Dispensing Justice - Responses to Crime, Volume 4

Informationen zum Autor Lord Windlesham is the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and President of Victim Support. He was a former Minister at the Home Office and Northern Ireland Office, and as Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales for six years in the 1980s. Klappentext This final volume in Lord Windlesham's magnificent collection contains detailed commentaries on the controversy over access to jury trial, the not yet completed reform of criminal legal aid, and the policy imperative of strengthening the enforcement of community penalties. It also includes a comparative study of the development of public defender systems for indigent persons charged with criminal offenses in the United States. Zusammenfassung In this final volume of Responses to Crime the author completes a four-part description of the evolution of criminal policy over the second half of the twentieth century. The priorities for reducing crime and modernizing the system of criminal justice are subjected to informed analysis and comment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: High Tide: Mandatory Sentences, 1995-7 2: The Inheritance: Mandatory Sentences, 1997-9 3: Changing Course: Politics and Policy-Making, 1997-8 4: Reforms in the Criminal Process I: The Crown Prosecution Service 5: Reforms in the Criminal Process II: The Defendants 6: Righting the Balance? Public Defence in America 7: Reforms in the Criminal Process III: Mode of Trial 8: Community Penalties: Enforcement and Structural Change 9: Modernizing Criminal Justice, 1997-2001

Product details

• Authors: David Windlesham, David James George Hennessy Windlesham, Lord Windlesham
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2001
• EAN: 9780198298441
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829844-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Responses to Crime (Hardcover); Responses to Crime (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Violence in society, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Violence and abuse in society, Criminal law: procedure and offences