Penology category: 518 books
Prison Breaks
Toward a Sociology of Escape
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes. The chapters comprise original research from established prison scholars who develop the contours of a sociology of prison escapes. Drawing on firm empirical evidence from places like India, Tunisia,...
by Walter S. DeKeseredy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The concept of critical criminology – that crime and the present day processes of criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society – is of more relevance today than it has been at any other time.
Written by an internationally renowned scholar, Contemporary Critical Criminology...
by Sheldon L. Messinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This groundbreaking study of transitions and control in the California prison system has been extensively read, cited, and quoted in unpublished form, and is finally available worldwide. A compelling part of the canon of studies in penology, criminology, sociology, and organizational theory, STRATEGIES...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays on a wide range of topics concerning prisons and imprisonment. Bringing together three of the leading prison scholars in the UK as editors, this new volume builds on the success of the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This edited collection utilises recent advances in theories on masculinities to explore and analyse the ways in which prisons shape performances of gender, both within prison settings and following release from prison. The authors assess here how the highly gendered world of the prison (where the...
by Jennifer Anne Sloan
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
This book critically analyses how men in prison act out their masculine identities. It considers how men negotiate their time in prison, which can involve being placed into a feminine position relative to other men, and particularly looks at the subversion of heteronormative gender positionings through...
Rights and Wrongs
Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
This book seeks to explain why the concept of justice is critical to the study of criminal justice. Heffernan makes such a case by treating state-sponsored punishment as the defining feature of criminal justice. In particular, this work accounts for the state’s role as a surrogate for victims of...
The Prison and the Factory (40th Anniversary Edition)
Origins of the Penitentiary System
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This new edition of The Prison and the Factory, a classic work on radical criminology, includes two new, long essays from the authors and a foreword from Professor Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley). In the two essays, Melossi and Pavarini reflect on the origins, development and fortune of The Prison and...
The American Prison
Imagining a Different Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
For the first time in four decades, prison populations are declining and politicians have reached the consensus that mass imprisonment is no longer sustainable. At this unique moment in the history of corrections, the opportunity has emerged to discuss in meaningful ways how best to shape efforts...
Europe in Prisons
Assessing the Impact of European Institutions on National Prison Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This volume explores the role that European institutions have come to play in regulating national prisons systems. The authors introduce and contribute to advancing a new research agenda in international penology (‘Europe in prisons’) which complements the conventional comparative approach (‘prisons...
Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System
A Theological Rereading of Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The Cincinnati Penal Congress of 1870 ushered in the era of "progressive" penology: the use of statistical and social scientific methodologies, commitment to psychiatric and therapeutic interventions, and a new innovation--the reformatory--as the locus for the application of these initiatives. The...
A Doctor on the Inside
From the County Jail to the Supermax
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Get both of Dr. William Wright’s best-selling, award-winning books in a single
volume!
Maximum Insecurity chronicles Wright’s true-life metamorphosis from suburban
ear surgeon to life as the sole physician at Colorado’s maximum-security prison.
Jailhouse Doc follows Wright’s...
by Buzzy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
This is the story of lifelong musician Buzzy Martin, music teacher to the hardened criminals inside the walls of San Quentin Prison-and what he learned, note by incredible note.
The Prison Angel
Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually...