Criminal Justice - Criminology

Police militarism has been back at the forefront of criminal justice policy discussions in the wake of the militaristic police response to protests following a police officer’s fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. This book examines the issue of militarization in a post-Fe..

Rethinking Policing and Justice critically examines the role of policing (both state and non-state forms) in the provision of justice (and injustice). It also shows a variety of theoretical, methodology, and other approaches for the critical evaluation of law enforcement, highlighing different insig..

More than 50 years after re Gault revolutionized the US juvenile court system, this book examines how the reformed system has evolved...

This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal justice system. Addressing more than just the ideology and theory underlying economic and social justice, the book presents chapters with practical example..

Research on prison and jail reentry typically focuses on barriers stemming from employment, housing, mental health, and substance abuse issues from the perspective of offenders returning to urban areas. This book explores the largely neglected topic of the specific challenges inmates experience when..

Dealing with the complex case law concerning the use of the provocation defence in cases of intimate killings, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation considers the construction and representation of subjectivity and sexual difference in legal narrations of homicide...

Highlighting key issues in Criminal Justice that students need to consider, the Fifth Edition of this popular text contains a wide and varied selection of materials which help to explain the evolution of the criminal justice process in England and Wales since the early 1990s. Statutes, case law, emp..

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems. The book explores what rehabilitation is by investigating how its conceptualization has shaped, and been shaped by, shifting norms, practices, a..