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Brings together internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines, including criminology, international relations, sociology and political science, to examine the meaning of legitimacy and the implications for its future empirical analysis in the context of criminal justice.
List of contents
- PART 1. POLITICAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON LEGITIMACY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
- 1: John Dunn: Legitimacy and Democracy in the World Today
- 2: David Beetham: Revisiting Legitimacy, Twenty Years on
- 3: Jean-Marc Coicaud: Crime, Justice and Legitimacy: A Brief Theoretical Inquiry
- PART 2: LEGITIMACY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
- 4: Anthony Bottoms and Justice Tankebe: "A Voice Within": Power-holders' Perspectives on Authority and Legitimacy
- 5: Tom Tyler and Jon Jackson: Future Challenges in the Study of Legitimacy and Criminal Justice
- 6: Ian Loader and Richard Sparks: Unfinished Business: Legitimacy, Crime Control and Democratic Politics
- 7: Susanne Karstedt: Trusting Authorities: Legitimacy, Trust and Collaboration in Non-Democratic Regimes
- PART 3: SEEKING LEGITIMACY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE CONTEXTS
- 8: Michael Levi: Legitimacy, Crimes and Compliance in 'the City': de maximis non curat lex?
- 9: Jacqueline Hodgson: Legitimacy and State Responses to Terrorism
- 10: Alison Liebling: "Legitimacy Under Pressure" in High Security Prisons
- 11: Jonathan Simon: An Unenviable Task: How Federal Courts Legitimized Mass Incarceration
- 12: Andrew Jefferson: The Situated Production of Legitimacy: Perspectives from the Global South
- 13: Dirk van Zyl Smit: Legitimacy and the Development of International Standards for Punishment
- 14: Peter Neyroud and Lawrence Sherman: Dialogue and Dialectic: Police Legitimacy and the New Professionalism
- PART 4: LEGITIMACY AND CRIME
- 15: Manuel Eisner and Amy Nivette: Does Low Legitimacy Cause Crime? A Review of the Evidence
- 16: Mike Hough, Jon Jackson and Ben Bradford: Legitimacy, Trust and Compliance: An Empirical Test of Procedural Justice Theory Using the European Social Survey
About the author
Justice Tankebe is University Lecturer in Criminology at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology.
Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology, and an editor of the Clarendon Studies in Criminology Series.
Summary
Brings together internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines, including criminology, international relations, sociology and political science, to examine the meaning of legitimacy and the implications for its future empirical analysis in the context of criminal justice.
