Penology category: 518 books
Compulsory
Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
“This is an American story, unsettled by contradictions, constituted by unresolvable loss and open-ended hope, produced through brutal exclusivities and persistent insurgencies. This is the story of Lincoln prison.” In her Introduction, Sabina E. Vaught passionately details why the subject of prisons...
Good Kids, Bad City
A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.
In the early 1970s, three...
by R. A. Duff
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the whole penal system. Recent theorizing...
National Security, Surveillance and Terror
Canada and Australia in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This edited collection brings together leading scholars to comparatively investigate national security, surveillance and terror in the early 21st century in two major western jurisdictions, Canada and Australia. Observing that much debate about these topics is dominated by US and UK perspectives,...
by Joshua M. Price
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is to face systematic violence, humiliation, and, perhaps worst of all, separation from family and community. It is, to borrow Orlando Patterson’s term for the utter isolation of slavery,...
by David Garland
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
First published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today's sociology of punishment. It is now republished with a new Preface by the author.
'Punishment and Welfare' explores the relation of punishment to politics, the historical formation...
What Works in Offender Compliance
International Perspectives and Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
This comprehensive edited collection draws together the latest international literature on offender compliance during penal supervision and after court orders expire. Outlining emerging developments in compliance research, theory, policy and practice, this book considers a wide range of offenders including women and young people.
Bodies in Beds
Why Business Should Out of Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Can privatization really help solve America's prison problems? A mental health professional tells a compelling story of suicidal inmates and mistreated inmates, with staff working overtime without compensation while frustration grows.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2002
The Correctional Mental Health Handbook is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the services provided by correctional mental health professionals for the various populations found in correctional programs and facilities. Edited by Thomas J. Fagan and Robert K. Ax, experts with over...
Modelling the Criminal Lifestyle
Theorizing at the Edge of Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book offers Walters's latest evolution of criminal lifestyle theory. It introduces the concept of criminal thought content to illustrate how the potential interplay between what offenders think and their thought processes can greatly aid our understanding of both crime and criminals. In this...
Prison Power
How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the African American Communication and Culture Division's 2017 Outstanding Book Award, both from the National Communication Association
In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource....
Contrasts in Punishment
An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia...
Desistance from Sexual Offending
Narratives of Retirement, Regulation and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community. Unlike much of the research on this topic, Harris places strong emphasis on how men who have committed serious sexual offenses come to stop...
Experiencing Corrections
From Practitioner to Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Written by scholars who have practical experience in corrections, the readable essays in this one-of-a-kind collection draw on real-world experiences to illustrate theoretical and methodological concepts and demonstrate approaches to corrections practice. Spanning the three general types of correctional...