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Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

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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.

118 Series Titles


Policing Rape The Way Forward

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 ...

Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending

Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending

1st Edition

Edited By Ian Mahoney, Rahmanara Chowdhury
June 07, 2024

Offering a range of theoretical and conceptual ideas as well as practical examples, this book provides a detailed insight into holistic opportunities for promoting desistance, reducing reoffending, and supporting (re)settlement and (re)integration. Providing a fresh lens through which to view ...

The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia 'Preparing myself for Prison' in a Contested Human Rights Landscape

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

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

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

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

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

Responses to Serious Offending by Children: Principles, Practice and Global Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited 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...

The Impact of Covid-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy

The Impact of Covid-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy

1st Edition

Edited By Frieder Dünkel, Stefan Harrendorf, Dirk van Zyl Smit
January 29, 2024

The Impact of COVID-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy presents the results of a worldwide exchange of information on the impact of COVID-19 in prisons. It also focuses on the human rights questions that have been raised during the pandemic, relating to the treatment of prisoners in...

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law

1st Edition

By Brianna Chesser, Nadia David, April Zahra
September 25, 2023

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law examines the inconsistencies in the definitions of consent in sexual encounters by examining emerging sex crimes alongside changing community values and the changing legal definitions of consent in sexual offending, focusing on ...

Policing and Boundaries in a Violent Society A South African Case Study

Policing and Boundaries in a Violent Society: A South African Case Study

1st Edition

By Guy Lamb
September 25, 2023

This book explores how social and territorial boundaries have influenced the approaches and practices of the South Africa Police Service (SAPS). By means of a historical analysis of South Africa, this book introduces a new concept, ‘police frontierism’, which illuminates the nature of the ...

Professionalism in Probation Making Sense of Marketisation

Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation

1st Edition

By Matt Tidmarsh
September 25, 2023

This book explores probation staff understandings of professionalism in the aftermath of the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms to services in England and Wales. Drawing on the sociology of the professions, this book offers an original and timely contribution to the criminal justice ...

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