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Countering Jihadi Cool: Narrative, Law, Culture, and Philosophy Against Global Jihad
Caroline Joan “Kay” S. Picart

This book analyzes jihadi cool/chic, a powerful recruitment force for transnational terrorist groups. It uses an evidence-based multi-disciplinary approach to examine attempts to construct counter-narratives to the jihadi cool master narrative. It closes with an examination of how to begin to respond critically to the lure of jihadi cool.

Caroline Joan “Kay” S. Picart, M.Phil. (Cantab), Ph.D., J.D.-M.A., Esquire, is an Appellate Assistant Public Defender at the Florida Tenth Judicial Circuit’s Public Defender’s Office, former adjunct professor of law at Florida A&M University, U.S. and former associate professor of English and humanities at Florida State University, U.S.

Nov 2025 | 9781683934387 | 144pp | Hbk | RRP: £75
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Criminal Justice and The Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse and Responsibility

Edited by Stewart Field and Cyrus Tata

This book investigates how defendants are assessed by criminal justice decision-makers, such as judges, lawyers, probation officers, parole board members and those involved in restorative justice. What attitudes and emotions are defendants expected to show? How are these expectations communicated? 

The book argues that defendants, at various stages of the criminal justice process, are expected to show a (more or less) free acceptance of guilt and individual responsibility along with a display of ‘appropriate’ emotions, ideally including ‘genuine’ remorse. It examines why such expressions of individual responsibility and remorse are so important to decision-makers and the state.

Stewart Field is Professor of Law at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK. 

Cyrus Tata is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Strathclyde University Law School, UK, where he is director of the Centre for Law, Crime & Justice.

May 2023   |   9781509939916   |   336pp   |   Hbk   |    RRP: £85 / $115 

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Controlling Immigration Through Criminal Law

European and Comparative Perspectives on “Crimmigration”

Edited by Gian Luigi Gatta, Valsamis Mitsilegas, and Stefano Zirulia

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the increased role of criminal law in managing migration, from a European, domestic and comparative law perspective. The contributors critically engage with the current trends leading to the criminalisation of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and those who engage in ‘humanitarian smuggling’ and the national and common policies calling for a broader use of criminal law measures. The chapters explore the measures used to protect borders and their impact in terms of effectiveness and their ability to strike a fair balance between security and the protection of human rights. The contributors to the book cover a range of disciplines within law, human rights and criminology resulting in a broad understanding of the issues at play.

Gian Luigi Gatta is Professor of Criminal Law, Università degli Studi di Milano.

Valsamis Mitsilegas is Professor of European Criminal Law and Global Security, Queen Mary University of London.

Stefano Zirulia is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, Università degli Studi di Milano.

Jan 2021   |   9781509933921   |   312pp   |   Hbk   |    RSP: £85

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Rethinking Self-Defence

The ‘Ancient Right’s’ Rationale Disentangled

T Markus Funk

Self-defence – the ‘ancient right’ – has never been more relevant than in the present era of widespread calls for criminal justice reform.  The book substantially advances the patinaed discussion by introducing for the first time a comprehensive value-centric approach to thinking about the defence’s deeper rationale.  It tackles core issues such as the relative importance of the State’s claimed monopoly on force, procedural justice and the need to shore up the justice system’s legitimacy and creditworthiness, everyone’s presumptive ‘right to life,’ and the importance of ensuring equal standing between citizens.  And, in so doing, the book breaks ground by addressing public perceptions of  ‘just’ and ‘right’ outcomes, as well as the emphasis legal systems place (and should place) on State power.

T Markus Funk is the Firmwide Chair of Perkins Coie’s White Collar & Investigations Practice.

Jan 2021   |   9781509934171   |   304pp   |   Hbk   |    RSP: £80

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The Emotional Brain and the Guilty Mind

Novel Paradigms of Culpability and Punishment

Federica Coppola

This book seeks to reframe the normative narrative of the ‘culpable person’ in American criminal law through a more humanising lens. It embraces such a reframed narrative to revise the criteria of the current voluntarist architecture of culpability and to advance a paradigm of punishment that positions social rehabilitation as its core principle. The book constructs this narrative by considering behavioural and neuroscientific insights into the functions of emotions, and socio-environmental factors within moral behaviour in social settings. Hence, it suggests culpability notions that reflect a more contextualised view of human conduct, and argues that such revised notions are better suited to the principle of personal guilt. Furthermore, it suggests a model of ‘punishment’ that values the dynamic power of change of individuals, and acknowledges the importance of social relationships and positive environments to foster patterns of social (re)integration. Ultimately, this book argues that the potential adoption of the proposed models of culpability and punishment, which view people through a more comprehensive lens, may be a key factor for turning criminal justice into a less punitive, more inclusionary and non-stigmatising system.

Federica Coppola is Robert A Burt Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at the Centre for Science and Society at Columbia University, USA.

Feb 2021   |   9781509934294   |   264pp   |   Hbk   |    RSP: £65

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Parole Futures: Rationalities, Institutions and Practices

Edited by Harry Annison, Nicola Carr and Thomas Guiney

At a time when many parole systems are experiencing considerable strain, the aims of this collection are twofold: first, to encourage systematic and critical reflection on the rationalities, institutions and practices of parole. Second, to think big, and pose ambitious ‘what if’ questions about the possible futures of parole and prison release. Offering novel insights from Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America, this collection builds the case for, and then showcases, a ‘way of doing’ parole research that is global in outlook, interdisciplinary in approach and unapologetically normative in character.

Harry Annison is Professor of Criminal Justice at Southampton Law School, University of Southampton, UK.

Nicola Carr is Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at the Faculty of  Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Thomas Guiney is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK.

Jul 2025   |   9781509982172   |   400pp   |   Hbk   |    RRP: £90 

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