Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

Young Adult Offenders

Lost in Transition?

Edited by Friedrich Lösel, Anthony Bottoms, David P. Farrington

Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system. The subject is very topical because there is increasing evidence that a rigid distinction between ‘youth’ and ‘adulthood’ is not appropriate in modern societies....

Published May 27th 2012 by Willan

Hearing the Victim

Adversarial Justice, Crime Victims and the State

Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Julian Roberts

Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

In recent years far more attention has been paid to victims of crime both in terms of awareness of the effect of crime upon their lives, and in changes that have been made to the criminal justice system to improve their rights and treatment. This process seems set to continue, with legislative...

Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice

Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Michael Tonry

Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

In this book six leading criminologists address the central issues of ideology, crime and criminal justice in a series of essays originally presented at a symposium held in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz in Cambridge in March 2001. This book is concerned with the key themes of the history of...

Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

The Effects of Imprisonment

Edited by Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna

Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners. This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the...

Published August 31st 2006 by Willan

Sex Offenders in the Community

Edited by Amanda Matravers

Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

This book explores current criminal justice responses to the management of individuals who are convicted of sexual offences. It aims to help policy-makers, practitioners and students to develop an informed position on this complex and increasingly controversial issue. Although the focus is...

Published December 31st 2004 by Willan

Confronting Crime

Crime control policy under new labour

Edited by Michael Tonry

Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

From Labour's promise to be 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime' through to the White Paper and new criminal justice legislation, controlling crime and reforming the criminal justice system has been one of the government's key priorities.This book provides a detailed review of the...

Published August 31st 2003 by Willan

Community Penalties

Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Sue Rex

Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

Community penalties are punishments that, in the courts' sentencing tariff, come between imprisonment and fines. They include electronic tagging, supervised unpaid work, and compulsory participation by offenders in treatment programmes.Recent years have seen many changes in England in the field of...

Published June 30th 2002 by Willan

Reform and Punishment

Edited by Sue Rex, Michael Tonry

Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

In this book a group of leading authorities in the field address the key issues surrounding the future of sentencing in Britain, in the light particularly of the highly influential Halliday Report. These proposals for reform amount to the single most ambitious and comprehensive set of proposals for...

Published June 30th 2002 by Willan