Criminal Justice Books

New and Published Books

1. Gender, Violence, and Law

   By Melanie Randall

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   The law has been the major site of advocacy, reform efforts and social change in relation to a variety of complex social problems. Gendered violence is one of them. After nearly three decades of advocacy and law reform, what can we understand about current legal responses to, and engagement with,...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Crack Cocaine Users

   High Society and Low Life in South London

   By Daniel Briggs

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Justice Reinvestment

   Can the Criminal Justice System Deliver More for Less?

   By Chris Fox, Kevin Albertson, Kevin Wong

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   Rising prison numbers on both sides of the Atlantic are cause for concern. Justice Reinvestment is a major movement in criminal justice reform in the US that is also attracting lots of interest in the UK. Justice Reinvestment is an approach to addressing the penal crisis that uses the best...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Penal Landscape

   The Howard League Guide to Criminal Justice in England and Wales

   Edited by Anita Dockley, Ian Loader

   The Howard League for Penal Reform is committed to developing an effective penal system which ensures there are fewer victims of crime, has a diminished role for prison and creates a safer community for all. In this collection of ten papers, the charity has brought together some of the most...

   Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. Policing Serious Crime in China

   From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer'

   By Susan Trevaskes

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Despite a resurgence in the number of studies of Chinese social control over the past decade or so, no sustained work in English has detailed the recent developments in policy and practice against serious crime, despite international recognition that Chinese policing of serious crime is relatively...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Offending Girls

   Young Women and Youth Justice

   By Gilly Sharpe

   At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls’ offending in Britain reached fever pitch. No longer sugar and spice, a ‘new breed’ of girl, the hedonistic, violent, binge-drinking ‘ladette’, was reported to have emerged. At the same time, the number of young women entering the youth...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Willan
7. Human Trafficking

   Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   By Mary C. Burke

   Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

   The practice of one human being exploiting another in slavery-like conditions is not new. Today, it is called human trafficking. Social, political, and economic forces over the past 60 years have changed how and why this human rights abuse occurs. In order to solve this or any social problem, it is...

   Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
8. Youth, Crime and Justice

   By Cyndi Banks

   Youth, Crime and Justice takes a critical issues approach to analyzing the current debates and issues in juvenile delinquency. It encourages readers to adopt an analytical understanding encompassing not only juvenile crime, but also the broader context within which the conditions of juvenile...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. Talking Criminal Justice

   Language and the Just Society

   By Michael Coyle

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

   The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment. This...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. Doing Probation Work

    Identity in a Criminal Justice Occupation

    By Rob Mawby, Anne Worrall

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

    A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role. This book fills that gap by exploring the meaning of...

    Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge