The effects of solitary confinement have been debated since at least the middle of the
nineteenth century when both Americans and Europeans began to question the then …

Academic attention to violence and other forms of in-prison misconduct is on the rise,
although most research continues to be framed within now stale perspectives. A broader …

Legitimacy (or “the right to exercise power”) is now an established concept in criminological
analysis, especially in relation to policing. Substantial empirical evidence shows the …

This study analyses the relationship between prison moral and social climate and
reoffending. It relates data from the measuring the quality of prison life (MQPL) survey …

On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration
powers in UK detention centres alone. Around the world immigrants are routinely detained …

In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian
efforts in its history, opening its borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria …

This paper extends Tyler's procedural justice model of public compliance with the law.
Analysing data from a national probability sample of adults in England and Wales, we …

The'punitive turn'has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state,
and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers …

As penal power has been transformed in recent years, so too have relationships between
prisoners and staff. This article discusses how these relationships are forged by the terms of …

This study used survey data from cross-sectional, university-based samples of young adults
in different cultural settings (ie, the United States and Ghana) to accomplish 2 main …