Prison system in Assam owes its origin and structure to the British colonizers. Colonial administrator John M’Cosh mentions Topography of (1837) that by year 1833 East India Company had already established jails prominent administrative sites like Guwahati Goalpara. From mid-twentieth century, one can witness an increasing concern academic disciplines psychiatry, psychology, sociology, criminol...

Dysfunctional features of American penology are mitigated somewhat by the application (though uneven) of modern science. Unfortunately, these advances do not address major flaws in the ideas on which the system is erected. These include retribution, proportional punishment, and all-or-none notions of criminal responsibility. We propose abandoning retribution for its own sake; making punishment ...

Abstract After the Silk Road closure, many studies started focusing on trend and patterns of darknet-related crimes in 2010s. This first study combined a systematic literature review bibliometric analysis field. clarifies 49 articles criminology penology among 1150 publications relating to darknet Web Science database analyze research evolutions this topic last decade. The main findings point o...

The principle of “normalization” in penology maintains that the life people captivity should resemble as far possible positive aspects “normal” free society. To critically understand how theories and practices normalization impact our discourses about space within beyond detention institutions, this essay considers “prison house,” a genre includes range homely, small-scale carceral facilities. ...

Abstract This paper aims to examine the contours of current manifestations political justice, in a time which liberal democracy arrangements are more widespread than ever before. For these purposes, it begins by exploring international indices unveiling varying degrees illiberal penal practices global north jurisdictions. Subsequently, scrutinises Spanish field, outmoded justice intriguingly en...

Open prisons are portrayed as less harmful custodial institutions than closed prisons, and prison systems that rely more heavily on low security imprisonment typically considered to have a humane punitive approach punishment. However, few studies systematically compared the subjective experiences of prisoners held in open no study has yet role function across jurisdictions. Drawing survey condu...