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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.

139 Series Titles


Convictions Without Truth The Incompatibility of Science and Law

Convictions Without Truth: The Incompatibility of Science and Law

1st Edition

By Robert Schehr
January 29, 2024

Convictions Without Truth sets out to determine whether and to what extent science and law may coexist in an institutional relationship that truthfully generates individualization through application of forensic testimony for charges relating to violations of criminal law. In the first two ...

Interviewing of Suspects with Mental Health Conditions and Disorders in England and Wales A Paradigm Shift

Interviewing of Suspects with Mental Health Conditions and Disorders in England and Wales: A Paradigm Shift

1st Edition

By Laura Farrugia
January 29, 2024

Interviewing of Suspects with Mental Health Conditions and Disorders in England and Wales explores cutting-edge research that focuses specifically on these adults (including their cognitive needs and psychological vulnerabilities), the impact on the investigative interview, and existing legislation...

Responses to Serious Offending by Children Principles, Practice and Global Perspectives

Responses to Serious Offending by Children: Principles, Practice and Global Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Nessa Lynch, Yannick van den Brink, Louise Forde
January 29, 2024

This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally. Divided into four parts, the book provides a balance of theoretical and empirical insights. Anchored in a theoretical framework based on the human rights of...

The Impact of Covid-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy

The Impact of Covid-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy

1st Edition

Edited By Frieder Dünkel, Stefan Harrendorf, Dirk van Zyl Smit
January 29, 2024

The Impact of COVID-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy presents the results of a worldwide exchange of information on the impact of COVID-19 in prisons. It also focuses on the human rights questions that have been raised during the pandemic, relating to the treatment of prisoners in...

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law

1st Edition

By Brianna Chesser, Nadia David, April Zahra
September 25, 2023

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law examines the inconsistencies in the definitions of consent in sexual encounters by examining emerging sex crimes alongside changing community values and the changing legal definitions of consent in sexual offending, focusing on ...

Policing and Boundaries in a Violent Society A South African Case Study

Policing and Boundaries in a Violent Society: A South African Case Study

1st Edition

By Guy Lamb
September 25, 2023

This book explores how social and territorial boundaries have influenced the approaches and practices of the South Africa Police Service (SAPS). By means of a historical analysis of South Africa, this book introduces a new concept, ‘police frontierism’, which illuminates the nature of the ...

Professionalism in Probation Making Sense of Marketisation

Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation

1st Edition

By Matt Tidmarsh
September 25, 2023

This book explores probation staff understandings of professionalism in the aftermath of the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms to services in England and Wales. Drawing on the sociology of the professions, this book offers an original and timely contribution to the criminal justice ...

Collaboration and Innovation in Criminal Justice An Activity Theory Alternative to Offender Rehabilitation

Collaboration and Innovation in Criminal Justice: An Activity Theory Alternative to Offender Rehabilitation

1st Edition

By Paulo Rocha
May 31, 2023

Drawing on original research on community-based alternatives to offender rehabilitation, this book provides an up-to-date depiction of the challenges faced by front-line workers at the interface between criminal justice and welfare systems striving to address needs and provide multifaceted ...

Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control Social, Cultural and Political Perspectives

Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control: Social, Cultural and Political Perspectives

1st Edition

By Helena Machado, Rafaela Granja
May 31, 2023

Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control presents a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding trends of genetic surveillance in different countries in Europe and in other jurisdictions around the world. The use of DNA or genome for state-level surveillance for crime governance is ...

Policing Child Sexual Abuse Failure, Corruption and Reform in Queensland

Policing Child Sexual Abuse: Failure, Corruption and Reform in Queensland

1st Edition

By Paul Bleakley
May 31, 2023

Policing Child Sexual Abuse provides a historical overview of the evolution of policing child sexual abuse in Queensland, tracing a legacy of failure (even corruption) in the decades leading up to the foundation of Task Force Argos, a branch of the Queensland Police Service created in part as a ...

Women in Policing Feminist Perspectives on Theory and Practice

Women in Policing: Feminist Perspectives on Theory and Practice

1st Edition

By Emma Cunningham
May 31, 2023

Women in Policing provides an insight into women's role within policing, their emergence, and development, offering a theoretical underpinning to explore this role as well as incorporating two empirical studies, one which reassesses the lived experiences of female officers, and one based on FOI ...

Exploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy

Exploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy

1st Edition

By Louise Sicard
January 09, 2023

Exploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy explores the treatment delivered to high-risk offenders with complex needs, focusing on sex and violent offenders. The book advocates for the further use of less traditional and creative therapies, in particular, music therapy. ...

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