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Labour has embarked upon a root and branch remaking of the criminal justice system in England and...

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This volume brings together a collection of articles on penal reform in the United States, Europe...

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The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishme...

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males bo...

For nearly two centuries in the United States, the punishment of crime was largely aimed, in theo...

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males bo...