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.
Criminal Justice and Regulation Revisited: Essays in Honour of Peter Grabosky
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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
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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
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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...
Police Corruption in Comparative Perspective: Building Trust in the Police in India and China
1st Edition
By George Chak Man Lee
March 31, 2021
How has rapid economic modernization in China and India impacted upon policing? To what extent are the two police forces trusted by its citizens? Do the police carry out their duties in a fair and unbiased fashion? What does police corruption look like and why does it persist? And what are the ...
Prisoner Resettlement in Europe
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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 ...
Privatising Punishment in Europe?
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By Tom Daems, Tom Vander Beken
March 31, 2021
In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms. Across Europe, there has been a growth in various forms of public-private cooperation in building and maintaining (new) penal institutions and an increasing presence of private ...
The Anthropology of Police
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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
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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 ...
Inmate Radicalisation and Recruitment in Prisons
1st Edition
By Clarke Jones, Raymund Narag
September 30, 2020
It is traditionally viewed that vulnerable inmates form captive audiences for violent terrorist offenders who, in turn, are destined to turn prisons into training grounds for militant activities; all the while forming alliances with more hardened criminals to produce an even greater threat. However...
Police Powers and Citizens’ Rights: Discretionary Decision-Making in Police Detention
1st Edition
By Layla Skinns
September 30, 2020
Police detention is the place where suspects are taken whilst their case is investigated and a case disposal decision is reached. It is also a largely hidden, but vital, part of police work and an under-explored aspect of police studies. This book provides a much-needed comparative perspective on ...
Restoring Harm: A Psychosocial Approach to Victims and Restorative Justice
1st Edition
By Daniela Bolívar
September 30, 2020
To what extent is restorative justice able to ‘restore’ the harm suffered by victims of crimes of interpersonal violence? Restorative justice is an innovative, participatory and inclusive reaction to crime that permits victims and offenders to engage in a communication process about the ...