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American Hangman
In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths. A former police chief who …
Contesting Crimmigration in Post-hukou China
This book focuses on the criminalization trend and process regarding the internal migration in contemporary China from the perspective Law-in-Action. In Chinese society today, …
Murder at the Supreme Court
True-life reporting on vicious criminals and the haphazard system that punishes them In 1969, the Supreme Court justices cast votes in secret that could have signaled the end of …
College in Prison
Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that …
Carceral Con
A critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillance, and carceral control in the …
Punishment
Ted Honderich's Punishment is the best-known book on the justifications put forward for state punishment. This enlarged and developed edition brings his writing to a new audience. …
Trapped in a Vice
Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJ? Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of …
Active Intolerance
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, …
Sexual Offending in Ireland
The topic of sexual offending is a deeply complex and challenging one. In the past number of years, there has been a growing interest in sexual crime with a proliferation of cases …
Murder Stories
Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to 'American' ideologies in the retention of capital …
From the Courtroom to the Boardroom
The era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of “law and order,” referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and …
Therapeutic Community for Women Prisoners
Based upon an extensive empirical study of a democratic therapeutic community for women serving long and medium sentences, this book explores the opportunities it provided for …