Punishment and Penalty Books

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1. The Right to Silence: Principle, Pragmatism and Policy Making

   By Hannah Quirk

   Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of the effects of curtailing the right to silence. The right to silence has served as the practical expression of the...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-54771-0 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

2. Plea Bargaining in National and International Law: A Comparative Study

   By Regina Rauxloh

   Plea bargaining avoids a lengthy and costly criminal trial and thus enables courts to deal with a large number of cases very quickly. While it has often been argued that modern criminal justice systems cannot afford to abolish plea bargaining, academics long have criticised it for undermining the...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59786-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Gender, Violence, and Law

   By Melanie Randall

   The law has been the major site of advocacy, reform efforts and social change in relation to a variety of complex social problems. Gendered violence is one of them. After nearly three decades of advocacy and law reform, what can we understand about current legal responses to, and engagement with,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-87117-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Capital Punishment and Political Sovereignty

   By Adam Thurschwell

   Adam Thurshwell, a respected academic and death penalty lawyer, draws upon Continental theory and the Anglo-American jurisprudential tradition in order to deliver a critical survey of both the theoretical aspects of capital punishment and its actual administration. Pursuing an original political...

   January 2011 | 978-1-84568-111-1 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)

5. 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,...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-78209-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. 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...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-55034-5 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

7. Restorative Justice

   Edited by Carolyn Hoyle

   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...

   July 2009 | 978-0-415-45001-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System

   By Bin Liang

   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...

   2007 | 978-0-415-95859-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2007 | 978-0-415-42241-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture

    By Claire Grant

    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...

    2007 | 978-0-415-41409-8 | Paperback (Routledge)