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Reducing Reoffending
Reducing Reoffending provides a critical overview of social work and community justice in Scotland, taking full account of recent developments. The book is divided into three …
Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century
This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps in imperial spaces, which have informed ongoing debates on the …
Guantanamo, USA
Established as America's first foreign naval base following the Spanish-American War, Guantanamo is now more often thought of as our Devil's Island, the gulag of our times. This …
Twice the Work of Free Labor
For the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial terrorism, this cruel and unusual punishment …
Change or Continuity in Drug Policy
While evidence-based policy is an emerging rhetoric of the desire by and for governments to develop policies based on the best available evidence, drug policy is an area where …
Scandinavian Prison Study
This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen …
The Punishment Monopoly
Why, asks Pem Davidson Buck, is punishment so central to the functioning of the United States, a country proclaiming “liberty and justice for all”? The Punishment Monopoly …
Alexander Paterson: Prison Reformer
The first biography of the prison reformer Alexander Paterson (1884-1947).Sir Alexander Paterson (1884-1947) is best remembered for his role as Commissioner of Prisons and as the …
Convicts And The Colonies
This foundation text presents a close look at the transportation system that sets it in its context as one of various modes of punishment used in the English penal system. It …
Out of the Red
Frank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology? Faculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orleans? Out of the Red is one man's …
Crime, Criminal Justice and the Probation Service
First published in 1992, Crime, Criminal Justice and the Probation Service is a thought-provoking analysis of the role of the probation service in developing an integrated system …
Exoneree Diaries
Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people when the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses …