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.
Perceptions of Criminal Justice
1st Edition
By Vicky De Mesmaecker
September 03, 2015
In recent decades, research into the legitimacy of criminal justice has convincingly demonstrated the importance of procedural justice to citizens’ sense of trust and confidence in legal authorities and their resulting willingness to conform to the law and cooperate with the legal authorities. ...
International Perspectives on Police Education and Training
1st Edition
Edited
By Perry Stanislas
June 08, 2015
Training and education constitutes the backbone of a significant amount of police activity and expenditure in developing the most important resources involved in policing work. It also involves an array of actors and agencies, such as educational institutions which have a long and important ...
Restorative Justice in Transition
1st Edition
By Kerry Clamp
June 08, 2015
This book explores how restorative justice is used and what its potential benefits are in situations where the state has been either explicitly or implicitly involved in human rights abuses. Restorative justice is increasingly becoming a popular mechanism to respond to crime in democratic settings ...
Understanding Penal Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Ioan Durnescu, Fergus McNeill
June 08, 2015
Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change – and how and why these changes differ in different contexts. Important though these analyses are, this book focuses not so much on the changing nature of institutions ...
Epidemiological Criminology: Theory to Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Eve Waltermaurer, Timothy Akers
January 26, 2015
Epidemiological criminology is an emerging paradigm which explores the public health outcomes associated with engagement in crime and criminal justice. This book engages with this new theory and practice-based discipline drawing on knowledge from criminology, criminal justice, public health, ...
Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in a 21st Century World
1st Edition
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By Randy Lippert, Kevin Walby
January 26, 2015
Policing Cities brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world’s major cities, including New York, Beijing, Paris, London, ...
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
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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
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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 ...