Analyses the effectiveness and implications of community custody for offenders and society as a whole.

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scholarship on pr

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and

This is a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. Privatisation is seen as a necessary and co

This book provides a much-needed sociological account of the social world of the English prison officer, making an original contribution to our understanding of