Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing. This book argues that national and international governing arrangements are being outflanked by various transnational threats, including the cross-border terrorism of the attacks on Paris in 2015 and Brussels in 2016; trafficking in people, narcotics and armaments; cybercrime; the deregulation of global financial services; and environmental crime.

Metropolises are the focal points of the transnational networks through which policing problems are exported and...

In the UK and elsewhere, restorative justice and policing are core components of a range of university programmes; however, currently no such text exists on the intersection of these two areas of study. This book draws together these diverse theoretical perspectives to provide an innovative, knowledge-rich text that is essential reading for all those engaged with the evolution and practice of restorative policing.

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Restorative Policing" surveys the twenty-five year history of restorative policing practice, during which its use and influence over criminal justice has slowly grown. It...

Correctional policies for Islamist violent extremist offenders are often based on the premise that prisons can be hotbeds of radicalization. The perception that inmates are susceptible to violent extremist belief systems has given rise to a fervent international public, political, and scholarly debate and has led to the introduction of drastic, often expensive policies to counter the threat of prison radicalization. But is the introduction of these policies justified?

A key question is whether violent extremist offenders should be concentrated in separate high-security prisons, or...

This book makes the case for an anthropological approach to the study of policing. Even beyond the methodological particularities and geographic breadth of cultural anthropology, there are a set of conceptual and analytical traditions that have much to contribute to broader scholarship in police studies.

Including original and international contributions from both senior and emerging scholars, this pioneering book represents a foundational document for a burgeoning field of study: the anthropology of police. As such, it highlights the particular challenges as well as...

In a contemporary setting of increasing social division and marginalisation, Policing Hate Crime interrogates the complexities of prejudice motivated crime and effective policing practices. Hate crime has become a barometer for contemporary police relations with vulnerable and marginalised communities. But how do police effectively lead conversations with such communities about problems arising from prejudice?

Contemporary police are expected to be active agents in the pursuit of social justice and human rights by stamping out prejudice and group-based animosity. At the same time,...

There is a traditional view that prisons are being filled with vulnerable inmates who form captive audiences for violent terrorist offenders who, in turn, are destined to turn prisons into training grounds for militant activities, all the while forming alliances with more hardened criminals to produce an even greater threat. Typically, there is limited empirical grounding underpinning these assertions.

This book challenges existing perceptions about prison radicalisation. While not downplaying the seriousness of the prison radicalisation threat, it seeks a more balanced interpretation...

Sweeping changes are being introduced into the lower-tier magistrates courts in England and Wales in efforts to modernise the system and speed up case processing. They concentrate on delivering prompt justice within a modern, efficient and technologically advanced system. But these transformations are fundamentally changing the way justice is delivered. This book analyses criminal court streamlining processes and argues that there are areas where due process protections are being undermined.

Transforming Summary Justice reports empirical research carried out with lay...

Restorative justice is increasingly being applied to settings characterized by large-scale violence and human rights abuses. While many embrace this development as an important step in attempts to transform protracted conflict, there are a number of conceptual challenges in transporting restorative justice from a democratic setting to one which has been affected by mass victimisation or civil war. These include responding to the seriousness and scale of harms that have been caused, the blurred boundaries between victims and offenders, and the difficulties associated with holding someone to...

To what extent is restorative justice able to restore the harm suffered by victims of crimes of interpersonal violence? To answer this question, Daniela Bolivar Fernandez draws on literature from criminology, victimology and psychology and examines the effectiveness of restorative justice in terms of emotional restoration, rather than victim satisfaction.
Drawing on original research, Bolivar Fernandez examines the victim restoration process from a psycho-social perspective. It offers an integrative, comprehensive and in-depth analysis of victims experiences of restorative justice."

The notion of crime is frequently used to justify military interventions. Thus military operations are reconstructed as a way of stopping crime and human rights violations and international punishment as a state practice. This book analyses the increasing overlap of criminology and international relations and explores the current use of military technology to control crime and human rights violations in the international sphere.
Drawing on the criminology of punishment, international relations theory and international law, this book examines the emergence of a system of international...