1. At the Creation 2. From an Active Volcano to a Well-Ordered Scenery 3. Towards a Medical Model of a Criminal Justice 4. A Penological Cul-de-Sac 5. Trying to Break Down Traditional Barriers 6. The Socio-Liberal Approach to Criminal Policy 7. Reaching the Harbour 8. Putting Criminology on the National Map 9. Making it Work: Infusing Reality into an Idea 10. The Awkward Question of Capital Punishment 11. An Issue Which Refuses to go Away 12. A Prison System in Crisis 13. A Fruitful Approach to Penal Reform 14. The Death of a Royal Commission 15. Seeking International Solutions 16. Some Forays Abroad and at Home 17. A Grim Penal Outlook 18. A Brief for Criminology
Biography
Sir Leon Radzinowicz, LL.D FBA, is a leading figure in the development of criminology in the twentieth century. Adventures in Criminology draws on his extraordinary range of personal experiences during a career spanning over seventy years, from the 1920s to the present day. It provides a remarkable overview of changing approaches to criminality and explores the tensions and dilemmas which beset criminal justice and penal systems in all democratic societies.
