The Routledge Handbook of European Penology by Snacken, Sonja; Cliquennois, Gaëtan; Durnescu, Ioan;

Short description:

European penology, the multidisciplinary scientific study of punishment carried out on the European continent, is booming. This Handbook aims to offer an overview of the current state of the art and of cutting-edge penological research in Europe, covering all the regions and Europe’s institutional organisations.

Long description:

European penology, the multidisciplinary scientific study of punishment carried out on the European continent, is booming. This Handbook aims to offer an overview of the current state of the art and of cutting-edge penological research in Europe, covering all the regions (north, south, east, west) and Europe’s institutional organisations - the Council of Europe and the European Union, and including research that may hitherto not have been published in English. The Handbook also reflects on whether there is anything distinctive or typically (not necessarily exclusively) European in the ways penology is applied in Europe.

This challenge is taken up by a team of five editors and 60 authors from 21 different countries, reflecting a balance of gender, early and promising career, and established researchers.

After the editors’ Introduction, the book is organised into three parts:

Part I: European Penology – Scientific Developments, discusses theoretical and methodological developments and important issues within comparative penology.

Part II: European Penality – Developments in Penal Policies and Practices, focuses on transversal European developments, particular groups of offenders and specific forms of punishment.

Part III offers a reflection on penal policies and practices in Europe as seen from abroad.

The Handbook offers graduate and postgraduate students, postgraduate researchers, academics and other research users, such as governments and NGO's, critical and up to date reflections on some of the most prominent discussions on penality in Europe today.

Chapter 17 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

Part I: European Penology – Scientific developments  A. Theoretical developments 1. Geographical approaches to penology 2. Penal abolitionism 3. The development and frontiers of restorative justice 4. Risk penology 5. Theories of desistance. A new framework for rehabilitation 6. Human rights and penology  B. Comparative penology  7. Beyond Punitiveness? Studying Leniency and “Irrelevance” 8. Penal changes and political economy 9. Open prison – A Piece of Penal Exceptionalism 10. Penal Moderation in Europe Germany and France put to the Test 11. Searching for Rehabilitation in All the Wrong Places: Understanding (Allegedly) Exceptional Penal Systems 12. Russia’s Prisons Inside and Outside the Council of Europe  C. Methodological developments  13. Prison ethnographies in Europe Origins, developments and new approaches 14. Towards New Agendas in Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making Research 15. European Recidivism Statistics 16. Measuring the inside Comparing European Prison Conditions 17. Methodological Challenges in European Penology Strategies for Comparing Prison and Probation Systems Using Criminal Justice Statistics  Part II: European Penality – Developments in Penal Practices  A. Transversal European developments  18. The avalanche of technology – Digital penality 19. Commercialisation of punishment: exploring the role of electronic monitoring of offenders 20. The penal policy of the European Union 21. Criminalisation of migrants in Europe 22. Prison monitoring. Its successes and pitfalls  B. Tackling particular groups of offenders  23. Impact of social-legal responses on the reintegration of terrorism-related convicts 24. Tackling drug use – Between the War on Drugs and Decriminalisation/Legalisation 25. Addressing Sexual Offending: Characteristics, Recidivism Prevention, and Policy Directions 26. Gendered penality in Europe 27. Ageism in prison  C. Specific forms of punishment  28. Hidden punishments 29. Paradoxes of Supervision in Europe and beyond 30. Migration control and coercion. An exploration into the nature and functions of contemporary bordered forms of penality 31. Death and death prevention in European prisons 32. Prison Workers in Europe: Similarities and Differences  Part III. European penology and penality seen from abroad  33. Punishment Policies, Practices, and Patterns in Europe