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.
Justice Reinvestment: Can the Criminal Justice System Deliver More for Less?
1st Edition
By Chris Fox, Kevin Albertson, Kevin Wong
November 07, 2014
Rising prison numbers on both sides of the Atlantic are cause for concern. Justice Reinvestment is a major movement in criminal justice reform in the US that is also attracting lots of interest in the UK. Justice Reinvestment is an approach to addressing the penal crisis that uses the best ...
Doing Probation Work: Identity in a Criminal Justice Occupation
1st Edition
By Rob Mawby, Anne Worrall
August 19, 2014
A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role. This book fills that gap by exploring the meaning of...
Women, Punishment and Social Justice: Human Rights and Penal Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Malloch, Gill McIvor
July 17, 2014
The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women. To reduce the number of women imprisoned, a range of policy initiatives have been developed to increase the ...
Victims of Environmental Harm: Rights, Recognition and Redress Under National and International Law
1st Edition
By Matthew Hall
July 03, 2014
In recent years, the increasing focus on climate change and environmental degradation has prompted unprecedented attention being paid towards the criminal liability of individuals, organisations and even states for polluting activities. These developments have given rise to a new area of ...
Contrasts in Punishment: An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism
1st Edition
By John Pratt, Anna Eriksson
June 06, 2014
Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia ...
Handbook of Policing, Ethics and Professional Standards
1st Edition
Edited
By Allyson MacVean, Peter Spindler
April 22, 2014
Low confidence in the police and the increasing crime rates during the 1990s led to a series of government initiatives directed at changing both the structure and management of the police service. In 2006 in an attempt to define what a principled police service should resemble, the Home Office ...
Building Justice in Post-Transition Europe?: Processes of Criminalisation within Central and Eastern European Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Kay Goodall, Margaret Malloch, Bill Munro
March 13, 2014
After the collapse of the Berlin wall in 1989 and disintegration of the Soviet Union, scholars focused on the problems of legal transitions within the newly emerging democracies. Two decades on, these states are in ‘post-transition’ conditions; having undergone and continuing to experience ...
Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?: Theory, Policy and Practice Explored
1st Edition
Edited
By Jo Brayford, Francis B Cowe, John Deering
March 13, 2014
Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially ‘other’ to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending...
Youth Justice in Context: Community, Compliance and Young People
1st Edition
By Mairéad Seymour
March 07, 2014
Youth Justice in Context examines the influence of legislative, organizational, policy and practice issues in shaping what constitutes compliance and how non-compliance is responded to when supervising young offenders in the community. It also addresses the impact of adolescent developmental ...
Technocrime: Policing and Surveillance
1st Edition
Edited
By Stéphane Leman-Langlois
January 03, 2014
The growth of technology allows us to imagine entirely new ways of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts, victims and citizens. Technology offers not only new tools for committing and fighting crime, but new ways to look for, unveil, label crimes and new ...