Cover -- Changing Contours of Criminal Justice -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- Editors -- Contributors -- Mapping the Contours of Criminal Justice: An Introduction -- Criminal Justice Scholarship-A Brief History -- Criminal Justice as Ac ademic Discipline -- Structure and Themes of the Book -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: politics, legitimacy, and criminal justice -- Chapter 1: changing climates of control: the rise and fall of police authority in england & -- wales -- Introduction -- Police Politics in a 'Hot' Climate -- Policing and Climate Change -- Conclusion: Unsettled Prospects -- References -- Chapter 2: What is the Legacy of Thatcherism for the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales? -- What was Thatcherism? -- What is the Standard Criminological Position on Thatcherism and the Criminal Justice System? -- Why Would a Neo-liberal Care about Crime Anyway? -- Operationalizing Punitiveness -- Looking Afresh at some of the Key Criminal Justice System Developments of the 1980s -- Thinking about Thatcherite Influence on the Criminal Justice System -- References -- Chapter 3: the dog that never quite barked: social identity and the persistence of police legitimacy -- Procedural Justice, Social Identity, and Police Legitimacy -- From Procedural Justice to (Future) Behaviour -- Complicating Factors -- Evidence from a Survey Conducted in England and Wales -- Social Identity as a Predictor of Police Legitimacy -- Change and Stability in Police Legitimacy -- References -- Chapter 4: patrolling the borders of risk: the new bifurcation of probation services in england & -- wales -- Introduction -- The Rise of Risk in the Probation Context -- In with the New: Risk and Probation after Transforming Rehabilitation -- New Silos, New Borders -- The (Re)construction of Risk. An Imbalance of Power -- The Risk-Resources Nexus -- A Bifurcation of Purpose? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: race, ethnicity, and criminal justice: refocusing the criminological gaze -- Introduction -- Race Matters -- The Shifting Contours of Race and Criminal Justice -- Racialized Criminalization of British Muslims: From Victims to Villains? -- Criminology and the Silence of Race -- Continuing the Conversation: Why Criminology Should Talk about Race -- References -- Part II: Justice, Courts, and Security -- Chapter 6: Researching the Global Criminal Court -- Introduction -- Criminal Justice and Globalization: The Contours of a Global Court -- Bringing the Border Within: Migration Status, Deportability, and Punishment -- Negotiating Belonging: Criminal Adjudication and Civic Stratification -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Access to Criminal Justice: Changing Legal Aid Decision-making in the Lower Courts -- Introduction -- The Colonization of the Magistrates' Courts by Defence Lawyers: 1966-1992 -- The Birmingham Research: 1992 -- Funding Context -- Scope and Timing -- Access -- Shifting Political Context -- Research Impact -- The Continuing Debate on 'Alternative Arrangements': 1993-2005 -- The Oxford Research: 2005 -- Access -- Findings -- Impact -- The Expert Panel and its Aftermath: 2008-2016 -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: rationales for sentencing in england and wales over five decades-ratatouille without a recipe? -- Five Decades of Divergent Policies -- Rehabilitation -- Incapacitation -- Deterrence -- Desert and Proportionality -- From 'Nothing Works' to 'Prison Works'? -- References -- Chapter 9: the use of imprisonment as a sanction: lessons from the academy -- Recent Trends in the Use of Custody -- 'Widening of the Net' -- Academic Contributions to the Use of Sentencing Disposals -- The 'Custody Threshold'. Public Attitudes to the Use of Custody -- Attitudes to Custody for Serious Crimes -- Support for Alternatives to Custody -- Support for Mitigating Factors -- Sensitivity to Cost-effective Sentencing -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: an awkward fit: offenders with mental disabilities in a system of criminal justice -- Release from Incarceration: A 20-YEAR Saga -- Taking Horses to Water: Facilitating Effective Treatment -- Unfair Trials and Effective Participation -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11: criminal justice in the service of security -- Introduction-Back to the Future? -- Criminal Justice as Safeguard-For Whom? -- Criminal Justice in the Service of Security of a Different Kind -- Security as Threat to Criminal Justice: A Case Study -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- part III: punishment, policy, and practice -- Chapter 12: prisoner coping and adaptation -- Changing Pains -- Time Work -- Maintaining Bodily Integrity -- An Absence of Connectivity -- Coping In Extremis -- Putting Prison in its Place -- Decentring -- Tagging, Redux -- Personalizing Pain -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: striving to abolish the death penalty: some personal reflections on oxford's criminological contribution to human rights -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene -- The Global Surveys -- The Importance of Diss emination -- Empirical Research -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: researching the death penalty in closed or partially closed criminal justice systems -- Introduction: State Secrecy and the Death Penalty -- Shortcomings of Comparative Scholarship on the Global Death Penalty -- Clemency and Pardons in Southeast Asian Death Penalty Cases -- Meeting the Methodological Challenges -- Judicial, Arbitrary, Summary, and Extra-judicial Executions and the Death Penalty Paradigm -- Dealing with Data Shortcomings and Fieldwork Safety. Stating Conclusions Cautiously -- Conclusion: The Future of Comparative Death Penalty Research -- Chapter 15: border criminology: how migration is changing criminal justice -- Introduction -- Border Criminology: A Genealogy -- Immigration Detention -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Victims in, and of, the Criminal Justice System -- Chapter 16: Reclaiming Justice: The Challenges Posed to Restorative and Criminal Justice by Victim Expectations -- The Social and Legal Cultural Contexts of Crime and Justice -- Victim Views -- Keeping Victims, Families, and Community away from Sanctions -- Do Problem-solving Courts Support Desistance Efforts? -- What might 'Good Justice' Look Like? -- References -- Chapter 17: Domestic Violence and the United States' Criminal Justice System -- The Emergence of Domestic Violence (1960s-1990s) -- The 'VAWA Era' (1990s-2013) -- The Problem of Dual Arrests -- The Problem of 'No-drop' Policies -- Domestic Violence beyond Criminal Justice: A 'Post-VAWA Era'? -- References -- Chapter 18: Adolescent to Parent Violence and the Challenge for Youth Justice -- What do we know about APV? -- The Oxford APV Study -- The Policy Context -- Why has APV been Overlooked in the Youth Justice System? -- What Would a Coherent Youth Justice Response to APV Look Like? -- References -- Chapter 19: Victims of the State: Recognizing the Harms Caused by Wrongful Convictions -- Introduction -- The Rise of the Crime Victim -- The Wrongfully Convicted: Yesterday's Problem? -- Recognizing the Wrongfully Convicted as 'Victims' -- Inadequate Support and Compensation for Victims of Wrongful Conviction -- Justice and Restoration for Victims of Wrongful Conviction -- Looking Forward: Challenges for Future Research on Wrongful Convictions -- References -- Index.
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.
9780191092824
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.