Criminal justice law

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur.

Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice.

Though many more women offenders are supervised in the community than in custody, much less is known about their needs and effective approaches to their supervision, support and treatment.

The New Phase of Global Terrorism explores the nuances of the shift in the organization, strategy, and operation of terrorist groups into smaller and more robust terror groups in both the United States and international levels.

The volume of studies into desistance has grown dramatically in recent years.

This book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice.

Working with Violent Men gives a detailed insight into working with men who have been violent towards intimate partners.

This book brings together Foucault's writings on crime and delinquency, on the one hand, and sexuality, on the other, to argue for an anti-carceral feminist Foucauldian approach to sex crimes.

Crime in England 1688-1815 covers the 'long' eighteenth century, a period which saw huge and far-reaching changes in criminal justice history.

This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines.

This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focusing on youth gang activity.

The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies traces the growth of an important interdisciplinary field, its foundations, key debates and core concerns, as well as highlighting current and emerging issues and approaches and pointing to new directions for enquiry.

In the early 1980s, the question of how far the police should be accountable for their actions had become extremely vexed.

Effective Threat Management: A Primer presents the ABCs for identifying, assessing, and managing potentially violent individuals.

The presumption of innocence is universally recognized as a fundamental human right and a core principle in the administration of criminal justice.

This book offers an assessment of Barbara Wootton's legacy as a pioneering public criminologist.

This updated tenth edition covers all aspects of prisoners' rights, including an overview of the judicial system and constitutional law and explanation of specific constitutional issues regarding correctional populations.

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

The Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research unites 45 contributions from researchers, sex workers, activists, and practitioners who live and work in 28 countries throughout the world.

As the threats posed by organised crime and terrorism persist, law enforcement authorities remain under pressure to suppress the movement, or flows, of people and objects that are deemed dangerous.

This book provides a much-needed focus on the victimization experiences of those within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA) communities.

This book addresses the criminalisation of sexually explicit material depicting or describing fictitious characters who appear to be children.

John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective.

Many liberals consider CCTV surveillance in public places - particularly when it is as extensive as it is in England - to be an infringement of important privacy-based rights.

This book offers a comprehensive and integrative introduction to cybercrime.

This book provides a detailed exploration of the responses of the criminal justice system to domestic abuse in Northern Ireland.

Building on her leading research in creative methodology, in this book Wendy Fitzgibbon explores and illustrates how Photovoice, a participatory, active research tool, can enable new insights and engagement with both marginalised people and those working with them in the criminal justice system.

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and England.

Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors is a wide-ranging and timely critical history and analysis of legal responses to 'historical' or 'non-recent' child sexual abuse (NRCSA) in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia, each of which represents an evolving and progressive approach to this important and complex issue.

En el escenario de la dogmatica penal, a principios de este siglo, a ejemplo de lo que ocurrio durante todo el siglo pasado, hemos asistido a la propagacion de diversas teorias sobre la imputacion en el Derecho penal, en una especie de guerra de doctrinas que muchas veces se olvidan antes de comprenderlas, como las interminables disputas entre los defensores de las teorias volitivistas y los de las teorias cognitivistas, y aqui, no cabe remision a ninguna de ellas, sino tan solo registrar el conocido embate doctrinario.

Originally published in 1974 and the recipient of the Denis Carroll Book Prize at the World Congress of the International Criminology Society in 1978, Thomas Mathiesen's The Politics of Abolition is a landmark text in critical criminology.

Continuing previous work exploring why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated in the community, Criminal Careers in Transition: The Social Context of Desistance from Crime follows the completion of a fifth sweep of interviews with members of a cohort of former probationers interviewed since the late-1990s.

This book presents a varied and critical picture of how the Arab Spring demands a re-examination and re-conceptualization of issues of transitional justice.

Governing through Globalised Crime provides an analysis of the impact of globalisation of crime on the governance capacity of the international criminal justice system.

Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in Criminal Justice and Corrections is the first volume to bring together leading figures from the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Belgium to explore key methodological approaches and issues through the lens of the researchers themselves.

First published in 1962, Capital Punishment and British Politics illuminates the process of political decision-making in Britain by analysing the complex activities that led to the passage of a major piece of social legislation, the Homicide Act of 1957.

How is social media changing contemporary understandings of crime and injustice, and what contribution can it make to justice-seeking?

Women in India constitute nearly half of its population of over a billion people, and this book is a rigorous social scientific examination of the issue of violence against women in India.

A new account of the rise, persistence, and potential fall of mass incarceration – from a criminal justice insider.

Volume II of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales traces, for the first time, the genesis and early evolution of two principal institutions in the criminal justice system, the Crown Court and the Crown Prosecution Service.

This collection looks at the protection of victims' rights in EU law.

A shocking exploration of Americas preferred method of capital punishment.

This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment.

The relationship between offender and criminal justice practitioner has shifted throughout rehabilitative history, whether situated within psychological interventions, prison or probation.

This book traces the rise of contemporary populism in Western democracies, marked by the return of would-be 'strong men' politicians.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Norwegian Correctional Service and the values and principles underlying its operations, using the renowned Halden Prison as a case study.

The field of transitional justice has expanded rapidly since the term first emerged in the late 1990s.

Analyzing what is known about violence against women, this book centers on the contrast between the U.

This book elaborates a new framework for considering and understanding the relationship between law and memory.

Thousands of intact ceramic bowls and plates as well as fragments made in the medieval Byzantine empire survive to this day.