This text presses the case for better health care of mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment. With specialist contributors from criminology, criminal justice, social work, probation practice and the law, the book stresses the importance of professional cooperation in community-based services, whilst acknowledging the psychologically demanding nature of working with mentally disordered people. The text also looks at the very real challenges of attempting to contain their wrongdoing without recourse to the repressiveness of imprisonment.

This text argues that nation-state based analyses of political corruption no longer suffice in a world of globalized finance and international organized crime. Nor can political corruption be understood as something largely outside of the political process - a series of scandals to be dealt with by exposing and punishing miscreant individuals. Rather it involves the extension of many of the normal processes of day-to-day politics into illegitimate and unacceptable areas of activity. So focusing solely on flamboyant individual villains like Duvalier, Mobutu, Soeharto or Marcos is actually a...

This book, combining scholarship with readability, shows that political corruption must itself be analysed politically. Spectacularly corrupt politicians - the exception rather than the rule - are usually symptoms, not causes, and much political corruption is simply normal politics taken to excess. But in a world in which anti-corruption strategies themselves are often thinly disguised examples of political corruption, the ways in which political systems address their own corruption are as varied and fascinating in character as crucial to comprehend.
A valuable read for anyone studying...