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Legitimacy and Criminal Justice An International Exploration

Author: Justice Tankebe; Alison Liebling
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198701996
Published In: November 2013
Format: Hardback , 384 pages
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A landmark work presenting comprehensive theoretical, empirical and political analysis of the sources and problems of criminal justice legitimacy
Features contributions by leading political theorists and criminologists, plus unique, comparative insights from scholars around the world
Addresses the reality of an increasingly globalised world, including dealings with ethnically and religiously diverse communities and dilemmas posed by perceived terrorist threats
Explores the growing importance of international organisations in relation to legitimacy, both in international and domestic manifestations

Based on an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Cambridge in May 2012, Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration brings together internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines including criminology, international relations, sociology and political science to examine the meaning of legitimacy and advance its theoretical understanding within the context of criminal justice. In policy terms, the conference afforded a timely opportunity for criminal justice senior managers and researchers to discuss the practical applications and implications of legitimacy for policing and prisons. This resulting volume aims to: advance conceptual understanding of legitimacy in the contexts of policing and criminal justice; to develop a better understanding of the implications of analyses of legitimacy for the practical contexts of policing, prisons and criminal justice; and to recognise the growing number of contexts in which criminal justice personnel encounter ethnically and religiously diverse communities, such as the acute dilemmas for legitimate authority posed by perceived terrorist threats. Attention is also devoted to the growing importance of international organisations in relation to legitimacy, both in its international and domestic manifestations.

The volume includes 16 substantial new contributions to this important field from leading political and theoretical scholars in the field, along with the results of several recent empirical studies. Together they constitute an unprecedented synthesis of disparate but leading thinkers in the growing field of legitimacy scholarship and should be of value to social scientists across different disciplines and to criminal justice practitioners.

Readership: Academics and graduate students of criminology, politics and social sciences, and international relations, as well as senior managers in all criminal justice agencies.

PART 1. POLITICAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON LEGITIMACY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
1: John Dunn: Legitimacy and Democracy in the World Today
2: David Beetham: Revisiting Legitimacy, Twenty Years on
3: Jean-Marc Coicaud: Crime, Justice and Legitimacy: A Brief Theoretical Inquiry
PART 2: LEGITIMACY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
4: Anthony Bottoms and Justice Tankebe: "A Voice Within": Power-holders' Perspectives on Authority and Legitimacy
5: Tom Tyler and Jon Jackson: Future Challenges in the Study of Legitimacy and Criminal Justice
6: Ian Loader and Richard Sparks: Unfinished Business: Legitimacy, Crime Control and Democratic Politics
7: Susanne Karstedt: Trusting Authorities: Legitimacy, Trust and Collaboration in Non-Democratic Regimes
PART 3: SEEKING LEGITIMACY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE CONTEXTS
8: Michael Levi: Legitimacy, Crimes and Compliance in 'the City': de maximis non curat lex?
9: Jacqueline Hodgson: Legitimacy and State Responses to Terrorism
10: Alison Liebling: "Legitimacy Under Pressure" in High Security Prisons
11: Jonathan Simon: An Unenviable Task: How Federal Courts Legitimized Mass Incarceration
12: Andrew Jefferson: The Situated Production of Legitimacy: Perspectives from the Global South
13: Dirk van Zyl Smit: Legitimacy and the Development of International Standards for Punishment
14: Peter Neyroud and Lawrence Sherman: Dialogue and Dialectic: Police Legitimacy and the New Professionalism
PART 4: LEGITIMACY AND CRIME
15: Manuel Eisner and Amy Nivette: Does Low Legitimacy Cause Crime? A Review of the Evidence
16: Mike Hough, Jon Jackson and Ben Bradford: Legitimacy, Trust and Compliance: An Empirical Test of Procedural Justice Theory Using the European Social Survey

Justice Tankebe is University Lecturer in Criminology at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology.

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology, and an editor of the Clarendon Studies in Criminology Series.

Contributors:
Professor David Beetham, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds, UK
Professor Anthony Bottoms, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Ben Bradford, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Jean-Marc Coicaud, Rutgers University, USA
Professor John Dunn, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Manuel Eisner, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Jacqueline Hodgson, University of Warwick, UK
Professor Mike Hough, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Dr Jon Jackson, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Dr Andrew Jefferson, DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture, Copenhagen, Denmark
Professor Susanne Karstedt, University of Leeds, UK
Professor Michael Levi, Cardiff University, UK
Professor Alison Liebling, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Ian Loader, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK
Peter Neyroud, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Amy Nivette, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Lawrence Sherman, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Jonathan Simon, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Professor Richard Sparks, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Justice Tankebe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Tom Tyler, Yale University, USA
Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham, UK

"'Not only are the authors well-established experts on their topics of the first rank internationally, but the selections have been carefully assembled to constitute a comprehensive theoretical, empirical and policy analysis of the sources and problems of criminal justice legitimacy. The book will be a major reference point for future discussion.'" - Robert Reiner, Emeritus Professor of Criminology, London Schools of Economics

"'The authors of the individual papers contributed to this collection are all prominent authorities in their respective fields and the scope of the book is both comprehensive and interesting in that it brings together diverse academic disciplines. I can imagine that this will become an authoritative reference for many years to come.'" - P.A.J. Waddington, Professor of Social Policy, University of Wolverhampton