This first comprehensive study of Chicanas encountering the U.S. criminal justice system is set within the context of the international war on drugs as witnesse

Documents the struggles of three convicted murderers who have been released after serving their sentences as they reacclimate themselves to the world outside a

Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing thro

This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.

There is currently a huge growth of interest in histories of crime, and intellectual conversations and connections between historians and criminologists are bec