The Routledge Handbook of European Penology

Introduction - Sonja Snacken, Gaëtan Cliquennois, Ioan Durnescu, Diete Humblet, and Elena Larrauri

Part I: European penology – scientific developments

A. Theoretical developments
1. Geographical approaches to penology - Anna Schliehe
2. Penal abolitionism - René van Swaaningen
3. The development and frontiers of restorative justice - Brunilda Pali
4. Risk penology: The transformation of Europe’s penal order - Veronika Nagy and Klára Kerezsi
5. Theories of desistance: A new framework for rehabilitation? - José Cid
6. Human rights and penology - Gaëtan Cliquennois and Natasa Mavronicola

B. Comparative penology
7. Beyond punitiveness? Studying leniency and 'irrelevance' - David Nelken
8. Penal changes and political economy - José A. Brandariz and Ignacio González-Sánchez
9. Open prison – A piece of penal exceptionalism - Tapio Lappi-Seppälä
10. Penal moderation in Europe: Germany and France put to the test - Kirstin Drenkhahn, Fabien Jobard and Tobias Singelnstein
11. Searching for rehabilitation in all the wrong places: Understanding (allegedly) exceptional penal systems - Kristian Mjåland and Thomas Ugelvik
12. Russia’s prisons inside and outside the Council of Europe - Laura Piacentini, Gavin Slade, Alexei Trochev and Umidjon Toshimov

C. Methodological developments
13. Prison ethnographies in Europe: Origins, developments and new approaches - An-Sophie Vanhouche, Lars Breuls and Kristel Beyens 
14. Towards new sentencing and penal decision-making research agendas - Cyrus Tata
15. European recidivism statistics - Luc Robert and Eric Maes
16. Measuring the inside: Comparing European prison conditions - Suzanne Karstedt
17. Methodological challenges in European penology: Strategies for comparing prison and probation systems using criminal justice statistics - Marcelo F. Aebi, Edoardo Cocco and Yuji Z. Hashimoto

Part II: European penality – developments in penal practices

A. Transversal European developments
18. The avalanche of technology: Critical perspectives on digital penality in Europe - Ioan Durnescu and Kristel Beyens
19. Commercialisation of punishment: Exploring the role of electronic monitoring of offenders - Simonas Nikartas
20. The penal policy of the European Union - Adriano Martufi
21. Criminalisation of migrants in Europe - George Nikolopoulos
22. Prison monitoring. ITS successes and pitfalls - Mary Rogan and Elena Larrauri

B. Tackling particular groups of offenders
23. Impact of social-legal responses on the reintegration of terrorism-related convicts - Nicolas Amadio, Massil Benbouriche, Bruno Domingo, Nicolas Klausser and Rachel Sarg
24. Tackling drug use – between the war on drugs and decriminalisation/legalisation - Heino Stöver, Ingo Ilja Michels and Larissa Steimle
25. Addressing sexual offending: Characteristics, recidivism prevention, and policy directions - Kasia Uzieblo and Keiran McCartan
26. Gendered penality in Europe - Loraine Gelsthorpe, Ester Blay Gil, and Andreia de Castro Rodrigues
27. Ageism in prison - Diete Humblet

C. Specific forms of punishment
28. Hidden punishments - Michael Kilchling
29. Paradoxes of Supervision in Europe and beyond - Miranda Boone and Fergus McNeill
30. Migration control and coercion. An exploration into the nature and functions of contemporary bordered forms of penality - Giuseppe Campesi
31. Death and death prevention in European prisons - Roisin Mulgrew
32. Prison workers in Europe: Similarities and differences - Gorazd Meško and Rok Hacin

Part III. European penology and penality seen from abroad
33. Punishment policies, practices, and patterns in Europe - Michael Tonry

Index

Biography

Sonja Snacken is Emeritus Professor of Criminology, Penology and Sociology of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Gaëtan Cliquennois is Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the University of Rennes (IODE).

Ioan Durnescu is Professor of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Diete Humblet is Research Professor in the Criminology Department at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law.

Elena Larrauri is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).