Sentencing & punishment

This volume in the Advances in Criminological Theory series takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime. The book will be of great interest to a wide range of criminologists and is an ideal choice for use in graduate seminars and upper-level undergraduate courses. Learn More

Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative criminological approach. Learn More

Criminal Procedure and Sentencing has been fully revised with updates including: key recent case law, new legislation including the Sentencing Act 2020, the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 and the Police, Crime and Sentencing Act 2022, as well as the latest Criminal Procedure Rules and the new Criminal Practice Directions. Learn More

Criminal Procedure and Sentencing has been fully revised with updates including: key recent case law, new legislation including the Sentencing Act 2020, the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 and the Police, Crime and Sentencing Act 2022, as well as the latest Criminal Procedure Rules and the new Criminal Practice Directions. Learn More

Using an indigenous research methodology analyzing memoirs of formerly incarcerated people, Transformation During Incarceration: Breaking the System contextualizes and identifies the role of community and shared emotional connection among incarcerated people. Learn More

Racial and Prejudicial Stereotyping by Police uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities. This book will benefit academics, researchers, police officers, lawyers, social policy officers, and probation officers across the globe. Learn More

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures human beings, but is also aware of its deep flaws and chooses not to address them. Learn More

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures human beings, but is also aware of its deep flaws and chooses not to address them. Learn More

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland, what we know about it, how it operates, how it is experienced, and how it might be improved. Learn More

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland, what we know about it, how it operates, how it is experienced, and how it might be improved. Learn More

This book presents a comparative study of desistance from crime by analysing and comparing the narratives of English and French desisters. In doing so, it uncovers how national and structural differences may lead to varying individual pathways out of crime. Learn More

This book explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of correctional education programs for students in correctional settings that often result in mutual learning among both populations. Learn More

This book explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of correctional education programs for students in correctional settings that often result in mutual learning among both populations. Learn More

This book presents an evaluation of the role of gravity in international criminal justice. Undertaking a critical legal analysis of the law and practice of the ICC, it also draws on relevant jurisprudence of other international or internationalized criminal tribunals, as well as on the documents of the International Law Commission. Learn More