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.
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 ...
Criminal Justice and Regulation Revisited: Essays in Honour of Peter Grabosky
1st Edition
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By Lennon Y.C. Chang, Russell Brewer
March 31, 2021
This volume brings together leading researchers to celebrate the significant contributions of Peter Grabosky to the field of Criminology, and in particular his work developing and adapting regulatory theory to the study of policing and security. Over the past three decades, his ...
Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions: Law, Medicine and Society
1st Edition
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By Claire Spivakovsky, Kate Seear, Adrian Carter
March 31, 2021
Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others. These interventions can ...
Monitoring Penal Policy in Europe
1st Edition
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By Gaëtan Cliquennois, Hugues de Suremain
March 31, 2021
The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies. This is particularly the case for prisons and other penal institutions, as international bodies and the courts have tried to influence prison policies...
Prisoner Resettlement in Europe
1st Edition
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By Frieder Dünkel, Ineke Pruin, Anette Storgaard, Jonas Weber
March 31, 2021
Questions regarding how to improve the transitional phase from prison to life in society after release have gained major importance in the last decade in criminal policy. All over the world release preparation and resettlement practice are discussed with the aim to reduce negative effects of ...
The Anthropology of Police
1st Edition
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By Kevin Karpiak, William Garriott
March 31, 2021
What are the potential contributions of anthropology to the study of police? Even beyond the methodological particularities and geographic breadth of cultural anthropology, there are a set of conceptual and analytical traditions that have much to bring to broader scholarship in police studies. ...
The Enforcement of Offender Supervision in Europe: Understanding Breach Processes
1st Edition
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By Miranda Boone, Niamh Maguire
March 31, 2021
This book provides a comparative analysis of the process of breach across ten different European jurisdictions by identifying and elaborating a number of key analytical themes through which the different systems can be compared and evaluated. It is informed by and hopes to advance the research...
The Pixelated Prisoner: Prison Video Links, Court ‘Appearance’ and the Justice Matrix
1st Edition
By Carolyn McKay
March 31, 2021
Technological linkages between justice and law enforcement agencies are radically altering criminal process and access to justice for prisoners. Video links, integral to an increasingly networked justice matrix, enable the custodial appearance of prisoners in remote courts and are becoming the ...
Restorative Responses to Sexual Violence: Legal, Social and Therapeutic Dimensions
1st Edition
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By Estelle Zinsstag, Marie Keenan
March 05, 2019
Sexual violence, in all its forms, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports suggest victims in their great majority do not receive adequate ‘justice’ or redress. The theory and practice of restorative justice is rapidly developing and offers some well-argued new avenues for ...
Stop and Search and Police Legitimacy
1st Edition
By Ben Bradford
March 05, 2019
‘Stop and search’ is a form of police-citizen interaction that is confrontational, often stressful for those involved, and potentially damaging to the relationship between police and public. The extent to which police officers use their power to stop and perhaps search members of the public is ...
Young Offenders and Open Custody
1st Edition
By Tove Pettersson
March 05, 2019
Young offenders given custodial sentences in youth institutions constitute an important group in the context of crime prevention research, given that offenders within this group are at high risk of reoffending or continuing with a criminal career into adulthood. This book explores the significance ...
Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe
1st Edition
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By Brunilda Pali, Ivo Aertsen
February 14, 2019
The intercultural contexts and new configurations in Europe offer fertile ground for social conflict, tensions and threat. This book challenges predominant and fear inducing approaches of justice and security as they appear in intercultural contexts, and develops alternative understandings by ...