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.
Pre-crime: Pre-emption, precaution and the future
1st Edition
By Jude McCulloch, Dean Wilson
April 27, 2017
Pre-crime aims to pre-empt ‘would-be-criminals’ and predict future crime. Although the term is borrowed from science fiction, the drive to predict and pre-empt crime is a present-day reality. This book critically explores this major twenty-first century development in crime and justice. This first ...
Punishing the Other: The social production of immorality revisited
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Eriksson
April 27, 2017
Punishing the Other draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman to discuss contemporary discourses and practices of punishment and criminalization. Bringing together some of the most exciting international scholars, both established and emerging, this book engages with Bauman’s thesis of the social ...
Victims and Restorative Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Inge Vanfraechem, Daniela Bolívar Fernández, Ivo Aertsen
April 27, 2017
Restorative justice aims to address the consequences of crime by encouraging victims and offenders to communicate and discuss the harm caused by the crime that has been committed. In the majority of cases, restorative justice is facilitated by direct and indirect dialogue between victims and ...
Victims of Violence and Restorative Practices: Finding a Voice
1st Edition
By Tinneke Van Camp
December 07, 2016
Restorative justice occupies an important place in criminological literature and criminal justice policies and is about facilitating communication between victims, offenders and communities in search of conciliation. Research shows that victims of crime are generally highly satisfied with ...
Municipal Corporate Security in International Context
1st Edition
By Kevin Walby, Randy Lippert
November 07, 2016
Corporate security is a form of regulation that involves centralized management of access control, physical security, personnel security, and information security inside an organization. For all the research on public policing, national security, and private contract security in sociology, ...
Positive Criminology
1st Edition
Edited
By Natti Ronel, Dana Segev
November 07, 2016
How can we best help offenders desist from crime, as well as help victims heal? This book engages with this question by offering its readers a comprehensive review of positive criminology in theory, research and practice. Positive criminology is a concept – a perspective – that places emphasis on ...
The Role of Community in Restorative Justice
1st Edition
By Fernanda Rosenblatt
November 07, 2016
Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice. While advocates have presented the community as an essential pillar of restorative ...
Working within the Forensic Paradigm: Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice
1st Edition
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By Rosemary Sheehan, James Ogloff
November 07, 2016
Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability and addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault ...
Long-Term Imprisonment and Human Rights
1st Edition
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By Kirstin Drenkhahn, Manuela Dudeck, Frieder Dünkel
March 03, 2016
Prisons and imprisonment have become a commonplace topic in popular culture as the setting and rationale for fiction and documentaries and most people seem to have a clear notion of what it is like in prison, ranging from the idea of the prison cell as a cosy nook with fast internet access to that ...
Policing in Taiwan: From authoritarianism to democracy
1st Edition
By Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang, Ivan Y. Sun
March 03, 2016
The police in Taiwan played a critical role in the largely peaceful transition from an authoritarian regime to a democracy. While the temptation to intervene in domestic politics was great, the top-down pressure to maintain a neutral standing facilitated an orderly regime change. This is the first ...
Reparation for Victims of Crimes against Humanity: The healing role of reparation
1st Edition
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By Jo-Anne Wemmers
March 03, 2016
Each year, countless people fall victim to crimes against humanity. These include widespread occurrences of systematic murder, torture, rape, disappearances, forced deportation and political persecution. Crimes against humanity constitute an attack on human dignity and as such they violate the ...
Transforming Criminal Justice?: Problem-Solving and Court Specialisation
1st Edition
By Jane Donoghue
March 03, 2016
Why is punishment not more effective? Why do we have such high re-offending rates? How can we deal with crime and criminals in a more cost-effective way? Over the last decade in particular, the United Kingdom, in common with other jurisdictions such as Canada, the United States (US) and Australia, ...