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

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 Aug...

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