0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
Price
  • R0 - R50 (1)
  • R100 - R250 (27)
  • R250 - R500 (188)
  • R500+ (1,626)
  • -
Status
Format
Author / Contributor
Publisher

Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General

Policing by the Public (Hardcover): Joanna Shapland, Jon Vagg Policing by the Public (Hardcover)
Joanna Shapland, Jon Vagg
R2,724 Discovery Miles 27 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1988, Policing by the Public opened up an entirely new field within criminology and the sociology of deviance. The authors focus on the nature of informal social control in both villages and urban centres to show the kinds of policing people do for themselves, within their communities, in an endeavour to curb crime and deviance. Taking as the basis for their study both a rural and an urban community, Joanna Shapland and Jon Vagg are able to counter many of the existing myths about these areas. Beginning with a description of the kinds of problems people experience in their own neighbourhoods, they explore who watches what, who intervenes, and the stereotypes of 'troublesome' people and situations that emerge. This study sheds important light on the nature of concern and fear about crime and disorder, the use people want to make of the police and, significantly, the kind of policing they get. Policing by the Public made a major contribution to contemporary international debate about informal mechanisms of social control at the time. It offered a new approach to thinking about policing that will still be of interest not only to criminologists, sociologists, police and policymakers, but also to anyone who is curious about how his or her area actually worked.

The Police, Public Order, and Civil Liberties - Legacies of the Miners' Strike (Hardcover): Sarah McCabe, Peter... The Police, Public Order, and Civil Liberties - Legacies of the Miners' Strike (Hardcover)
Sarah McCabe, Peter Wallington, John Alderson, Larry Gostin, Christopher Mason
R2,728 Discovery Miles 27 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What role should the police have in an industrial dispute? How were they led into a partisan role in assisting the defeat of the 1984-5 miners' strike? Widespread concern over police road-blocks, allegations of police and picket violence, and the huge numbers of police used to maintain order and access to work led the National Council for Civil Liberties to set up an inquiry into the policing. The Inquiry Panel produced an interim report - but the NCCL disowned it, because of its acknowledgement of the rights of working miners as well as striking ones. The members of the Panel - who included former Chief Constable John Alderson and NCCL General Secretary Larry Gostin - then resigned, but continued work as a group of private individuals. Originally published in 1988, this book is their final report. The report describes the policing of the strike in detail from a range of published, unpublished, and eyewitness sources. The strike is set in the context of developments in law and policing before and since. The authors are able to provide a unique and authoritative perspective, analysing both the events of 1984-5 and the longer-term trends and problems, based on a clear recognition of the basic issues and conflicts of civil liberties involved. In their conclusions and recommendations the authors present an informed view of the use of the police during the strike, the breakdown of the system of police accountability, and the policies developed since the strike. Their findings point to the need for a Bill of Rights to cover civil liberties during industrial conflict, and the need for a new picketing Code of Practice. The Police, Public Order, and Civil Liberties will be essential reading for all concerned with the police, industrial relations, and the political and constitutional system. It will also be of value to all who need a clear and unbiased view of one of the key events in British post-war history.

Police and Public Order in Europe (Hardcover): John Roach, Jurgen Thomaneck Police and Public Order in Europe (Hardcover)
John Roach, Jurgen Thomaneck
R3,170 Discovery Miles 31 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1985, Police and Public Order in Europe examines the development of the police in Western Europe and considers how police functions have changed over time. Each contributor looks at the experience of one country while having regard to the practices of the other countries. The role of the police in maintaining public order had become increasingly important in the early 1980s. The activities of terrorists from both Left and Right in Italy, Spain and West Germany and the IRA in Great Britain had long been a focus of attention. However, in many ways a more disturbing phenomenon was the increase in the general level of popular unrest which had produced considerable rioting and looting in British cities as well as often violent confrontation between the police and an increasing range of protesters in other European countries. These events received wide media coverage at the time and the issue of public order was one of growing concern for governments, the police and the public. The role of the police in Western Europe was now firmly political.

The Police Revolution (Hardcover): Peter Evans The Police Revolution (Hardcover)
Peter Evans
R2,573 Discovery Miles 25 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Where are the police going? Originally published in 1974, Peter Evans argues that their traditional relationship with the public was being dangerously threatened, a situation neither the police themselves nor the public wanted to see worsen. In his analysis of the pressures and influences that were leading many policemen to question their role in society, Mr Evans looks first at the immense problems created for the police by increasingly violent and sophisticated crime, protest and terrorism. The attitudes of the police, he says, are in keeping with their nature. They are a minority, a semi-closed community, with astonishing records of long-serving families, giving police forces something of a tribal flavour. They have their own slang. Like miners, dockers or railwaymen, their jobs were established in Victorian times and are now faced with a rapid technological change - for the police, a 'revolution'. Yet there is one important difference: the police must remain manpower intensive, otherwise precious contact with the public is lost. They must also remain craftsmen, not become merely technicians. Mr Evans concludes that successive governments are to blame for not giving the police the sort of backing they deserve - finance, for example, and not merely pious expressions of support. This failure has widened the gap between police and public because of shortage of men, has left London in particular dangerously under-patrolled, and has contributed towards those pressures that tempt some officers to err. There is nothing wrong with the traditions of the police, although some policemen sometimes do not live up to them. The police need more resources and more opportunity to apply these traditions, so that the unique character of British policing is not lost. The author felt there was both time and need for reform in the decade before 1984. Today it can be read in its historical context.

Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders (Hardcover): Frederick Cram Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders (Hardcover)
Frederick Cram
R4,050 Discovery Miles 40 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyses the impact of Integrated Offender Management (IOM) on contemporary policing and separates the rhetoric from the reality. Drawing on a qualitative study within an English police force over two years, this book examines the experiences of prolific offenders, subject to IOM, and sheds light on the culture and practice of the police and staff from other criminal justice agencies, working within the scheme. While IOM has been judged to have had initial successes in reducing the criminal activities of prolific offenders, this book tests the validity of such claims, and considers the apparent disjuncture between policy statements made about the workings of IOM and how IOM policing operations are realized on the ground. It makes a unique contribution to research on police culture and practice, and multi-agency working in the criminal justice system. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to policy makers, as well as students and scholars of criminology, sociology policing, and politics.

Cuz - An American Tragedy (Paperback): Danielle Allen Cuz - An American Tragedy (Paperback)
Danielle Allen
R412 R340 Discovery Miles 3 400 Save R72 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle Allen's Cuz announced the arrival of one of our most gifted literary memoirists. In this "compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story" (New York Times), Danielle Allen-a prize-winning scholar-recounts her heroic efforts to rescue Michael Alexander Allen, her beloved baby cousin, who was arrested at fifteen for an attempted carjacking. Tried as an adult and sentenced to thirteen years, Michael served eleven. Three years later, he was dead. Why did this gifted young man, who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up murdered? Why did he languish in prison? And why at fifteen was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone's car? Hailed as a "literary miracle" (Washington Post), this fierce family memoir makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.

Collaboration and Innovation in Criminal Justice - An Activity Theory Alternative to Offender Rehabilitation (Hardcover): Paulo... Collaboration and Innovation in Criminal Justice - An Activity Theory Alternative to Offender Rehabilitation (Hardcover)
Paulo Rocha
R1,485 Discovery Miles 14 850 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* emphasis on collaboration, co-creative innovation and organisational development. * discussion on academic/practitioner relations. * offers practical means of applying my discussion to real-world practice and research as well as means of boundary-crossing between academic and practitioners in the field. * offers a multinational, inter-sector, perspective on innovation, collaboration and learning in the penal system.

Interpreting Policework - Policy and Practice in Forms of Beat Policing (Hardcover): Roger Grimshaw, Tony Jefferson Interpreting Policework - Policy and Practice in Forms of Beat Policing (Hardcover)
Roger Grimshaw, Tony Jefferson
R3,319 Discovery Miles 33 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the 1980s there existed wide and often acrimonious disagreement over the purposes and objectives of police organizations, the ways in which their activities were structured, and their relations with the wider society. Interpreting policework requires a rounded conception of policing, based on both a thorough critique of the main theoretical trends in police sociology, and close familiarity with actual patterns of policing, on the streets, in the stations, and inside the police headquarters where key policies are formulated. Originally published in 1987, the achievement of this book is that it combines rigorous theoretical analysis with a wealth of descriptive material drawn from first-hand observation of policing and decision making at all levels, and thus relates sociological theory to practice and political debate at the time. The introduction provides a careful analysis of central theoretical and political strands in police sociology, and proposes a new general conception of policework. The authors go on to provide vivid illustrations of this conception from the worlds of uniformed unit beat patrols and resident beat officers, and from the fora in which policy for operational practice is considered. A final section draws the wider lessons of these concrete analyses for sociological theory and for our understanding of past policy shifts from one form of beatwork to another, and spells out the radical implications of the study for the political debate on the future of policing. Interpreting Policework thus had relevance to students and researchers in police studies, sociology, public policy and the law at the time and will still be of historical interest today. The authors are experienced researchers, practised in investigating a wide range of criminological and social control issues.

Angel Face - The Making of a Criminal (Hardcover): Walter Probyn Angel Face - The Making of a Criminal (Hardcover)
Walter Probyn
R2,732 Discovery Miles 27 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1977, Angel Face documents the penal life of Walter Probyn, who spent 30 out of 44 years in prison and escaped 15 times. He describes the succession of events which began when he was a nine-year-old 'blitz kid' who 'stole' a can of peas from a bombed shop, and tells in absorbing and harrowing detail his time in prison and on the run. Important though his description and indictment of prison life and the treatment of so-called hardened offenders may be, his particular attention to carefully planned and ingenious escapes gives great insight into his fight for retaining his independence and his insatiable craving for freedom. This is not a book which glamourises crime. It does raise serious and debatable questions about the need for reform of a penal system which has failed in its objectives. These questions are discussed in an introduction and final commentary by noted criminologist, Stan Cohen, who puts Probyn's story into a wider context. His life is a classic example of the way in which the penal system, far from curing crime, may actually encourage it, by strengthening the resolve and bitterness of those who resist being institutionalised and fitting into authority's moulds. But is three-quarters of a lifetime a responsible price to pay? The authorities and Walter Probyn give different answers. This book will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the other side of the penal system but especially to students of law, criminology, and sociology.

The Politics of Punishment - A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture (Paperback): Louise Brangan The Politics of Punishment - A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture (Paperback)
Louise Brangan
R1,175 Discovery Miles 11 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Prisons are everywhere. Yet they are not everywhere alike. How can we explain the differences in cross-national uses of incarceration? The Politics of Punishment explores this question by undertaking a comparative sociological analysis of penal politics and imprisonment in Ireland and Scotland. Using archives and oral history, this book shows that divergences in the uses of imprisonment result from the distinctive features of a nation's political culture: the different political ideas, cultural values and social anxieties that shape prison policymaking. Political culture thus connects large-scale social phenomena to actual carceral outcomes, illuminating the forces that support and perpetuate cross-national penal differences. The work therefore offers a new framework for the comparative study of penality. This is also an important work of sociology and history. By closely tracking how and why the politics of punishment evolved and adapted over time, we also yield rich and compelling new accounts of both Irish and Scottish penal cultures from 1970 to the 1990s. The Politics of Punishment will be essential reading for students and academics interested in the sociology of punishment, comparative penology, criminology, penal policymaking, law and social history.

The Pleasure of Punishment (Paperback): Magnus Hoernqvist The Pleasure of Punishment (Paperback)
Magnus Hoernqvist
R829 Discovery Miles 8 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, and in the post-1968 Western world. The pleasure was often judged morally problematic, and raised questions about which desires were satisfied, and what the enjoyment was like. This book offers a research synthesis that ties together existing work on the pleasure of punishment. It considers how the shared joys of punishment gradually disappeared from the public view at a precise historic conjuncture, and explores whether arguments about the carnivalesque character of cruelty can provide support for the continued existence of penal pleasure. Towards the end of this book, the reader will discover, if willing to go along and follow desire to places which are full of pain and suffering, that deeply entwined with the desire for punishment, there is also the desire for social justice. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, philosophy and all those interested in the pleasures of punishment.

Bird Uncaged - An Abolitionist's Freedom Song (Paperback): Marlon Peterson Bird Uncaged - An Abolitionist's Freedom Song (Paperback)
Marlon Peterson
R479 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R87 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Community Justice in Australia - Knowledge, Skills and Values (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Brian Stout Community Justice in Australia - Knowledge, Skills and Values (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Brian Stout
R3,758 Discovery Miles 37 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new edition of Community Justice in Australia expands on the discussion of how people who have committed offences can be engaged in the community. It considers how the concept of community justice can be successfully applied within Australia by social workers, criminologists, parole officers and anyone working in the community with both adults and young people. The book defines community justice and applies the concept to the Australian context. It then explains theories of offending behaviour, considers relevant Australian legislation, policy and intervention strategies and examines the implications for both young people and adults. Restorative justice is also discussed. The latter part of the book focuses on practical issues including working in community justice organisations, technology, public protection and desistance approaches. Each chapter contains an engagement with the implications of community justice approaches for Indigenous groups and features reflective questions, practical tasks and guidance for further reading. This accessible and practical book will be indispensable for instructors, students and practitioners working in the community with people who have committed offences.

Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849-1917 - Imperialism and Exile (Paperback): Andrew A. Gentes Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849-1917 - Imperialism and Exile (Paperback)
Andrew A. Gentes
R1,262 Discovery Miles 12 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a comprehensive history of the genesis, existence, and demise of Imperial Russia's largest penal colony, made famous by Chekhov in a book written following his visit there in 1890. Based on extensive original research in archival documents, published reports, and memoirs, the book is also a social history of the late imperial bureaucracy and of the subaltern society of criminals and exiles; an examination of the tsarist state's failed efforts at reform; an exploration of Russian imperialism in East Asia and Russia's acquisition of Sakhalin Island in the face of competition from Japan; and an anthropological and literary study of the Sakhalin landscape and its associated values and ideologies. The Sakhalin penal colony became one of the largest penal colonies in history. The book's conclusion prompts important questions about contemporary prisons and their relationship to state and society.

Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era - The Eyes and Ears of Power (Paperback): Andreas Marklund, Laura... Histories of Surveillance from Antiquity to the Digital Era - The Eyes and Ears of Power (Paperback)
Andreas Marklund, Laura Skouvig
R1,205 Discovery Miles 12 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Deploying empirical studies spanning from early Imperial China to the present day, 17 scholars from across the globe explore the history of surveillance with special attention to the mechanisms of power that impel the concept of surveillance in society. By delving into a broad range of historical periods and contexts, the book sheds new light on surveillance as a societal phenomenon, offering 10 in-depth, applied analyses that revolve around two main questions: * Who are the central actors in the history of surveillance? * What kinds of phenomena have been deemed eligible for surveillance, for example, information flows, political movements, border-crossing trade, interacting with foreign states, workplace relations, gender relations, andsexuality?

Policing Structures (Paperback): Colin Rogers Policing Structures (Paperback)
Colin Rogers
R1,119 Discovery Miles 11 190 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book examines the structures that support the policing organisation internally and externally, including its partners within the criminal justice system. It has been written for students of policing, especially those undertaking qualifications under the new Police Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF), undergraduates who study the police as part of a criminology or criminal justice degree or similar, and those with a general interest in the police organisation in England and Wales. It includes chapters on: The historical context of police structure. Accountability, governance, and control in the police. Local, national, and international police structures. The partnership between the police and the criminal justice system. The future structure of policing. Throughout the chapters are 'important point boxes' which emphasise the key parts of each topic. At the end of each chapter are reflective questions, useful websites, and a further reading list, all of which reinforces students' knowledge and furthers their professional development. Written in clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students of policing, criminology, criminal justice, cultural studies, and law. It is essential reading for students taking a degree in Professional Policing.

Policing Domestic Abuse - Risk, Policy, and Practice (Hardcover): Katy Barrow-Grint, Jacqueline Sebire, Jackie Turton, Ruth Weir Policing Domestic Abuse - Risk, Policy, and Practice (Hardcover)
Katy Barrow-Grint, Jacqueline Sebire, Jackie Turton, Ruth Weir
R3,775 Discovery Miles 37 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is dedicated to improving the practice of the policing of domestic abuse. Its objective is to help inform those working in policing about the dynamics of how domestic abuse occurs, how best to respond to and investigate it, and in the longer term how to prevent it. Divided into thematic areas, the book uses recent research findings to update some of the theoretical analysis and to highlight areas of good practice: 'what works and why'. An effective investigation and the prosecution of offenders are considered, as well as an evaluation of the success of current treatment options. Policing domestic abuse can only be dealt with through an effective partnership response. The responsibilities of each agency and the statutory processes in place when policy is not adhered to are outlined. Core content includes: A critique of definitions and theoretical approaches to domestic abuse, including coverage of the myths surrounding domestic abuse and their impact on policing. An exploration on the challenges of collecting data on domestic abuse, looking at police data and the role of health and victim support services. A critical review of different forms of abuse, different perpetrators and victims, and risk assessment tools used by the police. A critical examination of the law relating to domestic abuse; how police resources are deployed to respond to and manage it; and best practice in investigation, gathering evidence, and prosecution Key perspectives on preventing domestic abuse, protecting victims, and reducing harm. Written with the student and budding practitioner in mind, this book is filled with case studies, current research, reports, and media examples, as well as a variety of reflective questions and a glossary of key terms, to help shed light on the challenges of policing domestic violence and the links between academic research and best practice.

Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice - "And Must They All Be Hanged?" (Paperback): Ew D. Gray Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice - "And Must They All Be Hanged?" (Paperback)
Ew D. Gray
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England. Each reveals evidence of how attempts were made to negotiate a path through the justice system to avoid conviction, and so avoid a sentence of hanging. This approach allows a deep examination of the workings of the justice system using social and cultural history methodologies. The cases explore wider areas of social and cultural history in the period, such as the role of policing agents, attitudes towards sexuality and prostitution, press reporting, and popular conceptions of "honorable" behavior. They also allow an engagement with what has been identified as the gradual erosion of individual agency within the law, and the concomitant rise of the state. Investigating the nature of the pardoning process shows how important it was to have "friends in high places," and also uncovers ways in which the legal system was susceptible to accusations of corruption. Readers will find an illuminating view of eighteenth-century London through a legal lens.

Individual Psychological Therapies in Forensic Settings - Research and Practice (Paperback): Jason Davies, Claire Nagi Individual Psychological Therapies in Forensic Settings - Research and Practice (Paperback)
Jason Davies, Claire Nagi
R1,155 Discovery Miles 11 550 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From the 'nothing works' maxim of the 1970s to evidence-based interventions to challenge recidivism and promote pro-social behavior, psychological therapy has played an important role in rehabilitation and risk reduction within forensic settings in recent years. And yet the typical group therapy model isn't always the appropriate path to take. In this important new book, the aims and effectiveness of individual therapies within forensic settings, both old and new, are assessed and discussed. Including contributions from authors based in the UK, North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, a broad range of therapies are covered, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy, Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion Focussed Therapy. Each chapter provides: an assessment of the evidence base for effectiveness; the adaptations required in a forensic setting; whether the therapy is aimed at recidivism or psychological change; the client or patient characteristics it is aimed at; a case study of the therapy in action. The final section of the book looks at ethical issues, the relationship between individual and group-based treatment, therapist supervision and deciding which therapies and therapists to select. This book is essential reading for probation staff, psychologists, criminal justice and liaison workers and specialist treatment staff. It will also be a valuable resource for any student of forensic or clinical psychology.

Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations (Hardcover): Eileen M. Ahlin, Ojmarrh... Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations (Hardcover)
Eileen M. Ahlin, Ojmarrh Mitchell, Cassandra A. Atkin-Plunk
R5,832 Discovery Miles 58 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Brings a fresh approach to examining sentencing and community and institutional corrections * Showcases the work of leading criminologists in sentencing and corrections * Ideal for use in graduate-level courses in courts, corrections, and law enforcement

Policing and the Rule of Law in Sub-Saharan Africa (Hardcover): Oluwagbenga Michael Akinlabi Policing and the Rule of Law in Sub-Saharan Africa (Hardcover)
Oluwagbenga Michael Akinlabi
R3,770 Discovery Miles 37 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book argues that strengthening policing, and the rule of law is pivotal to promoting human rights, equity, access to justice and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this book considers the principles of accountability, just laws, open government, and accessible and impartial dispute resolution, in relation to key institutions that deliver and promote the rule of law in selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Chapters examine a range of topics including police abuse of power and the use of force, police-citizen relations, judicial corruption, human rights abuse, brutality in the hands of armed forces, and combating arms proliferation. Drawing upon key institutions that deliver and promote the rule of law in sub-Saharan African countries including, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa, the contributors argue that strengthening policing, security and the rule of law is pivotal to promoting human rights, equity, access to justice and accountability. As scholars from this geographical region, the contributing authors present current realities and first-hand accounts of the challenges in this context. This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, criminology and criminal justice, police studies, international law practice, transitional justice, international development, and political science.

Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men - (Re)education (Paperback): Helen Nichols Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men - (Re)education (Paperback)
Helen Nichols
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- explores education in a prison setting from the perspective of the learners themselves. - examines how prisoners conceive their experiences in their own words. - adds further weight to existing 'beyond employability' discourse, which looks at 'other' or 'soft' outcomes of educational experiences in the prison setting.

Psychopath - The Case of Patrick MacKay (Hardcover): Tim Clark, John Penycate Psychopath - The Case of Patrick MacKay (Hardcover)
Tim Clark, John Penycate
R2,590 Discovery Miles 25 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1976, Psychopath is a study of Patrick Mackay who, in 1974 - with a string of muggings and killings behind him - was on trial for murder and was imprisoned in November 1975. John Penycate and Tim Clark - responsible for the controversial BBC Panorama programme on Patrick Mackay's case - here take their investigation further and raise the important question of how the various responsible agencies which came into contact with him failed to see the danger and prevent these needless killings. Mackay passed through five mental institutions as well as approved schools, remand centres and homes. Twice he had been released from Moss Side Special Hospital - the North of England's equivalent to Broadmoor - against the advice of his doctors. Penycate and Clark show that the signs were there for all to see. They give a detailed account of Patrick Mackay's deterioration, from his turbulent childhood, through numerous suicide attempts, acts of violence and spells in mental and penal institutions, to his becoming London's most notorious 'mugger' and a multiple killer, culminating in the final maniacal axing of his friend Father Crean, illustrated here with Mackay's own words. This book will be of interest to students of criminology, psychology, penology, government, and media.

The Big Book of Pain - Torture and Punishment Through History (Paperback): Mark P Donnelly, Daniel Diehl The Big Book of Pain - Torture and Punishment Through History (Paperback)
Mark P Donnelly, Daniel Diehl
R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explaining the mechanics of torture--even now a controversial topic--this history questions why so much effort has been put into causing pain to fellow human beings Taking readers into the ancient Roman coliseum, the medieval dungeon, the Inquisitional interrogation, the auto-da-fe, the witch-trial, and the most horrid of prisons, this is an exploration of the systematic use throughout the ages of various means of punishment, torture, coercion, and torment. It is a shocking and compelling study of the shameful methods and motives of the torturer and the executioner, and of the heinous duty they have performed through the ages. Since the earliest times it is an acknowledged fact that anyone can be made to confess to anything under torture, making such confessions inadmissible. This history of pain questions why such practices have continued for so long.

Justice and Penal Reform - Re-shaping the Penal Landscape (Paperback): Stephen Farrall, Barry Goldson, Ian Loader, Anita Dockley Justice and Penal Reform - Re-shaping the Penal Landscape (Paperback)
Stephen Farrall, Barry Goldson, Ian Loader, Anita Dockley
R1,380 Discovery Miles 13 800 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, Western societies entered a climate of austerity which has limited the penal expansion experienced in the US, UK and elsewhere over recent decades. These altered conditions have led to introspection and new thinking on punishment even among those on the political right who were previously champions of the punitive turn. This volume brings together a group of international leading scholars with a shared interest in using this opportunity to encourage new avenues of reform in the penal sphere. Justice is a famously contested concept and this book takes a deliberately capacious approach to the question of how justice can be mobilised to inform new reform agendas. Some of the contributors revisit an antique question in penal theory and reconsider the question of what fair or just punishment should look like today. Others seek to make gender central to understanding of crime and punishment, or actively reflect on the part that related concepts such as human rights, legitimacy and trust can and should play in thinking about the creation of more just crime control arrangements. Faced with the expansive penal developments of recent decades, much research and commentary about crime control has been gloom-laden and dystopian. By contrast, this volume seeks to contribute to a more constructive sensibility in the social analysis of penality: one that is worldly, hopeful and actively engaged in thinking about how to create more just penal arrangements. Justice and Penal Reform is a key resource for academics and as a supplementary text for students undertaking courses on punishment, penology, prisons, criminal justice and public policy. This book approaches penal reform from an international perspective and offers a fresh and diverse approach within an established field.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Penal Theories and Institutions…
Michel Foucault Paperback R526 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370
Controlling Urban Events - Law, Ethics…
Andrea Pavoni Hardcover R4,212 Discovery Miles 42 120
Inside the Ohio Penitentiary
David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker, … Paperback R526 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370
Community Justice in Australia…
Brian Stout Paperback R1,070 Discovery Miles 10 700
The Last Face You'll Ever See - The…
Ivan Solotaroff Paperback R392 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250
Aftermath - Winner of the 2022 Gordon…
Preti Taneja Paperback R361 R293 Discovery Miles 2 930
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment
Ilham Ragimov Paperback R551 Discovery Miles 5 510
The Second Chance Club - Hardship and…
Jason Hardy Paperback R489 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030
Correctional
Ravi Shankar Hardcover R722 R604 Discovery Miles 6 040
When Women Kill - Four Crimes Retold
Alia Trabucco Zeran Paperback R363 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950

 

Partners