1st Edition
Reintegrative Justice in Practice The Informal Management of Crime in an Island Community
Biography
Dr Helen Miles is Director of Criminal Justice for Jersey Police. She is Joint Director (with Peter Raynor) of the Jersey Crime and Society Project, which continues to study aspects of crime and criminal justice in Jersey. Professor Peter Raynor works in the Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology at Swansea and co-directs the Jersey Crime and Society Project. He is a long-established researcher and writer on criminal justice matters. His previous books include Effective Probation Practice (with D. Smith and M. Vanstone, 1994), Understanding Community Penalities (with M. Vanstone, 2002), Rehabilitation, Crime and Justice (with G. Robinson, 2005), Developments in Social Work with Offenders (with G. McIvor, 2007) and Offender Supervision (with McNeill and Trotter, 2010). He is a member of the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advisory Panel, and of the Academy of Social Sciences.
’This account of a remarkable historical survival manages to be both scholarly and readable. Through rigorous quantitative and qualitative research, and with some vivid case studies, the authors show how an ancient system of justice can be made relevant to current debates. Anyone interested in the practice as well as the theory of community justice will find the book fascinating.’ David Smith, Lancaster University, UK 'Helen Miles is a critical and reflective ’insider’, Peter Raynor an appreciative and sympathetic outsider, and this authorial team bring complementary qualities that are ideal for a study like this. The study’s methods of exact and detailed observations have already begun to refresh probation research into the mechanisms by which ’effective practice’ is accomplished. It must also be said that the book is very well written. It is lucid and succinct, well organised with useful summaries, and with many case studies and direct quotations from the PHEs that make it vivid and engaging.' Criminology & Criminal Justice 'Miles and Raynor’s book Reintegrative Justice in Practice: The Informal Management of Crime in an Island Community is a well-written, informative and engaging overview of an ancient justice tradition operating in the channel island of Jersey.' Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
