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.
The Role of Community in Restorative Justice
1st Edition
By Fernanda Rosenblatt
November 07, 2016
Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice. While advocates have presented the community as an essential pillar of restorative ...
Working within the Forensic Paradigm: Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosemary Sheehan, James Ogloff
November 07, 2016
Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability and addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault ...
Long-Term Imprisonment and Human Rights
1st Edition
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By Kirstin Drenkhahn, Manuela Dudeck, Frieder Dünkel
March 03, 2016
Prisons and imprisonment have become a commonplace topic in popular culture as the setting and rationale for fiction and documentaries and most people seem to have a clear notion of what it is like in prison, ranging from the idea of the prison cell as a cosy nook with fast internet access to that ...
Policing in Taiwan: From authoritarianism to democracy
1st Edition
By Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang, Ivan Y. Sun
March 03, 2016
The police in Taiwan played a critical role in the largely peaceful transition from an authoritarian regime to a democracy. While the temptation to intervene in domestic politics was great, the top-down pressure to maintain a neutral standing facilitated an orderly regime change. This is the first ...
Reparation for Victims of Crimes against Humanity: The healing role of reparation
1st Edition
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By Jo-Anne Wemmers
March 03, 2016
Each year, countless people fall victim to crimes against humanity. These include widespread occurrences of systematic murder, torture, rape, disappearances, forced deportation and political persecution. Crimes against humanity constitute an attack on human dignity and as such they violate the ...
Transforming Criminal Justice?: Problem-Solving and Court Specialisation
1st Edition
By Jane Donoghue
March 03, 2016
Why is punishment not more effective? Why do we have such high re-offending rates? How can we deal with crime and criminals in a more cost-effective way? Over the last decade in particular, the United Kingdom, in common with other jurisdictions such as Canada, the United States (US) and Australia, ...
Perceptions of Criminal Justice
1st Edition
By Vicky De Mesmaecker
September 03, 2015
In recent decades, research into the legitimacy of criminal justice has convincingly demonstrated the importance of procedural justice to citizens’ sense of trust and confidence in legal authorities and their resulting willingness to conform to the law and cooperate with the legal authorities. ...
International Perspectives on Police Education and Training
1st Edition
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By Perry Stanislas
June 08, 2015
Training and education constitutes the backbone of a significant amount of police activity and expenditure in developing the most important resources involved in policing work. It also involves an array of actors and agencies, such as educational institutions which have a long and important ...
Restorative Justice in Transition
1st Edition
By Kerry Clamp
June 08, 2015
This book explores how restorative justice is used and what its potential benefits are in situations where the state has been either explicitly or implicitly involved in human rights abuses. Restorative justice is increasingly becoming a popular mechanism to respond to crime in democratic settings ...
Understanding Penal Practice
1st Edition
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By Ioan Durnescu, Fergus McNeill
June 08, 2015
Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change – and how and why these changes differ in different contexts. Important though these analyses are, this book focuses not so much on the changing nature of institutions ...
Epidemiological Criminology: Theory to Practice
1st Edition
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By Eve Waltermaurer, Timothy Akers
January 26, 2015
Epidemiological criminology is an emerging paradigm which explores the public health outcomes associated with engagement in crime and criminal justice. This book engages with this new theory and practice-based discipline drawing on knowledge from criminology, criminal justice, public health, ...
Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in a 21st Century World
1st Edition
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By Randy Lippert, Kevin Walby
January 26, 2015
Policing Cities brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world’s major cities, including New York, Beijing, Paris, London, ...