Prisons 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. 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
5. Health and Health Promotion in Prisons

   By Michael Ross

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   The impact of the United Nations "Healthy Prisons" initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health promotion in incarcerated populations. This invaluable book discusses the many health and medical issues that arise or are introduced into prisons from the perspective of both inmates...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. Rehabilitation and Deviance (Routledge Revivals)

   By Philip Bean

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1976, this book examines rehabilitation within the penal system in Britain in the 1970s. It argues that the ‘rehabilitative ideal’ is not the only possible alternative to a penal policy but an option which has now become institutionalized and alien to traditional concepts of...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice

   Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Michael Tonry

   Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

   In this book six leading criminologists address the central issues of ideology, crime and criminal justice in a series of essays originally presented at a symposium held in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz in Cambridge in March 2001. This book is concerned with the key themes of the history of...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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