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  • Reinventing Punishment

    A Comparative History of Criminology and Penology in the 19th and 20th Century

    by Michele Pifferi ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Providing a historical analysis of the impact of criminology on the rationale of punishment and the sentencing systems in Europe and the US between the 1870s and the 1930s, Reinventing Punishment: A Comparative History of Criminology and Penology in the 19th and 20th Century investigates and contrasts the rise of the principles of individualisation of punishment, social defence, preventive justice ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Legal Responses to Mass Migration

    From the Nineteenth Century to World War II

    Edited by Luigi Nuzzo, Michele Pifferi, Giuseppe Speciale, Cristina Vano ...
    Series series Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Law
    This volume explores the legal history of migration and the role played by legal theories, case law, practices, customary laws, and legislations in shaping and governing mobility between the 19th century and the Second World War. Based on different methodological approaches and sources, including archival documents, special courts’ decisions, diplomatic materials, legal journals and books, and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Limits of Criminological Positivism

    The Movement for Criminal Law Reform in the West, 1870-1940

    Edited by Michele Pifferi ...
    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    The Limits of Criminological Positivism: The Movement for Criminal Law Reform in the West, 1870-1940 presents the first major study of the limits of criminological positivism in the West and establishes the subject as a field of interest.The volume will explore those limits and bring to life the resulting doctrinal, procedural, and institutional compromises of the early twentieth century that ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Dean Lyons, Mark Nash and the Story behind the Grangegorman Murders

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    On the morning of 7 March 1997, the bodies of two elderly female patients were discovered in their sheltered accommodation at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin.It would be a further 16 years before Mark Nash was convicted of the notorious Grangegorman murders, but not before Dean Lyons, an innocent man, spent months in prison for a crime he did not commit, only to tragically die of a ... Read more

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  • Chasing Gideon

    The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice

    by Karen Houppert ...
    The Washington Post reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into the nation's crisis of indigent defense—"a hugely important book" ( New York Law Journal).A Nieman Report's Top Ten Investigative Journalism Books of 2013First published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed all criminal defendants the right to legal counsel, ... Read more

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  • Going Up the River

    Travels in a Prison Nation

    by Joseph T. Hallinan ...
    The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the world has ever known. In Going Up The River, Joseph Hallinan gets to the heart of America’s biggest ... Read more

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  • Justice, Mercy, and Caprice

    Clemency and the Death Penalty in Ireland

    by Ian O'Donnell ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Justice, Mercy, and Caprice is a work of criminal justice history that speaks to the gradual emergence of a more humane Irish state. It is a close examination of the decision to grant clemency to men and women sentenced to death between the end of the civil war in 1923 and the abolition of capital punishment in 1990. Frequently, the decision to deflect the law from its course was an attempt to ... Read more

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  • Why Punish?

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Punishment

    by Rob Canton ...
    Why do we punish? Is it because only punishment can achieve justice for victims and 'right the wrong' of a crime? Or is it justified because it reduces crime, by deterring potential offenders, offering rehabilitative treatment to others and incapacitating the most dangerous? The complex answers to this enduring question vary across time and place, and are directly linked to people's personal, ... Read more

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  • Punishment for Sale

    Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

    by Donna Selman, Paul Leighton ...
    Series series Issues in Crime and Justice
    Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance ... Read more

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  • Captive Nation

    Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

    by Dan Berger ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapable part of black life in the United States. Black ... Read more

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  • Victims and the Criminal Trial

    by Tyrone Kirchengast ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book addresses the idea that victims remain contested and controversial participants of justice in the twenty-first century adversarial criminal trial. Victims are increasingly participating in all phases of the criminal trial, with new substantive and procedural rights, many of which may be enforced against the state or defendant. This movement to substantive rights has been contentious, and ... Read more

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  • Transmedia Crime Stories

    The Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere

    Edited by Lieve Gies, Maria Bortoluzzi ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing criminology, socio-legal analysis, critical discourse studies, cultural studies and celebrity studies, the book analyses how this case was narrated in the media and why Knox emerged as the main protagonist. The ... Read more

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