Penology category: 518 books
Spilling the beans
Eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770–1830
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Spilling the Beans shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women’s consumption and production are manifest in novelists’ and novels’ accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food.
Education in Prison
Studying Through Distance Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The role of education in prisons, prisoners' decisions regarding education, the impact of prison culture on either encouraging or discouraging such activities, and the potential consequences of education for prisoners' reentry into society all have important implications. This extended analysis of...
Criminal Behaviour in Context
Space, Place and Desistance from Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance – 'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' – is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific. Grounded in criminological spatial analysis, as well as more general social scientific...
Narrating Injustice Survival
Self-medication by Victims of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery. Based on interviews, counsellor focus groups and a self-medication survey, it situates self-medication among the coping strategies that may be set in formal and informal networks. Victims primarily...
Inside Crown Court
Personal experiences and questions of legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
With a new Foreword by David Ormerod of the Law Commission. Within the criminal justice system of England and Wales, the Crown Court is the arena in which serious criminal offences are prosecuted and sentenced. On the basis of up-to-date ethnographic research, this timely book provides a vivid description...
Life Imprisonment
A Global Human Rights Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Life imprisonment has replaced the death penalty as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. Consequently, it has become the leading issue of international criminal justice reform. In the first survey of its kind, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this harsh punishment.
Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy
Issues in Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy examines case law and legislation in regards to reproduction, pregnancy, and infancy. Cusack explores the winding pathways of legal precedence and action on the social conditions of pregnancy and childbirth, and draws from criminal and court procedures...
by Zoë Wicomb
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. “An urgent invitation to care for all children as our own.” —Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family
In this “moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on families”, award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes...
The Dynamics of Desistance
Charting Pathways Through Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
It is well-established that the majority of youth offenders cease to commit crime in early adulthood, but the mechanisms behind the shift from a criminal to a conventional lifestyle are not fully understood. The Dynamics of Desistance aims to contribute to this nascent area of inquiry by providing...
Violence, conciliation et répression
Recherches sur l'histoire du crime, de l'Antiquité au XXIe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Fruit de recherches multidisciplinaires, l’histoire de la justice pénale, de la criminalité et de sa régulation est un thème en pleine expansion depuis une quarantaine d’années. Historiens sociaux, historiens du droit, sociologues, criminologues et anthropologues sont à l’origine de ce...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: February 21, 2013
De nos jours, dans les villes, la violence des jeunes alarme, inquiète. « Ils sont de plus en plus violents, de plus en plus jeunes », entend-on régulièrement de l’opinion publique. Pourtant, ces commentaires ne reposent sur aucune base scientifique fiable : ils relèvent d’un discours construit...
Abolire il carcere
Una ragionevole proposta per la sicurezza dei cittadini
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Non è una provocazione. Nel 1978 il parlamento italiano votò la legge per l’abolizione dei manicomi dopo anni di denunce della loro disumanità. Ora dobbiamo abolire le carceri, che, come dimostra questo libro, servono solo a riprodurre crimini e criminali e tradiscono i principi fondamentali della...
Metamorphosis
How to Transform Punishment in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus. We agree that many prison terms are too long, especially for nonviolent drug offenders; that long-term isolation is a bad idea; and that basic psychiatric and medical care in prisons is woefully inadequate....
Everyday Desistance
The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
In Everyday Desistance, Laura Abrams and Diane J. Terry examine the lives of young people who spent considerable time in and out of correctional institutions as adolescents. These formerly incarcerated youth often struggle with the onset of adult responsibilities at a much earlier age than their more...