The growth of technology allows us to imagine entirely new ways of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts, victims and citizens. Technology offers not only new tools for committing and fighting crime, but new ways to look for, unveil, label crimes and new ways to know, watch, prosecute and punish criminals. This book attempts to disentangle the realities, the myths, the politics, the theories and the practices of our new, technology-assisted, era of crime and policing.
Technocrime, policing and surveillance explores new areas...
The growth of technology allows us to imagine entirely new ways of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts,...
Justice Reinvestment is a major movement in criminal justice reform in the US and is attracting lots of interest in the UK from both sides of the political spectrum. It is an approach to addressing the penal crisis that looks in detail at the causes of offending that result in offenders ending up in custody. In particular, it examines the factors that result in a disproportionate number of offenders coming from certain communities and neighbourhoods and looks to develop more holistic approaches to reducing offending and re-offending that address the totality of an offender career.
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Justice Reinvestment is a major movement in criminal justice reform in the US and is attracting lots of interest in the UK from both sides of the p...
Epidemiological criminology is an emerging paradigm which explores the public health outcomes associated with engagement in crime and criminal justice. This book engages with this new theory and practice-based discipline drawing on knowledge from criminology, criminal justice, public health, epidemiology, public policy, and law to illustrate how the merging of epidemiology into the field of criminology allows for the work of both disciplines to be more interdisciplinary, evidence-based, enriched and expansive.
This book brings together an innovative group of exemplary researchers and...
Epidemiological criminology is an emerging paradigm which explores the public health outcomes associated with engagement in crime and criminal just...
Drawing on the international literature and empirical research from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, this book examines the influence of legislative, organizational, policy and practice issues in shaping what constitutes compliance and how non-compliance is responded to when supervising young offenders in the community.
Drawing on the international literature and empirical research from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, this book examines the influence of ...
Since democracies are relatively new in Eastern Europe and little has been written, much can be learned from looking at the distinctive developments in both legal transitions and the process of criminalization.
This book brings together recent work from researchers and academics engaged in theory, policy and practice, and offers a significant contribution to the study of transition in the fields of criminology, law, philosophy and political science and a critical analysis of future directions in criminalisation in the emerging democratic states of Eastern Europe.
Since democracies are relatively new in Eastern Europe and little has been written, much can be learned from looking at the distinctive development...
Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspectives on women's imprisonment. Instead of covering only one aspect of women's carceral experiences, this book offers a broader perspective that encompasses women's pathways to prison, their prison experiences and the effects of these experiences on their children's well-being, as well as their subsequent chances of desisting from crime.
Encompassing perspectives from theNetherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Scotland, the...
Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-c...
The question of 'what works' in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years. One of the primary ways the criminal justice system tries to reduce the rates of recidivism among offenders is through the use of cognitive behavioural programs (CBP) as in-prison intervention strategies. The emphasis for these programs is on the idea that inmates are in prison because they made poor choices and bad decisions. Inmates' thinking is characterized as flawed and the purpose of the program is to teach them to think and act in...
The question of 'what works' in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years. ...
This text challenges the contention that improved regimes and provisions within the criminal justice system are capable of addressing human rights concerns and the needs of the criminalized woman.
This text challenges the contention that improved regimes and provisions within the criminal justice system are capable of addressing human rights con...
Low confidence in the police and the increasing crime rates during the 1990s led to a series of government initiatives directed at changing both the structure and management of the police service. In 2006 in an attempt to define what a principled police service should resemble, the Home Office Minister, Hazel Blears, announced the development of new Code of Professional Standards for the police service, informed by the Taylor Review of 2005. While there has been a growing awareness of the role of Professional Standards within law enforcement activity, to date there has been little...
Low confidence in the police and the increasing crime rates during the 1990s led to a series of government initiatives directed at changing both th...
