Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice

ISBN-13: 9780415627719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012

Anthony Bottoms; Michael Tonry

Opis

In this title six leading criminologists address the issues of ideology, crime and criminal justice. They concentrate on three themes: the history of criminal justice, history and development of criminological thought and criminal justice policy.

Spis treści

Sir Leon Radzinowicz: an appreciation.  Recollections of Sir Leon Radzinowicz  Part 1: Theory 1. Ideology and crime − a further chapter  2. Morality, crime, compliance and public policy  Part 2: History  3. Gentlemen convicts, dynamitards and paramilitaries: the limits of criminal justice  4. The English police: a unique development?  Part 3: Prisons  5. A 'liberal regime within a secure perimeter'?: dispersal prisons and penal practice in the late twentieth century  Part 4: Policy  6. Criminology and penal policy: the vital role of empirical research.  Sir Leon Radzinowicz: a bibliography

O autorze

Anthony Bottoms is Professor Emeritus of Criminology at the University of Sheffield, and was Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University until 2006.