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First published in 1983, Women¿s Imprisonment explores the meanings of women¿s imprisonment and, in particular, the wider meanings of the `moment¿ of prison.

This collection of Carlen's key essays on a wide range of subjects is informed by a common assumption: that while criminal justice must remain imaginary in societies based upon unequal and exploitative social relations, one task of a criminological imagination might be to suggest why this is so, and how things could be otherwise.

Bringing together 35 leading thinkers, analysts and campaigners from around the world, this collection presents a range of on-going struggles for justice from abolitionist, transitional, transformative, indigenous, green, and restorative perspectives"--

Bringing together 35 leading thinkers, analysts and campaigners from around the world, this collection presents a range of on-going struggles for justice from abolitionist, transitional, transformative, indigenous, green, and restorative perspectives"--

Explores the idea of imaginary penalties and intends to understand why the management of criminal justice and criminal justice systems has so often reached crisis point. This work is suitable for those seeking to understand some of the root causes of increasing prison populations, and the role of criminal justice within systems of governance.

Bringing together leading international experts, and uniting fresh theoretical positions, with the best of current empirical research, this book marks a key juncture in considering the state-of-the-art of criminology and its imagined futures.

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The major objective of this book is to describe and analyse contemporary opportunities for, and barriers to, both the reduction of female prison populations and the reduction of the pain of those women who continue to be imprisoned.

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Crime Unlimited: Questions for the Twenty-First Century comprises nine chapters contexualising crime and social control within debates about modernism, globalism, risk, and technological innovation. It includes discussion of contemporary issues such as steroid use, gun control, privatised policing and youth scares involving alcopops and drugs. It also re-examines recurring issues about policing and punishment. The authors include: Rebecca and ...

This text explores the ethnography of truancy in its educational, political, legal, economic and ideological contexts. It attempts to discover how absences may be construed, what absentees from school actually do, and who is responsible for them.