The official history of criminal justice in England and Wales: volume one: the "Liberal hour"
In: Whitehall histories: government official history series
In: Whitehall histories: government official history series
In: Pioneers in contemporary criminology series
Contents: Introduction; Published writings; Observations on debt collection; Some problems of interpretative historiography; Law, order and power in late 17th and early 18th century England; Governments, victims and policies in 2 countries; The present state of criminology in Britain; Witnesses and space in a Crown court; Introduction: the emergence of criminological theory; The social organization of a Home Office initiative; The opening stages of criminal justice policy making; Sociology and the stereotype of the police; Murderers, victims and 'survivors': the social construction of deviance; Victims, prosecutors and the state in 19th century England and Wales; Chronocentrism and British criminology; Aspects of the social construction of victims in Australia; Urban homelessness, crime and victimisation in England (with Tim Newburn); Treatment of victims in England and Wales; Name Index.
In: Clarendon studies in criminology
In: Clarendon studies in criminology
Holloway Prison for Women was rebuilt in the expectation that it would revolutionize the treatment of female offenders. This work describes the changes in penal ideology and conceptions of women's criminality as they fed into the design of this new prison from 1968 to 1988.
In: Clarendon studies in criminology
Thinking about criminology : facts are bits of biography / Paul Rock and Simon Holdaway -- Theorizing : sotto voce / Clifford Shearing -- Making the invisible visible in criminology : a personal journey / Elizabeth A. Stanko -- Translations and refutations : an analysis of changing perspectives in criminology / Frances Heidensohn -- Copping a plea / Robert Reiner -- Back to the future : the predictive value of social theories of delinquency / David Downes -- Roots of a perspective / Nils Christie -- From criminology to anthropology? Identity, morality, and normality in the social construction of deviance / Richard Jenkins -- Obituaries, opportunities and obsessions / Ken Pease -- Thinking about criminology : a reflection on theory within criminology / Simon Holdaway and Paul Rock.
In: Clarendon studies in criminology
Contributions cover such subjects as criminological theory and the new East End of London, the practice of comparative criminology including an analysis of variations in penal cultures within the US, restorative justice in Colombia, New Labour's politics and policy in relation to dangerous personality-disordered offenders, the legal construction of torture, and the future for a social democratic criminology.
In: Clarendon studies in criminology