Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment

ISBN-13: 9780198810087 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str.

Rachel Condry; Peter Scharff Smith

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Rachel Condry is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hilda's College. She has previously been a lecturer in criminology at the University of Surrey, and a lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Families Shamed: The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders (Willan, 2007), shortlisted for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Rachel's work focuses on the intersection between crime and the family and has included studies on the families of serious offenders, parenting and youth justice, and adolescent to parent violence. Peter Scharff Smith is Professor in the Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo. He has previously worked at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and has been a visiting scholar and researcher at, among other places NYU and Cambridge University. He has published numerous books and articles in Danish, English, and German on prisons, punishment, and human rights, including works on prison history, prisoner's children, and the use and effects of solitary confinement in prisons. He has also written books and articles on the Waffen-SS and the Nazi war of extermination at the Eastern front. His publications include more than ten research monographs and edited collections and more than seventy articles and chapters published in Scandinavian and international journals and books.