Most comparative penology books to date have fallen into one of two categories. Some (for
example, Muncie and Sparks, 1991; Vagg, 1994) cover a relatively limited subject such as …

All Western nations have passed mandatory sentencing legislation that removes or greatly
curtails judicial discretion. These mandatory sentencing laws have proliferated in recent …

Many of the generalizations bandied about in discussions of penal policy in Western
countries are not true. If penal populism (Pratt 2007) or populist punitiveness (Bottoms 1995) …

Almost everyone agrees-Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open
Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal …

Similar economic transformations, public opinion patterns, social developments and crime
trends have affected most western countries over the past few decades. Punishment trends …

For most of the 20th Century, sentencing purposes and procedures were virtually the same
in all American jurisdictions. The primary sentencing goal was rehabilitation, to be …

American sentencing systems have fragmented since the modern sentencing reform
movement began in the 1970s and predominant retributive theories of punishment have …

Remorse is a powerful, important and yet academically neglected emotion. This book, one of
the very few extended examinations of remorse, draws on psychology, law and philosophy …

In 1970 all prisoners in Bathurst gaol, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, were subjected to
a cell-by-cell bashing led by the prison superintendent, as a reprisal for taking part in a …

Recent Australian reforms to parole following high-profile violations are premised on a
purported public desire for greater restrictions on the use of parole. These changes reflect …