Criminal Justice (2nd edn)
Published in Print: 25 July 2013 Published Online:June 2014
ISBN: 9780199694969
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Abstract
Criminal Justice provides a thought-provoking and critical introduction to the challenges faced by the UK's criminal justice system, including policing, sentencing, and punishment at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Expert contributors, including criminologists and lawyers, provide students with a critical introduction to issues, institutions, and agencies that shape the operation of the criminal justice system. The book provides students from a range of disciplines including criminology, law, sociology, psychology, and social policy with knowledge and understanding of the key areas of the subject and an appreciation of contemporary debates, policies, and perspectives. Each chapter features questions, summaries, tables, diagrams, annotated further reading, and weblinks to ensure the book is as accessible and engaging as possible, and provides clear guidance on further study. An illuminating glossary of key terms is also included. In this second edition: all chapters have been completely revised and updated; a new chapter has been included on the policy landscape of criminal justice; additional material has been incorporated into two chapters on the police and policing; and a new chapter on the criminal courts has been included, as have additional chapters on innovative aspects of criminal justice, and science and psychology in criminal justice. This title is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre containing an online version of the glossary of key terms and annotated web links.
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Contents
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- 1. Criminal justice: the policy landscape Loraine Gelsthorpe
- 2. The police Michael Rowe
- 3. Policing: context and practice Graham Ellison
- 4. The prosecution process Anthea Hucklesby
- 5. Courts and the trial process Steven Cammiss
- 6. Justifications of punishment and questions of penal legitimacy David Scott
- 7. Sentencing Gavin Dingwall
- 8. Community sentences George Mair
- 9. The prison enterprise Azrini Wahidin
- 10. Victims in the criminal justice process Matthew Hall
- 11. Youth justice Anna Souhami
- 12. Gender and criminal justice Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor
- 13. Racism and ethnicity in the criminal justice process Alpa Parmar
- 14. Psychology and criminal justice Joanna Adler
- 15. Forensic science and criminal justice Paul Roberts
- End Matter
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