Bücher der Reihe Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

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 production of immorality in the context of criminalization and social control and addresses processes of `othering¿ through a range of contemporary case studies situated in various cultural, political and social contexts.

This book provides a single text of different perspectives on how professional standards and ethics has been conceptualised and developed into practical policing processes for the purposes of policing, not only by the police but also by the partner agencies.

Bringing together a range of experts, this book addresses an important but hitherto neglected area of criminal justice practice and criminological research and offers chapters on emotional labour in police work; the probation and prison services; the legal profession; the youth justice and penal voluntary sectors.

The book brings together leading scholars to reflect on the challenges that the current application of restorative justice in transitional settings creates for our conceptions of what restorative justice is and what its objectives should be.

Bringing together researchers from around Europe, this book considers the related topics of justice, security and culture and asks what justice and security mean in plural societies with varying degrees of social difference.

Bringing together experts from around the world and presenting a range of comparative critical research relating to key themes of the pains of imprisonment, stigma, power and vulnerability, this book explores the various ways in which offenders relate to the justice systems and how these relationships impact the nature and effectiveness of their efforts to reduce offending.

This book brings together international experts and provides in-depth coverage of the various interview and interrogation techniques used around the world. Volume 2 focuses on the interviewing of suspected offenders.

This book brings together international experts and provides in-depth coverage of the various interview and interrogation techniques used around the world. Volume 1 focuses on the interviewing of victims and witnesses.

Drawing on research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspectives on women¿s imprisonment and sheds light on the moderating effects of particular cultural contexts.

Waltermaurer and Akers bring together leading researchers and practitioners in a book that transcends and merges the disciplines of criminal justice and public health, criminology and epidemiology.

This book examines the specific forms of violence that children experience through their contact with the criminal justice system. Comprising contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in children¿s rights and youth justice, this book profiles evidence-based prevention strategies and case studies from around the world.

Drawing together the insights of eminent academics in the UK, the US, Australia and South Africa, this edited collection evaluates the condition of mental health and policing as an interlocked policy area, uncovering and addressing a number of key issues which are shaping police responses to mental health.

This vital new book brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world¿s major cities, including New York, Beijing, Paris, London, Berlin, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Melbourne, and Toronto, as well as other urban areas in Britain, United States, South Africa, Germany, Australia and Georgia.

Using a combination of victimological literature and empirical data from a European research project, this book considers the role and the position of the victim in restorative justice practices, focusing on legislative, organisational and institutional frameworks of victim-offender mediation and conferencing programmes at a national and local level, as well as the victims¿ personal needs and experiences.

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 centres. This book offers contemporary perspectives on forensic policy and practice from the range of practitioners working with people within the forensic domain and canvasses ideas about risk and offending behaviours together with ideas about effective responses to rehabilitation and recovery.

This book reaches beyond the boundaries of law and psychology and takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of reparation for victims of crimes against humanity. Law does not take place in a vacuum and it is important to consider the impact of the law on the psychology of the victim, as well as the legal principles themselves.

The growth of technology allows us to imagine entirely new ways of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts, victims and citizens. Technology offers not only new tools for committing and fighting crime, but new ways to look for, unveil, label crimes and new ways to know, watch, prosecute and punish criminals. This book attempts to disentangle the realities, the myths, the politics, the theories and the practices of our new, technology-assisted, era of crime and policing.

This book examines the role of education and training in the development of police in the contemporary world, bringing together international scholars and practitioners and throwing light on important aspects of public service policing.

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 forces of integration and social inclusion that are experienced positively by target individual and groups, and may contribute to a reduction in negative emotions, desistance from crime and overcoming the traumatic experience of victimization. In essence, positive criminology holds a more holistic view, which acknowledges that thriving and disengagement from distress, addiction, mental illness, crime, deviance or victimization might be fostered more effectively by enhancing positive emotions and experiences, rather than focusing on reducing negative attributes. Each chapter in this book is written by key scholars in the related fields of criminology, victimology and addiction and, thus, assembles varied and extensive approaches to rehabilitation and treatment. These approaches share in common a positive criminology view, thereby enriching our understanding of the concept and other strength-based approaches to dealing with offenders and victims. This edited book elaborates on positive criminology core ideas and assumptions; discusses related theories and innovations; and presents various benefits that this perspective can promote in the field of rehabilitation. For this reason, this book will be essential reading for those engaged in the study of criminology, criminal justice and victimology and may also assist scholars and professionals to help offenders desist from crime and improve victims'' well-being.