This a book about policing styles in the broadest sense, looking at zero tolerance policing at one extreme and softer approaches to policing at the other. On the one hand there has been clear popular support for zero policing strategies, whilst proponents of softer approaches to policing have argued that there has been little evidence that such initiatives do actually in themselves reduce crime, and risk generating social unrest.

This a book about policing styles in the broadest sense, looking at zero tolerance policing at one extreme and softer approaches to policing at the other. On the one hand there has been clear popular support for zero policing strategies, whilst proponents of softer approaches to policing have argued that there has been little evidence that such initiatives do actually in themselves reduce crime, and risk generating social unrest.

Criminal Justice Theory examines the theoretical foundations of criminal justice in the modern era, whilst also considering legal philosophy and ethics, explaining criminal behaviour, and discussing policing, the court process, and penology in the context of contemporary socio-economic debates.

Throughout the book, a realist theoretical thread acts as a guide interlinking concepts of social progress, conflict, and cerebral models of criminal justice, whilst also recognizing our collusion in the creation of an increasingly pervasive culture of socio-control which now...