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 Politics of Prison Crowding: A Critical Analysis of the Italian Prison System
1st Edition
By Simone Santorso
October 09, 2024
The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy’s penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the ‘new normal’ under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment. Engaging with the ...
Offender Rehabilitation Programmes: The Role of the Prison Officer
1st Edition
By Laura M. Small, Paul M.W. Hackett
October 08, 2024
This book shows how prison officers may be able to significantly influence extra-programmatic conditions, to enhance rehabilitation outcomes and contribute to reducing reoffending. It does so through a detailed review of the literature relating to prison-based rehabilitation programmes, examining ...
Maritime Crime and Policing
1st Edition
Edited
By Yarin Eski, Martin Wright
October 07, 2024
This book offers a unique and scholarly perspective on a little-studied subject: maritime crime and policing. The seas and oceans cover 70 percent of the earth’s surface and 90 percent of world trade by volume travels by sea. Furthermore, the refugee crisis has produced an inflow of people ...
Disassembling Police Culture
1st Edition
By Mike Rowe
October 04, 2024
Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, this book critically examines police culture, exploring police behaviours, decisionmaking and actions. Police culture is a concept widely used, often critically, to characterise the working attitudes and behaviours of (usually uniformed) police ...
Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials: Is the Jury Out?
1st Edition
By Charlotte Herriott
October 04, 2024
This book provides an in-depth examination of current, high-profile debates about the use of sexual history evidence in rape trials and its impact on jurors. In doing so, it presents findings of the first mock jury dataset in England and Wales to explore how jurors interpret, discuss, and rely upon...
Policing Rape: The Way Forward
1st Edition
By Katrin Hohl, Elizabeth A. Stanko
July 05, 2024
The policing of rape is in permacrisis. This book addresses the question of why police investigations continue to fail most rape victim-survivors and puts forward a framework for what policing can do to change this. Low conviction rates and poor victim-survivor experiences are the hallmarks of the ...
The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia: 'Preparing myself for Prison' in a Contested Human Rights Landscape
1st Edition
By Laura Piacentini, Elena Katz
May 27, 2024
In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scholarship on prisons because, figuratively speaking, prisons in Russia are de-nesting from their institutional moorings and borders. Using the online ...
Genetics and the Politics of Security: A Social Science Perspective
1st Edition
By Joëlle Vailly
May 13, 2024
Presenting a social science perspective on the contemporary gaze on the body of the suspect, this book considers how definitions of criminality, offenses, individual rights, and the concepts of identity and difference have been altered by changes in the biological status of the human. Spurred ...
A Restorative Approach to Family Violence: Feminist Kin-Making
1st Edition
By Joan Pennell
January 29, 2024
A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks back at an early and successful demonstration of a family and culturally based model to stop severe family violence. This conferencing model, called family group decision making, was applied by three diverse Canadian communities—Inuit, rural, and ...
Convictions Without Truth: The Incompatibility of Science and Law
1st Edition
By Robert Schehr
January 29, 2024
Convictions Without Truth sets out to determine whether and to what extent science and law may coexist in an institutional relationship that truthfully generates individualization through application of forensic testimony for charges relating to violations of criminal law. In the first two ...
Interviewing of Suspects with Mental Health Conditions and Disorders in England and Wales: A Paradigm Shift
1st Edition
By Laura Farrugia
January 29, 2024
Interviewing of Suspects with Mental Health Conditions and Disorders in England and Wales explores cutting-edge research that focuses specifically on these adults (including their cognitive needs and psychological vulnerabilities), the impact on the investigative interview, and existing legislation...
Responses to Serious Offending by Children: Principles, Practice and Global Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Nessa Lynch, Yannick van den Brink, Louise Forde
January 29, 2024
This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally. Divided into four parts, the book provides a balance of theoretical and empirical insights. Anchored in a theoretical framework based on the human rights of...