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Immigration, Crime, and the Administration of Justice
Immigration, Crime, and the Administration of Justice: Contemporary Readings provides students with a concise, scholarly overview of contemporary immigration issues related to …
Correctional Theory
"e;The text is an incredible composite of the literature that has shaped correctional practice. The authors have a great capacity for making research interesting and …
Japanese Corrections
Compared with the US, Japan incarcerates relatively few criminals. Rather than attempt to demonstrate either the inferiority or superiority of the American criminal justice system, …
Determinants of the Death Penalty
Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifying those characteristics common to …
Careers in Criminal Justice and Criminology
This book provides a thorough and directed focus on successfully identifying, obtaining, and succeeding in a career in criminal justice or criminology. With empirically based, …
Punishment in Contemporary China
Punishment in contemporary China has experienced dramatic shifts over the last seven decades or so. This book focuses on the evolution, development and change of punishment in the …
Upper Limit
Since 1993, crime in the United States has fallen to historic lows, seeming to legitimize the country's mix of welfare reform and mass incarceration. The Upper Limit explains how …
Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon
This book presents the first-ever English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717). Although she …
Prisongate
Drugs and violence are rife in our filthy, overcrowded prisons. Women and underage prisoners are treated badly by staff and other prisoners alike. Some 70% of prisoners suffer from …
Suicides in Prison
The suicide rate in prisons in England and Wales is 40 per 100,000 - four times that of the general population. How can this be explained? Recent prison suicides have aroused much …
Police in Society
In 1964 Ben Whitaker, who later defeated a former Home Secretary to become Hampstead's first ever Labour MP and a Junior Minister, wrote The Police to try and reconcile (in his own …
Evolving Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Europe
The Evolving Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Europe explores the development of the framing of penal and prison policies by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), clarifying …