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What Are Prisons For?
What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? The answer …
Bullying Among Prisoners
Bullying in prisons can have severe consequences both for those directly involved and for the prison regime as a whole, yet the subject has been curiously neglected in the …
Forgiveness and Restorative Justice
The meaning of ‘forgiveness’ and its role within restorative justice are highly contested. This book offers analysis from practical and academic perspectives within Christian …
Judicial Corporal Punishment as an Alternative to Incarceration in the United States
Sanaz Alasti leaves the mainstream alternatives to incarceration to examine a different, seemingly archaic approach, physical (but non-carceral) punishment—corporal punishment. …
Political Economy of Punishment Today
Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the …
Women’s Imprisonment in Eastern Europe
The field of prison studies has been dominated by an androcentric outlook, with little attention paid to women. Offering a unique theoretical fusion of the sociology of …
Hanged at Liverpool
Over the years the high walls of Liverpool's Walton Gaol have contained some of the most infamous criminals from the north of England. Taking over from the fearsome Kirkdale House …
Wrestling with the Devil
Ngugi wa Thiongâ??oâ??s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978.
Carceral Network in Ireland
This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century …
Cultures of Commodity Branding
Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding stretches back to the …
Restorative Community Justice
An anthology of original essays, this book presents debates over practice, theory, and implementation of restorative justice. Attention is focused on the movement’s direction …
Female Crime and Delinquency in Portugal
This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime …