Penology category: 518 books
by Philippa Tomczak
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize
The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before. In recent years in England and Wales, the sector has featured significantly in both policy rhetoric and academic commentary....
by Ray Deveroux
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Prisons, a community within a community. Violence is everywhere, the smell of fear is around every corner, you need, no must have eyes in the back of your head.
No time to relax, no time to sit back with a brew and put your feet up, the Prison won't let you.
Ever wondered what goes on...
Reintegrating Extremists
Deradicalisation and Desistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book presents an in-depth analysis of how statutory and third sector organisations have faced the challenge of dealing with former ‘terrorists’. Offering a theoretically robust, empirically rich account of work with ex-prisoners and those considered ‘at risk’ of involvement in extremism...
Rehabilitation Work
Supporting Desistance and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Conversations about rehabilitation and how to address the drugs-crime nexus have been dominated by academics and policymakers, without due recognition of the experience and knowledge of practitioners. Not enough is known about the cultures and conditions in which rehabilitation occurs. Why is it that...
by Vladimir V. Tchernavin
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
"I tell my own story because I believe that only in this way can I discharge the moral obligation which a kindly Fate imposed upon me in helping me to escape from the Soviet Terror the duty to speak for those whose voices cannot be heard.
In silence they are sent away as convicts to the concentration...
Solitary confinement
Lived experiences and ethical implications
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Why is solitary confinement used in today’s world? Does it help the rehabilitation of offenders? And how is policy affected by justification for the use of it? This book is the first to consider the history of solitary confinement and how it is experienced by the individuals undergoing it. Using...
by Emma Reverter
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Diez años después de la fundación de la prisión de Guantánamo, Emma Reverter realiza un lúcido reportaje sobre el centro de detenciones más tristemente conocido de la actualidad. La polémica prisión estadounidense en la bahía de Guantánamo, Cuba, fue creada por la administración Bush tras...
Combatants to Civilians
Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Maoist Fighters in Nepal's Peace Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Much has been written about reintegration of ex-combatants in a traditional or conventional disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme. This volume examines reintegration of ex-combatants in a un-conventional DDR in which a cash-based scheme replaced a reintegration programme. It...
Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions
Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793—1848
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
This collection provides new insights into the ’Age of Revolutions’, focussing on state trials for treason and sedition, and expands the sophisticated discussion that has marked the historiography of that period by examining political trials in Britain and the north Atlantic world from the 1790s...
Dying Inside
The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
"The HIV+ men incarcerated in Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 were put there to be forgotten. Not only do Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Carla Crowder bring these men to life, Fleury-Steiner and Crowder also insist on placing these men in the middle of critical conversations about health policy, mass...
Wretched Sisters
Examining Gender and Capital Punishmend
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, fourteen women have been put to death in the United States. The criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particularly gendered context. Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that...
Wild Arabs and savages
A history of juvenile justice in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The first history of the Irish juvenile justice system
The Pixelated Prisoner
Prison Video Links, Court ‘Appearance’ and the Justice Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Technological linkages between justice and law enforcement agencies are radically altering criminal process and access to justice for prisoners. Video links, integral to an increasingly networked justice matrix, enable the custodial appearance of prisoners in remote courts and are becoming the dominant...
Shakespeare Behind Bars
The Power of Drama In A Women's Prison
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A deeply stirring account of one woman's experience teaching drama to women in prison.
I began to understand that female prisoners are not "damaged goods" and to recognize that most of these women had toughed it out in a society that favors others-- by gender, class, or race. They...