Criminology and Criminal Justice

This Dictionary is part of a series of  dictionaries covering key aspects of criminal justice and the criminal justice system and designed to meet the needs of both students and practitioners. It contains approximately 300 entries (of between 500 and 1500 words) on key terms and concepts...

Contemporary prison practices are becoming increasingly professionalized and facing many new challenges. As well as bringing an increased emphasis on skills and qualifications, this development has also introduced new ideas and concepts into the established prisons and penal lexicon. With over 300 e..

Nowadays, probabtion practice is developing quickly and becoming increasingly professionalized - probation officers are now described as offender managers, and the creation of NOMS (National Offender Management Service) has broadened the remit of the Probation Service. This in turn has introduced a ..

This Dictionary explicitly addresses the historical, legal, theoretical, organisational, policy, practice, research and evidential contexts within which 'modern' youth justice in the UK and beyond is located...

Different Crimes, Different Criminals..

Bringing together international perspectives from criminology, psychology, law; and business and adopting a morally neutral stance, this book offers a holistic overview of digitial piracy, considering its cultural, commercial, and legal aspects._x000D_  ..

Disordered Personalities and Crime seeks to better understand how we respond to those individuals who have been labelled at various points in time as ‘morally insane’, ‘psychopathic’ or ‘personality disordered’. This book argues that an analysis of the history of these diagnoses will help to provide..

Disordered Personalities and Crime seeks to better understand how we respond to those individuals who have been labelled at various points in time as ‘morally insane’, ‘psychopathic’ or ‘personality disordered’. This book argues that an analysis of the history of these diagnoses will help to provide..

The authors aim to provide practical guidance to enable practitioners in the various criminal justice, health and social care agencies to divert mentally disordered offenders from prosecution and custody and to help prevent re-offending...

This book examines the emergence and development of youth diversion within the justice system, discusses its models of practice and offers some theoretical conclusions about its relationship with sociological and criminological trends...

Traditionally, forensic investigation has not been fully utilized in the investigation of property crime. This ground-breaking book examines the experiences of patrol officers, command staff, detectives, and chiefs as they navigate the expectations of forensic evidence in criminal cases, specificall..

Framed within the theoretical perspective of structuration theory, but also drawing on aspects of Goffman's interactionism and Bourdieu's concept of habitus, this book offers a unique interpretation of research carried out with ageing prisoners and their prison officers and shows the reality of pris..