An ideal book for courses in corrections, social problems, criminology, and prisoner re-entry, this new edition dramatically expands and revises the previous edition to include more empirical data, significant engagement with current debates and sch...Lasīt vairāk
Judges and Convicts: The Principles and Patterns of Criminal Sentencing in Victorian England will be of great appeal to students and scholars of history, law, criminology, and sociology, and particularly to those with an interest in the history of t...Lasīt vairāk
This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and crimmigration practices....Lasīt vairāk
Role Exit Within Prison Officers: Returning to Civvy Street explores the reasons why prison officers leave His Majestys Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) England and Wales and examines the processes and trajectories involved in returning back to...Lasīt vairāk
The U.S. Constitutions Eighth Amendment: Bail, Fines, and Punishments is an in-depth exploration of the Eighth Amendments pivotal role in American jurisprudence....Lasīt vairāk
Soviet Russia Fights Crime (1934) examines the workings of the Soviet penal system in the pre-war years of the Soviet Union. It is a valuable insight into prison life in Soviet Russia, in both prisons and prison colonies, with the author being allow...Lasīt vairāk
Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union. It looks at the ways in which the theory of Marx has changed and been changed, through the lens of criminal law- the major way in w...Lasīt vairāk
Emphasizing not just the internal, but the external value of creativity in prison, Prisons of Creativity widens and elevates the discourse concerning the institution of prison in society and its social goals....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1965, the public interest was centred on crime, prison and prisoners, and the prison population in the UK exceeded 24, 000. In order to help, it was necessary to understand something of the problems and difficulties a prisoner has...Lasīt vairāk
Offering a range of theoretical and conceptual ideas as well as practical examples, this book provides a detailed insight into holistic opportunities for promoting desistance, reducing reoffending, and supporting (re)settlement and (re)integration....Lasīt vairāk
The Lived Experiences of Claiming Wrongful Conviction in Prison focuses on the lived experience of maintaining innocence in the prison environment and highlights the struggles and pain that such a claim can cause....Lasīt vairāk
This book compiles the work of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today. It is essential reading for those interested in the strugg...Lasīt vairāk
Thinking About Victimization offers an authoritative and refreshingly accessible overview of scholarship on the nature, sources, and consequences of victimization....Lasīt vairāk
Now more than ever, the criminal justice system, and the programs, policies, and practices within it, are subject to increased public scrutiny, due to well-founded concerns over effectiveness, fairness, and potential unintended consequences....Lasīt vairāk
In Prison Crisis, originally published in 1980, Peter Evans draws together all of the issues of the time to provide an agenda for public and politicians to use this best chance in one hundred years for a major reform of the prison system....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1976, A Taste of Prison deals with a very sensitive area of concern in the system of trial and imprisonment in Britain at the time. It describes the conditions at Winchester Prison and Winchester Remand Centre for both adults...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1965, this study was the first attempt in this country to look at the problems of the families of prisoners on a national scale. The survey attempts to portray objectively the conditions of life for the families of a wide range of...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1977, Open Prisons presents research carried out in a number of prisons in the UK both open and closed intended to compare their effectiveness. Information was collected from inmates and prison staff through a number of exercises...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1934, this title was prepared in the belief that among the growing literature of crime and the treatment of crime, there should be some room for some account of the English prison system as it stood. Here is the authoritative and...Lasīt vairāk
In the previous few years English penal policy had undergone considerable change. Originally published in 1975, the contributors to this book focus on the use of imprisonment in such a time of transition, and examine various aspects of penal policy...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1987, the authors employed a longitudinal method for studying 568 inmates, and drew on psychological, social and health sciences assessments to identify the effects of various activities and actions, as well as personal and s...Lasīt vairāk
The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s. Discussion had been strong on opinion and short on facts; this book, originally published in 1977, supplied some much-needed evidence, based on the r...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1977, this title attempts to document and analyse some of the changes which happened in the first five and a half years of the prisons opening and as far as possible account for them. It was hoped that lessons could be drawn,...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1963, this title was an attempt to discover what had been learnt from a range of prison experience taking prison to be any form of enforced separation from the world of normal life. Including chapters on mental asylum and hospita...Lasīt vairāk
Gate fever is the name of a non-medical syndrome said to infect men in prison as the date of their discharge draws near. The primary aim of this book, originally published in 1984, is to describe and promote social-skills-based methods for helping o...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1989, this title presents the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. First-hand accounts of life inside chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell of t...Lasīt vairāk
In the late 1950s crime and its treatment had never been of greater public interest. In this title, first published in 1960, D.L. Howard used his knowledge of academic criminology and his practical experience of criminals of all ages to produce a bo...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1985,this title is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in England and Wales from the Medieval period to the present day. It is one of the few attempts to provide an overall view of the institut...Lasīt vairāk
Why are the children of imprisoned parents often penalised the most? The abuse, stigma and neglect experienced by many of these children raise serious questions about the nature of criminal justice. First published in 1992, this title provides an in...Lasīt vairāk
