Crime and Justice, Volume 51

Prisons and Prisoners

For more than fifty volumes, the Crime and Justice series has provided a platform for the best work of sociologists, psychologists, lawyers, criminologists, and political scientists as they explore crime and the criminal justice system. In Prisons and Prisoners, Michael Tonry and I (eds.) provide-up-to-the-minute, multidisciplinary, multinational depictions of prisons, and the lives of incarcerated people. This volume comprises essays of the world’s most highly respected prison scholars, examining topics such as the politics of imprisonment, COVID-19 and the future of prisons, race and imprisonment, women in prison, prison gangs and much more.