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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Collaboration and Innovation in Criminal Justice: An Activity Theory Alternative to Offender Rehabilitation
1st Edition
By Paulo Rocha
May 31, 2023
Drawing on original research on community-based alternatives to offender rehabilitation, this book provides an up-to-date depiction of the challenges faced by front-line workers at the interface between criminal justice and welfare systems striving to address needs and provide multifaceted ...
Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control: Social, Cultural and Political Perspectives
1st Edition
By Helena Machado, Rafaela Granja
May 31, 2023
Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control presents a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding trends of genetic surveillance in different countries in Europe and in other jurisdictions around the world. The use of DNA or genome for state-level surveillance for crime governance is ...
Policing Child Sexual Abuse: Failure, Corruption and Reform in Queensland
1st Edition
By Paul Bleakley
May 31, 2023
Policing Child Sexual Abuse provides a historical overview of the evolution of policing child sexual abuse in Queensland, tracing a legacy of failure (even corruption) in the decades leading up to the foundation of Task Force Argos, a branch of the Queensland Police Service created in part as a ...