From #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham comes the harrowing true story of a Texas father condemned to die......more

From #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham comes the harrowing true story of a Texas father condemned to die......more

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What if we abolished police, courts, and prisons? Where would we turn for justice? Do we need to have laws? Punishment? ......more

Capitalism attempts to sustain itself in ever more barbaric ways. Since the 1980s, one way has been to incarcerate whole......more

An urgent examination of the intergenerational imprisonment of Indigenous people in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. ......more

The macabre, interwoven histories of art and punishment in eighteenth-century London...more

Banned Books and Counterfeit Notes examines how convicts sent to France’s overseas penal colony in French Guiana used th......more

Could you sit across from a murderer, listen to their crimes, empathise and help them change? Welcome to the Probation S......more

This timely book examines education in Young Offenders Institutions and adult prisons in England and Wales, addressing c......more

What is life really like for LGBTQIA+ people behind bars? This book offers the most up-to-date global research on the ex......more

An urgent examination of the intergenerational imprisonment of Indigenous people in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. ......more

The American criminal justice system was in flux in 2020, a clash of possibilities for reform, retrenchment, and radical......more

The American criminal justice system was in flux in 2020, a clash of possibilities for reform, retrenchment, and radical......more

An empirically powerful account of why interpersonal violence across the globe exacts a far greater cumulative cost on s......more

Neoliberalism fundamentally shapes how carceral systems and ideology emerge in our everyday lives. This volume illustrat......more

A timely interdisciplinary reflection on the practices, performances, imaginaries, and experiences of confinement and ca......more

Pat Cunningham Devoto had specific hopes for the women imprisoned at the Montgomery Women’s Facility who participated in......more

This edited collection explores the concept of Generative Justice and how it might help us reimagine conventional respon......more

A former public defender takes us behind the closed doors of America’s criminal courts, revealing how the institutions t......more

Women who have been criminalised by the state typically encounter gendered experiences and challenges and are affected b......more

A riveting account of one inmate’s quest to die on death row--and a fearless look at a system of punishment that has fai......more

First published in 1965, the public interest was centred on crime, prison and prisoners, and the prison population in th......more

Originally published in 1969, Sallie Trotter was the first woman social worker ever appointed in Britain to work inside ......more

Originally published in 2001, this book sets out to enlarge understanding of the complexities of suicidal feelings and o......more

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A lucid guide to the radical politics of prison abolitionists There is growing recognition that mass incarceration is un......more

This book explores the making, unmaking, and remaking of the Probation Service in England and Wales. It draws on origina......more

Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course explores the life-courses of convicts who, after being transport......more

Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison re-examines how mental health is managed within the male open prison, f......more

Before Oregon had a constitution or courthouses, it had chaos. Rough Justice uncovers the turbulent birth of law and ord......more

Synthesizing some 30 years of archaeological research in south-east Italy, this book discusses a millennium that witness......more

Drawing on both the academic field and homeland security practices, this book addresses the essential themes in the stud......more

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Brazil’s prison population, estimated at 90,000 in 1990, has exploded to over 650,000, the third highest in the world be......more

Brazil’s prison population, estimated at 90,000 in 1990, has exploded to over 650,000, the third highest in the world be......more

Reflective practice is at the heart of probation training and the continuing professional development of practitioners. ......more

For readers of His Name Is George Floyd and Under the Skin A landmark investigation into forensic medicine that exposes ......more

A master class in social change--how a coalition of parents, activists, and prison officials brought a racist and destru......more

"An analysis of an unseen food crisis affecting millions of Americans"-- Provided by publisher....more

Offering a range of theoretical and conceptual ideas as well as practical examples, this book provides a detailed insigh......more

Exploring the expansion of the penal system in Spain during the first forty years of democracy, this book puts forward t......more

This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistanc......more

An original transatlantic history of the invention of the corrections profession and of ensuing debates about punishment......more

NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS An anguished memoir of one man’s political struggle and physical resilience. The Romanian artist ......more

Originally published in 1977, this title attempts to document and analyse some of the changes which happened in the firs......more

In Prison Crisis, originally published in 1980, Peter Evans draws together all of the issues of the time to provide an a......more

First published in 1963, this title was an attempt to discover what had been learnt from a range of prison experience - ......more

In the previous few years English penal policy had undergone considerable change. Originally published in 1975, the cont......more

First published in 1977, Open Prisons presents research carried out in a number of prisons in the UK both ’open’ and ’cl......more

First published in 1965, this study was the first attempt in this country to look at the problems of the families of pri......more

First published in 1989, this title presents the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as priso......more

Originally published in 1974, this book was the first full-scale work published in this country evaluating carefully whe......more

First published in 1934, this title was prepared in the belief that among the growing literature of crime and the treatm......more

The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s. Discussion had been ......more

Why are the children of imprisoned parents often penalised the most? The abuse, stigma and neglect experienced by many o......more

A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best of 2025 In 2001, John J. Lennon kil......more

Taking a unique approach to bring the theories of desistance and of development criminology to life, the chapters in thi......more

"Mass incarceration has not just brought us nowhere. It has taken us backwards." Edwin Cameron takes an unflinching look......more

Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative ......more

This book explores the unique reentry experiences of incarcerated men and women who are about to be released from prison......more

This book moves beyond rehabilitative strategies in corrections to engage a more holistic understanding of the communal ......more

How American-style capitalism creates a coercive state unlike any other How could America, that storied land of liberty,......more

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book fo......more

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book fo......more

This engaging book presents a critical approach to understanding prison conditions in the United States in the era of ma......more

This engaging book presents a critical approach to understanding prison conditions in the United States in the era of ma......more

What if the man who ran the prison was the one fighting hardest to change it? A Warden’s Path: From Tough to Smart on Cr......more

Thirteen men sentenced to die by incarceration at a maximum-security prison pushed themselves to enroll in the first fac......more

When a cocksure father hatches a simple insurance fraud scheme, he has no idea its failure will lead his family into the......more

This book addresses the issue of the rapidly growing number of elderly men entering and serving time in prison and draws......more

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last twenty years and offers a critical a......more

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"This shines an urgent spotlight on an inhumane system." - Publishers Weekly "Who knew that hatred driven by racism coul......more