Handbook on Prisons

The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons builds on the critical and commercial success of the first edition and includes new chapters, new sections and new authors to give it a fresh and significantly different feel to its predecessor. As with the first edition, this book offers an overview of the very best critical scholarship in the field of prisons and imprisonment and a perfect way in for students and scholars alike.

The new edition has been fully revised and updated with new chapters and contributions, including a brand new section focusing on international perspectives. The book remains innovative and cutting-edge with contributions from the likes of Richard Sparks, Michael Welch, Anna Erikson, Mary Bosworth, Ben Crewe and Shadd Maruna.

Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. She is editor of the firstHandbook on Prisons (2007), author of Captive Audience: Media, Masculinity and Power in Prisons(2002), and series editor (with Ben Crewe and Thomas Ugelvik) of Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology.Yvonne’s publications on prison architecture include (with Philip Hancock) 'Penal Aesthetics and the Pains of Imprisonment’,Punishment & Society; (with Dominique Moran) ‘The paradox of the "green" prison: sustaining the environment or sustaining the penal complex?’,Theoretical Criminology; and ‘The Aesthetics and Anaesthetics of Prison Architecture’, in Simon, J. et alArchitecture and Justice (2013).

Ben Crewe is Deputy Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Dr. Crewe has published widely on prisons and imprisonment, and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology. His current research is on prisoners serving very long sentences from an early age.

Jamie Bennett has been a prison manager since 1996 and is currently Governor of HMP Grendon & Springhill. Dr. Bennett is also a Research Associate at the University of Oxford and has editedPrison Service Journal since 2004. He has written widely on prisons and was awarded a PhD at University of Edinburgh.