This book describes targeted therapeutic interventions, programmatic approaches, and system-wide transformations of fore......more

This book describes targeted therapeutic interventions, programmatic approaches, and system-wide transformations of fore......more

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

A first-hand account of the death penalty’s wholly destructive nature. In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critiqu......more

Through different legal and criminological angles and perspectives, this book addresses the controversial question of wh......more

This book explores the religious experiences of two notable figures who endured severe trials under authoritarian regime......more

The United States has by far the world’s largest population of incarcerated people. More than a million Americans are im......more

The book is a handbook on corporate philanthropy in China, with comparisons to the best practices in Europe, especially ......more

Using an indigenous research methodology analyzing memoirs of formerly incarcerated people, Transformation During Incarc......more

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Seeking to transform community-based theatre-making, this book explores the transformative potential of abolitionist the......more

Seeking to transform community-based theatre-making, this book explores the transformative potential of abolitionist the......more

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-......more

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-......more

What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, ......more

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically......more

Analysis of criminal cases reveals that women suspected of killing their newborn children are some of the most vulnerabl......more

People organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of second......more

"Sarah F. Farmer amplifies the voices of women who are or have been incarcerated to learn what supports their flourishin......more

This book presents a comparative study of desistance from crime by analysing and comparing the narratives of English and......more

This book explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass ......more

The soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonou......more

The United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and ......more

The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well a......more

Anne Porter Lynes Field (later Lloyd, 1874-1947) was a poet and writer best known as the author of the 1915 book The Sto......more

Thomas Mott Osborne (1859-1926) was an American prison administrator, prison reformer, industrialist, and New York State......more

Policing is violent. And its violence is not distributed equally: stark racial disparities persist despite decades of ef......more

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

Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated......more

Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated......more

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the effective methods used in the criminal justice system in the United S......more

Iran’s prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the tr......more

Iran’s prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the tr......more

This second edition textbook focuses on the duties of juvenile justice administrators, featuring more illustrations, exa......more

Drawing upon both ethnographic research and genealogical analysis, this book represents the first in-depth scientific an......more

The hunger strike of 1981 is regarded as one of the most tragic events in Irish history. Ten men died over a period of 2......more

This book establishes a new framework for prison design to promote the health and well-being of all prison users. Based ......more

The Impact of COVID-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy presents the results of a worldwide exchange of information......more

Beyond Transitional Justice reflects upon the state of the field (or non-field) of transitional justice in the current c......more

This book is a unique ethnographic study of a racially exclusive Malay Muslim gang, Omega, which has its roots in Singap......more

As community corrections gains popularity and importance--due to the decarceration trend and the economics of seeking in......more

This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners in every chapter to provide a comprehensive and unique......more

Incorporating the authentic voices and real-life experiences of women, this ground-breaking book focuses on pregnancy an......more

This book explains Japan’s unique Prosecution Review Commission (PRC) which is composed of eleven lay people selected ra......more

Through the eyes of Eric Bundy. I take you through my experience, of my incarceration. I write this book to give you an ......more

This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young adults by sharing their views on their journey toward......more

In many countries, community-based penalties such as probation, electronic monitoring and parole are the most common san......more

This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights N......more

This book argues for prison abolition within the framework of feminist philosophy. Based in the Anglo-American, analytic......more

This handbook brings together expertise from a range of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts to address a......more

This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resista......more

Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice is a practical guide to using restorative processes, both in justice sys......more

Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice is a practical guide to using restorative processes, both in justice sys......more

The social processes which underpin and shape our lives have the power to significantly transform the trajectories of pe......more

Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and......more

This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarcer......more

This handbook provides a unique overview of rehabilitation as practiced internationally in criminal justice. Through the......more

Revisiting Juvenile Justice in India analyses the challenges and issues involved in the study of juvenile justice in Ind......more

The first qualitative study based on an ethnographic approach to women’s carceral experiences in Latvia, this book draws......more

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This evocative and gripping investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses......more

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning. It go......more

"Challenging Confinement is an examination of how the feminist movements in the late twentieth century ignited prison pr......more

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

Originally published in 1989, Jail Journeys was a contemporary history of the English prison system in the words of thos......more

Originally published in 1934, The Modern English Prison was prepared in the belief that among the growing literature of ......more

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

Prison is seen by most people as an inevitable part of the penal system, but there is a growing awareness that its effec......more

Originally published in 1965, and reissued here with a new foreword, this study, as far as was known, was the first atte......more

Originally published in 1976, A Taste of Prison deals with a very sensitive area of concern in the system of trial and i......more

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

’Gate fever’ is the name of a non-medical syndrome said to infect men in prison as the date of their discharge draws nea......more

Originally published in 1977, Albany: Birth of a Prison - End of an Era attempts to document and analyse some of the cha......more

First published in 1963, the original blurb reads: "This may be a unique generation, which has so widely felt the full r......more

For well over one hundred years society had considered ways of helping prisoners on their release from prison, but there......more