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State-Building, Lawmaking, and Criminal Justice in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is often viewed as a failing state. The international intervention, following 9/11, could fit with the country’s domestic modernisation efforts, King Ammanullah’s in …
Living by Inches
From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps like Andersonville and Elmira, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Yet …
Doing Prison Work in Australia and Norway
This book aims to more fully understand the interaction between the prison environment, staff, and prisoners in different penal settings, and secondly, to explore how the nature …
Criminal Punishment and Restorative Justice
The book provides a refreshing analysis of the inherent divide between punitive and restorative approaches to questions of criminal justice. It looks at matters that serve to …
Intermediate Sanctions in Corrections
The field of corrections comprises three distinct areas of study: institutional corrections (jails and prisons), community corrections (probation and parole), and intermediate …
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 …
Imprisonment Worldwide
How many people are imprisoned across the globe? What factors can help explain variations in the use of imprisonment in different countries? What ethical considerations should …
Prisonomics
In March 2013, Vicky Pryce was sentenced to eight months in prison for accepting her ex-husband's penalty points on her driving licence some ten years earlier. After a very public …
How Countries Count Crime
This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear …
African American Felon Disenfranchisement
Positive Growth and Redemption in Prison
Although the negative consequences of rising incarceration rates have been well-established, criminological research has largely neglected to document psychological, social, and …
Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation
This is a study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the 18th century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in …