This review sets out four main explanatory paradigms of penal policy—focusing on, in turn,
crime, cultural dynamics, economic structures and interests, and institutional differences in …

What is the role and value of criminology in a democratic society? How do, and how should,
its practitioners engage with politics and public policy? How can criminology find a voice in …

" The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and
undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it …

Imprisonment is the most severe punishment in democratic societies except for capital
punishment, which is used only in the United States. Crime prevention is its primary …

One of the first actions of the new Home Secretary was to scrap public confidence as the
single performance indicator of policing in England and Wales. Yet public trust and …

The individual has never been more important in society-in almost every sphere of public
and private life, the individual is sovereign. Yet the importance and apparent power …

The Second Edition of Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences continues to identify
and evaluate the major competing theories used to guide the goals, policies, and practices …

What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What
changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have …

This paper addresses four common assumptions and related controversies regarding
neurobiological factors explaining violence:(i) scholars often assume stability of individual …

Scholars and lay persons alike routinely express concern about the capacity of democratic
publics to respond rationally to emotionally charged issues such as crime, particularly when …