Penology category: 518 books
The Struggle Within
Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
An accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer, The Struggle Within discusses how mass imprisonment has been a state-sponsered tool of repression deployed against diverse, left-wing social movements over the last 50 years. Author Dan Berger goes on to examine some of the most dynamic social movements...
by Theresa Jach
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The state of Texas, home to one of the largest prison systems in the country, opened its first penitentiary in 1849. The Walls Unit in Huntsville was the genesis of a prison system that became the home of notorious convicts and the focus of much debate about incarceration and the death penalty in the...
Thinking about Crime
Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
In this wide-ranging analysis, Michael Tonry argues that those responsible for crafting America's criminal justice policy have lost their way in a forest of good intentions, political cynicism, and public anxieties. American crime control politics over time have created a punishment system no one...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitute for...
by Ian O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Examining two overlapping aspects of the prison experience that, despite their central importance, have not attracted the scholarly attention they deserve, this book assesses both the degree to which prisoners can withstand the rigours of solitude and how they experience the passing of time. In particular,...
by Franklin E. Zimring
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved? In The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring...
by Charlotte Knight, Kath Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book explores the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities as victims, offenders and staff within the criminal justice system. It draws on both emerging and existing LGBT research and campaigns to identify and explore issues relevant to the criminal justice system, including:...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
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 Crown courts.
Probation
12 Essential Questions
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
This volume poses a series of key questions about the practice of probation as an integral part of the European criminal justice system. The contributors are established experts in their respective fields of study and together their questions address the legitimacy, and perhaps continued existence,...
Religion, Faith and Crime
Theories, Identities and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
This unique collection brings together international contributors from a range of disciplines to explore crime and responses to crime through a religious/faith-based lens. At a time when religion is under the media spotlight in terms of religiously-motivated hate crime, terrorism and child abuse this...
Penal Populism and Public Opinion
Lessons from Five Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2002
Although criminal justice systems vary greatly around the world, one theme has emerged in all western jurisdictions in recent years: a rise in both the rhetoric and practice of severe punishment at a time when public opinion has played a pivotal role in sentencing policy and reforms. Despite the differences...
Carceral Spatiality
Dialogues between Geography and Criminology
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
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 concepts of identity, memory and internal...
New Perspectives on Desistance
Theoretical and Empirical Developments
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This book brings together a collection of emergent research that moves the debate on desistance beyond a general consideration of individual and social structural influences. The authors examine empirical developments which have implications for policy surrounding resettlement and re-offending, but...
What Will Happen to Me
Every Night, Approximately Three Million Children Go To Bed With A Parent In Pri
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
What is life like for a child who has a parent in prison? This book brings together photographic portraits of 30 children whose parents are incarcerated, along with their thoughts and reflections, in their own words. As Taylor says, "I want other kids to know that, even though your parents are locked...