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Punitive practices are highly revealing of a society's social fabric, its normative order, and power structure. Punishment in International Society examines the penal philosophies …

'These compelling re?ections by people who have been entrapped within the tortures of solitary, should rekindle our abolitionist impulses at an especially critical moment in our …

The death penalty issue has become the epitome of the unresolvable issue, the question which people answer on the basis of gut reactions rather than logical arguments. In the …

«Alle psykiatere har pasientgrupper som de liker bedre å arbeide med enn andre, og for meg ble det altså de dårligst fungerende, delvis aggressive pasientene. De psykotiske er …

Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Valier argues that criminal …

Prison, Inc. provides a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming …

This book investigates the penal culture in France and Germany - how it is shaped in politics, media, and public opinion. Although compared with the US or the UK, France and …

This book presents a study of alternative penalties to the death penalty in China, aiming to promote theoretical exploration of death penalty reform in China as well as long-term …

Over the past three decades there has been widespread commitment to an understanding that sport can play a key role in community development. The role of sport within communities …

This book argues that abusive punishments are particularly deeply rooted in authoritarian states and in some Western countries such as Britain and the USA, from which they have …

Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental …

Offender supervision in Europe has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years. However, the emergence of mass supervision in the community has largely …