Penology and punishment Books

Book SynopsisThe United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1.5 million Americans incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented. The author presents evidence that living in a high-imprisonment neighborhood significantly decreases political participation.Trade Review"Traci Burch has tackled a public issue that threatens the very basis of democracy-the tendency of criminal convictions to taint the democratic involvement of those left behind-and done so in rigorous and creative ways. Trading Democracy for Justice is a splendid work of social science that will be widely read and cited and whose astonishing findings will expand our attention to the ways incarceration affects people beyond those convicted of crimes." (Katherine Cramer-Walsh, University of Wisconsin-Madison)"

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Book SynopsisDescribes the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiances, and boyfriends on the inside. This book shows that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men.Trade Review"The claim that prison can be a source of welfare provision, health care, and even romantic intimacy for people typically denied more adequate ways to meet these human needs will strike many readers as counterintuitive and politically problematic, but it is true nevertheless. Megan Comfort's beautifully written book does a brilliant job of tracing this, and other, complex truths in a detached, detailed, and thoroughly insightful manner." - David Garland, author of The Culture of Control"

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Book SynopsisCelebrated prison reformer Miriam Van Waters made history with her sensational battle to retain the superintendency of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women in 1949. This biography of the early lesbian activist moves beyond the controversy to tell the story of a remarkable woman.

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Book SynopsisDespite lethal explosions of violence from within and critical assaults from without, it seems certain that prisons will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. Gordon Hawkins argues that certain key issues which attend the use of imprisonment as a penal method must be dealt with realistically. Beginning with a discussion of the ideology of imprisonment and the principal lines of criticism directed at it, Hawkins examines such issues as the prisonization hypothesis (the theory that prisons serve as a training ground for criminals), the role of the prison guard, work in prisons, and the use of prisoners as research subjects for medical experiments. He also deals with the prisoners' rights movement and its implications for the future of prison administration. Hawkins not only makes specific recommendations for reform, he also carefully appraises the barriers which obstruct their implementation. Hawkins devotes a large portion of this relatively short book to a discussion of some of

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Book SynopsisExplores the sexual lives of prisoners and the sexual culture of prisons over the years, along with the impact of various issues, including race, class, and gender, sexual violence, prisoners' rights activism, and the HIV epidemic. This title argues for the importance of the prison to the history of sexuality.Trade Review"Criminal Intimacy is simply the best book on the history of sexuality that I've read in some time." - David Halperin"

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Book SynopsisExplores the sexual lives of prisoners and the sexual culture of prisons over the years, along with the impact of various issues, including race, class, and gender, sexual violence, prisoners' rights activism, and the HIV epidemic. This title argues for the importance of the prison to the history of sexuality.Trade Review"Criminal Intimacy is simply the best book on the history of sexuality that I've read in some time." - David Halperin.

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Book SynopsisJustice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Francis Cullen and Daniel Mears on community corrections; Peter Reuter and Jonathan Caulkins on drug abuse policy; Harold Pollack on drug treatment; David Hemenway on guns and violence; Edward Mulvey on mental health and crime; Edward Rhine, Joan Petersilia, and Kevin Reitz on parole policies; Daniel Nagin and Cynthia Lum on policing; Craig Haney on prisons and incarceration; Ronald Wright on prosecution; and Michael Tonry on sentencing policies.

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Book SynopsisWe call it justice - the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers, and the slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? Revenge, the author argues, is not the problem. Instead, the problem is the inadequacy of lawful outlets through which to express it.Trade Review"Because it is often regarded as 'un-Christian,' revenge has acquired a bad name. In this incisive analysis, Thane Rosenbaum argues that revenge is a hunger in most injured hearts and the very fundament of our idea of justice. This is a compelling and provocative book, immensely valuable both for its close reasoning and its honesty." -Scott Turow"

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Book SynopsisThis text tells the story of how the idea that physical suffering could be a path to redemption became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Using documents from criminal cases, it looks at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788.

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Book SynopsisReveals how modern strategies of punishment - and their failure - relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. The author uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections system does and how it works.

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Book SynopsisDenies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine.Trade Review"This is a polished, original, and forcefully argued book that provides a fascinating discussion of a series of iconic penal institutions. Smith's analyses will become a standard reference point, and the lessons he has to teach will, I hope, quickly be learned and assimilated." - David Garland, New York University"

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Book SynopsisDenies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine.Trade Review"This is a polished, original, and forcefully argued book that provides a fascinating discussion of a series of iconic penal institutions. Smith's analyses will become a standard reference point, and the lessons he has to teach will, I hope, quickly be learned and assimilated." - David Garland, New York University"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Humanizing and nuanced . . . [Ortiz’s] overarching approach, centered on human action, agency and (self-)determination, will inspire many with its obvious relevance to the present and future of mass incarceration. In this vital and public-facing conversation, Ortiz’s voice and scholarship will undoubtedly be not only welcome, but essential.” * Social History of Medicine *“Raising the Living Dead makes an excellent case for a new wave of scholarship on the history of crime and punishment. It builds on the existing literature then applies an innovative multiperspectival approach grounded in theory and rich primary sources.” -- Julia E. Rodriguez, University of New Hampshire“This is at once a deeply personal project for the author and a penetrating and nuanced analysis of prison reform and rehabilitation policies in a society caught in between—between imperial projects (declining Spain and rising US), between cultures (Spanish and Anglo-American), between races (‘white’ to ‘black’), and between carceral systems (dungeon to rehabilitative institution). By diving into a rich trove of individual and institutional records, Ortiz Díaz has produced a multifaceted understanding of efforts to change the way punishment worked in Puerto Rico in the second quarter of the twentieth century.” -- Thomas Holloway, University of California, Davis“Through meticulous archival research, Ortiz Díaz has rediscovered a surprising and overlooked era of prison reform in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Defying the stereotype of the exclusively passive or resistant colonial subject, inmates were active participants in the rehabilitation of their bodies, minds, and social identities. Raising the Living Dead constitutes an important and innovative contribution to the new and vibrant field of international prison history.” -- Mary Gibson, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Toward a Holistic History of Incarceration 1 Under a Microscope: Convict Bodies and Prison Biomedicine 2 To Classify and Treat: Correctional Psychology and Psychiatry 3 Interactional Care: Social Workers, Parole Officers, and Social Rehabilitation 4 More Than Flesh: Sacred Knowledge and Experiential Healing 5 In Pursuit of Awakening: Carceral Therapeutic Humanities 6 Health Activism: Executive Clemency on the Mona Passage Conclusion: A Rehabilitative Dream Turned Punitive Nightmare Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTwo of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing scholarship on prison scale from sociology and history to correctional forecasting and economics, they both reveal that explicit policy changes have had little influence on the increases in imprisonment in recent years and analyze whether it is possible to place limits effectively on prison population. The Scale of Imprisonment has an exceptionally well designed literature review of interest to public policy, criminal justice, and public law scholars. Its careful review, analysis, and critique of research is stimulating and inventive.American Political Science Review The authors fram our thoughts about the soaring use of imprisonment and stimulate our thinking about the best way we as criminologists can conduct rational analysis and provide meaningful advice.Susan Guarino-Ghezzi, Journal of

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Doing Harm shows how a toxic mix of intrigue, questionable decisions, and a ‘just following orders’ mentality created a crisis still not fully resolved. A monumentally important work, it should be required reading in all psychology programs.” Kenneth S. Pope, recipient of APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Service“Doing Harm lifts the cloak of invisibility on the opportunists and profiteers who have survived, evaded, resisted, and escaped accountability for the US government’s post-9/11 torture program. Roy Eidelson refused to learn helplessness, exposing the calibration of cruelty within black sites, dark prisons, and the Guantanamo Battle Lab.” Mark Fallon, author of Unjustifiable Means“The post-9/11 torture program was sustained by a web of enablers that wrapped brutality in a veneer of legitimacy. Doing Harm chronicles the courageous campaign to disrupt that web, providing vital insights for all who hope to root out systemic injustice.” Elisa Massimino, former President and CEO, Human Rights First“Roy Eidelson’s searing and important book deserves a wide readership. It tells a sordid chapter in the APA’s history, offering a cautionary tale about how professional organizations can stray to the ‘dark side’ in a climate of fear and conformity.” Eyal Press, author of Dirty Work“The APA’s collusion with the Bush administration’s torture program was unique among medical associations. Eidelson and a group of colleagues, tellingly called ‘the dissidents,’ fought to end psychologists’ involvement and forced the APA to clean house. Doing Harm shows why, despite their tireless advocacy, key lessons have yet to be learned.” Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court“In Doing Harm Roy Eidelson exposes a dark chapter in the history of American psychology. Some practitioners’ complicity with government authorities in abetting torture violated the highest ethical standards. The story must be told if it is not to be repeated.” Brigadier General (Ret.) Stephen N. Xenakis“Eidelson provides a comprehensive and highly readable background story to APA’s accommodative stance toward the priorities of the Department of Defense and the CIA at a time when both agencies were clearly reconciled to indefinitely detaining and abusing—and often torturing—hundreds of detainees. … Doing Harm is essential reading. It is a detailed exploration of how the powerful make monsters behind the scenes of hollow performances of slick benevolence. And, in this regard, the APA isn’t just the American Psychological Association. It’s an ominous synecdoche of the uncannily glitching duality of the United States itself.” Counterpunch“While Doing Harm is a deeply troubling case study of how a profession can, in the pursuit of power and influence, come to betray its own principles, ethics, purpose, and indeed the very people it is supposed to serve, it is also an inspiring one in that it shows how even a handful of professionals of conscience can work to bring truth to light.” The Winnipeg Free Press"An excellent read for all involved in psychology as a discipline. Highly recommended." Choice

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKim gives us a marvelously unsympathetic portrait of a brain-washed apparatchik. -- Christian Oliver Financial Times [Kim's] dispassionate account of how one man endured the unendurable offers a clue as to how such extreme inhumanity can occur. -- Donald Richie Japan Times A reminder of the brutality of the North Korean regime. -- John Feffer Korean QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction, by Kim Suk-Young 1. Coming of Age 2. Living for the Great Leader 3. Downfall of a Model Citizen 4. In the Mouth of Death 5. Escape 6. Across the Continent Afterword: Unfinished Story Notes

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKim gives us a marvelously unsympathetic portrait of a brain-washed apparatchik. -- Christian Oliver Financial Times [Kim's] dispassionate account of how one man endured the unendurable offers a clue as to how such extreme inhumanity can occur. -- Donald Richie Japan Times A reminder of the brutality of the North Korean regime. -- John Feffer Korean QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction, by Kim Suk-Young 1. Coming of Age 2. Living for the Great Leader 3. Downfall of a Model Citizen 4. In the Mouth of Death 5. Escape 6. Across the Continent Afterword: Unfinished Story Notes

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking contribution to the study of non-theatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope. Focusing on films shown before 1935, the book explores the experience of viewing cinema while incarcerated.Trade ReviewAlison Griffiths's examination of how movie exhibition came into prisons is truly groundbreaking. No one has studied the culture of movie-going behind bars in this fashion before. A unique and absolutely exciting work! -- Dana Polan, author of Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film Carceral Fantasies is a complex and highly original book that attends the intersections between various early cinema images of prisons and the real thing. Griffiths has a fascinating story to tell, in which she argues that we can view execution films as a kind of attraction-and in doing so are led to ponder: what constitutes an attraction? -- Jon Lewis, author of American Film: A HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Carceral Imaginary 1. Tableaux Mort: Execution, Cinema, and Carceral Fantasies 2. Prison on Screen: The Carceral Aesthetic Part II: The Carceral Spectator 3. Screens and the Senses in Prison 4. "The Great Unseen Audience": Sing Sing Prison and Motion Pictures Part III: The Carceral Reformer 5. A Different Story: Recreation and Cinema in Women's Prisons and Reformatories 6. Cinema and Prison Reform Conclusion: The Prison Museum and Media Use in the Contemporary Prison Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAlison Griffiths's examination of how movie exhibition came into prisons is truly groundbreaking. No one has studied the culture of moviegoing behind bars in this fashion before. A unique and absolutely exciting work! -- Dana Polan, author of Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of FilmCarceral Fantasies is a complex and highly original book that attends the intersections between various early cinema images of prisons and the real thing. Griffiths has a fascinating story to tell, in which she argues that we can view execution films as a kind of attraction—and in doing so are led to ponder: what constitutes an attraction? -- Jon Lewis, author of American Film: A HistoryCarceral Fantasies paints a complex, rich portrait of the historical relationship between cinema and the American penal system that crosses disciplinary borders and engages with a diverse body of scholarship. Groundbreaking in its historical exploration, rigorous and acrobatic in its theoretical intervention, and provocative in its call to action, Carceral Fantasies is a rewarding and important read for anyone interested in the history of American cinema. * Film & History *Griffiths’s work uncovers hidden and rarely considered aspects of penal practice, media consumption and film history. * Prison Service Journal *A timely, challenging, and always thought-provoking text, Carceral Fantasies will become necessary reading for all working to map the medial administration of state terror and to imagine cinema’s capacities to glimpse beyond it. * Canadian Journal of Film Studies *Carceral Fantasies is a fascinating look at the history of cinema and the penitentiary. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *The original research she has performed, especially in understanding the nature of the carceral spectator, makes a significant contribution to film history, particularly film as a cultural artifact. She provides a glimpse of a nearly invisible audience that may have discovered in film their only connection to the world at large. In doing so, Griffiths brings light to what remains one of the most hidden places in our society. * Wide Angle *Carceral Fantasies will certainly attract scholars who are interested in the development of this scholarship about the silent era. The book will also be of value for those who are interested by nontheatrical film exhibition and the unique experience of watching films in prison. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Carceral Fantasies is a provocative and engrossing read. Griffiths’s study also makes a significant contribution to histories of cinema-going and early twentieth-century visual culture, and to our understanding of the complexities that underpin the dynamics between spectator and spectacle. * Alphaville *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Carceral Imaginary1. Tableaux Mort: Execution, Cinema, and Carceral Fantasies2. Prison on Screen: The Carceral AestheticPart II: The Carceral Spectator3. Screens and the Senses in Prison4. "The Great Unseen Audience": Sing Sing Prison and Motion PicturesPart III: The Carceral Reformer5. A Different Story: Recreation and Cinema in Women's Prisons and Reformatories6. Cinema and Prison ReformConclusion: The Prison Museum and Media Use in the Contemporary PrisonNotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGiven the quality of the work and the importance of the subject, this book will become a classic in the field. It is as good a book about the death penalty as I have ever read. -- Austin Sarat, Amherst College Wrenching... death penalty opponents now have a definitive example to cite; death penalty proponents have an agonizing case to consider. Kirkus (Starred Review) A gripping read. Library Journal [An] infuriating yet engrossing book on wrongful conviction... An important critique of our legal system. Publishers Weekly This case is examined to such an earth's-core depth - the book is full of site maps and footnotes and its website features much more - that readers will come away absolutely convinced that the conviction of Carlos DeLuna was a profound injustice. Boston Globe A sad, absorbing, and profoundly important tale of a wrongful conviction and execution. Everyone with an interest in criminal justice and every public official with responsibility in this realm should place it high on their reading list. The ChampionTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Prologue Part I. The Death of Wanda Lopez 1. Murder 2. Manhunt 3. Show-up 4. Crime Scene 5. Suspect Part II. The Lives of Carlos Hernandez 6. Probation and Parole 7. Acquittal 8. Confession 9. Mistaken Identity Part III. The Prosecution of Carlos DeLuna 10. Investigation 11. Defense 12. No Defense 13. Trial 14. Sentence Part IV. The Passion of Carlos DeLuna 15. Appeals 16. Execution Part V. The Scars of Dina Ybanez 17. Recidivism Epilogue Appendix. People Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGiven the quality of the work and the importance of the subject, this book will become a classic in the field. It is as good a book about the death penalty as I have ever read. -- Austin Sarat, Amherst College Wrenching... death penalty opponents now have a definitive example to cite; death penalty proponents have an agonizing case to consider. Kirkus (Starred Review) A gripping read. Library Journal [An] infuriating yet engrossing book on wrongful conviction... An important critique of our legal system. Publishers Weekly This case is examined to such an earth's-core depth - the book is full of site maps and footnotes and its website features much more - that readers will come away absolutely convinced that the conviction of Carlos DeLuna was a profound injustice. Boston Globe A sad, absorbing, and profoundly important tale of a wrongful conviction and execution. Everyone with an interest in criminal justice and every public official with responsibility in this realm should place it high on their reading list. The ChampionTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Prologue Part I. The Death of Wanda Lopez 1. Murder 2. Manhunt 3. Show-up 4. Crime Scene 5. Suspect Part II. The Lives of Carlos Hernandez 6. Probation and Parole 7. Acquittal 8. Confession 9. Mistaken Identity Part III. The Prosecution of Carlos DeLuna 10. Investigation 11. Defense 12. No Defense 13. Trial 14. Sentence Part IV. The Passion of Carlos DeLuna 15. Appeals 16. Execution Part V. The Scars of Dina Ybanez 17. Recidivism Epilogue Appendix. People Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplains what it took to advance reforms to limit death sentences and executions in China while identifying the challenges that prevent more extensive progressTrade ReviewNo institution in the legal system of contemporary China has attracted more controversy and misunderstanding than the death penalty. Moreover, remarkable changes have significantly altered the way the death penalty is perceived and applied in the world's most populous state. The Death Penalty in China is required reading for anyone desiring to keep abreast of China's evolving legal landscape, criminal justice reform, and perplexing human rights environment. Highly recommended. -- Andrew Scobell, coauthor of China's Search for Security This excellent collection of essays should be greatly welcomed, providing as it does insights into the way that Chinese scholars, both within and outside China, as well as foreign scholars who have studied the Chinese system in depth, explain the changes underway and assess their significance. The Death Penalty in China needs to be read by everyone concerned with the project of eliminating capital punishment throughout the world. -- from the foreword by Roger Hood, emeritus professor of criminology, University of Oxford This outstanding book describes proficiently what is known and knowable about the death penalty in transition in China today. The cooperation between excellent Chinese scholars and world-renowned scholars from abroad secures relevance and accuracy. Debates and practices are captured in light of Chinese death penalty history, the special character of the Chinese state, as well as in comparison to other Chinas of the present. -- Lill Scherdin, project leader, Universities Against the Death Penalty A timely assessment of China's death penalty reform in context, this volume is a must read for academics and activists. ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword Preface and Acknowledgments 1. China's Death Penalty Practice: Working Progress, Struggle, and Challenges Within the Global Abolition Movement, by Bin Liang 2. The Criminal Justice System and the Death Penalty, by Hong Lu, Yudu Liu, and Charlotte Hu 3. Crimes of Counterrevolution and Politicized Use of the Death Penalty During the Mao Era, by Ning Zhang 4. China's Death Penalty in a State-Power-Based Society, by Yunhai Wang 5. From "Killing Many" to "Killing Fewer", by Susan Trevaskes 6. The Abolitionist and Retentionist Debate, by Zhigang Yu (translated by Charlotte Hu) 7. Guiding Cases for China's Death Penalty: Analysis and Reflection, by Xingliang Chen (translated by Charlotte Hu) 8. The Death Penalty After the Restoration of Centralized Review: An Empirical Study on Capital Sentencing, by Moulin Xiong 9. Public Opinion and the Death Penalty, by Shanhe Jiang 10. Between Deference and Defiance: Courts and Penal Populism in Chinese Capital Cases, by Hualing Fu 11. Chinese Capital Punishment in Comparative Perspective, by David T. Johnson and Michelle Miao 12. China's Death Penalty in the Twenty-First Century, by Bin Liang and Hong Lu List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTina Maschi and Keith Morgen offer a data-driven and compassionate analysis of the lives of incarcerated older people. The book draws on extensive quantitative and qualitative research as well as national datasets.Trade ReviewI encourage strongly this critical read for geriatricians, gerontologists, and gerontological social workers. Also, correctional, probation, and parole officers; correctional health-care providers; reentry coordinators; and correctional administrators would likely benefit from this important text -- Stephanie Grace Prost, PhD * The Gerontologist *This is a brilliant piece of work. These authors show their skill in humanizing all people through a caring justice model of practice. -- Karen Bullock * Journal of Gerontological Social Work *Overall, this text is an informative and useful addition to any clinical or macro special topics social work course. It is wellorganized, with up-front summaries of what the chapter will discuss and a final summary of the information discussed at the end of each chapter to help ground the reader. -- Lauren Dennelly * Research on Social Work Practice *Aging Behind Prison Walls fills a gap in the research literature by providing both quantitative and qualitative data not available elsewhere. Enriched by extensive data and compelling personal narratives, it offers a portrait of prison life that is comprehensive and fascinating. -- Katherine van Wormer, coauthor of Women and the Criminal Justice SystemAging Behind Prison Walls makes a unique and timely contribution to our understanding of the life histories of justice-involved aging people and the trauma experienced, resiliency marshalled, and coping measures employed. Maschi and Morgen offer a persuasive call for a caring justice system to replace our existing criminal justice system. -- Margaret E. Leigey, author of The Forgotten Men: Serving a Life without Parole SentenceUsing vivid stories of trauma and resilience, Aging Behind Prison Walls is an important and thought-provoking book that deserves wide readership. Bridging theory and practice, the authors make a compelling case for a correctional policy that is redemptive in nature and better suited for those who no longer pose a threat to society. -- Ronald Aday, author of Aging Prisoners: Crisis in American CorrectionsAging Behind Prison Walls provides an unvarnished view of being both older and incarcerated. Evocative vignettes recount challenges and traumas, as well as perseverance, resilience, and contributions. The authors don’t stop at heightening awareness—they offer a framework, tools, and call to action to address this pressing human issue. -- Susan J. Loeb, The Pennsylvania State UniversityAging Behind Prison Walls offers an engaging and insightful examination of the special needs and life worlds of incarcerated older adults before and after release to the community. It offers practical advice with roots in intersectional and life-course theory consistent with the need for a paradigm shift in the management and care of aging offenders. It will become essential reading. -- José B. Ashford, Arizona State UniversityAging Behind Prison Walls is a thoughtfully constructed work that adds substantially to the literature on incarceration by exploring a particularly understudied group: inmates over 50 years old. -- G. Christensen, Stetson University College of Law * Choice *Overarching, all-encompassing and peppered with individuals' narratives on aging in prison. . . . Aging Behind Prison Walls is well suited for advanced students in criminology, social work, and psychology. Practitioners in prison systems, community corrections officers and service providers would also benefit from this text. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Mass Aging in Prison: How Did We Get Here?1. An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure2. Intersecting Perspectives on Aging, Diversity, Difference, and Justice3. Trauma and Diversity Among Older Adults in Prison4. “I Try to Make the Best of It”: A Look Inside the Resilient Minds of Older Adults in Prison5. Trauma, Mental Health, and Medical Concerns of Older Adults in the Prison System6. How Do We Co-Construct Community? A Conceptual Map for Reuniting Older Adults in Prison with Their Families and Communities7. “Coming Out” of Prison: LGBTQ+ Older Adults’ Experiences Navigating the Criminal Justice SystemPart II: Realizing a Caring Justice World8. A Caring Justice Partnership Paradigm: Transforming the World from the Inside Out9. Accepting the Gift of Life: Incarcerated Older Adults’ Prescription for Living Longer, Happier, and Healthier Lives10. Realizing a Caring Justice World: Promising Global Practices for Justice-Involved Older AdultsAfterwordAppendix 1Appendix 2NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWith unprecedented access to three police departments and drawing on more than 100 interviews and 1,000 hours on patrol, The Danger Imperative provides vital insight into how police culture shapes officers’ perception and practice of violence.Trade ReviewMichael Sierra-Arévalo compellingly narrates and deconstructs one of the most powerful public beliefs about American policing today: that it is uniquely dangerous and should thus be inoculated from criticism and real change. Beautifully written and rigorously researched, The Danger Imperative should transform how we understand policing at its core. -- Monica C. Bell, Yale Law SchoolThis clear-eyed analysis lays bare how the "danger imperative"—the preoccupation with violence and the presumption of threat—shapes police culture and guides everyday interactions between police and everyone else. Sierra-Arévalo offers a sophisticated understanding of police officer decision making and how the police institution promotes particular behaviors. This important and timely book should be on the shelves of anyone interested in understanding policing in this country. -- Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass IncarcerationMichael Sierra-Arévalo has brought a new level of scientific rigor to the study of policing. His research documents how a relentless focus on danger is reinforced through training, channels of information sharing, and institutional practices that provide a constant reminder of the threat posed by every person with whom an officer interacts. The danger imperative dominates policing and helps explain why the institution is so resistant to meaningful reforms. -- Patrick Sharkey, author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on ViolenceMichael Sierra-Arévalo has written an important book that helps us understand why policing in America can be so violent. From academy training to the roll call of the morning shift to the remembrance of fallen officers, police are taught to live in a world filled with mortal danger, even at times when no danger exists. By looking closely at the working lives of patrol officers and rejecting simple tropes of heroes or villains, The Danger Imperative explains why the institution that is charged with keeping us safe can also cause so much harm. -- Bruce Western, author of Homeward: Life in the Year After PrisonBased on rigorous observation and insightful analysis across three police departments, The Danger Imperative is a sobering journey into the "soul" of U.S. public law enforcement—one that reveals police violence not as the product of "bad apples" but as an expected outcome born out of an organizational fixation on death and danger. Carefully attending to police culture on its own terms without losing sight of the broader inequalities that policing reflects and reproduces, Sierra-Arévalo reveals the largely obscured and unappreciated stamp of the "danger imperative" in the everyday rituals of policing as it amplifies officers’ fears of vulnerability, exacerbates the perceived likelihood of violence, and crowds out other orientations toward policing. Necessary and troubling, The Danger Imperative shifts the conversation from how police make violence to how violence makes police—and in doing so, invites us to reimagine the relationship between officer safety and public safety in ways that move beyond superficial reforms—and encourages us to rethink our own investment in the danger imperative. -- Jennifer Carlson, author of Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American DemocracyThrough deep immersion in the worlds of police, Sierra-Arévalo shows how policing continually re-creates a worldview of acute danger in every civilian encounter. From this sense of constant threat comes a justifying ideology that privileges the possibility of violence toward the policed—sometimes preemptive and often racialized—to ensure officer survival. The Danger Imperative skillfully locates officers and the public within the institutional and social worlds of policing and reveals the situated exchanges that sustain officers’ fear and justify their practices. This remarkable book should be read and taught in criminology and sociology and, importantly, throughout the police profession. -- Jeffrey Fagan, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law SchoolViolence against the police is at a historic low, and it is hard to find evidence of a "war on cops." Indeed, police work is usually routine and uneventful. But in this powerful ethnography, Sierra-Arévalo shows us how police departments create a culture where "officer safety" is the organizing principle—the "soul"—of police work. Clearly written and nuanced, The Danger Imperative should be read by anyone concerned with policing today. -- Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family LifeFrom the first day at the academy to the last call at the retirement banquet, a preoccupation with violence and survival runs like a blue thread through American policing. With painstaking research and firsthand observation, Sierra-Arévalo brilliantly traces this "danger imperative" in police training, operations, and seldom seen rituals. A masterful contribution, from its harrowing opening pages to its clear-eyed conclusion. -- Christopher Uggen, coauthor of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American DemocracyThe Danger Imperative showcases how danger becomes routinized as an organizing principle of policing through training and the day-to-day practices of officers. Sierra-Arévalo convincingly captures the heart of policing as an institution, and we are left with an understanding of why current proposals for reforming the police often overlook the heart of the problem. The significance of this contribution cannot be overstated. -- Brittany Friedman, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Survival School2. Ghosts of the Fallen3. The Threat Network4. Going Home at NightConclusionMethodological Appendix And ReflectionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWith unprecedented access to three police departments and drawing on more than 100 interviews and 1,000 hours on patrol, The Danger Imperative provides vital insight into how police culture shapes officers' perception and practice of violence.Trade ReviewMichael Sierra-Arévalo compellingly narrates and deconstructs one of the most powerful public beliefs about American policing today: that it is uniquely dangerous and should thus be inoculated from criticism and real change. Beautifully written and rigorously researched, The Danger Imperative should transform how we understand policing at its core. -- Monica C. Bell, Yale Law SchoolThis clear-eyed analysis lays bare how the "danger imperative"—the preoccupation with violence and the presumption of threat—shapes police culture and guides everyday interactions between police and everyone else. Sierra-Arévalo offers a sophisticated understanding of police officer decision making and how the police institution promotes particular behaviors. This important and timely book should be on the shelves of anyone interested in understanding policing in this country. -- Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass IncarcerationMichael Sierra-Arévalo has brought a new level of scientific rigor to the study of policing. His research documents how a relentless focus on danger is reinforced through training, channels of information sharing, and institutional practices that provide a constant reminder of the threat posed by every person with whom an officer interacts. The danger imperative dominates policing and helps explain why the institution is so resistant to meaningful reforms. -- Patrick Sharkey, author of Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on ViolenceMichael Sierra-Arévalo has written an important book that helps us understand why policing in America can be so violent. From academy training to the roll call of the morning shift to the remembrance of fallen officers, police are taught to live in a world filled with mortal danger, even at times when no danger exists. By looking closely at the working lives of patrol officers and rejecting simple tropes of heroes or villains, The Danger Imperative explains why the institution that is charged with keeping us safe can also cause so much harm. -- Bruce Western, author of Homeward: Life in the Year After PrisonBased on rigorous observation and insightful analysis across three police departments, The Danger Imperative is a sobering journey into the "soul" of U.S. public law enforcement—one that reveals police violence not as the product of "bad apples" but as an expected outcome born out of an organizational fixation on death and danger. Carefully attending to police culture on its own terms without losing sight of the broader inequalities that policing reflects and reproduces, Sierra-Arévalo reveals the largely obscured and unappreciated stamp of the "danger imperative" in the everyday rituals of policing as it amplifies officers’ fears of vulnerability, exacerbates the perceived likelihood of violence, and crowds out other orientations toward policing. Necessary and troubling, The Danger Imperative shifts the conversation from how police make violence to how violence makes police—and in doing so, invites us to reimagine the relationship between officer safety and public safety in ways that move beyond superficial reforms—and encourages us to rethink our own investment in the danger imperative. -- Jennifer Carlson, author of Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American DemocracyThrough deep immersion in the worlds of police, Sierra-Arévalo shows how policing continually re-creates a worldview of acute danger in every civilian encounter. From this sense of constant threat comes a justifying ideology that privileges the possibility of violence toward the policed—sometimes preemptive and often racialized—to ensure officer survival. The Danger Imperative skillfully locates officers and the public within the institutional and social worlds of policing and reveals the situated exchanges that sustain officers’ fear and justify their practices. This remarkable book should be read and taught in criminology and sociology and, importantly, throughout the police profession. -- Jeffrey Fagan, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law SchoolViolence against the police is at a historic low, and it is hard to find evidence of a "war on cops." Indeed, police work is usually routine and uneventful. But in this powerful ethnography, Sierra-Arévalo shows us how police departments create a culture where "officer safety" is the organizing principle—the "soul"—of police work. Clearly written and nuanced, The Danger Imperative should be read by anyone concerned with policing today. -- Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family LifeFrom the first day at the academy to the last call at the retirement banquet, a preoccupation with violence and survival runs like a blue thread through American policing. With painstaking research and firsthand observation, Sierra-Arévalo brilliantly traces this "danger imperative" in police training, operations, and seldom seen rituals. A masterful contribution, from its harrowing opening pages to its clear-eyed conclusion. -- Christopher Uggen, coauthor of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American DemocracyThe Danger Imperative showcases how danger becomes routinized as an organizing principle of policing through training and the day-to-day practices of officers. Sierra-Arévalo convincingly captures the heart of policing as an institution, and we are left with an understanding of why current proposals for reforming the police often overlook the heart of the problem. The significance of this contribution cannot be overstated. -- Brittany Friedman, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Survival School2. Ghosts of the Fallen3. The Threat Network4. Going Home at NightConclusionMethodological Appendix And ReflectionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience, to examine how prisons regulate time and how prisoners resist the temporal regime.Trade ReviewMichael Flaherty proves himself, once again, a masterful scholar of time with this fascinating addition to his oeuvre. He and coauthor K. C. Carceral’s focus on the ironic juxtapositions and contradictions of incarcerated time yields brilliant and provocative insights into the relationships between time, autonomy, socially constructed meaning, and ultimately power. Anyone who has suffered the temporal experience of being caged by the COVID pandemic will find this a revealing and personally relevant read. -- Patricia A. Adler, coauthor of Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global EconomyThis collaboration between an accomplished convict criminologist and a leading sociologist of time presents a thorough exploration of the ways prisoners experience time. But it does much more: it helps the reader appreciate the many facets of time in all human lives and confront the many unnoticed ways that time shapes our thinking and being. -- Joel Best, University of DelawarePrisoners’ experience of time is unique and worth studying in greater detail. The Cage of Days provides a thoughtful window into how convicts experience time behind bars. Carceral and Flaherty are experts, and they are able to blend insider and outsider perspectives, autoethnography and scholarship, very successfully. Highly recommended. -- Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D., author of Key Issues in CorrectionsA book about prison life with a difference: immensely insightful, extraordinarily sensitive and impressively scholarly. Over a ten-year period of collaboration between a long-term prisoner and an academic, the experience of prison is interrogated through the lens of time. With this focus the authors achieve not only a deep understanding of what it means to ‘do time’ in prison but manage, simultaneously, to illuminate this taken-for-granted aspect of everyday life on the outside, where the generally intangible time emerges with great clarity. -- Barbara Adam, Cardiff UniversityIn addition to appealing to researchers interested in the sociology of time, criminal justice, and symbolic interaction, the unique nature of collaboration and co-authorship between Carceral and Flaherty in this excellent book could prove beneficial in courses on qualitative methodology as well. * Symbolic Interaction *An imperative to include within a corrections course, introductory sociology course, or an introductory criminal justice class. It would be appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. A Temporal Regime 2. Time and Space 3. Temporal Allowances 4. Serving Time 5. No Future on the Horizon 6. Marking Time 7. Resistance and Temporal Agency Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience, to examine how prisons regulate time and how prisoners resist the temporal regime.Trade ReviewMichael Flaherty proves himself, once again, a masterful scholar of time with this fascinating addition to his oeuvre. He and coauthor K. C. Carceral’s focus on the ironic juxtapositions and contradictions of incarcerated time yields brilliant and provocative insights into the relationships between time, autonomy, socially constructed meaning, and ultimately power. Anyone who has suffered the temporal experience of being caged by the COVID pandemic will find this a revealing and personally relevant read. -- Patricia A. Adler, coauthor of Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global EconomyThis collaboration between an accomplished convict criminologist and a leading sociologist of time presents a thorough exploration of the ways prisoners experience time. But it does much more: it helps the reader appreciate the many facets of time in all human lives and confront the many unnoticed ways that time shapes our thinking and being. -- Joel Best, University of DelawarePrisoners’ experience of time is unique and worth studying in greater detail. The Cage of Days provides a thoughtful window into how convicts experience time behind bars. Carceral and Flaherty are experts, and they are able to blend insider and outsider perspectives, autoethnography and scholarship, very successfully. Highly recommended. -- Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D., author of Key Issues in CorrectionsA book about prison life with a difference: immensely insightful, extraordinarily sensitive and impressively scholarly. Over a ten-year period of collaboration between a long-term prisoner and an academic, the experience of prison is interrogated through the lens of time. With this focus the authors achieve not only a deep understanding of what it means to ‘do time’ in prison but manage, simultaneously, to illuminate this taken-for-granted aspect of everyday life on the outside, where the generally intangible time emerges with great clarity. -- Barbara Adam, Cardiff UniversityIn addition to appealing to researchers interested in the sociology of time, criminal justice, and symbolic interaction, the unique nature of collaboration and co-authorship between Carceral and Flaherty in this excellent book could prove beneficial in courses on qualitative methodology as well. * Symbolic Interaction *An imperative to include within a corrections course, introductory sociology course, or an introductory criminal justice class. It would be appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. A Temporal Regime 2. Time and Space 3. Temporal Allowances 4. Serving Time 5. No Future on the Horizon 6. Marking Time 7. Resistance and Temporal Agency Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The essays in this book bring nuance to a range of conversations about carceral statebuilding. . . . All of the essays offer well-researched, complex methodological and topical interventions that highlight the racialized implications of Jim Crow governance." --Journal of African American History"Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South brings fresh insights to our understanding of the development of racial disparities in law enforcement, incarceration, and capital punishment." --North Carolina Historical Review"These essays provide a nuanced and necessary picture of the racialized nature of southern law enforcement in the Jim Crow era beyond the common tropes of convict lease, the chain gang, and police complicity in local lynchings." --Journal of American History"Thoroughly researched, cogently argued, and well written. With its judicious blend of established and rising young scholars working at the cutting-edge of carceral studies, this breaks new ground."--Claudrena N. Harold, author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942"Given how often and how easily crime and punishment in America today is framed in terms of southern history--the 'New Jim Crow'--it is timely and important to have these deeply-researched, carefully argued essays to help us think in new ways about the connections between the South’s past and the nation’s present."—Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus Finch, The Biography: Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon

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Book SynopsisThe role of for-profit prisons in the history of oppression and legal discrimination aimed primarily at African American menTrade ReviewAuthor is recipient of the Gandhi, King, Ikeda (GKI) Award (2006) given by the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College. Author received an Honorable Mention Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights (2007)

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The essays in this book bring nuance to a range of conversations about carceral statebuilding. . . . All of the essays offer well-researched, complex methodological and topical interventions that highlight the racialized implications of Jim Crow governance." --Journal of African American History"Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South brings fresh insights to our understanding of the development of racial disparities in law enforcement, incarceration, and capital punishment." --North Carolina Historical Review"These essays provide a nuanced and necessary picture of the racialized nature of southern law enforcement in the Jim Crow era beyond the common tropes of convict lease, the chain gang, and police complicity in local lynchings." --Journal of American History"Thoroughly researched, cogently argued, and well written. With its judicious blend of established and rising young scholars working at the cutting-edge of carceral studies, this breaks new ground."--Claudrena N. Harold, author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942"Given how often and how easily crime and punishment in America today is framed in terms of southern history--the 'New Jim Crow'--it is timely and important to have these deeply-researched, carefully argued essays to help us think in new ways about the connections between the South’s past and the nation’s present."—Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus Finch, The Biography: Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon

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Book SynopsisJournalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned its focus on reform and rehabilitation and returned to cell time and punishment. It was a brutal transition. McCoy and Hoffman roamed the maximum-security compound almost at will, observing and befriending prisoners and guards. The result is a striking depiction of a community in which there was little to do, much to fear, and a culture that both mimicked and scorned the outside world. McCoy's unadorned prose and Hoffman's stunning black-and-white photographs offer as authentic a portrayal of life in the Big House as outsiders are ever likely to experience. Originally published in 1981, Concrete Mama revealed a previously unseen stark and complex world of life on the inside, for which it won the Washington State Book Award. Long unavailable yet still relevant, it is revitalized in a sec

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Book SynopsisRavi Shankar’s bold and complex self-portrait - and portrait of America - challenges us to rethink our complicity in the criminal justice system and mental health policies that perpetuate inequity and harm. Correctional dives into the inner workings of his mind and heart, framing his unexpected encounters with law and order.

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Book SynopsisA remarkable bookpart historical tract, part political manifestothat examines one of the most bitter issues of contemporary life.Boston Globe

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Book SynopsisThe last few years have seen a marked change in attitudes to the rehabilitation and management of offenders. It is now impossible to ignore evidence which demonstrates the possibilities for reducing reoffending. This book assembles and consolidates that evidence, and indicates the implications for both practice and research. Professionals in probation, parole and law, as well as in forensic psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and prison management and policy, will find this book of direct relevance to their work and thinking. It will be of interest and value to practitioners, academics and researchers across the whole field of adult and juvenile criminal justice. A key emphasis of the book is the relationship between research and practice: the evidence presented here constitutes a significant advancement in knowledge in the social sciences generally, and the findings are of considerable practical importance, in providing guidelines of relevance to practitioners and policy-makers throughouTable of ContentsAbout the Editor vi List of Contributors viii Series Preface ix Preface xi Part I: The ‘What Works’ Debate 1 Reviewing ‘What Works’: Past, Present and Future 3James McGuire and Philip Priestley 2 The Psychology of Criminal Conduct and Effective Treatment 35Don Andrews 3 What do We Learn from 400 Research Studies on the Effectiveness of Treatment with Juvenile Delinquents? 63Mark W. Lipsey 4 The Efficacy of Correctional Treatment: A Review and Synthesis of Meta-evaluations 79Friedrich Lösel Part II: Practical Applications and Current Developments 5 The STOP Programme: Reasoning and Rehabilitation in a British Setting 115Christine Knott 6 Creating a Culture of Change: A Case Study of a Car Crime Project in Belfast 127Tim Chapman 7 Teaching Self-risk Management to Violent Offenders 139Jack Bush 8 A Rationale for the Treatment of Sex Offenders: Pro Bono Publico 155Robert Prentky 9 Diversion from Prosecution: A Scottish Experience 173David Cooke Part III: Practice, Research and Programme Delivery 10 The Meaning and Implications of ‘Programme Integrity’ 195Clive R. Hollin 11 Practitioner Evaluation in Probation 209Gill McIvor 12 Effective Practice and Service Delivery 221Colin Roberts Index 237

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Book SynopsisAn account of the unintended social, financial, and personal consequences of incarceration on the families of prisoners. This book shows that those doing time on the inside are having a ripple effect on the outside - reaching deep into the family and community life of urban America.Trade ReviewStigma, shame and hardship - this is the lot shared by families whose young men have been swept into prison. Braman reveals the devastating toll mass incarceration takes on the parents, partners, and children left behind. - Katherine S. Newman ""Donald Braman documents the profound economic and social consequences of the American policy of massive imprisonment of young African American males.... If we want to understand fully the impact of current criminal justice policies, this book should be required reading."" - Mark Mauer, Assistant Director, The Sentencing Project ""Anyone concerned about the future of urban America should read this book."" - Jeremy Travis, The Urban Institute

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Book SynopsisProvides the first in-depth examination of what Chinese netizens think about various death sentences and executions in China.

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Book SynopsisPublic schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. This book shows how schools and prisons became so intertwined. It tells what this mean for students, communities, and a democratic society?Trade Review"The Prison School is a disturbing and important book." New York Journal of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Public Schools in a Punitive Era 2. The "At-Risk Youth Industry" 3. Undereducated and Overcriminalized in New Orleans 4. The Prison School Conclusion Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHaving gained access to California prisoners and corrections officials and to thousands of prisoners' written grievances and institutional responses, the authors take us inside one of the most significant, yet largely invisible, institutions in the United States.Trade Review"The authors bring wide-ranging scholarship to bear on the contradictions between the logic of rights and of carceral control... There are no simple truths in this exceptional work of scholarship, which is important for criminology, sociology, law, and political science." -- P. S. Leighton CHOICE "Appealing to Justice provides a powerful and disturbing window into the deprivations of contemporary punishment and a brilliant theoretical argument about the role of law inside of prisons." Punishment & Society "After reading this book, I gained a better understanding of what takes place when a prisoner files a grievance, and the struggle it is to get their voice heard in prison... I highly recommend this book to any social work students or anyone interested in becoming a social worker." The New Social Worker "A valuable contribution to our knowledge of the prisoner society, conditions of confinement and operational realities in the California prison system... [a] highly original book." British Journal of Criminology "Drawing on evidence from several hundred case records and interviews with people who are incarcerated and corrections employees, Calavita and Jenness generate a theoretically rich and broadly relevant account... illuminating." Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Rights, Captivity, and Disputing behind Bars 2. "Needles," "Haystacks," and "Dead Watchdogs": The Prison Litigation Reform Act and the Inmate Grievance System in California 3. Naming, Blaming, and Claiming in an Uncommon Place of Law 4. Prisoners' Counternarratives: "This Is a Prison and It's Not Disneyland" 5. "Narcissists," "Liars," Process, and Paper: The Dilemmas and Solutions of Grievance Handlers 6. Administrative Consistency, Downstream Consequences, and "Knuckleheads" 7. Grievance Narratives as Frames of Meaning, Profiles of Power 8. Conclusion Appendix A: Procedures for Interviews with Prisoners Appendix B: Procedures for Interviews with CDCR Personnel Appendix C: Coding the Sample of Grievances Cases Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Recent decades have seen a widespread effort to imprison more people for sexual violence. The Stains of Imprisonment offers an ethnographic account of one of the worlds that this push has created: an English prison for men convicted of sex offenses. This book examines the ways in which prisons are morally communicative institutions, instilling in prisoners particular ideas about the offenses they have committedideas that carry implications for prisoners' moral character. Investigating the moral messages contained in the prosaic yet power-imbued processes that make up daily life in custody, Ievins finds that the prison she studied communicated a pervasive sense of disgust and shame, marking the men it held as permanently stained. Rather than promoting accountability, this message discouraged prisoners from engaging in serious moral reflection on the harms they had caused. Analyzing these effects,

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Book SynopsisToday, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lethal lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.Trade ReviewIn End of Its Rope, Brandon L. Garrett embarks on an epic game of ‘whodunit?,’ using hand-collected data and case studies to identify the factors contributing to the death penalty’s demise. * Harvard Law Review *[A] tremendous book…What is revealed in the text are a host of possible explanations for the steep decline in the use of the death penalty in the United States…Thanks to Garrett’s thoughtful and precise analysis of the decline of the death penalty, we now have the roadmap for true criminal justice reform. Here’s to the hope that policy makers and stakeholders will pick up this superb volume and start the hard work. -- Christopher Zoukis * New York Journal of Books *Will we ever abolish the American death penalty? Should we? In his carefully researched and engagingly written book, Brandon Garrett argues that we will and we must. -- Carol S. Steiker * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book *It makes a compelling case that reforms that have helped tame the country’s infatuation with capital punishment are overdue and are urgently needed elsewhere in criminal justice. It is a book that informs, prescribes, and inspires, and it is well worth reading. -- James R. Acker * Theory in Action *For so long, the death penalty has been a national scandal, infected by ingrained racial bias, grossly incompetent lawyers, botched executions, and innocent people sentenced to death. Garrett tells the remarkable story of how this cloud has lifted and points the way towards obtaining justice in the criminal courts. -- Stephen B. Bright, former president and senior counsel, Southern Center for Human RightsBy digging deep into the data and examining shifts in legal tactics, Brandon Garrett explains why fewer defendants are being sentenced to death and states are carrying out fewer executions. But what makes this book profoundly important is that Garrett also shows how the death penalty’s imminent demise creates the opportunity to reform the U.S. criminal justice system so that it is actually just. -- David R. Dow, University of Houston Law Center and Rice UniversityGarrett has written a must-read book for Supreme Court Justices and Americans alike. The story of our broken death penalty points the way to what it will take to overhaul the justice system. -- Kirk Bloodsworth, first American on death row to be exonerated by DNA testingIndispensable reading for an understanding of the dramatic, ongoing changes in the role of capital punishment in American law and culture. Brandon Garrett’s trenchant analyses, drawing heavily on new county-level data, produce insights that will surprise both death-penalty opponents and proponents. Detailed examination of individual cases and meticulous statistical documentation are interwoven in an easy-to-read style equally accessible to non-professional readers and convincing to pros. By carefully tracing the long shadow that capital punishment casts over the criminal justice system, Garrett points the way to reforms which become possible as that shadow is lifted. -- Anthony G. Amsterdam, New York University School of LawBy any measure, Brandon Garrett is among the top death-penalty scholars in the U.S. today, and any student of the death penalty needs to know his abundant scholarship. -- Michael L. Radelet, University of Colorado Boulder

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Book SynopsisLife imprisonment has replaced the death penalty as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. Consequently, it has become the leading issue of international criminal justice reform. In the first survey of its kind, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rightsbased reappraisal of this harsh punishment.Trade ReviewPart treatise, part worldwide empirical investigation, and part normative argument, Life Imprisonment is a tour de force. It shines bright light on a legislatively prescribed and judicially imposed sentence that, remarkably, has drawn practically no scholarly attention. Until now. For the foreseeable future this book will stand as the definitive source of information on and critique of the most serious punishment practically all countries regularly impose. -- James B. Jacobs, New York University School of LawThe authors have succeeded magnificently in weaving a vast array of materials into an authoritative text. Years of network building, data collection, fact checking, and interpretation have enabled them to make a major contribution to a pressing area of criminal law. This humane and important book will become the touchstone for scholars of extreme punishment. -- Ian O’Donnell, University College Dublin School of LawVan Zyl Smit and Appleton have provided the first comprehensive study of the most common form of harsh punishment in the world today: the penal life sentence. For the first time research on this crucial topic can move on a comparative basis. This volume is an essential resource for the libraries of penal reformers, human rights lawyers, and students everywhere of comparative law, punishment, and society. -- Jonathan Simon, University of California Berkeley School of LawWill inspire and influence scholars and public policy advocates everywhere…This excellent book is in a class by itself. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe kinds of punishment used in a society have been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. This title asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed to the proliferation of kinds of barbarity in the modern world.Trade Review"This is a tour-de-force study... Lucid, delightful to read, yet theoretically sophisticated, this is one of the best books on the Tokugawa-Meiji transition in many years."--Mark Ravina, Journal of Asian Studies "[A] lasting contribution to understanding a subject that many historians of Japan have talked about but few have explored... This is an outstanding social history, richly detailed and insightful, that deserves a wide readership."--Michael Lewis, American Historical Review "In this fine book Daniel Botsman uses an examination of punishment to argue that imperialism helped to constitute state power in modern Japan. The book also does much more. It explains the relationship between state power and punishment in Japan from the early Tokugawa period to the end of the nineteenth century, and is accessible and based on an impressive mastery of primary and secondary source material."--Robert Eskildsen, Pacific Affairs "Botsman sets a high standard of research and analysis... [T]his book is outstanding."--Geoffrey C. Gunn, Journal of Contemporary Asia "In this impressive volume, Daniel V. Botsman details the history of Japanese punishment and penal reform in the early modern and modern periods... In his view, Japanese penal reform should be interpreted as an example of how external forces--in this case, Western imperialism and the desire for treaty revision--were integral to the formation of modern Japan, rather than such vague notions as 'civilization' and 'progress.'"--Choice "Botsman's book tries to move past the tendency to see punishment in Tokugawa Japan as harsh and barbaric, or 'uncivilized'. Without denying the ferocity of Tokugawa penal practices, he argues that these were part of a sophisticated system of order that had internal limits and was not simply arbitrary."--F.G. Notehelfer, International History Review "The penal system and methods of punishment employed by any government have less to do with suppressing crime than with bolstering its authority and enhancing its vision of itself, as Daniel V. Botsman ably demonstrates in this path-breaking study."--Anne Walthall, The Historian "This is a superb book on a subject of enormous importance--namely, prisons and punishment in Japan from the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) through the beginning of the twentieth century... [The book has] sweeping scope, ambition, conceptual sophistication, and intellectual force... [A]lthough the book is erudite and theoretically sophisticated, it is written in a very clear and accessible manner, ensuring that it can be read with much profit by advanced undergraduates as well as scholars and graduate students inside and outside of Japanese studies."--Takashi Fujitani, Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: Signs of Order: Punishment and Power in the Shogun's Capital 14 CHAPTER 2: Bloody Benevolence: Punishment, Ideology, and Outcasts 41 CHAPTER 3: The Power of Status: Kodenmacho Jailhouse and the Structures of Tokugawa Society 59 CHAPTER 4: Discourse, Dynamism, and Disorder: The Historical Significance of the Edo Stockade for Laborers 85 CHAPTER 5: Punishment and the Politics of Civilization in Bakumatsu Japan 115 CHAPTER 6: Restoration and Reform: The Birth of the Prison in Japan 141 CHAPTER 7: Punishment and Prisons in the Era of Enlightenment 165 CONCLUSION: Punishment, Empire, and History in the Making of Modern Japan 201 Notes 231 Bibliography 281 Index 303

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Book SynopsisThe modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul. This book challenges this view by tracing the institution's emergence to a much earlier period beginning in the late thirteenth century, and provides a view of medieval prison life.Trade Review"For most, neither the words 'medieval' nor 'prison' will conjure up particularly cheery images, and together their effect is so gothic as to be almost comical. Guy Geltner's intellectually vibrant history does much to shatter modernist preconceptions that either the period or the institution was universally nasty and brutish."--Times Literary Supplement "[Geltner] has contributed important work to an understudied subject that merits greater attention... As is traditional in good historical scholarship, the author has engaged in the time consuming and difficult task of archival research. In doing so, he has produced informative and well-documented scholarship on Italian medieval prisons and made a valuable contribution to this understudied and important historical subject."--Jonathan Rose, Reviews in History "The Medieval Prison can be recommended as a well written and excellently researched study based on a wide range of sources. It has a weighty scholarly apparatus, and one third of the text comprises footnotes and references... This small book packs a big punch."--Geoffrey Pearson, British Journal of Criminology "[Geltner's] account constitutes an admirable point of departure, absorbing in itself, and suggestive in its implications."--R. I. Moore, Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on Dates and Money xiii Prologue xv Introduction 1 Chapter One: Italian Prisons: Three Profi les 11 Venice 12 Florence 17 Bologna 21 Conclusions 27 Chapter Two: Aspects of Imprisonment 28 Urban Development 28 Administration and Bureaucracy 33 Finance and Economy 38 Punitive Imprisonment: Jurisprudence, Legislation, and Practice 44 Conclusions 54 Chapter Three: Prison Life 57 The Terror of Arrest 58 First Nights 61 Familiar Order: The Wards 63 Daily Life: Order and Dissidence 67 The World Outside 71 The Journey's End: Death, Escape, Release 74 Conclusions 80 Chapter Four: The Prison as Place and Metaphor 82 Early Imaginaries: Martyrdom, Monasticism, and Purgation 83 Excursus: Jail-Breaking Saints 86 From Purgation to Purgatory: God's Great Prison 88 This World and the Next: The Urban Prison 89 Conclusions 98 Conclusion: "Marginalizing" Institutions, Instituting Marginality 100 Appendix One: A Prison Inventory from Bologna, 1305 110 Appendix Two: Poems from the Prison 112 Appendix Three: Le Stinche, a Reconstruction 122 Abbreviations and Archives 125 Notes 131 Bibliography 171 Index 195

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Book SynopsisThe modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul. The Medieval Prison challenges this view by tracing the institution's emergence to a much earlier period beginning in the late thirteenth century, and in doing so provides a unique view of medieval prison life. G. GeltnTrade Review"For most, neither the words 'medieval' nor 'prison' will conjure up particularly cheery images, and together their effect is so gothic as to be almost comical. Guy Geltner's intellectually vibrant history does much to shatter modernist preconceptions that either the period or the institution was universally nasty and brutish."--Times Literary Supplement "[Geltner] has contributed important work to an understudied subject that merits greater attention... As is traditional in good historical scholarship, the author has engaged in the time consuming and difficult task of archival research. In doing so, he has produced informative and well-documented scholarship on Italian medieval prisons and made a valuable contribution to this understudied and important historical subject."--Jonathan Rose, Reviews in History "The Medieval Prison can be recommended as a well written and excellently researched study based on a wide range of sources. It has a weighty scholarly apparatus, and one third of the text comprises footnotes and references... This small book packs a big punch."--Geoffrey Pearson, British Journal of Criminology "[Geltner's] account constitutes an admirable point of departure, absorbing in itself, and suggestive in its implications."--R. I. Moore, Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on Dates and Money xiii Prologue xv Introduction 1 Chapter One: Italian Prisons: Three Profi les 11 Venice 12 Florence 17 Bologna 21 Conclusions 27 Chapter Two: Aspects of Imprisonment 28 Urban Development 28 Administration and Bureaucracy 33 Finance and Economy 38 Punitive Imprisonment: Jurisprudence, Legislation, and Practice 44 Conclusions 54 Chapter Three: Prison Life 57 The Terror of Arrest 58 First Nights 61 Familiar Order: The Wards 63 Daily Life: Order and Dissidence 67 The World Outside 71 The Journey's End: Death, Escape, Release 74 Conclusions 80 Chapter Four: The Prison as Place and Metaphor 82 Early Imaginaries: Martyrdom, Monasticism, and Purgation 83 Excursus: Jail-Breaking Saints 86 From Purgation to Purgatory: God's Great Prison 88 This World and the Next: The Urban Prison 89 Conclusions 98 Conclusion: "Marginalizing" Institutions, Instituting Marginality 100 Appendix One: A Prison Inventory from Bologna, 1305 110 Appendix Two: Poems from the Prison 112 Appendix Three: Le Stinche, a Reconstruction 122 Abbreviations and Archives 125 Notes 131 Bibliography 171 Index 195

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