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“This book brilliantly tracks the reformulations of public discourse about sex offenders . . . [with] a rigorous examination of incarceration patterns.” ーJonathan Simon, author of Governing Through……続きを見る

Convicted and Condemned examines the lifelong consequences of a felony conviction through the compelling words of former prisoners. Winner, W. E. B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the ……続きを見る

A look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates Twelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an annual basis. ……続きを見る

A compelling history of silence as a shaper of the human mindーin prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own livesーfrom the author of Brilliant. Through her evocative intertwined histories……続きを見る

Feminist philosophers Barrett Emerick and Audrey Yap bring theoretical arguments about personhood and moral repair into conversation with the work of activists and the experiences of incarcerated pe……続きを見る

Incorporating the authentic voices and real-life experiences of women, this ground-breaking book focuses on pregnancy and new motherhood in UK prisons. The book delves critically and poignantly into……続きを見る

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 c……続きを見る

In many countries, community-based penalties such as probation, electronic monitoring and parole are the most common sanctions used in the punishment of criminalized individuals. Despite the widespr……続きを見る

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering ‘drug policy justice’ – repair……続きを見る

The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American ……続きを見る

Policing Welfare Fraud charts and interrogates the suite of measures ostensibly designed to combat welfare fraud and non-compliance. In Australia, which serves as the empirical focus of this book, t……続きを見る

A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of a top courtroom sketch artist. Jane Rosenberg is America's pre-eminent courtroom sketch artist. For over forty years, she'……続きを見る

This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young adults by sharing their views on their journey towards desistance from crime and social and community (re)integration. Building on ……続きを見る

This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty. It argues that an important social component of deat……続きを見る

Unsettling Colonial Automobilities explores the vehicle's role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people and proposes an Indigenous automobility that reclaims sovereignty over place and centricit……続きを見る

This book offers an incisive account of correctional officers’ daily practices, their role and how they represent themselves in relation to the prison, and by extension, the state. Drawing on ethnog……続きを見る

The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation will be the first of its kind to bring together research and personal insights from detectives, practitioners, academics and experts in……続きを見る

Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails a……続きを見る

Policing is violent. And its violence is not distributed equally: stark racial disparities persist despite decades of efforts to address them. Amid public outcry and an ongoing crisis of police legi……続きを見る

Policing: The Essentials responds to a need for a more concise presentation of policing. It covers the essential materials for understanding the history, development and current operations of polici……続きを見る

This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the work and role of prison officers around the world. E……続きを見る

Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons a……続きを見る

Police citizen encounters do not occur in a vacuum. Police systems globally have similarities and/or differences which remain largely understudied and therefore underexplained. Comparative policing ……続きを見る

An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of two decades navigating a broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent men. In 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC’s Dateline, re……続きを見る

Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas Prize A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role t……続きを見る

Assurer le respect de l'une des valeurs fondamentales de l'humanité dans notre société par le biais de la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme et de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme. ……続きを見る

Developmental norms and expectations for young people aged 18–25 have diverged from previous generations, creating a new stage in the life course called Emerging Adulthood. Theory surrounding this s……続きを見る

Behind the Bars: Tales of the World's Deadliest Prisons takes readers on a gripping journey into the heart of incarceration, exploring harrowing stories from some of the most notorious prisons world……続きを見る

Written for the undergraduate and graduate future practitioner, Correctional Counseling, Treatment, and Rehabilitation will provide an overview of how counseling exists within the correctional envir……続きを見る

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last 20 years and offers a critical analysis of the qualitative consequences generated by such a process on the normati……続きを見る