Love as human virtue and human need and its role in the lives of long-term prisoners

The criminological literature has established the importance of understanding within-prison dynamics, the role of emotions in penality, and the importance of families in criminal justice. Straub’s focus centrally on the concept of love is a welcome addition to the literature in itself, and in particular for its contributions to – and tying together of – these existing strands within the penological literature. Straub’s multidisciplinary examination of love, and its role and meaning with the prison context, means this book will be of interest to a wide range of those studying and working within, the social sciences and criminal justice.

Dr Harry Annison

Southampton Law School

University of Southampton