The Politics of Crime Control: Essays in Honour of David Downes

Criminal Law

The Politics of Crime Control Essays in Honour of David Downes

By Rock Paul Newburn Tim
Oxford University Press September 2009

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ISBN-13
9780199565955
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
September 2009
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • Contributors include leading British criminologists: Stanley Cohen, Robert Reiner, Dick Hobbs, Frances Heidensohn, Nicola Lacey, and Rod Morgan
  • Covers a broad range of comparative criminological theory including: penal cultures within the United States, 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
  • Contains an inside account of policy-making under New Labour

This book brings together ten leading British criminologists to explore the contemporary politics of crime and its control. The volume is produced in honour of Britain's most important criminological scholar - David Downes of the London School of Economics. The essays are grouped around the three major themes that run through David Downes' work - sociological theory, crime and deviance; comparative penal policy; and, the politics of crime. The third theme also provides the overarching unifying thread for the volume.

The contributions are broad ranging and 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 United States, 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.

Readership: Academics, scholars, and advanced students of crime and criminology, politics, and sociolegal studies, advanced students of policing studies

Table of Contents

1: Tim Newburn, Paul Rock: David Downes: An Introduction
2: Robert Reiner: Beyond Risk: A Lament For Social Democratic Criminology
3: Andrew Rutherford: Dangerous People: Beginnings of a New Labour Proposal
4: Rod Morgan: With Respect to Order, the Rules of the Game have Changed: New Labour's Dominance of the 'Law and Order' Agenda,
5: Dick Hobbs: East Ending: Dissociation, De-industrialisation and David Downes
6: Lucia Zedner: Opportunity Makes the Thief-Taker: The influence of economic analysis on crime control
7: Frances Heidensohn: Contrasts and Concepts: Considering the Development of Comparative Criminology
8: Nicola Lacey: Historicising Contrasts in Tolerance
9: Tim Newburn: Contrasts in Intolerance: Cultures of Control in USA and Britain
10: Declan Roche: Governance and Restorative Justice in Cali, Colombia
11: Stan Cohen: Neither Honesty Nor Hypocrisy: The Legal Reconstruction of Torture
1: Tim Newburn, Paul Rock: David Downes: An Introduction
2: Robert Reiner: Beyond Risk: A Lament for Social Democratic Criminology
3: Andrew Rutherford: Dangerous People: Beginnings of a New Labour Proposal
4: Rod Morgan: With Respect to Order, the Rules of the Game have Changed: New Labour's Dominance of the 'Law and Order' Agenda,
5: Dick Hobbs: East Ending: Dissociation, De-industrialization and David Downes
6: Lucia Zedner: Opportunity Makes the Thief-Taker: The Influence of Economic Analysis on Crime Control
7: Frances Heidensohn: Contrasts and Concepts: Considering the Development of Comparative Criminology
8: Nicola Lacey: Historicizing Contrasts in Tolerance
9: Tim Newburn: Contrasts in Intolerance: Cultures of Control in the United States and Britain
10: Declan Roche: Governance and Restorative Justice in Cali, Colombia
11: Stan Cohen: Neither Honesty Nor Hypocrisy: The Legal Reconstruction of Torture

About the Author

Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy and Director, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, LSE, and Paul Rock, Professor of Social Institutions, London School of Economics

Contributors: 

Tim Newburn, Paul Rock
Robert Reiner
Andrew Rutherford
Rod Morgan
Dick Hobbs
Lucia Zedner
Frances Heidensohn
Nicola Lacey
Tim Newburn
Declan Roche
Stan Cohen

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