This work provides an empirically grounded, theoretically informed account of changes to the youth justice system in England and Wales, focusing on the introduction of elements of restorative justice into the heart of the system.

This work provides an empirically grounded, theoretically informed account of recent changes to the youth justice system in England and Wales, focusing on the introduction of elements of restorative justice into the heart of the system.

The development of ideas and policy on the control of crime has become an increasingly international affair, necessarily so as crime increasingly crosses national boundaries and as international cooperation in the form of police cooperation, international treaties, protocols and conventions takes firmer shape. Much less well understood, however, is the process whereby ideas about crime control developed in one context are transferred into different countries or regions, and in doing so are then shaped, naturalised and changed in their new context. process of policy transfer and reception. How...

Policing has developed as an increasingly important and popular subject of study at colleges and universities in western societies, either as a subject in its own right or as part of broader courses in the field of criminology and criminal justice. At the same time police forces themselves have become increasingly professionalized and engaged with academic and theoretical debates on the nature of policing. Both students and practitioners have needed ready access to the growing body of literature and writing on policing. There now exists a body of work much of it North American, some of it...