Understanding Modernisation In Criminal Justice

Author : Paul Senior,Chris Crowther-Dowey,Matt Long
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780335235278

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Understanding the Modernisation of Criminal Justice by Paul Senior,Chris Crowther-Dowey,Matt Long Pdf

How have different criminal justice agencies responded to the modernization process? What forms does modernization take? What lessons can be drawn to influence the future shape of criminal justice policy? Understanding Modernization in Criminal Justice is the first book to theorize modernization in the context of criminal justice. It provides a historically informed account tracing the evolving links between new public management and modernization as well as proposing a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of policies on each criminal justice agency in England and Wales. A variety of political strategies and tactics are identified, which contribute to the reform process. The extent of vulnerability, capacity for resistance or potential for transformation in each individual key agency is explored, including strategies of censure, compliance and commitment. The authors go on to analyse how these processes have occurred in an international context, in particular, the relationship between drivers of global crime and their impact in the context of England and Wales. This will challenge policy makers in all jurisdictions to consider the potential impact of new public management. The book concludes with a look ahead, anticipating developments in criminal justice sector after the departure of Tony Blair and potentially post a new Labour administration. Understanding Modernization in Criminal Justice is invaluable reading for those concerned with the administration of criminal justice at both a policy and managerial level; from students and academics wishing to understand the way agencies are responding to this agenda through to penal reformers and commentators.

Author : Senior, Paul,Crowther-Dowey, Chris,Long, Matt
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335220656

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Understanding Modernisation In Criminal Justice by Senior, Paul,Crowther-Dowey, Chris,Long, Matt Pdf

This is the first book to theorize modernization in the context of criminal justice. It provides a historically informed account tracing the evolving links between new public management and modernization as well as proposing a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of policies on each criminal justice agency in England and Wales.

Author : Annie Hondeghem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 331927483X

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Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System by Annie Hondeghem Pdf

Author : Annie Hondeghem,Xavier Rousseaux,Fréderic Schoenaers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319258027

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Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System by Annie Hondeghem,Xavier Rousseaux,Fréderic Schoenaers Pdf

This book focuses on one part of the judicial system: the criminal justice chain. This involves all the activities and actors dealing with policing, prosecution, judgment, and sanctioning of crimes. In the last decades, reforms have been implemented in several European countries. In Belgium, for example, there was the so-called Octopus reform in 1998. The police was restructured, leading to an integration of the police forces on a national and local level. New steering instruments were introduced, such as regional security plans. With regard to the sanctioning of crimes, a new institution was installed, called the sentence implementation court. This book evaluates these reforms and discusses the current reform on the reorganization of the judicial landscape. In addition, it examines the relation between trust and distrust and the application to the judicial system. It discusses the human capital aspect of the system, by means of a study on the prosopography of the Belgian magistrates that analyses the Magistracy as socio-professional group, and focuses on situations of system building, transformations under constraint (occupations), and transfers (colonial experience). Lastly, the book presents a comparative study of Belgium and France regarding the new techniques and instruments that are needed to accelerate the judicial response time and to ensure that the judicial system delivers its services on time.

Author : Hazel Kemshall
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780335236817

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Understanding the Management of High Risk Offenders by Hazel Kemshall Pdf

“This is an extremely important and timely book written by a pre-eminent scholar in the field. Hazel Kemshall has a proven track record not just of exceptional scholarship but, equally importantly, of engaging effectively with policy and practice. Given the damaging synergies between media hype and public insecurities about 'dangerous' offenders, the evidence-based, measured and thoughtful analysis provided in this book provides a vital counterpoint to increasingly punitive and exclusionary discourses around public protection. In promoting a more balanced, humane and integrative approach to risk, the book deserves to influence not just scholars but also policy makers and practitioners facing the complex challenges of managing risk and dangerousness.” Fergus McNeill, Associate Fellow of the Centre for Sentencing Research, Strathclyde University, UK High risk offenders have attracted much media, policy and practice interest in recent years. New legislation and extensive multi-agency partnerships have been initiated to improve the assessment and management of these offenders in the community. Drawing on a wide range of cross-national literature and original research by the author,this timely book reviews current approaches to the community management of high risk offenders. The book examines in detail a range of risk management techniques, including: Community protection measures (such as sexual offender registration and community notification) Restorative and re-integrative measures (such as Circles of Support and Accountability, pro-social modelling, public health campaigns and environmental risk management approaches) Hazel Kemshall argues for a ‘blending’ of these two approaches to provide risk management interventions for the ‘protective integration’ of high risk offenders back into the community.In addition, the book examines contemporary difficulties in risk assessment, effective multi-agency partnership working, and recent policy and legislative initiatives in this challenging area of work. Understanding the Management of High Risk Offenders is a vital resource for criminology and criminal justice students and stimulating reading for probation officers, social workers, police and prison staff, among others.

Author : Anthea Hucklesby,Azrini Wahidin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199694969

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Criminal Justice by Anthea Hucklesby,Azrini Wahidin Pdf

'Criminal Justice' provides a thorough introduction to the challenges faced by the UK's criminal justice system. A team of high-profile contributors each present a concise overview of their particular field of expertise, detailing key procedures & challenging students to engage with current & topical debates.

Author : Pamela Ugwudike,Hannah Graham,Fergus McNeill,Peter Raynor,Faye S. Taxman,Chris Trotter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1241 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781351593267

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The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice by Pamela Ugwudike,Hannah Graham,Fergus McNeill,Peter Raynor,Faye S. Taxman,Chris Trotter Pdf

All the world’s criminal justice systems need to undertake direct work with people who have come into their care or are under their supervision as a result of criminal offences. Typically, this is organized in penal and correctional services – in custody in prisons, or in the community, supervised by services such as probation. Bringing together international experts, this book is the go-to source for students, researchers, and practitioners in criminal justice, looking for a comprehensive and authoritative summary of available knowledge in the field. Covering a variety of contexts, settings, needs, and approaches, and drawing on theory and practice, this Companion brings together over 90 entries, offering readers concise and definitive overviews of a range of key contemporary issues on working with offenders. The book is split into thematic sections and includes coverage of: Theories and models for working with offenders Policy contexts of offender supervision and rehabilitation Direct work with offenders Control, surveillance, and practice Resettlement Application to specific groups, including female offenders, young offenders, families, and ethnic minorities Application to specific needs and contexts, such as substance misuse, mental health, violence, and risk assessment Practitioner and offender perspectives The development of an evidence base This book is an essential and flexible resource for researchers and practitioners alike and is an authoritative guide for students taking courses on working with offenders, criminal justice policy, probation, prisons, penology, and community corrections.

Author : Jenni Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317539452

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Transforming Summary Justice by Jenni Ward Pdf

Sweeping changes are being introduced into the lower-tier magistrates’ courts in England and Wales in efforts to modernise the system and speed up case processing. They concentrate on delivering prompt justice within a modern, efficient and technologically advanced system. But these transformations are fundamentally changing the way justice is delivered. This book analyses criminal court streamlining processes and argues that there are areas where due process protections are being undermined. Transforming Summary Justice reports empirical research carried out with lay magistrates and criminal justice professionals. Views and experiences drawn from magistrates are valuable because of the central role they perform in lower court justice. Further, magistrates provide a wider understanding of the context in which the lower criminal courts operate and enable a critical appraisal of this unique style of ‘lay justice’. This book is directed at students of criminology, criminal justice and socio-legal studies, who will find the debates stimulating and useful to engage with in contemporary analyses of criminal court justice. It will also be of interest to justice and legal professionals who are seeing swingeing alterations to the field in which they work. The book will have appeal in other common-law jurisdictions, where similar modifications to lower court justice are occurring, and also across Europe, where lay involvement in legal decision-making is being debated and becoming accepted practice.

Author : Nicola Groves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317950615

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Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice by Nicola Groves Pdf

This book aims to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the subject of domestic violence and its interaction with the criminal justice system- including agencies such as the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the probation service and Children's Services, the courts and the prison service, as well as voluntary agencies such as Women's Aid. The book also looks at how these various agencies work together at a local level and the coordinating role of the Home Office and the direction provided at a central level. Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice examines the phenomenon of domestic violence, the various forms it takes and the theories that have been put forward to explain it. It takes an historical approach to examine policy and legislative developments over the last forty years and how those developments make themselves manifest today. The authors provide an authoritative and critical account of the different agencies and the work they carry out both independently and jointly; they also consider the limits of a crime centred response to domestic violence. The book provides a conceptual framework in which domestic violence and criminal justice might be better understood. It covers all the current issues in this field and it will be a 'source book' in directing readers to further reading. It will be essential reading for both students and practitioners in the field.

Author : Cowburn, Malcolm,Duggan, Marian,Anne Robinson,Paul Senior
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447300366

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Values in Criminology and Community Justice by Cowburn, Malcolm,Duggan, Marian,Anne Robinson,Paul Senior Pdf

The stated values of criminologists, policy makers, and researchers don't always correspond with their responses to crime. This collection parses the many different “sides” these professionals take on issues relating to victims and offenders, punishment and protection, and rights and responsibilities. Drawing on empirical research, crime theory, and criminal justice practice, the contributors explore such topics as the dynamics of race, gender, and age; the workings of the criminal justice system; the ethics of research; and current debates about new criminological issues such as the green movement and Islamophobia.

Author : Marisa Silvestri,Chris Crowther-Dowey
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473965928

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Gender and Crime by Marisa Silvestri,Chris Crowther-Dowey Pdf

This book is a comprehensive and critical introduction to the field of gender and crime, re-thinking the key themes and debates within a human rights framework. Integrating empirical, theoretical and policy-related material, this Second Edition has been significantly updated, and now includes; Full consideration of the 2010-2015 Coalition Government and its effect on gender and crime within England and Wales A new chapter relating criminological theory to gender and crime A new chapter discussing the history of gender and crime A new chapter analysing contemporary issues in gender and crime in a globalised world Fully updated learning features including; Chapter Overviews, Key Words, Study Questions, Chapter Summaries, Key Further Readings and a Glossary. Gender and Crime: A Human Rights Approach is essential reading for students studying criminology, sociology, social policy and gender studies.

Author : Anne Robinson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847427649

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Foundations for Offender Management by Anne Robinson Pdf

This title provides a comprehensive account of the contexts and challenges of working with people convicted of criminal offences.

Author : Chris Crowther-Dowey,Peter Fussey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137368140

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Researching Crime by Chris Crowther-Dowey,Peter Fussey Pdf

Using clear examples of research problems and possibilities, this book shows students how to design and do their own criminological research. Each chapter integrates research theory and practice as the text explains a variety of methods in undergraduate and professional contexts. It is the ideal resource for all students researching crime.

Author : Simon Green,Elizabeth Lancaster,Simon Feasey
Publisher : Willan
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134007912

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Addressing Offending Behaviour by Simon Green,Elizabeth Lancaster,Simon Feasey Pdf

Offending behaviour is one of the most talked about issues in contemporary society. What can be done to stop people reoffending? What can be done to help people escape their criminal lifestyles? This book aims to review and analyse the different ways in which these questions are addressed in practice, drawing upon the expertise of academics and practitioners. The book provides a critical reference text for practitioners, students and researchers interested in devising the most effective means of addressing offending behaviour. Its focus is on the actual work undertaken with offenders, and draws upon generic issues of practice applicable across the voluntary, community and statutory sectors. Addressing Offending Behaviour aims to bridge the gap between practice and research. It explores a wide range of innovative techniques for offender intervention, along with some of the most challenging academic theories. It also considers the wider social, political and legal context in which this work takes place, and explores the values and bias which operate at both individual and institutional levels. It will be key reading for both students and practitioners involved in the fields of criminology and criminal justice, law, policing, probation, prisons, youth justice and social work.

Author : Anthony H. Goodman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118312247

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Rehabilitating and Resettling Offenders in the Community by Anthony H. Goodman Pdf

Rehabilitating and Resettling Offenders in the Community is a significant examination of the historical development of work with offenders and their treatment by the state and society. It offers unique perspectives and a wealth of information drawn from numerous interviews with probation staff. Highlights how the work of probation staff has changed over time and the reasons behind these changes Includes discourse with probation staff carried out over many years for a comprehensive, 'insiders' view of the situation Focuses on contemporary issues, including the changes brought in by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition Written by a leading academic with extensive experience in the probation service