Books in the Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice series

This book examines the role of education and training in the development of police in the contemporary world, bringing together international scholars and practitioners and throwing light on important aspects of public service policing.

This book provides a critical analysis of the intricate relationships between the punishment of women, community sanctions, human rights and social justice, bringing together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.

Bringing together researchers from around Europe, this book considers the related topics of justice, security and culture and asks what justice and security mean in plural societies with varying degrees of social difference.

The book brings together leading scholars to reflect on the challenges that the current application of restorative justice in transitional settings creates for our conceptions of what restorative justice is and what its objectives should be.

Bringing together a range of experts, this book addresses an important but hitherto neglected area of criminal justice practice and criminological research and offers chapters on emotional labour in police work; the probation and prison services; the legal profession; the youth justice and penal voluntary sectors.

This book provides a single text of different perspectives on how professional standards and ethics has been conceptualised and developed into practical policing processes for the purposes of policing, not only by the police but also by the partner agencies.

Punishing the Other draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman to discuss contemporary discourses and practices of punishment and criminalization. Bringing together some of the most exciting international scholars, both established and emerging, this book engages with Bauman¿s thesis of the social production of immorality in the context of criminalization and social control and addresses processes of `othering¿ through a range of contemporary case studies situated in various cultural, political and social contexts.

Bringing together researchers from around Europe, this book considers the related topics of justice, security and culture and asks what justice and security mean in plural societies with varying degrees of social difference.

This book presents cutting-edge research on the living conditions of long-term prisoners in Europe and considers whether these conditions meet international human rights standards. Bringing together leading experts in the field, with comprehensive coverage of the issues in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Spain and Sweden, this book offers the first comparative study on the subject.

Drawing on original research, this book examines the victim restoration process from a psycho-social perspective. It offers an integrative, comprehensive and in-depth analysis of victims¿ experiences of restorative justice.

Bringing together contributions from a range of leading scholars, this book offers an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the shifting themes of accountability within policing. The contributions explore questions of accountability across a range of dimensions, including those `individuals¿ and `institutions¿ responsible for its delivery, within and between the `public¿ and `private¿ sectors, and at `local¿, `national¿ and `transnational¿ scales of jurisdiction.

Drawing together the insights of eminent academics in the UK, the US, Australia and South Africa, this edited collection evaluates the condition of mental health and policing as an interlocked policy area, uncovering and addressing a number of key issues which are shaping police responses to mental health.

This book makes a holistic contribution to this controversial field of study by setting the rise and prominence of work with child sex offenders in its legal and practical context and offers a sense of direction for future critical engagement.

This book makes a holistic contribution to this controversial field of study by setting the rise and prominence of work with child sex offenders in its legal and practical context and offers a sense of direction for future critical engagement.

This edited volume celebrates the significant contributions of Peter Grabosky to the field of Criminology, and in particular, his work developing and adapting regulatory theory to the study of policing and security. Over the past three decades, his path-breaking theoretical and empirical research has contributed to a burgeoning literature on the myriad ways regulatory systems drive state and non-state interactions in an effort to control crime. This collection of essays showcase Grabosky¿s pioneering treatment of key regulatory concepts as they relate to such interactions, and illustrate how his work has been instrumental in shaping contemporary scholarship and practice around the governance of security.

Bringing together experts from around Europe, this book actively contributes to debates and analysis within penal and prison policy studies by shedding lights on the impacts of monitoring.

Including original and international contributions from both senior and emerging scholars, this pioneering book represents a foundational document for a burgeoning field of study: the anthropology of police.

This book celebrates the contributions of Peter Grabosky to the field of Criminology, and in particular, his work developing and adapting regulatory theory to the study of policing and security. This collection illustrates how his work has been instrumental in shaping scholarship and practice around the governance of security.

The growth of technology allows us to imagine entirely new ways of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts, victims and citizens. Technology offers not only new tools for committing and fighting crime, but new ways to look for, unveil, label crimes and new ways to know, watch, prosecute and punish criminals. This book attempts to disentangle the realities, the myths, the politics, the theories and the practices of our new, technology-assisted, era of crime and policing.