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The field of prison studies has been dominated by an androcentric outlook, with little attention paid to women. Offering a unique theoretical fusion of the sociology of …

The Death Penalty in the Eighties: An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punishment by Welsh S. White delivers a probing and accessible analysis of capital punishment in …

Who knew that hatred driven by racism could be so lucrative? ... A resounding and meticulously researched expos Ravi Ragbir, immigration activist and co-founder of New Sanctuary …

Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons confronts the enduring claim that Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and ahistorical rupture in America’s …

What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why …

On a beautiful California evening, in the early spring of 2002, I was driving my Jeep Wrangler with my niece, on our way to get burgers. Out of the blue I got a phone call from …

Provides an analysis of the inherent divide between punitive and restorative approaches to questions of criminal justice. This book argues that the use of custody can be reduced by …

Incarceration Without Conviction addresses an understudied fairness flaw in the criminal justice system. On any given day, approximately 500,000 Americans are in pretrial detention …

Sanaz Alasti leaves the mainstream alternatives to incarceration to examine a different, seemingly archaic approach, physical (but non-carceral) punishmentcorporal punishment. This …

James "Spanky" Haas treated everyone from the superintendents he worked under to the inmates he guarded with respect and dignity. He believes that no matter your station in life, …