Criminal Justice Books

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41. New Directions in Criminological Theory

    Edited by Steve Hall, Simon Winlow

    This edited collection brings together established global scholars and new thinkers to outline fresh concepts and theoretical perspectives for criminological research and analysis in the 21st century. Criminologists from the UK, USA, Canada and Australia evaluate the current condition of...

    Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
42. 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
43. Crime Control and Community

    Edited by Gordon Hughes, Adam Edwards

    Community-based crime control has become one of the principal policy responses to crime and disorder across western societies, and is regarded now as one of the keys to successful crime prevention and reduction. The aim of this book is to bring together findings from case studies of community-based...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
44. Criminal Behaviour in Context

    Space, Place and Desistance from Crime

    By Nick Flynn

    Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

    This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance – 'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' – is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific. Grounded in criminological spatial analysis, as well as more general...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
45. 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
46. 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
47. Police Custody

    Governance, Legitimacy and Reform in the Criminal Justice Process

    By Layla Skinns

    Police custody acts as an important gateway to the criminal justice process. Much is at stake here for both staff and suspects as what happens in police custody can have important consequences further down the line. This book offers a timely contribution to research on police custody, which has...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
48. Prison Governors

    By Shane Bryans

    This book provides the first systematic study of prison governors, a hidden and powerful, but much neglected, group of criminal justice practitioners. Its focus is on how they carry out their task, how that has changed over time and how their role has evolved. The author, himself a former prison...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
49. Protecting the Public?

    Executive Discretion and the Release of Mentally Disordered Offenders

    By Tessa Boyd-Caine

    The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an important aspect of criminal justice in many areas. Protecting the Public? explores the tension...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
50. Release from Prison

    European Policy and Practice

    Edited by Nicola Padfield, Dirk Van Zyl Smit, Frieder Dünkel

    Release from prison is matter of increasing interest throughout Europe. On the one hand, arguments about the need to reduce prison numbers, as well the consistent findings that prisoners can be integrated into society more effectively if they are subject to a period of supervision in the community,...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge