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This is an outstanding introduction to the history, development and current issues of some key areas of criminal justice policy in England and Wales...It is well written, easy to follow...A superb student text but also a most for anyone new to the field. - Labour Campaign for Criminal Justice
Crime and Criminal Justice Policy
is an introduction to the history of British criminal justice policy and a survey of the current debates about the British criminal justice and penal systems. It is a comprehensive and user friendly introduction to the field. The book covers not just the courts, probation and prison services but also policing, crime prevention and the issues surrounding the treatment of victims by the criminal justice system.
This new edition provides a substantial update and revision, and records the major changes in criminal justice policy and legislation over the last decade, particularly those introduced by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, and the Police Reform Act 2002.
List of contents
Introduction
1 The emergence of the modern penal system
The emergence of a new penal system?
The inter-War years
2 Prisons and imprisonment in post-War Britain
The Criminal Justice Act 1967
Grievances among the incarcerated
The May Report
The prison crisis escalates
Strangeways and the Woolf Report
The response to Woolf
Privatisation and penal policy
The aims of imprisonment?
The 1990s and beyond: the spectre of mass incarceration
3 The new police and the emergence of policing policy
The emergence of the modern police service
The police and policing after the Royal Commission
The Royal Commission on the Police 1960
The Police Act 1964
The introduction of Unit Beat Policing
The uncovering of corruption in the 1970s
A changing political context: policing after 1979
Urban unrest and policing the riots
Policing the miners' strike
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
Police investigation
Police accountability
Police complaints
Financing the police
The spectre of privatisation
Crime prevention and community policing
4 Policing: the 1990s and beyond
The White Paper on police reform
The Sheehy Inquiry
The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice
The Home Office Review of Core and Ancillary Tasks
The Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994
Other aspects of centralisation
Policing under New' Labour'
The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Summary
A comprehensive user friendly introduction to the field of British criminal justice, fully revised and updated including original documents and topical accounts.
