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Body Searches and Imprisonment
This book explores and addresses body search practices in prison environments from different angles (criminology, sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such practices in …
The Costs of Crime and Justice
This book presents a comprehensive view of the financial and non-financial consequences of criminal behavior, crime prevention, and society’s response to crime. Crime costs are …
Lived Religion, Conversion and Recovery
The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery. The contributions explore the complex interactions that occur …
Solitary confinement
Why is solitary confinement used in today's world? Does it help the rehabilitation of offenders? And how is policy affected by justification for the use of it? This book is the …
Quantifying Resistance
This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an …
Rethinking Criminal Justice
Antiquity, Archaeological Processes, and Highland Adaptation
For nearly 100 years, academics and the lay public have quarreled over, debated, and investigated the antiquity of the Ifugao rice terracing system of the Cordillera Central in the …
Imprisonment in America
"For a few decades American prisons were the wonder of the world. [However] early hopes that a prison regime could be a powerful means of reforming most convicts have been …
Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness
After Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "e;re-education"e; by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, …
Criminal Behaviour in Context
This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance - 'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' - is affected by personal and social circumstances …
On Crimes and Punishments
Beccarria's influential Treatise On Crimes and Punishments is considered a foundation work in the modern field of criminology. As Newman and Marongiu note in their introduction to …
Prison in Peru
This book expands the field of prison research by drawing on six months of unique, ethnographic research in Santa Monica prison, the largest women’s prison in Lima, Peru.