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.
Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men: (Re)education
1st Edition
By Helen Nichols
September 26, 2022
Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men explores how adult male prisoners interpret and give value to their experiences of education, presenting an opportunity to consider how education can be beneficial to prisoners including and beyond the enhancement of employability skills. ...
Predictive Policing and Artificial Intelligence
1st Edition
Edited
By John McDaniel, Ken Pease
August 29, 2022
This edited text draws together the insights of numerous worldwide eminent academics to evaluate the condition of predictive policing and artificial intelligence (AI) as interlocked policy areas. Predictive and AI technologies are growing in prominence and at an unprecedented rate. Powerful digital...
Policing and Mental Health: Theory, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By John McDaniel, Kate Moss, Ken Pease
June 13, 2022
This book explores the relationship between policing and mental health. Police services around the world are innovating at pace in order to develop solutions to the problems presented, and popular models are being shared internationally. Nevertheless, disparities and perceptions of unfairness ...
The Making of a Police Officer: Comparative Perspectives on Police Education and Recruitment
1st Edition
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By Tore Bjørgo, Marie-Louise Damen
June 13, 2022
Does a more academic type of police education produce new police officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets? What is the impact of gender diversity and political orientation on a police students’ career aspirations and attitudes to policing? These are some of the questions addressed by this ...
Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology
1st Edition
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By Jake Phillips, Jaime Waters, Chalen Westaby, Andrew Fowler
April 29, 2022
This book is the first volume to explore criminal justice work and criminological research through the lens of emotional labour. A concept first coined 30 years ago, emotional labour seeks to explore the ways in which people manage their emotions in order to achieve the aims of their organisations,...
Life Without Parole: Worse Than Death?
1st Edition
By Ross Kleinstuber, Jeremiah Coldsmith, Margaret Leigey, Sandra Joy
April 15, 2022
This book is an in-depth critical examination of all pertinent aspects of life without parole (LWOP). Empirically assessing key arguments that advance LWOP, including as an alternative to the death penalty, it reveals that not only is the punishment cruel while not providing any societal benefits, ...
Police Integrity in South Africa
1st Edition
By Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, Adri Sauerman
December 13, 2021
Policing in South Africa has gained notoriety through its extensive history of oppressive law enforcement. In 1994, as the country’s apartheid system was replaced with a democratic order, the new government faced the significant challenge of transforming the South African police force ...
'Crossover' Children in the Youth Justice and Child Protection Systems
1st Edition
By Susan Baidawi, Rosemary Sheehan
September 30, 2021
"Crossover" Children in the Youth Justice and Child Protection Systems explores the outcomes faced by the group of children who experience involvement with both child protection and youth justice systems across several countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and...
Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence: An Integrated Social Control-Opportunity Perspective
1st Edition
By Benjamin Steiner, John Wooldredge
August 02, 2021
Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.Prison violence is not a random process; rates of violence vary across prisons and the odds of ...
Critical Reflections on Evidence-Based Policing
1st Edition
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By Nigel Fielding, Karen Bullock, Simon Holdaway
June 30, 2021
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has over the last decade made an increasing mark in several fields, notably health and medicine, education and social welfare. In recent years it has begun to make its mark in criminal justice. As engagement with EBP has spread, it has begun to evolve from what might ...
The Development of Transnational Policing: Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
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By John McDaniel, Karlie Stonard, David Cox
June 30, 2021
This book draws together the insights of eminent academics and specialists to present an overview of past and present approaches to transnational policing throughout the Anglophone world. It aims to revitalize the study of transnational policing by showing that past and present ...
Violence Against Children in the Criminal Justice System: Global Perspectives on Prevention
1st Edition
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By Wendy O'Brien, Cédric Foussard
June 30, 2021
Children who come into conflict with the law are more likely to have experienced violence or adversity than their non-offending peers. Exacerbating the deleterious effects of this childhood trauma, children’s contact with the criminal justice system poses undue risks of physical, sexual, and ...