Punishment and Penalty Books

New and Published Books

1. Prison Governors

   By Shane Bryans

   This book provides the first systematic study of prison governors, a hidden and powerful, but much neglected, group of criminal justice practitioners. Its focus is on how they carry out their task, how that has changed over time and how their role has evolved. The author, himself a former prison...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment

   Edited by Stephen Farrall, Richard Sparks, Shadd Maruna, Mike Hough

   Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community. Engaging with, and building upon, renewed criminological interest in this area, Escape Routes...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present

   Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System

   By Bin Liang

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   This groundbreaking book examines the changing Chinese legal system since 1978. In addition to historical analyses of changes at the economic, political-legal, and social levels, Liang gives special attention to crime and punishment functions of the legal system, and the current judicial...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Justice and Governance in East Timor

   Indigenous Approaches and the 'New Subsistence State'

   By Rod Nixon

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Focusing on the case study of Timor Leste, this book presents the New Subsistence State as a conceptual tool for understanding governance challenges in countries characterised by subsistence economic and social relations. It examines the ways in which Timor Leste conforms to the typology of the New...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
5. Restorative Justice

   Ideas, Values, Debates, 2nd Edition

   By Gerry Johnstone

   Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice. Its advocates and practitioners argue that state punishment, society's customary response to crime, neither meets the needs of crime victims nor prevents reoffending. In its place, they suggest,...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Corrections

   A Critical Approach, 3rd Edition

   By Michael Welch

   Corrections: A Critical Approach (3rd edition) confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more troubling considering that its correctional population is overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans,...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
7. Restorative Justice

   Edited by Carolyn Hoyle

   Series: Critical Concepts in Criminology

   Over the last decade or so, more has been more written and talked about restorative justice than any other criminological topic. In addition to the proliferation of published work, there have been numerous national and international conferences and seminars both within and outside the academy, and...

   Published July 23rd 2009 by Routledge
8. Power, Conflict and Criminalisation

   By Phil Scraton

   Drawing on a body of empirical, qualitative work spanning three decades, this unique text traces the significance of critical social research and critical analyses in understanding some of the most significant and controversial issues in contemporary society. Focusing on central debates in the UK...

   Published October 17th 2007 by Routledge
9. Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture

   By Claire Grant

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Grant argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular...

   Published June 6th 2007 by Routledge
10. Rehabilitation

    By Tony Ward, Shadd Maruna

    Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

    Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them. In fact, the pendulum’s swing back from a pure punishment model to a rehabilitation model is arguably one...

    Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge