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Prison Break
American conservatism rose hand-in-hand with the growth of mass incarceration. For decades, conservatives deployed "e;tough on crime"e; rhetoric to attack liberals as …
Death and Justice
The author of Murder in Greenwich investigates the controversial cases of more than a dozen death-row inmates in Oklahoma, including two who were innocent of their crimes, …
The Women's House of Detention
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The …
Probation Practice and the New Penology
The criminal justice system has been in a state of flux in recent decades, accompanied by growing levels of insecurity and intolerance of crime and offenders among the general …
Understanding Health and Well-being in Custodial Settings
This timely book offers an overview of how to understand health and wellbeing in custodial settings. It draws on cutting-edge research for a big picture perspective on the issues …
Hidden Victims
"e;Sharp's book reemphasizes the tremendous costs of maintaining the death penalty-costs to real people and real families that ripple throughout generations to …
The Archaeology of Institutional Confinement
The study of American institutional confinement, its presumed successes, failures, and controversies, is incomplete without examining the remnants of relevant sites no longer …
Crime, Risk and Justice
Crime control has risen rapidly up the social and political agendas to become a central feature of western societies. As inequalities in society have increased, so the actual and …
Judge and Punish
What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from? Geoffroy de Lagasnerie spent years sitting in on trials, watching as individuals were …
Handing over the Keys
Generations of Indigenous people have experienced the injustices wrought by institutional confinement. Widespread criticism calls Canadian prisons the new residential schools and …
Children and young people in custody
Over the last decade, the reformed youth justice system has seen increases in the numbers of children and young people in custody, a sharp rise in indeterminate sentences and the …
Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities
Click 'Additional Materials' for downloadable samplesThe two-volume Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities aims to provide a critical overview of penal institutions …