Penology category: 518 books
Oral Arguments Before the Supreme Court
An Empirical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments. By carefully analyzing transcripts of all the oral arguments available to the public, Professor Wrightsman provides empirical answers to a number of questions about the operation...
Bruno
Conversations with a Brazilian Drug Dealer
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
In the 1980s a poor farmer's son from Recife, Brazil, joined the Brazilian navy and began selling cocaine. After his arrest in Rio de Janeiro he spent the next eight years in prison, where he joined the Comando Vermelho criminal faction and eventually became one of its leaders. Robert Gay tells this...
by Edward J. Latessa, Brian Lovins
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Corrections in the Community, Seventh Edition, examines the current state of community corrections and proposes an evidence-based approach to making programs more effective. As the U.S. prison and jail systems continue to struggle, options like probation, parole, alternative sentencing, and both residential...
by Ulla Bondeson
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Prisoners in Prison Societies is a study of criminal career patterns over time, demonstrating specifically how and in what ways imprisonment has a positive correlation with later recidivism. The book combines original research and a ten-year follow-up study of Swedish inmates, surveying their attitudes...
by Ralph Henham
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
International sentencing has become significant given the numerous events on the world stage which have focused attention on the justifications and adequacy of punishment for heinous crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity. In addition to providing a detailed evaluation of the philosophical...
Crime, Second Chances, and Human Services
Creating a Pathway to Ordinary Life for the Convicted
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal justice system. Recognition of the fallibility of humans and the necessity of redemption is the first step to change our attitude toward guilt and punishment....
The Lived Sentence
Rethinking Sentencing, Risk and Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book examines the lives of the sentenced to argue that 'sentencing' should be re-conceived to consider the human perspective. It combines a range of modern criminological and legal theories together with interviews with prisoners in New South Wales, to examine their lives during and beyond...
Supervising Offenders in the Community
A History of Probation Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In this work Maurice Vanstone provides an authoritative and original account of the history of probation. This invaluable reference tool offers readers a new way of reading probation history and presents an original context for thinking about current policy and practice. While the study is essentially...
Evidence-based skills in criminal justice
International research on supporting rehabilitation and desistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
How can evidence-based skills and practices reduce re-offending, support desistance, and encourage service user engagement during supervision in criminal justice settings? How can those who work with service users in these settings apply these skills and practices? This book is the first to bring...
by Mary Bosworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book explores how power is negotiated in women’s prisons. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in three penal establishments in England, it analyses how women manage the restrictions of imprisonment and the manner in which they attempt to resist institutional control. It is proposed that power is...
Phenomena of Power
Authority, Domination, and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
In Phenomena of Power, one of the leading figures of postwar German sociology reflects on the nature, and many forms of, power. For Heinrich Popitz, power is rooted in the human condition and is therefore part of all social relations. Drawing on philosophical anthropology, he identifies the elementary...
Les transformations du droit
Étude sociologique
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
“ Le Droit est de tous les domaines de la vie sociale celui où la spéculation philosophique s’est le moins exercée de nos jours. Elle s’est donné carrière en philologie et mythologie comparées, en politique, en morale, en esthétique, en économie politique ; mais les Codes lui ont fait...
Imprisoned Religion
Transformations of Religion during and after Imprisonment in Eastern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book explores the profound transformations that prisons and offender rehabilitation programmes in Eastern Germany have undergone with respect to religion. Drawing on participant observation and interviews of inmates, ex-prisoners, chaplains and prison visitors, this book connects the institutional...
Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice
Embraced By the Welfare State?
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as ‘model societies’, with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane social policies and human rights...