The Use of Punishment

Weis, Lois

Willan Publishing (UK)

Handbook of Policing

This volume aims to provide a comprehensive but readable overview of policing in the UK, reflecting the transformations that have taken place in recent years and the increasing professionalisation of one of the country's most important services.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Youth crime remains an enduring and growing problem and has been the subject of recent government policy initiatives. This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and critical overview of the youth justice system, taking full account of the many changes that have been introduced - in particular the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 in Britain and its subsequent implementation. A major goal of the book is to help youth justice practitioners and others studying youth crime and youth justice to make sense of these changes, to assess their implications for practice, and to understand some of the tensions and complexities that have arisen. The book begins by setting the youth justice system in historical context, and then it assesses the impact of political ideas and influence on both the structural arrangement for delivering youth justice (such as the Youth Justice Board and Youth Offending Teams) and practice initiatives (such as moves to implement forms of restorative justice). Taken together, these present serious challenges to those delivering youth justice. The book goes on to offer a critique of current developments and explores the options open to practitioners and service providers and some of the possibilities for positive intervention. Finally, a detailed agenda for improvement at all levels is set out.

Youth Justice: Ideas, Policy, Practice

Smith, Roger S.

Comparative Criminal Justice

This work aims to meet the need for an accessible introductory text on comparative criminal justice, examining the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main stages and elements in the criminal justice process, from policing through to sentencing. Examples are taken from all over the world, with a particular focus on Europe, the UK, the United States and Australasia.

Pakes, Francis J

Ten years into South Africa's new democracy, crime and what should be done about it are the subjects of endless debate. Arguments range from the accuracy of the country's crime statistics to the state of its prisons. But why is crime such a persistent problem? How have patterns of offending changed over the course of South Africa's transition to democracy? And how have crime control practices altered in response to the challenges of the post-apartheid era? This book sets out to answer these questions by providing a critical commentary on some of the key issues in contemporary South African criminology. Written by authors with extensive experience as teachers, researchers, policy advisers and practitioners, the essays collected in this book challenge some of the received wisdoms re-emerging in a discipline in danger both of forgetting its own history, and of misunderstanding the role of critical social science in a democratic South Africa. Written in a deliberately accessible style and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this volume of essays is the third in a series of critical studies in criminology produced under the auspices of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cape Town. Contents: Preface; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Justice Gained? Crime, Crime Control and Criminology in Transition, Bill Dixon; 1 'A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake': Politics and Crime in the Transition to Democracy in South Africa, Graeme Simpson; 2 Out of the Mainstream: Critical Reflections on Organised Crime in the Western Cape, André Standing; 3 Guns and Public Policy in South Africa, Anthony Altbeker; 4 Murder and Capital Punishment after Apartheid, Rob Turrell; 5 Child Justice and Diversion: Will Children's Rights Outlast the Transition?, Brian Stout and Catherine Wood; 6 Acting against Domestic Violence, Dee Smythe and Penny Parenzee; 7 Cosmetic Crime Prevention, Bill Dixon; 8 South African Policing Studies in the Making, Elrena van der Spuy; 9 Swimming against the Tide: Controlling the Size of the Prison Population in the New South Africa, Dirk van Zyl Smit; Index

Justice Gained?: Crime and Crime Control in South Africa's Transition

History

Africa

This textbook covers the Contract Law option of the new A-level law syllabus, and provides at the same time an ideal introduction for anyone coming to the subject for the first time. The book covers all A-level syllabuses/specification requirements in the UK, and is written by the principal examiner in Contract Law for one of the major examination boards. It contains extensive case illustration, and a range of examination related questions and activities. There is a special focus on key skills, and on the new synoptic assessment syllabus requirements. This fully updated third edition builds upon the success of the first two editions, with new case law (especially on offer and acceptance, legal intent, terms, exemption clauses and misrepresentation remedies) and coverage of new statute law (especially Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations).

Contract Law (3e)

Charman, Mary

Business

Comparative Policing: Contemporary Issues in Policing Change

King, Mike

An Introduction to Criminological Theory

Roger Hopkins Burke

Sociology

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