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Treatment versus Punishment for Drug Addiction
??This brief summarizes the results of a two-year, international research project covering drug addiction treatment versus punishment in Austria, Poland, and Spain. It features: …
Sexual Crime and the Experience of Imprisonment
Four empirical chapters focus on the experience of stigmatisation, prison officers’ attitudes towards prisoners’ offences, negotiating the ‘sex offender’ identity in prisons and …
Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide
Analysis of criminal cases reveals that women suspected of killing their newborn children are some of the most vulnerable in our society and that infanticide is not just a …
Texas Tough
In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. A pioneer in criminal justice severity from assembly-line executions to supermax isolation, from mandatory sentencing to prison …
Juvenile Offenders and Guns
Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, and how guns made them feel. Guns have multiple meanings and …
Punishment in Latin America
Challenging the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment-and-society, Punishment in Latin America draws on innovative theoretical perspectives to …
Killer Data
Killer Data examines the phenomenon of serial murder using data collected from international sources to review offender patterning with a focus on contemporary cases. This type of …
Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy
Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy tells the story of how first-generation Americans coupled their legacy of liberty with a penal philosophy that promoted patriarchy, especially …
A History of the Assessment of Sex Offenders
Most forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers involved in the assessment of sex offenders today have a good grasp of where the field stands. Many of their …
Prisoners of Politics
A CounterPunch Best Book of the YearA Lone Star Policy Institute Recommended Book"e;If you care, as I do, about disrupting the perverse politics of criminal justice, there is …
Dementia in Prison
This innovative volume exposes dementia as a condition that the aging prison population is increasingly facing. Going beyond exploring the need to understand dementia within prison …
Justice and Penal Reform
In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, Western societies entered a climate of austerity which has limited the penal expansion experienced in the US, UK and elsewhere …