Penology category: 518 books
by Joseph Rodney Dole II
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
A Costly American Hatred is an in-depth look at how America’s hatred of “criminals” has led the nation down an expensive path that not only ostracizes and demonizes an ever growing segment of the population, but is also now so pervasive that it is counterproductive to the goals of reducing crime...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book, the first of two volumes edited by McCartan and Kemshall, focusses on perceptions of sexual offenders, and how risk is used by policy makers, stakeholders, academics and practitioners to both construct and respond to unknown and known sex offenders within the contexts of criminal justice,...
Higher Education and Police
An International View
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
This edited collection is concerned with the ideas, challenges, demands and framework of conditions behind police education from an international perspective. Whilst not directly concerned with a classical comparison of education concepts from different countries, the broad range of international...
Children behind bars
Why the abuse of child imprisonment must end
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Every day children exiled to prison are exposed to abusive and neglectful treatment, yet their plight is hidden. Based on wide-ranging research and first-person interviews, this passionately argued book presents the shocking truth about the lives and deaths of children in custody. Drawing on human...
Beyond These Walls
Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
“You should definitely read this book… What really struck me in reading Beyond These Walls was that Tony Platt had very seriously and carefully considered the contributions of social movements—feminist, queer, disability, and labor.” —Angela Davis
Beyond These Walls is an ambitious...
The Culture of Urban Control
Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era explores and analyzes the growth and expansion of the United States’ largest single-site urban jail system. Through an analysis of a United States Federal Court initiated consent decree this research provides a narrative of...
Moving on from crime and substance use
Transforming identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Desistance is one of the big news stories of the criminological world. Research suggests that, as ‘offenders’ turn their backs on crime, they often change their identities as well as their behaviour. Yet we know much less about how reforming or transforming identity might be affected by gender,...
Media, Politics and Penal Reform
Influencing Women's Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus. With a particular focus on women’s penal policy, Birkett uncovers how reform strategies have augmented and developed under changing governments and the news media spotlight....
Rethinking Corrections
Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
This text explores the challenges that convicted offenders face over the course of the rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration process. Using an integrated, theoretical approach, each chapter is devoted to a corrections topic and incorporates original evidence-based concepts, research, and policy...
Murder Stories
Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to ‘American’ ideologies in the retention of capital punishment. The central aim of the study is to illuminate the elusive yet powerful role of ideology in legal discourses....
by Saville Kushner
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A comprehensive and authoritative overview of issues relating to the evaluation of criminal justice/corrections 'interventions', this unique reference draws on a variety of theoretical, cultural and epistemological perspectives with authors from a range of disciplines and countries. It begins by looking...
by Alice Morse Earle
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Alice Morse Earle was a social historian of great note at the turn of the century, and many of her books have lived on as well-researched and well-written texts of everyday life in Colonial America. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days was first published in 1896. It is a catalogue of early American...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
This book, the second of two volumes edited by Kemshall and McCartan, focuses on responses to sexual offending, and how risk is used by policy makers, stakeholders, academics and practitioners to both construct and respond to unknown and known sex offenders within the contexts of criminal justice,...
Disability Incarcerated
Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields. Taken together, these essays assert that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to an understanding of incarceration, and that we must expand what has come to be called 'incarceration.' The chapters...