Changing Contours of Criminal Justice

Kurze Beschreibung
This collection will provide an engaging and critical account of the current state of criminal justice and the origins and implications of contemporary practice, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Centre for Criminology and featuring contributions from leading internationally-renowned criminologists.

Lange Beschreibung
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Centre for Criminology, this edited collection of essays seeks to explore the changing contours of criminal justice over the past half century and to consider possible shifts over the next few decades.

The question of how social science disciplines develop and change does not invite any easy answer, with the task made all the more difficult given the highly politicised nature of some subjects and the volatile, evolving status of its institutions and practices. A case in point is criminal justice: at once fairly parochial, much criminal justice scholarship is now global in its reach and subject areas that are now accepted as central to its study - victims, restorative justice, security, privatization, terrorism, citizenship and migration (to name just a few) - were topics unknown to the discipline half a century ago. Indeed, most criminologists would have once stoutly denied that they had anything to do with it. Likewise, some central topics of past criminological attention, like probation, have largely receded from academic attention and some central criminal justice institutions, like Borstal and corporal punishment, have, at least in Europe, been abolished. Although the rapidity and radical nature of this change make it quite impossible to predict what criminal justice will look like in fifty years' time, reflection on such developments may assist in understanding how it arrived at its current form and hint at what the future holds.

The contributors to this volume have been invited to reflect on the impact Oxford criminology has had on the discipline, providing a unique and critical discussion about the current state of criminal justice around the world and the origins and future implications of contemporary practice. All are leading internationally-renowned criminologists whose work has defined and often re-defined our understanding of criminal justice policy and literature.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Part 1: Politics, Legitimacy and Criminal Justice


• 1: Ian Loader: Changing Climates of Control: The Rise and Fall of Police Authority in England and Wales


• 2: Stephen Farrall: What is the Legacy of Thatcherism for the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales?


• 3: Ben Bradford: The Dog that never quite Barked: Social Identity and the Persistence of Police Legitimacy


• 4: Gwen Robinson: Patrolling the Borders of Risk: The new Bifurcation of Probation Services in England and Wales


• 5: Alpa Parmar: Changing Contours of Criminal Justice: Race, Ethnicity and Criminal Justice


• Part 2: Justice, Courts and Security


• 6: Ana Aliverti: Researching the Global Criminal Court


• 7: Richard Young: Access to Criminal Justice: Changing Legal Aid Decision-Making in the Lower Courts


• 8: Andrew Ashworth: Rationales for Sentencing in England and Wales over Five Decades - Ratatouille without a Recipe?


• 9: Julian Roberts and Lyndon Harris: The Use of Imprisonment as a Sanction: Lessons from the Academy


• 10: Jill Peay: An Awkward Fit: Defendants with Mental Disabilities in a system of Criminal Justice


• 11: Lucia Zedner: Criminal Justice in the Service of Security


• Part 3: Punishment, Policy and Practice


• 12: Ian O'Donnell: Prisoner Coping and Adaptation


• 13: Roger Hood: Striving to Abolish the Death Penalty: Some Personal Reflections on Oxford's Criminological Contribution to Human Rights


• 14: Daniel Pascoe: Researching the Death Penalty in Closed or Partially-Closed Criminal Justice Systems


• 15: Mary Bosworth: Border Criminology: How Migration is changing Criminal Justice


• Part 4: Victims in, and of, the criminal justice system


• 16: Joanna Shapland: Reclaiming Justice: The Challenges posed to Restorative and Criminal Justice by Victim Expectations


• 17: Michelle Madden Dempsey: Domestic Violence and the United States' Criminal Justice System


• 18: Rachel Condry and Caroline Miles: Adolescent to Parent Violence and the Challenge for Youth Justice


• 19: Carolyn Hoyle: Victims of the State: Recognizing the Harms caused by Wrongful Convictions