Criminal Justice

Zusatztext This is a beautiful book...Zedner writes lucidly, analyses sharply but also summarises complex material in an accessible manner. Informationen zum Autor Lucia Zedner is Reader in Criminal Justice, Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and an Associate Member of the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford. Klappentext Criminal Justice challenges conventional understanding of crime! criminal justice and punishment by revealing their meanings to be open to multiple interpretations. It explores the historical contingency and cultural specificity of the institutions and practices of criminal justice. And it considers the many! often conflicting! roles fulfilled by the various players in the criminal process. In so doing! it reveals criminal justice to be more diverse and its purposes more contested than conventional accounts allow. The book concludes by asking whether radical changes in crime control and the pursuit of security! currently the subject of so much academic and political interest! signify the end of criminal justice as we know it. Zusammenfassung Criminal Justice is a stimulating reflection upon the core concepts, structures and practices of the criminal justice system. In the tradition of the Clarendon law Series, it is a guide for the uninitiated and a source of provocation for the informed. it explores the meanings of criminal justice, crime, punishment, criminal process, the court, the prison and other penalties. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Criminal Justice 2: Crime 3: Punishment 4: Criminal Process 5: Court 6: Financial and Community Penalties 7: Prisons 8: From Criminal Justice to the Security Society?

Product details

• Authors: Lucia Zedner, Zedner Lucia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2004
• EAN: 9780198763666
• ISBN: 978-0-19-876366-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 217 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Clarendon Law Series; Clarendon Law; Clarendon Law Series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, Wales, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociology & anthropology, Criminal justice law, Sociology and anthropology, Wales / Cymru