Social Science : Penology

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of the probation service. It brings together themes of policy, theory and practice......

Synopsis: Disposable Youth has the power to change America. Seventy percent of the 2.4 million prisoners in America today are high school dropouts. Half of......

Prisons The World Over reports prison conditions, number of prisoners and occupancy level, offenses for which inmates are interred, and average length of inc......

Exploring the history and tragedy of concentration camps that were built, staged, and filled with adults and children under the orders of the U.S. government......

An award-winning journalist tells the personal stories of five convicted murderers, offering a new perspective on guilt, forgiveness, and second chances in A......

The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the ex......

For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deporable but seemingly universal trait has......

The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the ex......

Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in thi......

Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practica......

Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice. Its advocates and practitioners argue that state punishme......

At a time of increased interest and renewed shock over the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Acres of Skin sheds light on yet another dark episode of American m......

The last twenty-five years have seen dramatic rises in the prison populations of most industrialised nations. Unable to keep up with increased numbers of con......

More than the citizens of most countries, Americans are either religious or in jail--or both. But what does it mean when imprisonment and evangelization actu......

This book explores several topics pertaining to suicide and deliberate self-harm in the corrections setting, including who tends to commit these acts; where,......

Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study reveals the economic and religious underpinnings to modern notions of crime and punishment. Contra Michel Foucaul......

Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study reveals the economic and religious underpinnings to modern notions of crime and punishment. Contra Michel Foucaul......

Generation after generation has come up with new forms of punishment to inflict on those guilty (and sometimes innocent) of crimes against property and perso......

Use of investigative poetics to describe the American justice and penal systems. Author: Hartnett, Stephen John Publisher: Altamira Press Illustration: N La......

Use of investigative poetics to describe the American justice and penal systems. Author: Hartnett, Stephen John Publisher: Altamira Press Illustration: N La......