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PENOLOGY & PUNISHMENT
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Understanding Victims and Restorative Justice
Understanding Victims And
Restorative Justice
    Understanding Victims and
    Restorative Justice
    examines the origins of
    and the relationship
    between these two sets of
    developments, and seeks
    to assess their strengths
    and weaknesses in meeting
    the needs of victims as
    part of the overall
    response to crime.
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Understanding Victims and Restorative Justice
Understanding Victims And
Restorative Justice
    Understanding Victims and
    Restorative Justice
    examines the origins of
    and the relationship
    between these two sets of
    developments, and seeks
    to assess their strengths
    and weaknesses in meeting
    the needs of victims as
    part of the overall
    response to crime.
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Prisons and the Voluntary Sector
Prisons And The Voluntary
Sector
    From 2002 there has been
    a major initiative to
    engage the voluntary
    sector and wider
    community in the work of
    prisons. This work edited
    by three experts and
    containing contributions
    by a range of informed
    commentators seeks to
    enable both parties to
    understand what is
    involved.
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Crime & Law Enforcement Issues
Crime & Law Enforcement Issues
    This book presents and
    discusses information in
    the study of criminal
    justice and law
    enforcement. Topics
    discussed include capital
    punishment; juvenile
    justice; the use of DNA
    in cold cases; statutes
    of limitation in federal
    criminal cases; the
    illicit drug market in
    Taiwan and leadership in
    police organisations.
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Electronically Monitored Punishment
Electronically Monitored
Punishment
    Since the 1980s,
    electronic monitoring has
    been successfully
    introduced in a number of
    countries worldwide. This
    book addresses the
    broader factors in
    electronic monitoring's
    development. It develops
    a critical criminological
    perspective on electronic
    monitoring in selective
    countries around the
    world.
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The Rationale of Punishment
The Rationale Of Punishment
    Discusses the relevance
    of utilitarian thought
    upon various debates
    regarding punishment.
    This book argues that
    'The Rationale of
    Punishment' is a model of
    applied philosophy that
    should be adapted to the
    debates that continue
    regarding the desire to
    prevent crime,
    compensate its victims,
    and promote the paramount
    vision of a truly good
    society.
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Controlling Federal Prison Costs
Controlling Federal Prison
Costs
    The cost to confine
    federal Bureau of Prison
    (BOP) inmates in non-BOP
    facilities has nearly
    tripled from about $250
    million in fiscal year
    1996 to about $700
    million in fiscal year
    2006. This title
    discusses the feasibility
    and implications of
    comparing the costs for
    confining federal inmates
    in low and minimum
    security BOP facilities.
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Mass Marketing & Consumer Fraud
Mass Marketing & Consumer
Fraud
    Explores consumer fraud
    and identity theft as
    well as telemarketing
    fraud which is both the
    oldest, and in some
    respects, the most
    persistent form of
    mass-marketing fraud that
    Canada and the United
    States have been actively
    combating for many years
    now.
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In Defense of Flogging
In Defense Of Flogging
    To punish criminals, we
    rely on an expensive,
    inefficient and vastly
    overcrowded prison system
    which does little but
    breed criminality. We
    need an alternative
    method of punishment that
    is cheaper, honest and
    more humane. This title
    proposes an alternative
    to our broken system of
    criminal justice: "flog
    and release".
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Handbook of Restorative Justice
Handbook Of Restorative
Justice
    A collection of original
    essays that offer a
    critical assessment of
    the theory, principles
    and practices of
    restorative justice
    around the globe. This
    volume explores various
    methods of responding
    nonviolently to harms -
    done by persons, groups,
    global corporations and
    nation-states.
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The Politics of Imprisonment
The Politics Of Imprisonment
    The Politics of
    Imprisonment examines how
    the democratic process
    and social trust shape
    penal sanctioning in the
    United States. Drawing on
    a range of archival
    sources, Barker shows
    that higher levels of
    civic engagement tend to
    support milder
    punishments whereas lower
    levels tend to support
    more coercive criminal
    justice policies.
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Corrections in the Community
Corrections In The Community
    An introductory text that
    provides a foundation of
    the salient information
    available on the broad
    and dynamic subject of
    community corrections. It
    explores the issues and
    practices facing
    community corrections,
    using the research in the
    field, in a way that
    makes it easy to use and
    understand.
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Criminal Justice and Neoliberalism
Criminal Justice And
Neoliberalism
    This book explores the
    origins of the so-called
    'punitive turn' in penal
    policy across Western
    nations over the past two
    decades. It demonstrates
    how the context of
    neoliberalism has
    informed penal
    policy-making and argues
    that it is ultimately
    neoliberalism which has
    led to the recent
    intensification of
    punishment.
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Tackling Prison Overcrowding
Tackling Prison Overcrowding
    Takes the Carter Report
    to task for construing
    the problems too
    narrowly, in terms of
    efficiency and economy,
    and for failing to
    understand the wider
    issues of justice that
    need addressing. This
    book is suitable for
    policy makers, probation
    practitioners, academics
    and other commentators on
    criminal policy.
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Residential Facilities
Residential Facilities
    Federal funding to states
    supported over 200, 000
    youths in residential
    facilities in 2004, many
    seeking help to address
    behavioral or emotional
    challenges. However,
    federal investigations
    have identified
    maltreatment and civil
    rights abuses in some
    facilities.
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Spectacle of Death
Spectacle Of Death
    Focuses on the central
    role of populist, often
    ephemeral literary forms
    in shaping attitudes
    toward capital
    punishment. This work
    shows that at times of
    social unrest, many
    Americans feeling
    excluded by the political
    and legal processes,
    turned instead to
    inexpensive literary
    forms of expression in an
    attempt to change the
    course of history.
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The Effects of Imprisonment
The Effects Of Imprisonment
    Ponders whether the
    prison harms its
    inhabitants, its
    employees, and others,
    and redirects the
    conversation among
    academics, policy-makers
    and professionals on the
    effects of imprisonment.
    This book examines the
    social, psychological,
    behavioural, and
    emotional impacts of the
    incarceration experience
    on prisoners, their
    families, and on
    society.
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Just Care
Just Care
    Restorative justice is an
    innovative approach to
    addressing conflict and
    bullying, as well as
    disruptive, challenging
    and criminal behaviour.
    This title identifies the
    practical benefits of
    employing the restorative
    approach. It is suitable
    for residential care
    managers and staff,
    social workers, and
    youth offending team
    managers.
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From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State
From Lynch Mobs To The Killing
State
    Uncovers the ways that
    race influences capital
    punishment, and attempts
    to situate the linkage
    between race and the
    death penalty in the
    history of America, in
    particular the history of
    lynching. This book looks
    at how the death penalty
    gives meaning to race,
    as well as why the
    racialization of the
    death penalty is uniquely
    American.
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Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment
    This work contains
    historical and
    contemporary information,
    and deals with the death
    penalty as an instrument
    of public policy,
    international law and
    human rights, and the
    politics of abolition
    versus retention. A
    special chapter focuses
    on the involvement of
    physicians in capital
    punishment.
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Capital Punishment and Political Sovereignty
Capital Punishment And
Political Sovereignty
    Written by a respected
    academic and death
    penalty lawyer, this
    title 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.
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Rethinking Corrections
Rethinking Corrections
    Rehabilitation,
    reintegration and reentry
    are immediate and
    pressing concerns in our
    society, as the rate of
    incarceration continually
    climbs. This title
    explores the challenges
    faced by convicted
    offenders over the course
    of rehabilitation and
    reintegration. It is
    suitable for upper level
    and graduate students.
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Handbook of Probation
Handbook Of Probation
    Provides a source of
    information and analysis
    about various aspects of
    the work of the Probation
    Service - a useful text
    for those working in
    probation, studying the
    subject as part of
    criminology or criminal
    justice course, or
    training for it. This
    work takes account of the
    changes that the
    Probation Service has
    undergone.
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Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation
Restorative Justice And
Responsive Regulation
    Restorative justice has
    become an important new
    way of thinking about
    crime, responsive
    regulation an influential
    way of thinking about
    business regulation. In
    this volume, John
    Braithwaite brings
    together his important
    work on restorative
    justice with his work on
    business regulation to
    form a l picture of the
    way society regulates
    itself.
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Understanding Community Penalties
Understanding Community
Penalties
    Offers an understanding
    of community sentences in
    relation to policy,
    practice and research.
    This book examines the
    role and function of
    community sentences, and
    how they challenge the
    framework of thinking
    about punishment in the
    criminal justice system.
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The Art of Executing Well
The Art Of Executing Well
    In a feature unique to
    Italy, the people who
    prepared a condemned man
    or woman spiritually and
    psychologically for
    execution were not
    priests or friars, but
    laymen. This volume
    includes some of the
    songs, stories, poems,
    and images that they
    used, and first-person
    accounts and ballads
    describing particular
    executions.
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I am Innocent!
I Am Innocent!
    Presents major criminal
    cases in history
    involving wrongfully
    convicted persons. This
    work graphically details
    by category how wrongly
    convicted persons were
    sent to prison - or to
    the gallows. It also
    includes a comprehensive
    glossary of legal,
    judicial and law
    enforcement terms
    applying to all cases.
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Harsh Justice
Harsh Justice
    In this work of
    comparative legal
    history, the author
    argues that the answer
    lies in America's
    triumphant embrace of a
    non-hierarchical social
    system and distrust of
    state power which have
    contributed to a law of
    punishment that is more
    willing to degrade
    offenders.
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Guillotine
Guillotine
    The guillotine is a most
    potent image of
    revolutionary France,
    the tool whereby a whole
    society was 'redesigned'.
    Tracing the development
    of the guillotine, this
    book recounts the stories
    of famous executions,
    the lives of the
    executioners, and the
    research into whether the
    head retained
    consciousness after it
    was separated from the
    body.
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Punishments of Former Days
Punishments Of Former Days
    Covers a range of
    historic punishments from
    outlawry to the ducking
    stool, the pillory,
    stocks and whirligig to
    the branding iron and
    scold's bridle. This book
    transports readers to a
    time when punishment was
    often brutal,
    unrestrained and
    unregulated by standards,
    fairness or consistency.
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Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
Sentencing And Sanctions In
Western Countries
    A collection of essays
    surveying the evolution
    of sentencing policies
    and practices in Western
    countries over the past
    several years. This book
    addresses
    plea-bargaining,
    community service,
    electronic monitoring,
    standards of use of
    incarceration, and legal
    perspectives on
    sentencing policy
    developments, among
    other topics.
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Punishment
Punishment
    Punishment is an area of
    increasing importance and
    concern to both citizens
    and politicians. How do
    we decide what should be
    crimes? How do we decide
    when someone is
    responsible for a crime?
    What should we do with
    criminals? This textbook
    on the philosophy of
    punishment discusses
    these questions.
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Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence
    Describes what the
    research tells us about
    domestic violence,
    including its
    perpetrators and victims,
    the impact of the
    responses to it and, the
    implications of that
    research for day-to-day,
    real-world responses to
    domestic violence by law
    enforcement officers,
    prosecutors and judges.
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Community Penalties
Community Penalties
    Community penalties are
    court-ordered
    punishments, falling
    between imprisonment and
    fines, and involve some
    contact by a criminal
    justice agency. This work
    looks at the current
    debate on which policy
    pressures may be dominant
    over community penalties
    in the future.
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Not So Nice
Not So Nice
    Girls' delinquency has
    attracted the attention
    of federal, state, and
    local policymakers for
    more than a decade as
    girls have increasingly
    become involved in the
    juvenile justice system.
    This book examines the
    developmental sequences
    of girls' delinquent
    behaviour, as well as
    the factors that protect
    girls against
    delinquency.
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DeathQuest
DeathQuest
    A textbook on the death
    penalty that engages the
    reader with a full
    account of the arguments
    and issues surrounding
    capital punishment. It
    begins with the history
    of the death penalty from
    colonial to modern times,
    and then examines the
    moral and legal arguments
    for and against capital
    punishment.
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Mob Justice
Mob Justice
    Every criminal is
    entitled to due process
    of the law and this fact
    forms the cornerstone of
    any civilised judicial
    system. Daredevil acts
    are done by the coward on
    behalf of the local
    community. Mob psychology
    shows that individuals
    tend to behave in a
    different manner as part
    of a group in contrast to
    acting independently.
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Transforming Criminal Policy
Transforming Criminal Policy
    This title explores
    spheres of influence in
    the USA, Netherlands,
    England and Wales during
    the 1980s, focusing on
    the activities of three
    strategically placed
    individuals - James Q.
    Wilson, Dato Steenhuis,
    and David Faulkner. The
    author insists on a need
    for an integrated
    criminal policy.
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Penal Policy and Political Culture in England and Wales
Penal Policy And Political
Culture In England And Wales
    Offers a critical
    perspective on criminal
    justice and concludes
    that the penal populism
    generated may make the
    liberal elite feel
    uncomfortable, but it
    will not go away. It says
    that the public voice
    will have an increasing
    role to play in
    determining how we
    respond to a range of
    sensitive social issues,
    including penal issues.
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London
London
    Tyburn Fields is the best
    known site of execution
    in London, but London
    may be aptly named the
    executioner's city, so
    many were the places
    where executions could
    and did occur. This book
    reveals the capital as a
    place where the bodies of
    criminals defined the
    boundaries of the city
    and heads on poles
    greeted patrons on London
    Bridge.
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Punishment in the Community
Punishment In The Community
    This text discusses and
    analyzes punishments
    other than imprisonment,
    arguing that discipline
    "in the community" is
    effective, not only in
    relation to the "other"
    of prison, but also as a
    form of social control in
    its own right, which is
    based on self-government
    and normalizing
    instruction.
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Perfect Justice
Perfect Justice
    True crime is that
    perpetrated on the
    innocent, so profound in
    its horror that it
    rallies even the most
    apathetic among us. It
    was for crimes like these
    that the ultimate penalty
    was created - the death
    sentence. However, it is
    becoming common for these
    sentences to be
    overturned. This book
    presents an argument for
    this penalty to remain in
    place.
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Repair or Revenge?
Repair Or Revenge?
    Drawing on a five-year
    study of the impact of a
    restorative justice
    programme on victims of
    property and violent
    crime, Strang presents
    evidence to show that the
    restorative alternative
    of conferencing more
    often than court-based
    solutions has the
    capacity to satisfy
    victims' expectations of
    delivering restoration.
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Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management
Redemption, Rehabilitation And
Risk Management
    Offers an account of the
    origins, growth and
    development of the
    probation service during
    its 100 year history.
    This title presents
    historical material,
    official (Home Office)
    documents, probation
    statistics, and research
    reports. It explains the
    changes that have taken
    place between 1907 and
    2010.
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Principled Sentencing
Principled Sentencing
    A collection of extracts
    on sentencing philosophy
    and policy. This edition
    includes three new
    chapters on restorative
    justice, law and order
    perspectives and
    postmodernist
    perspectives. Each
    chapter has an
    introduction and
    bibliography, all of
    which have been revised
    and updated.
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Punishment and Death
Punishment And Death
    Considers the persistence
    of death and suffering in
    the history of punishment
    to be part of historical
    legacies created by
    slavery and colonialism.
    This book argues that the
    infliction of pain,
    suffering, and untimely
    death through punishment
    is foundational, rather
    than exceptional, to
    modern state power.
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Punishment, Communication and Community
Punishment, Communication And
Community
    Part of the "Studies in
    Crime and Public Policy
    series", this book
    examines the trends in
    penal theorizing. It
    explores the legitimacy
    of actual practices by
    examining what would
    count as adequate
    justification for them.
    It is aimed at
    criminologists,
    philosophers, and others
    interested in theories of
    punishment.
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The Death Penalty in Contemporary China
The Death Penalty In
Contemporary China
    This book is about death
    penalty practice and its
    reform in contemporary
    China. China's infamous
    death penalty record is
    the product of firm
    Party-state control as
    policy informs capital
    punishment by courts. A
    quest for leniency
    eventually ousted China's
    'Strike Hard' policy, as
    the Party-directed
    dialectic swung from
    'kill many' to 'kill
    fewer.'
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Police Management
Police Management
    The prevalence of police
    deviance is a
    much-debated statistic
    and one that is often
    rife with problems. Some
    examples in the UK
    involve suppression of
    evidence, beating of
    suspects, tampering with
    confidential evidence and
    perjury. This book
    addresses these issues
    and gives the reader
    insight into the dynamics
    of police enforcement.
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Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry
    Elizabeth Fry, mother of
    eleven children and a
    Quaker minister, is seen
    as one of the most
    influential and enigmatic
    women in English history.
    Dismayed by the terrible
    prison conditions in the
    early 19th century, Fry
    drew the world's
    attention to the plight
    of incarcerated women,
    and became a living
    legend. This work
    presents her story.
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Selective Prosecution in the Federal Criminal Justice System?
Selective Prosecution In The
Federal Criminal Justice
System?
    Since July 2007, the
    Committee on the
    Judiciary and its staff
    has been investigating
    allegations that
    political considerations
    may have improperly
    influenced federal
    criminal prosecutions in
    a number of cases around
    the country. This book
    describes the progress of
    the investigation on
    allegations of selective
    and politically-motivated
    prosecution.
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The Art of Executing Well
The Art Of Executing Well
    In a feature unique to
    Italy, the people who
    prepared a condemned man
    or woman spiritually and
    psychologically for
    execution were not
    priests or friars, but
    laymen. This book
    includes some of the
    songs, stories, poems,
    and images that they
    used, and also
    first-person accounts and
    ballads describing
    particular executions.
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Release from Prison
Release From Prison
    Release from prison is
    matter of increasing
    interest throughout
    Europe. This book focuses
    on Council of Europe
    Recommendations and on
    European Union measures.
    It explains how release
    policy is related to
    wider questions about
    justice and fairness in
    prison-related
    decision-making and the
    changing place of
    imprisonment in European
    society.
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Cruel and Unusual
Cruel And Unusual
    Since 1973, America's
    imprisonment rate has
    multiplied over five
    times to become the
    highest in the world.
    More than two million
    inmates reside in state
    and federal prisons. What
    does this say about our
    attitudes toward
    criminals and punishment?
    What does it say about
    us? This book explores
    the cultural evolution of
    punishment practices in
    the US.
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Invisible Women
Invisible Women
    Recreates the realities
    of prison life for a
    woman at the end of the
    twentieth century, as
    conditions worsen with
    overcrowding, staff
    shortages and expenditure
    cuts. This book describes
    the over-use of
    medication as a means of
    control; the plight of
    ethnic minority women,
    and the self-mutilation
    and suicide attempts of
    female prisoners.
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Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
Youth Violence And Juvenile
Justice
    There are multiple
    reasons to prevent
    juveniles from becoming
    delinquent or continuing
    to engage in delinquent
    behaviour. This title
    examines how sociometric
    status influences
    childhood bullying,
    aggressive behaviour and
    victimisation. It pays
    attention to the affect
    of sociometric neglect
    and rejection on child
    development.
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Who to Release?
Who To Release?
    Explores the changing
    role of the Parole Board
    across the range of its
    responsibilities,
    including the prediction
    of risk and deciding on
    the release (or continued
    detention) of the growing
    number of recalled
    prisoners and of those
    subject to indeterminate
    sentences.
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Victorians Against the Gallows
Victorians Against The Gallows
    Focusing in part on the
    activities of the Society
    for the Abolition of
    Capital Punishment,
    James Gregory here
    examines abolitionist
    strategies, leaders and
    personnel. This book is
    certain to be an
    illuminating and
    important contribution to
    a fascinating aspect of
    Victorian History.
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Making Good
Making Good
    Demonstrates that neither
    the conservative idea of
    deterrence through
    punishment nor the
    liberal ideal of
    rehabilitation has worked
    in practice. This book
    proposes the basis for a
    radical but carefully
    worked out practical
    philosophy which would
    place the emphasis on the
    offender making amends to
    the victim and society
    for the damage caused.
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What Matters in Probation
What Matters In Probation
    The What Works initiative
    is having a profound
    impact on the work of the
    National Probation
    Service. This book aims
    to provide a critical
    overview of What Works,
    providing a wider set of
    perspectives on a project
    which is vital for the
    future of the service.
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Prison Patter
Prison Patter
    Contains some 2, 500
    entries together with
    explanations and
    background to the prison
    slang. This guide is
    intended for those who
    wish to look beneath the
    surface of criminal
    justice and penal policy
    at words and phrases used
    by prisoners which are
    often telling and direct.
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The New Politics of Crime and Punishment
The New Politics Of Crime And
Punishment
    This title provides an
    overview of recent
    government initiatives in
    the field of crime and
    punishment, reviewing
    both the policies
    themselves, the
    perceived problems and
    issues they wish to
    address, and the broader
    social and politial
    context in which this is
    taking place.
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A Companion Guide to Life Sentences
A Companion Guide To Life
Sentences
    Suitable for probation
    and prison personnel,
    this guide offers an
    account of life
    sentencing from
    pre-sentence to release
    on licence, covering
    mandatory life for
    murder, HMP sentences
    for juvenile murderers,
    the principles governing
    discretionary life
    sentences, lifer
    'career' planning, and
    the process of review and
    the role of the Parole
    Board.
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Prison System and Its Effects
Prison System And Its Effects
    Traces the development of
    the New Zealand Prison
    System which includes the
    history of penology prior
    to the phenomenon coming
    there. This book explores
    more complex managerial
    and social issues
    concerning crime and its
    treatment, including the
    interweaving of different
    penal policies.
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Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750
Policing And Punishment In
London 1660-1750
    This study examines the
    changes in the criminal
    justice system in the
    City of London from 1660
    to 1750. It investigates
    why the elements of an
    alternative means of
    dealing with crime in
    urban society were
    emerging in policing,
    prosecution, and the
    establishment of new
    forms of punishment.
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The Penal Crisis and the Clapham Omnibus
The Penal Crisis And The
Clapham Omnibus
    Deals with the concerns
    about crime and
    punishment of that most
    vivid of judicial
    creations, 'The Man or
    Woman on the Clapham
    Omnibus'. This book
    explains that this human
    reference point for
    reason and good sense is
    likely to be far more
    receptive to sound
    explanation and argument
    than the media (and
    tabloid press in
    particular) might give
    credit.
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The Use of Punishment
The Use Of Punishment
    In recent decades there
    has been a vast increase
    in the use of
    imprisonment and penal
    supervision, and to many
    this development appears
    to be qualitatively as
    well as quantitatively
    different. This volume
    considers the causes of
    this development, its
    consequences and future
    course.
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
Death By A Thousand Cuts
    Explores the history,
    iconography, and legal
    contexts of Chinese
    tortures and executions
    from the tenth century
    until lingchi's abolition
    in 1905. This work
    investigates "oriental"
    tortures in the Western
    imagination. It also
    questions the logic by
    which states justify
    tormenting individuals.
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Newgate in Revolution
Newgate In Revolution
    Introduction; 1. Charles
    Pigott, The Jockey Club;
    or a Sketch of the
    Manners of the Age; 2.
    [James Parkinson], Old
    Hubert, pseud., An
    Address to the Hon.
    Edmund Burke from the
    Swinish Multitude
    (London, 1793; 3. James
    Henry Lawrence, An Essay
    on the Nair System of
    Gallantry and
    Inheritance; 4.
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Hanging in the Balance
Hanging In The Balance
    Traces the history of
    capital punishment in the
    United Kingdom from
    ancient times to periods
    of reform until hanging
    for murder was finally
    abolished by Parliament
    in 1969. This book
    describes the
    Parliamentary and public
    debates, and notes the
    stance taken by
    organizations and
    individuals.
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Psychology in Probation Services
Psychology In Probation
Services
    Outlines the strategic
    framework for
    psychological services
    across prisons and
    probation. This book
    gives a picture of some
    key areas of applied
    psychological practice in
    probation settings. It
    covers the development of
    applied psychological
    services, court work,
    mental health, working
    with sex offenders, risk
    assessment, and
    cognitive skills.
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Losing the Stigma of Incarceration
Losing The Stigma Of
Incarceration
    Many Western countries
    now use electronic
    monitoring (EM) of some
    offenders as an
    alternative to more
    traditional forms of
    punishments such as
    imprisonment. This title
    presents a study of the
    causal effect of EM on
    social benefit dependency
    after the sentence has
    been served.
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Enforcing Religious Freedom in Prison
Enforcing Religious Freedom In
Prison
    Prisoners in federal and
    state institutions retain
    certain religious
    exercise rights under the
    Constitution and
    statutes. This book
    focuses on the
    government's efforts to
    enforce federal civil
    rights laws prohibiting
    religious discrimination
    in the administration and
    management of federal and
    state prisons.
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Parole Board Hearings
Parole Board Hearings
    Parole Board Hearings:
    law and practice
    continues to be the only
    book dedicated to
    covering the
    decision-making powers
    and procedures of the
    Parole Board It provides
    practical and detailed
    guidance on
    representation,
    challenging decisions,
    risk assessments,
    hearing procedure, life
    sentence review,
    licences, recall and
    remedies.
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Evidence-Based Implementation in Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment
Evidence-Based Implementation
In Community Corrections And
Addiction Treatment
    Drug courts, boot camps,
    day reporting and other
    judicial/correctional
    interventions mix social
    controls with treatment
    of addicted persons. This
    book offers strategies
    that affect adoption,
    implementation and
    sustainability in
    community correctional
    settings.
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Punishing the Poor
Punishing The Poor
    Takes the reader inside
    America's prison to probe
    the entrails of the
    bulimic carceral state
    that has risen on the
    ruins of the charitable
    state and the black
    ghetto. Linking social
    and penal policies, this
    title contributes to the
    historical anthropology
    of the state in the age
    of triumphant
    neoliberalism.
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In the Shadow of Prison
In The Shadow Of Prison
    Provides an account of
    the relationship between
    families, prisons and
    penal policies in the
    United Kingdom. This book
    explores debates in
    relation to prisoners and
    their families, and
    introduces the reader to
    relevant theoretical
    approaches. It
    incorporates perspectives
    drawn from criminology,
    sociology, social work
    and law.
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Organized Crime, Gangs & Trafficking
Organized Crime, Gangs &
Trafficking
    This book presents and
    discusses information in
    the study of organised
    crime, gangs and
    trafficking on a global
    scale. Topics discussed
    include organised crime
    in the U.S.; Taiwan and
    Hong Kong gangs;
    trafficking of mainland
    Chinese women to Taiwan;
    Hong Kong drug
    trafficking and human
    smuggling.
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Issues & Lessons for Incarcerated & Released Parents
Issues & Lessons For
Incarcerated & Released
Parents
    Researchers, community
    organisations and
    government agencies are
    seeking effective
    strategies to make
    re-entry of offenders
    successful while
    balancing the needs of
    communities for safety.
    This book presents a
    synopsis of key re-entry
    research that relates to
    offenders and
    ex-offenders with family
    responsibilities.
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Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment
Dictionary Of Prisons And
Punishment
    A reference for the
    increasing number of
    people studying in,
    working in prisons and
    working with prisoners.
    This dictionary covers
    key aspects of criminal
    justice and the criminal
    justice system. It
    features approximately
    300 entries (of between
    500 and 1500 words) on
    key terms and concepts
    arranged alphabetically.
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Paying Back
Paying Back
    A collection of essays
    examining the history and
    objectives of community
    service from a number of
    standpoints. A greater
    understanding of how
    community service orders
    are used and how they
    operate in practice,
    should benefit to
    professionals and those
    interested in the
    development of criminal
    law.
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The Death of Innocents
The Death Of Innocents
    This is the sequel to
    'Dead Man Walking and
    tells the stories of two
    men who were undoubtedly
    innocent of the crimes
    for which they were
    executed. At a time when
    the Catholic church is
    under close scrutiny,
    'The Death of Innocents'
    critiques Catholic
    doctrine on the death
    penalty.
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