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Prisoners' Children
Justice, it is said, is about acquitting the innocent and punishing the guilty. Why then, asks Roger Shaw, are the children of imprisoned parents often penalised the most? The …
Arbitrariness Of The Death Penalty
Author note: Barry Nakell is Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Kenneth A. Hardy is Director, Social Science Statistical Laboratory, Institute …
Philosophy Imprisoned
Western philosophy's relationship with prisons stretches from Plato's own incarceration to the modern era of mass incarceration. Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the …
Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention
This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with women who …
Routledge Revivals: Guards Imprisoned (1989)
First published in 1989, Guards Imprisoned provides an in-depth look into the work and working life of prison guards as they perceive and experience it. The author, who was a …
Legal Challenges to the Far-Right
The work considers the international and European obligations of the UK in the realm of challenging the far-right and assesses the extent to which it adheres to them. It looks at …
Pain and Retribution
Pain and Retribution charts the rise and rise of a form of punishment that takes place behind the walls of the institution we have come to call ‘prison’. It is the first …
Taking the Law into their Own Hands
Over much of Africa, crime and insurgency are a serious problem and one in which the distinction between the two is being eroded. Left without state protection people have sought …
Coming to Terms with Policing
In the late 1980s, the role of the police and their accountability to the community had been at the centre of much debate. Originally published in 1989, this important collection …
Prisons and Community Corrections
This edited collection brings together leading international academics and researchers to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs the future of prison and wider …
Prisoner Voices from Death Row
Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concerning the validity of death …
Convict Maids
Convict Maids destroys the myth that the female convicts transported from Britain and Ireland to New South Wales between 1826 and 1840 were mainly prostitutes, professional …