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Interviewing Elites, Experts and the Powerful in Criminology
This book offers practical advice on designing, conducting and analyzing interviews with ‘elite’ and ‘expert’ persons (or ‘socially prominent actors’), with a focus on criminology …
Cultures of Confinement
Prisons, it seems, are on the increase everywhere, from democratic Britain to communist China, as ever larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now …
Muslims in Prison
The growth of Islam in Europe is reflected in the increasing numbers of Muslims in British and French prisons, but authorities have responded differently to the challenges …
The Story of Cruel and Unusual
A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guant namo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's …
Power and Pain in the Modern Prison
Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 years. However, the continued relevance of Sykes' seminal publication often passes unremarked …
Unpacking the Death Penalty in ASEAN
This book contributes conceptually, theoretically and morally to a deeper understanding of the distinctive Asian perceptions of punishment, justice and human rights. Researched and …
Gulag Boss
The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a …
Fire in the Big House
On April 21, 1930-Easter Monday-some rags caught fire under the Ohio Penitentiary's dry and aging wooden roof, shortly after inmates had returned to their locked cells after …
Surveillance and Democracy
This book of papers by the leading surveillance scholars in the field represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the relationship between surveillance and democracy.
Death Penalty in American Cinema
Killing as punishment in the USA, whether ordained by lynch mob or by the courts, reflects a paradox of the American nation: liberal, pluralistic, yet prone to lethal violence. …
Prison Growth & Economic Impact
The U.S. prison system has exploded in size and economic importance during the past three decades, due to a variety of factors including mandatory sentencing laws and tougher drug …