Sentencing and Punishment Books

New and Published Books

1. Understanding Criminal Justice

   A Critical Introduction

   By Azrini Wahidin, Nicola Carr

   Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime, criminality, criminology, and criminal justice policy and practice. Understanding Criminal Justice seeks to provide students with a critical introduction to the range of theoretical, policy and operational issues faced...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. Criminal Justice

   An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Peter Joyce

   This new and expanded edition builds upon material from the highly successful first edition. A comprehensive textbook on the criminal justice system, the book assesses the main theories concerned with the causes of crime (including white-collar and corporate crime), discusses the...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Contrasts in Punishment

   An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism

   By John Pratt, Anna Eriksson

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia,...

   Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Defendants in the Criminal Process (Routledge Revivals)

   By A. Bottoms, J. McClean

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1976, this book examines the practical workings of the English criminal court system, focusing on the defendant’s experiences of the system and the decisions he takes as he passes through it. Indeed, the defendant in a criminal case is in a unique position to experience the whole...

   Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Women, Punishment and Social Justice

   Human Rights and Penal Practices

   Edited by Margaret Malloch, Gill McIvor

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women. To reduce the number of women imprisoned, a range of policy initiatives have been developed to increase the...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Electronically Monitored Punishment

   International and Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Mike Nellis, Kristel Beyens, Dan Kaminski

   Electronic monitoring (EM) is a way of supervising offenders in the community whilst they are on bail, serving a community sentence or after release from prison. Various technologies can be used, including voice verification, GPS satellite tracking and – most commonly - the use of radio frequency...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Willan
7. Offender Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities

   Enabling Change the TC way

   By Alisa Stevens

   Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

   Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with structured cognitive-behavioural programmes. For fifty years, however, a small number of English prisons have promoted an alternative method of rehabilitation: the democratic therapeutic community (TC). These...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Trends in Corrections

   Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World

   Edited by Jennie K. Singer, Dilip K. Das, Eileen Ahlin

   Series: Interviews with Global Leaders in Policing, Courts, and Prisons

   Offering rare insiders’ perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations. Twelve chapters present transcribed interviews of corrections leaders along with a brief...

   Published October 4th 2012 by CRC Press
9. Foundations of Offender Rehabilitation

   By Sharon Casey, Andrew Day, Jim Vess, Tony Ward

   The past three decades has seen dramatic changes in the way in which the criminal justice system responds to those who break the law. The old claim in the field of correctional psychology that "nothing works" has strongly been refuted in the face of evidence from rehabilitation programmes that do...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. Legitimacy and Compliance in Criminal Justice

    Edited by Adam Crawford, Anthea Hucklesby

    Questions of legitimacy and issues of compliance lie at the heart of criminal justice systems and policies. Recent years have seen greater recognition and awareness of the essential role of legitimacy, trust and public confidence in underpinning the effectiveness of criminal justice practices and...

    Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge