Where next for criminal justice? / / David Faulkner, Ros Burnett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Faulkner, David,; Burnett, Ros,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Successive governments have promised to reform criminal justice in England and Wales and to make it more efficient and more effective in preventing and reducing crime. And yet there is still a feeling that not enough has been achieved and more has to be done - a feeling that the English riots in August 2011 painfully revived. Where Next for Criminal Justice? offers a principled framework for the development of policy, legislation and practice, and argues with examples for an approach to criminal justice which acknowledges the limitations on what governments and reforms of criminal justice can achieve on their own, and where the focus is on promoting procedural justice and legitimacy; fostering human decency and civility; and enabling prevention, restoration and desistance from crime.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Social justice, legitimacy and criminal justice -- What happened in criminal justice: the 1980s -- A change of direction: the 1990s -- Crime prevention, civil society and communities -- Courts, punishment and sentencing -- Police, policing and communities -- Community sentences and desistance from crime -- Prisons: security, rehabilitation and humanity -- The role of government in criminal justice -- Policy, politics and the way forward -- References -- Index