Penology category: 518 books
Educating Incarcerated Youth
Exploring the Impact of Relationships, Expectations, Resources and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This book explores the perceptions and role of juvenile justice educators. Through researching the support structures of educational facilities and analysing the positive features of these learning environments, Tannis evaluates how best to educate incarcerated young people and prepare them for their transition back into society.
A Peacemaking Approach to Criminology
A Collection of Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
A peacemaking approach to criminology is a humane, nonviolent, and scientific approach to the treatment of crime and the offender. It looks at crime as just one of the many types of suffering that exemplify human life. According to peacemaking criminologists, efforts to put a stop to such suffering...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
The history of crime and punishment is an important, yet under-resourced area of criminology and criminal justice. This valuable book provides concise but robust definitions of key terms and concepts, going well beyond a simple explanation of the word or theme. Offering a succinct approach to the...
Prisons and Punishment in Texas
Culture, History and Museological Representation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system. It does so by assessing the narratives at work in Texas museums and tourist sites associated with prisons and punishment. In such cultural institutions, complex narratives are presented, which show celebratory stories...
Women and the Criminal Justice System
Failing Victims and Offenders?
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system? In a landscape where women’s involvement...
Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice
From Jurors to Lay Judges
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book analyses the mixed courts of professional and lay judges in the Japanese criminal justice system. It takes a particular focus on the highly public start of the mixed court, the saiban-in system, and the jury system between 1928-1943. This was the first time Japanese citizens participated...
by Philip Bean
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Privatisation was introduced into the probation service on the 1st June 2014 whereby work with medium and low risk offenders went to a number of private and voluntary bodies, work with high risk offenders remained with the State. The National Probation Service (NPS) covered State work whilst the 35...
Human Rights and Incarceration
Critical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
This collection considers human rights and incarceration in relation to the liberal-democratic states of Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It presents original case-study material on groups that are disproportionately affected by incarceration, including indigenous populations, children, women, those...
Corrections
Exploring Crime, Punishment, and Justice in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Corrections: Exploring Crime, Punishment, and Justice in America provides a thorough introduction to the topic of corrections in America. In addition to providing complete coverage of the history and structure of corrections, it offers a balanced account of the issues facing the field so that readers...
Cultural Perspectives on Youth Justice
Connecting Theory, Policy and International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Young people, crime and delinquency are words that are commonly linked in public perception and young people are often blamed for social ills. Their deviancy and threat to social control has been held to be a social fact from Plato to today. This book subjects that ‘fact’ to critical examination...
by Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Ambrose Bierce is best known for writing "The Devil's Dictionary," He is also known for being unsentimental, dark, and so full of vehemence that he was nicknamed "Bitter Bierce." "A Cynic Looks at Life" is a collection of essays in which he talks about modern civilization...
by Hammurabi, Robert Francis Harper
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dated back to about 1754 BC (Middle Chronology). It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code. A partial copy exists on...
by Virginia Domingo, Lisa Rea, Teresa María del Val
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Existe en la actualidad una creencia o más bien una “esperanza” de que el endurecimiento de las penas pueda ser la solución a todos los problemas de la sociedad. El castigo al culpable se torna en una autentica obsesión social, sin embargo, se olvidan y dejan sin respuesta...
College in Prison
Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative is...