Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
About the Book Series
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.
Impending Challenges to Penal Moderation in France and Germany: A Strained Restraint
1st Edition
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By Kirstin Drenkhahn, Fabien Jobard, Tobias Singelnstein
November 28, 2024
This book investigates the penal culture in France and Germany – how it is shaped in politics, media, and public opinion. Although compared with the US or the UK, France and Germany seem to place a strong emphasis on the ideal of rehabilitation that would block excessive punishment and other ...
Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil
1st Edition
By André R. Giamberardino
November 28, 2024
Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical references for the construction of a transformative justice in Brazil, supporting the claim that justice is a socially constructed conception and that ...
The English Prison Health System After a Decade of Austerity, 2010-2020: The Failed Political Experiment
1st Edition
By Nasrul Ismail
October 09, 2024
Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society’s most vulnerable groups. This book opens up the closed world of English prisons to examine its impact on prison health governance and healthcare delivery. It argues that ...
The Politics of Prison Crowding: A Critical Analysis of the Italian Prison System
1st Edition
By Simone Santorso
October 09, 2024
The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy’s penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the ‘new normal’ under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment. Engaging with the ...
Offender Rehabilitation Programmes: The Role of the Prison Officer
1st Edition
By Laura M. Small, Paul M.W. Hackett
October 08, 2024
This book shows how prison officers may be able to significantly influence extra-programmatic conditions, to enhance rehabilitation outcomes and contribute to reducing reoffending. It does so through a detailed review of the literature relating to prison-based rehabilitation programmes, examining ...
Maritime Crime and Policing
1st Edition
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By Yarin Eski, Martin Wright
October 07, 2024
This book offers a unique and scholarly perspective on a little-studied subject: maritime crime and policing. The seas and oceans cover 70 percent of the earth’s surface and 90 percent of world trade by volume travels by sea. Furthermore, the refugee crisis has produced an inflow of people ...
Disassembling Police Culture
1st Edition
By Mike Rowe
October 04, 2024
Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, this book critically examines police culture, exploring police behaviours, decisionmaking and actions. Police culture is a concept widely used, often critically, to characterise the working attitudes and behaviours of (usually uniformed) police ...
Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials: Is the Jury Out?
1st Edition
By Charlotte Herriott
October 04, 2024
This book provides an in-depth examination of current, high-profile debates about the use of sexual history evidence in rape trials and its impact on jurors. In doing so, it presents findings of the first mock jury dataset in England and Wales to explore how jurors interpret, discuss, and rely upon...
Policing Rape: The Way Forward
1st Edition
By Katrin Hohl, Elizabeth A. Stanko
July 05, 2024
The policing of rape is in permacrisis. This book addresses the question of why police investigations continue to fail most rape victim-survivors and puts forward a framework for what policing can do to change this. Low conviction rates and poor victim-survivor experiences are the hallmarks of the ...
The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia: 'Preparing myself for Prison' in a Contested Human Rights Landscape
1st Edition
By Laura Piacentini, Elena Katz
May 27, 2024
In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scholarship on prisons because, figuratively speaking, prisons in Russia are de-nesting from their institutional moorings and borders. Using the online ...
Genetics and the Politics of Security: A Social Science Perspective
1st Edition
By Joëlle Vailly
May 13, 2024
Presenting a social science perspective on the contemporary gaze on the body of the suspect, this book considers how definitions of criminality, offenses, individual rights, and the concepts of identity and difference have been altered by changes in the biological status of the human. Spurred ...
A Restorative Approach to Family Violence: Feminist Kin-Making
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By Joan Pennell
January 29, 2024
A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks back at an early and successful demonstration of a family and culturally based model to stop severe family violence. This conferencing model, called family group decision making, was applied by three diverse Canadian communities—Inuit, rural, and ...