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....Loe edasi...
Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversations about transgender people within the criminal justice system....Loe edasi...
The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520429987)
In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible. Avi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520429994)
In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible. Avi...Loe edasi...
The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology reimagines what criminology can become when we take the senses seriously. Centring the sensory as fundamental to the experience of harm, justice, and resistance, this groundbreakin...Loe edasi...
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 h...Loe edasi...
This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration. This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration. In a system bereft of opportunit...Loe edasi...
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 be...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
Rooted in fieldwork within Indian correctional institutions, this volume brings together psychological assessments adapted for forensic populations, biopsychosocial evaluations, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies. It offers narrative c...Loe edasi...
This unique and insightful volume follows the outcome of a four-year investigation documenting former offenders’ learning experiences and lays out a novel framework for guiding those impacted by the judicial system toward pathways of hope and poss...Loe edasi...
This book offers an unprecedented exploration of Greece’s immigration detention system, uncovering its hidden histories, systemic violence, and the struggles of those confined within its walls. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research and...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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 bo...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
An awareness that the effects of prison on offenders were rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful. In this title, first published in 1974, it is argued that there was still the need in society for a commitment, not to reform its deviant me...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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 hosp...Loe edasi...
‘So far we have successfully avoided loss of life during serious disturbances but if the present trend continues there will be a serious loss of control… In such circumstances there is a probability of both staff and prisoners being killed.’ ...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1974, this book was the first full-scale work published in this country evaluating carefully whether an active policy of finding suitable employment for men immediately on their release from prison had beneficial results....Loe edasi...
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 prison’s opening and as far as possible account for them. It was hoped that lessons could be dra...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
In the previous few years English penal policy had undergone considerable change. Originally published in 1975, the contributors to The Use of Imprisonment focus on the use of imprisonment in such a time of transition, and examine various...Loe edasi...
Justice, it is said, is about acquitting the innocent and punishing the guilty. Why then, asks Roger Shaw, are the children of imprisoned parents often penalised the most? The abuse, stigma and neglect experienced by many of these children raise s...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1987, the purpose of Stress, Crowding, and Blood Pressure in Prison was to present, in a single location, the rationale, background, methods, principal results, analyses, interpretations, and conclusions of the autho...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversations about transgender people within the criminal justice system....Loe edasi...
The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520429987)
In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible. Avi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520429994)
In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible. Avi...Loe edasi...
Sari: American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512829068)
The violence of American slavery is often remembered for its excesses. Slave Rebellions and the Making of the Modern Prison adds a more chilling dimension, revealing how the violence of slavery was often deliberate, calculated, and lawful....Loe edasi...
If you love Katie Flynn and Pam Howes, youll love Chrissie Walshs WWI story of love, loss and triumph!July, 1916 Kitty and Tom Conlon arrive in Liverpool in July 1916 to claim the house Toms great-uncle has bequeathed him in his will. T...Loe edasi...
The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology reimagines what criminology can become when we take the senses seriously. Centring the sensory as fundamental to the experience of harm, justice, and resistance, this groundbreakin...Loe edasi...
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 h...Loe edasi...
This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration. This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration. In a system bereft of opportunit...Loe edasi...
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 be...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512829174)
A look at how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States, reissued with a new preface that connects these early penitentiaries to our present debates over mas...Loe edasi...
Rooted in fieldwork within Indian correctional institutions, this volume brings together psychological assessments adapted for forensic populations, biopsychosocial evaluations, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies. It offers narrative c...Loe edasi...
This unique and insightful volume follows the outcome of a four-year investigation documenting former offenders’ learning experiences and lays out a novel framework for guiding those impacted by the judicial system toward pathways of hope and poss...Loe edasi...
This book offers an unprecedented exploration of Greece’s immigration detention system, uncovering its hidden histories, systemic violence, and the struggles of those confined within its walls. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research and...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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 bo...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
An awareness that the effects of prison on offenders were rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful. In this title, first published in 1974, it is argued that there was still the need in society for a commitment, not to reform its deviant me...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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 hosp...Loe edasi...
‘So far we have successfully avoided loss of life during serious disturbances but if the present trend continues there will be a serious loss of control… In such circumstances there is a probability of both staff and prisoners being killed.’ ...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1974, this book was the first full-scale work published in this country evaluating carefully whether an active policy of finding suitable employment for men immediately on their release from prison had beneficial results....Loe edasi...
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 prison’s opening and as far as possible account for them. It was hoped that lessons could be dra...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
In the previous few years English penal policy had undergone considerable change. Originally published in 1975, the contributors to The Use of Imprisonment focus on the use of imprisonment in such a time of transition, and examine various...Loe edasi...
Justice, it is said, is about acquitting the innocent and punishing the guilty. Why then, asks Roger Shaw, are the children of imprisoned parents often penalised the most? The abuse, stigma and neglect experienced by many of these children raise s...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1987, the purpose of Stress, Crowding, and Blood Pressure in Prison was to present, in a single location, the rationale, background, methods, principal results, analyses, interpretations, and conclusions of the autho...Loe edasi...
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 an...Loe edasi...
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 instit...Loe edasi...
In the late 1950s crime and its treatment had never been of greater public interest. In The English Prisons, originally published in 1960, D.L. Howard used his knowledge of academic criminology and his practical experience of criminals of a...Loe edasi...
‘Gate fever’ is the name of a non-medical syndrome said to infect men in prison as the date of their discharge draws near. Its symptoms are euphoria and anxiety, mixed with irrational thinking; and the unfailing cure of the condition is the cold d...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds. It brings together original contributions on homicide, with a focus on the broad range of i...Loe edasi...
Key Contested Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice addresses the key issues within criminology and criminal justice that are strongly contested among scholars in the field....Loe edasi...
Key Contested Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice addresses the key issues within criminology and criminal justice that are strongly contested among scholars in the field....Loe edasi...
The injustice, cruelty, and degradation that are so enmeshed within the U.S. carceral system find their barbaric apogee in the practice of solitary confinement. Once judged by the U.S. Supreme Court to be an impermissible form of torture, th...Loe edasi...
Based upon an extensive empirical study of a democratic therapeutic community (DTC) for women serving long and medium sentences, this book explores the opportunities it provided for reparative and restorative rehabilitation. In so doing it identif...Loe edasi...
Based upon an extensive empirical study of a democratic therapeutic community for women serving long and medium sentences, this book explores the opportunities it provided for restorative rehabilitation. In so doing it identifies some of the inter...Loe edasi...
First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging. The work is based on a random sample of over 1000 muggings which occurred within the Metropolitan Police District in the...Loe edasi...
Life is a series of choices. And sometimes, those choiceslead to consequences of life-changing proportions. For Jeffrey Abramowitz,choices and consequences led to a five-year sentence in a cinder-block buildingcalled Justice. ...Loe edasi...
This book explores the unique reentry experiences of incarcerated men and women who are about to be released from prisons in Portugal. By analysing gendered reentry experiences through the narratives of men and women, Gender, Prison and Reentry...Loe edasi...
Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative criminological approach.The book relies on the voices of prison cookbook authors to argue that cookbook na...Loe edasi...
