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Published in 1999. This book is the first socio-legal account of the Scottish criminal justice process and its constituent institutions. Its aims are: to explain the operation of the various elements which make up the 'system'; to summarise the considerable volume of relevant Scottish research; and to locate this knowledge within contemporary theorising about criminal justice.
List of contents
1. Introduction
Peter Duff and Neil Hutton 2. Crime Trends in Scotland Since 1950
David J. Smith and Peter Young 3. Crime Statistics and the 'Problem of Crime' in Scotland
Simon Anderson 4. Classifying Scottish Criminal Procedure
Christopher Gane 5. The Politics of Crime Prevention: The Safer Cities Experiment in Scotland
James Carnie 6. Situating Scottish Policy
Neil Walker 7. The Prosecution Service: Independence and Accountability
Peter Duff 8. Criminal Justice Responses to Bail Abuse
Fiona Paterson 9. Courts
Clare Connelly 10. Sentencing in Scotland
Neil Hutton 11. The Fine as an Auto-Punishment: Power, Money and Discipline
Peter Young 12. Community-based Disposals
Gill McIvor and Bryan Williams 13. Imprisonment and Other Custodial Sentences
Jim McManus 14. Preventing Offending by Children and Young People in Scotland
Stewart Asquith and Mike Docherty 15. Mental Disorder and Criminal Justice
Derek Chiswick 16. Women and the Scottish Criminal Justice System
Michele Burman 17. Scottish Ethnic Minorities, Crime and the Police
Jason Ditton 18. Victims of Crime
Sue Moody 19. Privatisation, Policing and Crime Control: Tracing the Contours of the Public-Private Divide
Nicholas R. Fyfe and Jon Bannister 20. The Politics of Penalty: An Overview of the Development of Penal Policy in Scotland
Lesley McAra 21. Bibliography
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Peter Duff, Neil Hutton
Summary
Published in 1999. This book is the first socio-legal account of the Scottish criminal justice process and its constituent institutions. Its aims are: to explain the operation of the various elements which make up the ‘system’; to summarise the considerable volume of relevant Scottish research; and to locate this knowledge within contemporary theorising about criminal justice.
