1980s and 1990s, the authors...

This book highlights and examines the level, reach and consequences of corruption in international criminal justice systems. The book argues that corruption in and of criminal justice is an international problem regardless of the jurisdiction and type of...

This book provides an important, critical, feminist perspective on desistance theory and practice. It is built around 23 original, narrative interviews with women and the staff of the community projects they attended, as well as a year of observations at...

Through a collection of essays and poems, Sal shows us how God took an angry bitter man bent on retribution and troublemaking and made him into a Christlike soldier for justice. Writing as a Christian and a jailhouse lawyer, Sal aims to change the world...

This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands. Over the years changes in Dutch penal policy have smoothed to some degree the sharp contrasting differences that were once characteristic of the English and the...

Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable? explores the conflicting discourses about employment for women who are exiting prison. It empirically outlines the landscape of employability supports available to reentering women, the 'steps...

This book is the first volume to explore criminal justice work and criminological research through the lens of emotional labour. A concept first coined 30 years ago, emotional labour seeks to explore the ways in which people manage their emotions in...

This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting their autonomy and responsibility...

When it was published twenty years ago, Rethinking What Works with Offenders made a major contribution to criminological knowledge on why people stopped offending, and the impact the probation service had on the desistance process. Unlike other studies...

With contributions by experts from official agencies in Africa, international financial institutions, the private sector, and academia, this book focuses on financial sector development in SubSaharan Africa and how institutions can play a more active...

Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth and development.

Incarceration ... Is it an outcome of past actions, or a pathway for reflection. Perhaps each soul is to decide for themselves?Join the author, as he works through his time in prison, and the 'head miles' he travels, reflecting on the decisions and...

SARAH and ROBERT who are brother and sister were ravenous. They saw the window of a house slightly ajar. ROBERT, who was aged 14, climbed through the window to see if he could find some food. Sarah who was just 16, protested to ROBERT not...

A uniquely-sourced account of the life and times of one of the UK's most famous prisons - a fame that flows directly from an account of the execution of Trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge (CTW) as written by Reading Gaol's best-known prisoner, C.3.3, the...

In eighteenth century continental Europe penal law was barbaric. Gallows were a regular feature of the landscape, branding and mutilation common and there existed the ghastly spectacle of men being broken on the wheel. To make matters worse, people were...

Hereditary Peers and Hereditary Paupers: The Two Extremes of English Society is a book written by Samuel Hughan in 1885. The book explores the two extremes of English society - the wealthy hereditary peers and the impoverished hereditary paupers. Hughan...

Venture if you will into the thoughts of An Inmate who has spent over 20 years of his life behind bars. Three of them on Death Row. Hear for yourself his emotions , what he deals with in his day to day lifestyle. ...

The history of corporal punishment provides a fascinating window into societal attitudes towards law and order, gender relationships and generational discipline as well. Although a somewhat macabre subject, it affords the interested reader an...

Una visión secreta del traicionero viaje de un hombre arrojado de una vida exitosa en Silicon Valley a la oscura y asfixiante prisión de San Quentin, con asesinatos, asesinos en serie, ratas y COVID en cada esquina. Esta historia real es contada por un...

Henry Hunt's harrowing account of his experiences in prison offers a powerful critique of the criminal justice system and the inhumane conditions faced by incarcerated individuals. More than a mere exposé, this moving book is a call to action, urging...

This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration.

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison. Through harnessing material and emotional support offered through family, prisoners can have a stronger commitment to move...

History Of The Society For Promoting Female Education In The East is a book written by the Society For Promoting Female Education In The East and published in 1847. The book provides a detailed account of the history of the Society and its efforts to...

Note sur la th�����orie de la r�����paration dans le syst�����me r�����pressif (1891) est un livre �����crit par Adolphe Prins. Dans ce livre, l'auteur explore la th�����orie de la r�����paration dans le syst�����me r�����pressif et propose des solutions...

""Le Colonie Penali E Le Colonie Libere"" ����� un libro scritto da G. Emilio Cerruti nel 1873. Il libro offre una descrizione dettagliata delle colonie penali e delle colonie libere in Italia durante il XIX secolo. Cerruti analizza il sistema...

Peer mentoring is an increasingly popular criminal justice intervention in custodial and community settings. Peer mentors are community members, often with lived experiences of criminal justice, who work or volunteer to help people in rehabilitative...

This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally. Divided into four parts, the book provides a balance of theoretical and empirical insights. Anchored in a...

In questo saggio Raffaele Nulli esplora la situazione delle carceri e dei manicomi in Italia. Attraverso la descrizione della visita al nuovo manicomio criminale dell'Ambrogiana e l'analisi delle norme che hanno portato alla sua istituzione, Nulli...