Penology category: 518 books
Bad Boys Behind Bars
An Anthology of Prisoners’ Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This book provides a rare glimpse into the lives of some adult male prisoners in a high-security prison in England together with the infrastructure behind the prison service for safer custody, well-being, and personal development of the inmates. Their emotions, anguish, and frustration are revealed...
by Francis T. Cullen, Karen E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Reaffirming Rehabilitation , 2nd Edition, brings fresh insights to one of the core works of criminal justice literature. This groundbreaking work analyzes the rehabilitative ideal within the American correctional system and discusses its relationship to and conflict with political ideologies. Many...
Death by Design
Capital Punishment As a Social Psychological System
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another? In DEATH BY DESIGN, research psychologist Craig Haney argues that capital punishment, and particularly the sequence of events that lead to death sentencing...
Corrections
The Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Corrections: The Essentials, Third Edition is a comprehensive, yet compact version of the typical corrections text. Authors Mary K. Stohr and Anthony Walsh address the most important topics in corrections in a briefer, full-color format, offered at a lower cost. It includes the usual topics typically...
Privatising probation
Is Transforming Rehabilitation the end of the probation ideal?
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Over the past 20 years, there have been many changes to probation governance in England and Wales aimed at controlling it from central government. However, the changes introduced under the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda, introduced in 2013, are unprecedented: the service has been divided...
Correctional Theory
Context and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The Second Edition of Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences continues to identify and evaluate the major competing theories used to guide the goals, policies, and practices of the correctional system. Authors Francis T. Cullen and Cheryl Lero Jonson demonstrate that changes in theories can...
Maconochie's Gentlemen
The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements...
by O'Malley, Lisa, Grace
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
The Short Guide to Criminal Justice provides a comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the current state of the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom. Avoiding an overtly legalistic or philosophical approach, it offers an accessible entry point for students and researchers across disciplines,...
by Erin Brigham, Kimberly Rae Connor
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Begin a dialogue on racial justice, reconciliation, and transformation.
In April of 2017, the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought at the University of San Francisco sponsored a roundtable discussion on race and incarceration. The event brought together the wisdom of...
Parole and Beyond
International Experiences of Life After Prison
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book provides an assessment of contemporary international knowledge about the experiences of life after release from prison. For over 100 years people leaving prison have been supervised by probation services, but little has been written about how those who are supervised experience this process,...
Environmental Corrections
A New Paradigm for Supervising Offenders in the Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
A new paradigm for supervising offenders in the community
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Environmental Corrections is an innovative guide filled with rich insights and strategies for probation and parole officers to effectively integrate offenders back into the community and reduce recidivism. Authors Lacey...
by Peter C. Kratcoski
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the methods used in the Criminal Justice system in the United States to counsel and treat offenders. It is aimed at advanced undergraduate and early graduate-level students for courses in Correctional Treatment or Rehabilitation, or Community Corrections...
God in Captivity
The Rise of Faith-Based Prison Ministries in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
An eye-opening account of how and why evangelical Christian ministries are flourishing in prisons across the United States
It is by now well known that the United States’ incarceration rate is the highest in the world. What is not broadly understood is how cash-strapped and overcrowded state...
Prisoner Reentry
Critical Issues and Policy Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book addresses the core issues in prisoner reentry into society after incarceration. The chapters are written by academic scholars who have much experience researching and writing about prisoner reentry and by people who work in the field of prison reentry. Comprising reviews of empirical...