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An interdisciplinary source that addresses not only law but also sociology, psychology, history and economics. Entries vary widely from abortion to rape and from family violence to wiretapping, offering a mirror of issues dominating today's headlines. This edition is a complete update and revision of the previous edition that includes new essays on topics such as stalking, hate crimes, and HIV

This work provides a broad summary of American criminal justice in a time of great concern about solutions to the current crime epidemic. Allen suggests that the way to a more effective penal policy can be found by a closer adherence to the law rather than the current trend to bypass certain laws in the name of the "war on crime."

This comprehensive volume deciphers investigative process and practice, providing an authoritative insight into key debates and contemporary issues in crime investigations: Provides critical examination of investigative practice by focusing on the key issues and debates underpinned by academic literature on crime investigation; Outlines the theoretical explanations that provide an understanding of crime investigation and the context in which investigators operate; Illustrates the practical relevance of theoretical contributions to crime investigation; Places clear emphasis on the multi-discipl

This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting from attempts to introduce the procedural rights of victims within a criminal justice system that views crime as a matter between the state and the offender, and not as one involving the victim. To remedy this problem, the book calls for abandoning the concept of crime as an infringement of a state's criminal laws and instead reinterpreting it as a violation of human rights. The state's right to punish the offender would then be replaced by the rights of victims to see those responsible for violating their human rights convicted and punished and by the rights of offenders to be treated as accountable agents.--

RISK ASSESSMENT AND SENTENCING IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS AND PROPOSALS -- RISK ASSESSMENT AND SENTENCING IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS AND PROPOSALS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM -- SUMMARY -- AN OVERVIEW OF RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT -- RISK-NEEDS-RESPONSIVITY (RNR) PRINCIPLES -- CRITIQUES OF RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT -- SELECT ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- APPENDIX A. COMPARISON OF RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT LEGISLATION

Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service workers who try to curtail it Working together every day, the lives of sex workers, police officers, public defenders, and social service providers are profoundly intertwined, yet their relationships are often adversarial and rooted in fundamentally false assumptions. The criminal justice-social services alliance operates on the general belief that the women they police and otherwise regulate choose sex work as a result of traumatization, rather than acknowledging the fact that socioeconomic realities often inform their choices.Drawing on extraordinarily rich ethnographic research, including interviews with over one hundred street-involved women and dozens of criminal justice and social service professionals, Women of the Street argues that despite the intimate knowledge these groups have about each other, measures designed to help these women consistently fail because they do not take into account false assumptions about street life, homelessness, drug use and sex trading. Reaching beyond disciplinary silos by combining the analysis of an anthropologist and a legal scholar, the book offers an evidence-based argument for the decriminalization of prostitution

This article deals with the relationship between the emerging criminal justice and social policies of the 1997 Labour government. It analyses the legacy inherited from the previous Conservative administrations and explores the extent to which policy making in the one area is now influenced by activity in the other. The authors suggest that the objects of criminal justice policy are most likely to be achieved when understood and developed within a social policy context. They conclude, however, that in a number of important aspects, the current government seems more likely to pursue social policy objectives by invoking the instruments of criminal justice.

Intro -- The Benefits of Peace: Private Peacemaking in Late Medieval Italy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Usage -- Introduction -- 1 Peace and Concord -- The Meanings of Peace -- The Attraction of Peace: Features of the Instrumentum Pacis -- Finding Conflict in a Peace -- The Importance of Peace: Statutory Penalties for Peace-Breaking -- 2 Peacemaking in the Criminal Courts -- Jurists and Statutes on Peacemaking and Procedure -- A Case Study: Peacemaking and Denunciations in the Sienese Contado -- Peacemaking in Inquests Launched by Fama -- The Use of Peace in Courts into the Quattrocento -- 3 Peacemaking and the Criminal Ban -- Peacemaking's Role in Rebannimentum -- Rebannimentum Petitions and Amnesties -- Peace and Prison Release -- 4 Placing the Public in Private Peacemaking -- Between Public and Private Peacemaking -- The Scene of Peace -- Procurators and Peacemaking -- Peacemaking through Friends -- Arbitration and Peacemaking -- 5 Ecclesiastical Involvement in Peacemaking -- Preaching Peace and Popular Peace Movements -- Chief Ecclesiastics and Institutions in Peacemaking -- Priests, Rectors, and Monks in Everyday Peacemaking -- 6 Performing Peace in Medieval Rome -- 7 Women and Minors in Peacemaking -- Marriage as an Element of Peacemaking -- Women in Peacemaking -- Minors and Peacemaking -- 8 Assessing Peacemaking -- The Motives for Peace -- The Effectiveness of Peacemaking -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Map -- Appendix B: Tables -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of Administration of Justice as a research field and set out an agenda for future studies that could promote the production of scientific knowledge in this area. Design/methodology/approach – This paper explores the idiosyncratic features, dimensions of analysis upon the Administration of Justice, states a research agenda and discusses the main challenges on this theme. This paper conceptualizes Administration of Justice as a research field and discusses related phenomena from institutional and economic perspectives on innovation, performance, governance and legitimacy. Findings – As a research field, Administration of Justice is defined as a set of theoretical concepts, research methods and techniques, aiming to investigate the management processes associated with the use and articulation of resources, knowledge and institutions, at different levels of the justice system, and their influence on the provision of justice in a given social context. As social phenomena, four levels of analysis are proper to investigate the justice system: societal, inter-organizational, organizational and operational. Innovation, performance, governance and legitimacy are central themes of the Administration of Justice and present various gaps and research opportunities. Research limitations/implications – The main implications is the proposal of an agenda for future studies on the Administration of Justice field, which is an important step in raising awareness of the issue. Originality/value – Administration of Justice encompasses a growing interest among academics, justice practitioners and public managers regarding managerial and political practices carried out in the justice system. Although relevant, this subject has been scarcely studied by the management community. This paper invites community to adopt an organizational and institutional perspective to Administration of Justice, setting an agenda for future research.