This edited collection brings together leading international academics and researchers to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs the future of prison and wider corrective services training, education, research, policy and practice.

Forward: Jane L. Ireland (University of Central Lancashire, UK) Section 1: SystemsChapter 1: Frameworks for Punishment: Implications on 21st Century Corrective ServicesPiero Moraro Chapter 2: The use of the death sentenceRobert Johnson and Esther Matthews Chapter 3: Wrongful convictions and the implications for Corrective ServicesMichele Ruyters, Gregory Stratton and Monique Moffa Chapter 4: Prison overcrowding: Examining the problem through the prism of the European Court of Human RightsGaëtan Cliquennois and Philip BirchChapter 5: The Digital Prison: Towards an ethics of technology Victoria Knight and Steven Van De Steene Chapter 6: Privatising Corrections: Rethinking the issueJane Andrew, Max Baker, Christine Cooper and Jonny TweedieChapter 7: A forgotten profession: The need to invest in prison officersAndrew Clements and Gail Kinman Section 2: PeopleChapter 8: Children in care: The criminalisation of childrenEmma Colvin, Alison Gerard and Andrew McGrath Chapter 9: Young People in correctionsLaura AbramsChapter 10: Ageing offenders in the prison environmentRhonda Shaw Chapter 11: Working with Trans communities in corrective servicesRoberto H. Potter and Stephen T. Holmes Chapter 12: Prison GangsCamila Nunes Dias , Michelle Butler and Gavin Slade Chapter 13: Taking Stock of Sexual Assault in Correctional Facilities: Is it Time to Apply the Evidence to Reduce Risk?Eileen AhlinSection 3: Service DeliveryChapter 14: Mental Health and Services in Prisons Daniel Semenza and Meghan Noisky Chapter 15: Adopting a ‘Creative Corrections’ approach for offender treatment programsLouise A. Sicard and Philip Birch Chapter 16: Dealing with radicalisation in corrective services: A global issueNathan Thompson Chapter 17: Challenges for managing offenders in the community in the 21st Century: Global PerspectivesMalcolm Pearse Chapter 18: Transforming Rehabilitation: A failed experiment in throughcare and offender reintegration Matthew Cracknell and Julie TrebilcockChapter 19: Desistance-Focused Practice: An Innovative Approach to Reducing Offending Behaviour and Building Social IntegrationDeirdre Healey