Social Science : Penology

Based on interviews with 25 men and women who were recently released from prison, this book explores the re-entry process and the barriers that lead to faile......

Gates of Injustice is an extraordinarily compelling expose of the American prison system now completely updated: how more than 2,000,000 Americans came to be......

Thinking Space looks at a range of social theorists and asks what role space plays in their work, what difference (if any) it makes to their concepts, and wh......

Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration an......

This book examines the control of problem behaviour in prison from a situational crime prevention perspective. Following the success of situational crime pre......

What Works in Corrections examines the impact of correctional interventions, management policies, treatment and rehabilitation programs on the recidivism of ......

What are the critical factors that determine whether a country replaces, retains or restores the death penalty? Why do some countries maintain the death pena......

Punishment is the common response to crime and deviance in all societies. However, its particular form and purpose are also linked to specific features of th......

Over the last three decades the United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 pe......

America is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account - a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the retu......

Over the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly p......

Revolution in Penology is a thoroughly original and thought-provoking critique of penal harm, the recursive pains of imprisonment cycle, and the normalizatio......

Veronica Compton Wallace was convicted of attempted murder (the Hillside Strangler case in California). Her 21 years as a prisoner have afforded her a rare v......

Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin o......

In this âÂÂmoving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on familiesâ (Parents' Press), award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes an inti......

One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs,......

Prison Round Trip is a reflection on prison life and how to keep one’s sanity and political integrity behind bars. Grappling with themes of consciousne......

What is restorative justice ... and does it work? These are just two of the many questions posed by David J Cornwell in this incisive work. Based on a...

Joyce Dixson killed a man. As she stood in the courtroom and listened to the Judge issue the verdict, bewildered, she thought: "How could my life have come t......

So much of the process of criminal justice depends on good documentation, and criminal justice professionals can spend as much as 50-75 of their time writing......