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Combining insights from two distinct research traditionsーthe communities and crime tradition that focuses on why some neighborhoods have more crime than others, and the burgeoning crime and place l……続きを見る

I foråret 1998 blev en gruppe, som blandt andet stjal pengeskabe, afsløret i det sydlige Sverige. Det hele begyndte den 27. april 1998, hvor nogle personer opdagede noget mærkeligt ved indløbet til ……続きを見る

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society’s most vulnerable groups. This book opens up the closed world of English pri……続きを見る

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur. It deals in detail w……続きを見る

Privatising Justice takes a broad historical view of the role of the private sector in the British state, from private policing and mercenaries in the eighteenth century to the modern rise of the pr……続きを見る

'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence:……続きを見る

As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'. Today, governments systematically exclude sections of their populations from society through heavy-handed policing. But ……続きを見る

'Revolutionises our understanding of the carceral state' - Fidelis Chebe, Director of Migrant Action During 2019-20 in England and Wales, over 17 million hours of labour were carried out by more tha……続きを見る

"Carries scars of their arrows in his legs and of their bowie knives in his upper body, carries the memory of 3 months spent as a captive of the Comanches." - The Waco News-Tribune, 1928 "Interestin……続きを見る

'Powerfully entertaining. A true thriller of resilience and defiance' JANELLE MONÁE The true story of how a middle-class Black girl from Minneapolis became one of the single biggest threats to the U……続きを見る

The first comprehensive examination of the US Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause, surveying its history and the critical role it can and should play in combatting the punitive tendencies of America……続きを見る

Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational justice models. ‘Ubuntu’ signifies shared humanity, p……続きを見る

This book explores the various ways in which participation in sport and physical activity might contribute to effective solutions within criminal justice systems. Focusing on a range of different sp……続きを見る

This book presents both a new theoretical framework for the criminalisation of hate, referred to as “law as social justice liberalism”, and a comprehensive analysis of hate crime laws that have been……続きを見る

‘Rough sex’ has been at the forefront of criminal law in recent years following several high-profile murders of women killed during alleged consensual sex ‘gone wrong’, leading to widespread calls f……続きを見る

This edited volume presents nine new state-of-the-science chapters covering topics relevant to psychology and law, from established and emerging researchers in the field. Relevant to researchers, cl……続きを見る

The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors – historical, po……続きを見る

George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive ears around the world. Shortly after, Sarah Everard’s murder by a serving police of……続きを見る

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning. It goes beyond focussing on the prison to address punishment more broadly with cont……続きを見る

In this expansive companion to Abolition Feminisms Vol. I**, contributors confront multiple paradigms of punitivityーthe foundational logics of family, borders, heterosexuality, colonial violence, a……続きを見る

Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of ……続きを見る

NYT EDITOR'S CHOICE • WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION OF 2023 • **FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American ……続きを見る

This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally when many prisons diminish both hope and humanit……続きを見る

This book brings together leading authorities from the fields of international human rights law, criminology, legal medicine, and political science with international human rights judges and UN expe……続きを見る

What really goes on between prison walls, and in the hearts and minds of inmates? Few know better than Phyllis Taylor who, inspired by an Oprah Winfrey interview of incarcerated women, left a comfor……続きを見る

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Norwegian Correctional Service and the values and principles underlying its operations, using the renowned Halden Prison as a case study. Since its……続きを見る

Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization ……続きを見る

The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is prec……続きを見る

Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form ……続きを見る

From the denial of abortion rights in Ireland to sexual violence against British South Asian women in England, the state and its institutions continue to fail women. This book offers a counter-narra……続きを見る