Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
About the Book Series
Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice offers the very best in research on criminal justice systems around the world, offering fresh insights on a range of topics in criminal procedure, including policing, prisons, courts, youth justice, community measures, rehabilitation, victimology and forensics science.
The Punitive Turn in Welfare State Sweden
1st Edition
By Henrik Tham
May 12, 2026
This analysis of the Swedish criminal system makes sense of a markedly punitive turn in policy despite the country’s relatively liberal approach. That Sweden, often considered the welfare state par excellence, should show a move toward punitiveness needs an explanation both from the view of ...
Enabling Change in the Investigation of Rape and Serious Sexual Offending: Learning, Development and Wellbeing
1st Edition
Edited
By Emma Williams
May 05, 2026
Operation Soteria—a major Home Office-funded initiative—examined how police investigate rape and serious sexual offences. This book focuses on a critical but often overlooked aspect of that project: the role of learning, development, and officer wellbeing in these challenging investigations. The ...
Corporate Criminal Liability and Sanctions: Current Trends and Policy Changes
1st Edition
Edited
By Michala Meiselles, Nicholas Ryder, Arianna Visconti
January 30, 2026
This edited collection sheds light on the evolution of corporate financial crime, exploring a myriad of offenses ranging from money laundering and fraud to market manipulation and bribery. Considering and assessing the models used in national law to determine the culpability of corporations, this ...
Crime Prevention by Exclusion: Ethical Considerations
1st Edition
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By Sebastian Jon Holmen, Thomas Søbirk Petersen, Jesper Ryberg
January 29, 2026
While increasing attention has been directed to the legal and criminological aspects of situational crime prevention, focused ethical discussion of the measures involved has been notable by its absence. Situational crime prevention measures are being used increasingly in various forms in cities all...
Cyberviolence against Women: A New Face of an Old Problem
1st Edition
By Sylwia Spurek
January 26, 2026
This title explores the growing phenomenon of cyberviolence against women, analyzing its causes, manifestations, and consequences from a multidisciplinary perspective. It aims to fill the gap in existing literature by not only diagnosing the issue but also providing comprehensive legal and policy ...
Beyond Autoethnography: Lived Experience Criminology
1st Edition
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By Dwayne Antojado, Danica Darley, Matthew Maycock
December 29, 2025
Highlighting the complex human realities that exist within the criminal justice system, this book foregrounds scholars and activists who harness their own encounters with policing, courts, and imprisonment to recast criminological theory, method, and policy, proving lived experience as an important...
The Psychology of Eyewitness Identification: Exploring the Relationship Between Traditional and Alternative Approaches to Recognition
1st Edition
By Dominic T. Jordan, Adrian J. Scott, Donald M. Thomson
December 03, 2025
Arguing for a need to modify investigatory and legal processes so that they align with the capabilities of witnesses and reflect the memorial and decision processes that inform recognition judgements, this book examines two radical alternative approaches to lineup-based recognition that do not ...
Human Rights in Probation: Theory, Practice and Balance
1st Edition
By Kyros Hadjisergis
November 28, 2025
Exploring the application, theory, implications, and socio-legal underpinnings of human rights in probation and associated offender management, this book examines the key imperatives and practices of the Probation Service in England and Wales in relation to the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA). ...
Through the Distorted Lens: Constructing Truth and Reality with Legal Narratives
1st Edition
By Fiona C. Hum
November 27, 2025
This monograph analyses controversial trial outcomes (both civil and criminal) through a post-structural feminist lens of narrative creation. It considers how narratives are constructed in trials and how the admission or exclusion of evidence can lead to the formation of distorted narratives that ...
Youth Diversion: Exploring Criminal Justice Perspectives through An Australian Case Study
1st Edition
By Estrella Pearce
November 20, 2025
Using New South Wales as a case example, this book engages with central themes of discretionary decision-making processes regarding youth diversion away from court and the broader political and policy constraints that impact implementation to full potential. Drawing on mixed quantitative and ...
Legal Implications of Taser Use and Prone Position on Excited Delirium Subjects
1st Edition
By Vidisha Barua Worley
November 18, 2025
Using case law, this book explores the controversial issues associated with excited or hyperactive delirium with severe agitation, including the appropriate use of tasers, and the inhumane practice of applying bodyweight pressure on subjects by placing them face down in the prone position, ...
Cross-border Victims in Europe: Legal and Practical Barriers to Free Movement of Victims in Europe
1st Edition
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By Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach, Michael Kilchling
October 31, 2025
This book examines how the movement of individuals across European borders affects their ability to effectively exercise their rights as victims in criminal proceedings – and how to improve the most problematic issues in this area. The European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter of ...