Sentencing and Punishment

This book is the first to examine the experiences of relatives of those accused or convicted of serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and sex offences. It draws upon intense qualitative research which combines long, searching interviews with the relatives of serious offenders with ethnog..

Drawing up on a wide range of first hand accounts and interviews, this book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1999. It brings out the qualitatively distinctive character and punitive ethos of regimes ..

In this major new book contributors from a range of disciplines provide an integrated approach to a range of questions surrounding the use of imprisonment and penal supervision as forms of punishment. This book is the principal outcome of the Guggenheim Punishment Project which aimed for a truly int..