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Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice


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Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice offers the very best in research on criminal justice systems around the world, offering fresh insights on a range of topics in criminal procedure, including policing, prisons, courts, youth justice, community measures, rehabilitation, victimology and forensics science.

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Inmates’ Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison Rewriting personal histories through cognitive behavioral programs

Inmates’ Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison: Rewriting personal histories through cognitive behavioral programs

1st Edition

By Jennifer Schlosser
April 27, 2017

The question of ‘what works’ in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years. One of the primary ways the criminal justice system tries to reduce the rates of recidivism among offenders is through the use of cognitive behavioural ...

Lives of Incarcerated Women An international perspective

Lives of Incarcerated Women: An international perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Candace Kruttschnitt, Catrien Bijleveld
April 27, 2017

Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspectives on women’s imprisonment. Instead of covering only one aspect of women’s carceral experiences, this book offers a broader perspective ...

Pre-crime Pre-emption, precaution and the future

Pre-crime: Pre-emption, precaution and the future

1st Edition

By Jude McCulloch, Dean Wilson
April 27, 2017

Pre-crime aims to pre-empt ‘would-be-criminals’ and predict future crime. Although the term is borrowed from science fiction, the drive to predict and pre-empt crime is a present-day reality. This book critically explores this major twenty-first century development in crime and justice. This first ...

Punishing the Other The social production of immorality revisited

Punishing the Other: The social production of immorality revisited

1st Edition

Edited By Anna Eriksson
April 27, 2017

Punishing the Other draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman to discuss contemporary discourses and practices of punishment and criminalization. Bringing together some of the most exciting international scholars, both established and emerging, this book engages with Bauman’s thesis of the social ...

Victims and Restorative Justice

Victims and Restorative Justice

1st Edition

Edited By Inge Vanfraechem, Daniela Bolívar Fernández, Ivo Aertsen
April 27, 2017

Restorative justice aims to address the consequences of crime by encouraging victims and offenders to communicate and discuss the harm caused by the crime that has been committed. In the majority of cases, restorative justice is facilitated by direct and indirect dialogue between victims and ...

Victims of Violence and Restorative Practices Finding a Voice

Victims of Violence and Restorative Practices: Finding a Voice

1st Edition

By Tinneke Van Camp
December 07, 2016

Restorative justice occupies an important place in criminological literature and criminal justice policies and is about facilitating communication between victims, offenders and communities in search of conciliation. Research shows that victims of crime are generally highly satisfied with ...

Municipal Corporate Security in International Context

Municipal Corporate Security in International Context

1st Edition

By Kevin Walby, Randy Lippert
November 07, 2016

Corporate security is a form of regulation that involves centralized management of access control, physical security, personnel security, and information security inside an organization. For all the research on public policing, national security, and private contract security in sociology, ...

Positive Criminology

Positive Criminology

1st Edition

Edited By Natti Ronel, Dana Segev
November 07, 2016

How can we best help offenders desist from crime, as well as help victims heal? This book engages with this question by offering its readers a comprehensive review of positive criminology in theory, research and practice. Positive criminology is a concept – a perspective – that places emphasis on ...

The Role of Community in Restorative Justice

The Role of Community in Restorative Justice

1st Edition

By Fernanda Rosenblatt
November 07, 2016

Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice. While advocates have presented the community as an essential pillar of restorative ...

Working within the Forensic Paradigm Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice

Working within the Forensic Paradigm: Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice

1st Edition

Edited By Rosemary Sheehan, James Ogloff
November 07, 2016

Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability and addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault ...

Long-Term Imprisonment and Human Rights

Long-Term Imprisonment and Human Rights

1st Edition

Edited By Kirstin Drenkhahn, Manuela Dudeck, Frieder Dünkel
March 03, 2016

Prisons and imprisonment have become a commonplace topic in popular culture as the setting and rationale for fiction and documentaries and most people seem to have a clear notion of what it is like in prison, ranging from the idea of the prison cell as a cosy nook with fast internet access to that ...

Policing in Taiwan From authoritarianism to democracy

Policing in Taiwan: From authoritarianism to democracy

1st Edition

By Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang, Ivan Y. Sun
March 03, 2016

The police in Taiwan played a critical role in the largely peaceful transition from an authoritarian regime to a democracy. While the temptation to intervene in domestic politics was great, the top-down pressure to maintain a neutral standing facilitated an orderly regime change. This is the first ...

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