Legal history

First published in 1989, this title presents the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. First-hand accounts of life 'inside' chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell of the loneliness, the despair, the squalor, the fights, the friendships, the sex, the humour. Learn More

Originally published in 1974, this book was the first full-scale work published in this country evaluating carefully whether an active policy of finding suitable employment for men immediately on their release from prison had beneficial results. Learn More

In the late 1950s crime and its treatment had never been of greater public interest. In this title, first published in 1960, D.L. Howard used his knowledge of academic criminology and his practical experience of criminals of all ages to produce a book which would be of value to all who were concerned with crime in this country at the time. Learn More

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Safe Haven reconsiders the nature and implementation of the 1991 War Crimes Act, to ask why and how its design, interpretation, and the restrictive criteria placed upon it allowed Nazi collaborators to escape trial in the UK. Learn More

First published in 1903: This present edition of the Education Acts is offered, mainly as a concise guide to those persons who administer these Acts. Learn More

This volume contributes to the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by critically engaging with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. Learn More

This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter. It introduces Rafter's key works and assesses her contributions to the fields of feminist criminology, cultural criminology, and historical criminology, and explores her theorization of criminology's identity, scientific status, and possible futures. Learn More

Illuminating their breadth and diversity, this book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal documents and their manifold forms, uses, materialities and meanings. Learn More

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent's trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system. Learn More

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