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Reviews the key issues and debates over criminal justice and criminal justice policy which have concerned politicians, practitioners and the public at large. The authors explore the ways in which the law and order agenda has shaped and changed priorities, the emergence of conflicting law and order and justice paradigms and the impact of the law and order reforms of the 1980s and 1990s.
List of contents
Part I:
1. Crime and Criminal Justice
2. Introduction
3. The Problem of Crime
4. Criminal Justice Agencies
5. Contrasting Paradigms in Criminal Justice
6. Summary
7. The Politicisation of Criminal Justice
8. Introduction
9. The Changing Role of the State in Criminal Justice
10. Redefining the Criminal Justice Agenda
11. Public Attitude to Crime
12. The Role of Government
13. New Criminological Theory
14. Conclusion: Politics and Ideology
15. Managerialism and Criminal Justice
16. Introduction
17. Managerialism and Criminal Justice
18. Organisational Design and Development
19. Task and Function of Criminal Justice Agencies
20. Efficiency and Productivity
21. Staffing
22. Evaluation and Conclusion
23. The Administrative Processing of Criminal Justice
24. Introduction
25. Key Features of Administrative Processing
26. The Complexification of Criminal Justice
27. The Bureaucratisation of Criminal Justice
28. The Professionalisation of Criminal Justice
29. Conclusions
30. Criminal Justice, Public Voice and Participation
31. Introduction
32. The Nature of Public Voice
33. Changes in Public Voice
34. Fear of Crime
35. A Revised Basis for Public Voice and Participation
36. Conclusion
Part II:
37. A Revised Approach to Criminal Justice
38. Introduction
39. Futures for Criminal Justice Policy
40. The Intervention of New Labour
41. A Revised Approach to Youth Justice
42. Case Study Findings: A Revised Approach to Criminal Justice
43. Summary and Conclusion
44. A Future for Criminal Justice
45. Policy
46. Introduction
47. A Rationale for Criminal Justice
48. Managing Transition
References
Index
Summary
Reviews the key issues and debates over criminal justice and criminal justice policy which have concerned politicians, practitioners and the public at large. The authors explore the ways in which the law and order agenda has shaped and changed priorities, the emergence of conflicting law and order and justice paradigms and the impact of the law and order reforms of the 1980s and 1990s.
