Criminology category: 4273 books
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...
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,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography provides an expansive overview of the challenges presented by qualitative, and particularly ethnographic, enquiry. The chapters reflect upon the means by which ethnographers aim to gain understanding, make sense of what they learn and the way they represent...
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...
Dangerous Offenders
Punishment and Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This highly controversial new book considers how the dangerous offender has become such a figure of collective anxiety for the citizens of rationalised Western societies. The authors consider:
* ideas of danger and social threat in historical perspective
* legal responses to violent criminals
* attempts...
Reparation for Victims of Crimes against Humanity
The healing role of reparation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Each year, countless people fall victim to crimes against humanity. These include widespread occurrences of systematic murder, torture, rape, disappearances, forced deportation and political persecution. Crimes against humanity constitute an attack on human dignity and as such they violate the human...
Young Offenders and the Law
How the Law Responds to Youth Offending
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
How does the law deal with young offenders, and to what extent does the law protect and promote the rights of young people in conflict with the law? These are the central issues addressed by Young Offenders and the Law in its examination of the legal response to the phenomenon of youth offending,...
by Karen Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders is a fully up-to-date, comprehensive and user-friendly guide on those offenders who are often assessed as being dangerous.
Outlining, evaluating and commenting on specific methods, regimes and strategies for dealing...
Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management
A History of Probation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management provides the most accessible and up-to-date account of the origins and development of the Probation Service in England and Wales.
The book explores and explains the changes that have taken place in the service, the pressures and tensions that have...
Offending Girls
Young Women and Youth Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls’ offending in Britain reached fever pitch. No longer sugar and spice, a ‘new breed’ of girl, the hedonistic, violent, binge-drinking ‘ladette’, was reported to have emerged. At the same time, the number of young women entering the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Contemporary prison practice faces many challenges, is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized, influenced by the new National Offender Management Service. As well as bringing an increased emphasis on skills and qualifications it has also introduced a new set of ideas and concepts...
What Else Works?
Creative Work with Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
What Else Works? has developed out of a growing awareness amongst practitioners that centralized notions of what works and ‘one size fits all’ approaches to work with offenders and other groups is inevitably limited in its scope and effectiveness.
The book seeks to dispel the view of probation...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Contemporary probation practice is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized. Probation officers are typically described now as offender managers, and the creation of NOMS (National Offender Management Service) has broadened the remit of the Probation Service. As well as bringing...