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1. Young Adult Offenders

   Lost in Transition?

   Edited by Friedrich Lösel, Anthony Bottoms, David P. Farrington

   Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

   This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system. The subject is very topical because there is increasing evidence that a rigid distinction between ‘youth’ and ‘adulthood’ is not appropriate in modern societies....

   Published May 27th 2012 by Willan
2. Hearing the Victim

   Adversarial Justice, Crime Victims and the State

   Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Julian Roberts

   Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

   In recent years far more attention has been paid to victims of crime both in terms of awareness of the effect of crime upon their lives, and in changes that have been made to the criminal justice system to improve their rights and treatment. This process seems set to continue, with legislative...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice

   Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Michael Tonry

   Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

   In this book six leading criminologists address the central issues of ideology, crime and criminal justice in a series of essays originally presented at a symposium held in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz in Cambridge in March 2001. This book is concerned with the key themes of the history of...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. Alternatives to Prison

   Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Sue Rex, Gwen Robinson

   As the UK and many other western societies face up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population, so the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders has become an increasingly urgent priority for government policy and society as a whole. This book...

   Published October 31st 2004 by Willan
5. Community Penalties

   Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Sue Rex

   Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

   Community penalties are punishments that, in the courts' sentencing tariff, come between imprisonment and fines. They include electronic tagging, supervised unpaid work, and compulsory participation by offenders in treatment programmes.Recent years have seen many changes in England in the field of...

   Published June 30th 2002 by Willan