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Crime & Law Enforcement Issues
This book presents and discusses information in the study of criminal justice and law enforcement. Topics discussed include capital punishment; juvenile justice; the use of DNA in …
Replicating & Reproducing Policing Research
This book addresses the need for policing scholarship to strengthen its empirical cumulative knowledge base by replicating and reproducing earlier studies.The chapters in this …
English Prison and Borstal Systems
This is Volume VII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1952, this is an account of the prison and Borstal systems in England and …
Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space
Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and …
Talking About Torture
When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the American military, …
Beyond Walls and Cages
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and …
Routledge Handbook on American Prisons
The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of U.S. prisons and synthesizes the research on the many facets of the …
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment
Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each …
Three Strikes Laws
In the mid-1990s, policymakers in more than half the states and the federal government responded to escalating crime rates and a series of sensationalized crimes by passing laws …
Punishment
What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why …
No Wall Too High
â??One of the greatest escape stories Iâ??ve ever readâ?? Mail on SundayAn ordinary manâ??s extraordinary escape from Maoâ??s brutal labour campsXu Hongci was an ordinary medical …
Introduction to Prisons and Imprisonment
Published in association with the Prison Reform Trust, and one of a series on criminal justice and the penal system, this book covers the History of imprisonment in England and …