Criminal Justice: An Introduction to

"Criminal Justice is particularly geared to undergraduate students following programmes in criminal justice and criminology. It will also prove a useful resource for practitioners who are following vocationally based courses in the criminal justice area - for instance, social work, youth justice and police training courses."--BOOK JACKET.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

PART I HISTORY AND THEORIES OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

1

(130)

Why punish? Philosophies of punishment

3

(24)

Introduction: studying punishment

3

(1)

The aims of punishment

3

(5)

Deterrence

8

(4)

Retribution

12

(5)

Rehabilitation

17

(7)

Summary

24

(2)

Further reading

26

(1)

Theories of punishment

27

(32)

Introduction

27

(1)

The role of punishment in promoting social solidarity: the work and influence of Durkheim and Weber

28

(11)

Punishment as part of a class-based process of economic and social control: the Marxist approach

39

(8)

Punishment, power and regulation: the work of Michel Foucault

47

(9)

Summary

56

(1)

Further reading

57

(2)

The history of crime and justice

59

(36)

Introduction

59

(3)

Early history: before the `Bloody Code'

62

(3)

The eighteenth century and the `Bloody Code'

65

(3)

The birth of the prison: the late eighteenth century and beyond

68

(4)

The police and the emergence of the criminal justice system

72

(6)

Twentieth-century developments

78

(5)

Gender

83

(7)

Ethnicity

90

(3)

Further reading

93

(2)

Victimology

95

(36)

Introduction

95

(1)

Who are the victims?

96

(3)

The emergence of victimology

99

(5)

Theories and methods of research in victimology

104

(9)

Victims of private crime

113

(17)

Further reading

130

(1)

PART II THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

131

(86)

Police and policing

133

(28)

A brief history of policing

133

(12)

The police role today

145

(4)

Police culture

149

(11)

Further reading

160

(1)

The courts, sentencing and the judiciary

161

(26)

The structure of the courts

161

(5)

The Crown Prosecution Service

166

(1)

Trials and sentencing: principles and issues

167

(6)

Sentencing and social divisions

173

(5)

The judiciary

178

(8)

Further reading

186

(1)

Prisons and imprisonment

187

(30)

The history of prisons

187

(5)

Prisons and imprisonment: the current context

192

(13)

Imprisonment: experiences and issues

205

(6)

Community penalties

211

(4)

Further reading

215

(2)

References

217

(10)

Index

227

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