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.
Policing and Civil Society in an International Context
1st Edition
By Nathan Pino
April 01, 2025
This book contributes to contemporary debates on police reform and development and explores the role of civil society groups in policing and police reform efforts in an international context. It draws on numerous academic literatures covering civil society groups, policing, and development; as well...
Rational Anger: An International Comparison of Legal Systems
1st Edition
By Stina Bergman Blix, Nina Törnqvist
March 25, 2025
Exploring the rationales behind legal anger, its logic and origins, this book builds on the perspectives of judges and prosecutors in Italy, Sweden, the United States, and Scotland. When do judges and prosecutors become angry in court, what do they become angry about, and which other emotions open ...
Mass data surveillance and predictive policing: Contested Foundations and Human Rights Impact
1st Edition
By Plixavra Vogiatzoglou
January 29, 2025
This book critically assesses legal frameworks involving the bulk processing of personal data, initially collected by the private sector, to predict and prevent crime through advanced profiling technologies. In the European Union (EU), mass data surveillance currently engages three sectors: ...
Criminalising Coercive Control: Challenges for the Implementation of Northern Ireland’s Domestic Abuse Offence
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa Bettinson, Ronagh McQuigg
December 19, 2024
Drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which may be faced in implementing Northern Ireland’s new domestic abuse offence. A specific offence of domestic abuse was introduced in Northern Ireland in ...
European Perspectives on Pre-Trial Detention: A Means of Last Resort?
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Morgenstern, Walter Hammerschick, Mary Rogan
December 18, 2024
High levels of remand or pre-trial detention (PTD) is a matter of growing concern in many countries, and at a European level. Despite being responsible for a significant part of the prison population, PTD practice is rarely the focus of criminological and criminal justice research. This book ...
Narratives on Prison Governmentality: No Longer the Prison of the Past
1st Edition
By Marco Nocente
December 18, 2024
Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners. The collection of testimonies represents the opportunities and difficulties of resisting in a place of power, which, in recent years, has become more sophisticated and effective. In ...
Preventing Prison Violence: An Ecological Perspective
1st Edition
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By Armon J. Tamatea, Andrew J. Day, David J. Cooke
December 18, 2024
Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of ‘prison ecologies’ – a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a ‘product’ of human, environment (social and physical), systemic, and societal influences – and how an ecological approach is helpful to prevention efforts. ...
War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the 'End of History’
1st Edition
By Teresa Degenhardt
December 18, 2024
This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo, Iraq and Libya. These cases reveal the operation of diverse modalities of punishment in extending the ambit of international liberal governance...
Occupational Stress Injuries: Operational and Organizational Stressors Among Public Safety Personnel
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosemary Ricciardelli, Joy C. MacDermid, Lorna Ferguson
November 29, 2024
This book explores the stress faced by public safety professionals across an array of occupational fields, such as police, correctional officers, paramedics, and firefighters. Bringing together leading scholars from around the world, it showcases cutting-edge quantitative and qualitative research ...
Impending Challenges to Penal Moderation in France and Germany: A Strained Restraint
1st Edition
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By Kirstin Drenkhahn, Fabien Jobard, Tobias Singelnstein
November 28, 2024
This book investigates the penal culture in France and Germany – how it is shaped in politics, media, and public opinion. Although compared with the US or the UK, France and Germany seem to place a strong emphasis on the ideal of rehabilitation that would block excessive punishment and other ...
Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil
1st Edition
By André R. Giamberardino
November 28, 2024
Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical references for the construction of a transformative justice in Brazil, supporting the claim that justice is a socially constructed conception and that ...
The English Prison Health System After a Decade of Austerity, 2010-2020: The Failed Political Experiment
1st Edition
By Nasrul Ismail
October 09, 2024
Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society’s most vulnerable groups. This book opens up the closed world of English prisons to examine its impact on prison health governance and healthcare delivery. It argues that ...