Background Internationally, people in prison should receive a standard of healthcare
provision equivalent to people living in the community. Yet efforts to assess the quality of …

What is social control? How do social controls become part of everyday life? What role does
the criminal justice system play in exerting control? Is the diagnosis and treatment of mental …

This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It
defines 'historical criminology', explores its characteristic strengths and limitations, and …

This article advances a holistic conceptualization of punitiveness that acknowledges its
complexity and contemporary social and political pervasiveness. We argue that punitiveness …

Since 2000, the prison rate has declined significantly in Kazakhstan. This article
demonstrates that the Kazakhstani prison service, counterintuitively, became a key advocate …

In what might be called the 'austerity-driven hypothesis', a consistent strand of literature has
sought to explain the prison downsizing witnessed in many jurisdictions of the global north …

Across the world, the most marginalised groups of society are overrepresented in prisons
and institutions of the criminal justice system. Besides racial and ethnic minorities, prisons …

The decision to release is a defining feature of the carceral experience: at once a necessary
function of a dynamic penal system, and a highly contested form of symbolic communication …

This article seeks to explain the persistence of high incarceration rates in England and
Wales. Building upon recent theoretical work on path dependence, we identify prison …

Although it has long been acknowledged that heuristics influence judicial decision making,
researchers have yet to explore how sentencing guidelines might interact with heuristics to …