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The California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, once stood in the stark and windswept Cummings Valley, 130 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The state's first prison for female …

In search of remedies to the growing problem of correctional crowding, federal, state, and local policy makers have begun to experiment with a range of new "intermediate" …

Slavery, Indentureship, and Women’s Labor: Early British Guiana’s Jails uncovers the overlooked histories of incarcerated women in colonial British Guiana, revealing how prisons …

The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology reimagines what criminology can become when we take the senses seriously. Centring the sensory as fundamental to the …

This book approaches the gun control debate by asking what it takes to achieve acceptance of, and compliance with, gun control regulations in a community thought to be opposed and …

The history of lynching

Boken gir en teoretisk og praktisk innføring i sikkerhetstiltak og bruk av makt i kriminalomsorgen. Første del er en innføring i det teoretiske og juridiske rammeverket for bruk av …

Doing Harm pries open the black box on a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field's enmeshment in the so-called war on terror and the ensuing reckoning over …

The Prison Community was a landmark study on prison culture and social processes, first published in 1940 (and reissued in 1958). This reissue includes a new introduction by …

Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative.The practice of mass incarceration has come …

Fatna El Bouih was first arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she was rearrested, forcibly …

The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s. Discussion had been strong on opinion and short on facts; this book, originally …