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1. Contrasts in Punishment

   An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism

   By John Pratt, Anna Eriksson

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia,...

   Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Women, Punishment and Social Justice

   Human Rights and Penal Practices

   Edited by Margaret Malloch, Gill McIvor

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women. To reduce the number of women imprisoned, a range of policy initiatives have been developed to increase the...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. Handbook of Policing, Ethics and Professional Standards

   Edited by Allyson MacVean, Peter Spindler

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   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...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Youth Justice in Context

   Community, Compliance and Young People

   By Mairéad Seymour

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   Youth Justice in Context 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. It also addresses the impact of adolescent developmental...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Building Justice in Post-Transition Europe?

   Processes of Criminalisation within Central and Eastern European Societies

   Edited by Kay Goodall, Margaret Malloch, Bill Munro

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   After the collapse of the Berlin wall in 1989 and disintegration of the Soviet Union, scholars focused on the problems of legal transitions within the newly emerging democracies. Two decades on, these states are in ‘post-transition’ conditions; having undergone and continuing to experience...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. Technocrime: Policing and Surveillance

   Edited by Stéphane Leman-Langlois

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   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...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?

   Theory, Policy and Practice Explored

   Edited by Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe, John Deering

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially ‘other’ to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending...

   Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge