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Theorizing Legal Punishment
This book systematically defends an account of the institution of legal punishment that draws on both retributive and crime-prevention thinking.The work argues that legal …
Children and Crime in India
This book offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating …
Imprisoned Fathers and their Children
More than 125,000 children in the UK alone are 'sentenced' to separation from their imprisoned parents, mainly fathers. Gwyneth Boswell and Peter Wedge draw on extensive research …
'Rough Sex' and the Criminal Law
‘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 …
Criminal Law
Many controversies in American criminal law reflect the tension between older and newer conceptions of the purposes of punishment. The English common law of crimes enforced a royal …
Prisons and Crime in Latin America
This groundbreaking work examines Latin America's prison crisis and the failure of mass incarceration policies. As crime rates rose over the past few decades, policy makers adopted …
Uncertain Justice
In 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery. She was the first woman condemned to die in Canada, but would not be the last. In Uncertain …
American Mass Incarceration and Post-Network Quality Television
Far more than a building of brick and mortar, the prison relies upon gruesome stories circulated as commercial media to legitimize its institutional reproduction. Perhaps no medium …
Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course
Transportation, Post-Penal Identity and the Life Course explores the life-courses of convicts who, after being transported to Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, and released from …
Playing Fair
While much has been written on both political obligation and the justification of punishment, there has been little sustained effort to link the two. In Playing Fair, Richard …
Tennessee's New Abolitionists
“The meaning of the admonition—four words most often forgotten, ignored or intentionally violated--seems so simple: 'Thou shall not kill.' Here nineteen essayists remind us that …
The History of Australian Corrections
Beginning with the punishment systems of the ancient world, Sean OToole investigates the birth of the modern prison, the transportation process, the convict era and finally the …