Criminal Justice

Author: Anthea Hucklesby; Azrini Wahidin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199215546
Published In: June 2009
Format: Paperback , 400 pages
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Maps closely onto criminal justice modules, covering all key topics, and is therefore an ideal main text for such modules
Includes review questions, summaries, case studies, and tables and diagrams throughout, to pinpoint the key issues and help students engage with the subject
Provides both a thorough overview of the procedures central to the workings of the criminal justice system and a distillation of the topical debates that surround it, giving students all the information they need to appreciate how and why the system has developed in the way that it has, and to challenge and evaluate it
Accompanied by an extensive Online Resource Centre, which provides a variety of resources to support lecturers using the textbook in their teaching, and valuable additional materials for students

Criminal Justice

provides a thought-provoking and critical introduction to the challenges faced by the UK's criminal justice system including policing, sentencing and punishment at the beginning of the 21st Century. Expert contributors present an overview of particular areas of the criminal justice system or issues relevant to its operation, outlining the political and historical context, detailing key legislation, policies and procedures, and challenging students to engage with current debates.

Each chapter features questions, summaries, tables, diagrams, annotated further reading and weblinks, to ensure the book is as accessible and engaging as possible, and provides clear guidance on further study. An illuminating glossary of key terms is also included.

Criminal Justice

anticipates little or no prior knowledge of the subject area, and seeks to provide an introductory text for those commencing their studies in the disciplines of criminology and law for whom crime, law and order and the criminal justice system form important areas of study. The book will also be of interest to general readers and practitioners in the criminal justice system.

Online Resource Centre

This title is accompanied by an extensive Online Resource Centre, providing twice-yearly updates on developments in the criminal justice system, an online version of the glossary of key terms and annotated web links. Adopting lecturers will also have access to a test bank of 170 multiple choice questions with answers and feedback, and lecture notes for each chapter.

Readership: Undergraduates taking criminal justice modules as part of a criminology or criminal justice degree programme.

Anthea Hucklesby & Azrini Wahidin: Introduction
1: Daniel Gilling: Crime prevention
2: Stuart Lister: Policing
3: Anthea Hucklesby: The prosecution process
4: David Scott: Theories of punishment
5: Gavin Dingwall: Sentencing
6: Helen Johnston: Histories of Prison and Imprisonment
7: Azrini Wahidin: Prisons in Context
8: George Mair: Community sentences
9: Gerry Johnstone: Restorative justice
10: Mike Nellis & Anthony Goodman: Probation and offender management
11: Sandra Walklate: Gender and the criminal justice system
12: Basia Spalek: Minorities and the criminal justice system
13: Barry Goldson & John Muncie: Youth justice
14: Brian Williams and Matthew Hall: Victims in the criminal justice system
15: Anne Wilson: The criminal justice system in Scotland
16: Graham Ellison and Aogan Mulcahy: The criminal justice system in Northern Ireland
17: Michael Cavadino & James Dignan: The future of the criminal justice system

Edited by Anthea Hucklesby, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Leeds, and Azrini Wahidin, Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queen's University, Belfast

Contributors:

Michael Cavadino, Professor of Law, University of Central Lancashire
James Dignan, Professor of Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Leeds
Gavin Dingwall, Reader in Law, de Montfort University
Daniel Gilling, Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice Studies, Law and Social Science, University of Plymouth
Barry Goldson, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
Anthony Goodman, Professor of Criminal and Community Justice Studies, Middlesex University
Matthew Hall, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Sheffield
Anthea Hucklesby, Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice, University of Leeds
Helen Johnston, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Hull
Gerry Johnstone, Professor of Law, University of Hull
Stuart Lister, Lecturer in Criminal Justice, University of Leeds
George Mair, Professor of Criminal Justice, Liverpool John Moores University
John Muncie, Professor of Criminology, The Open University
Mike Nellis, Professor of Criminal and Community Justice, University of Strathclyde
Basia Spalek, Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice Studies, University of Birmingham
Azrini Wahidin, Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queen's University, Belfast
Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
The late Brian Williams, Professor of Community Justice and Victimology, de Montfort University
Anne Wilson, Lecturer in Sociology, Criminology and Penology, University of Abertay, Dundee