Author: Pycroft, Aaron Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 152920352X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
Drawing on criminology, philosophy and theology, this book develops a theory of ‘redemptive criminology’ for practice in criminal justice settings. The therapeutic impulse for the text is a focus on the individual practitioner’s ability to embrace difference with the other, to resist harsh penal measures and to bring about change from ‘the bottom up’. By challenging concepts and practices of rehabilitation, the authors argue for the possibility of redemption and for forgiveness as the starting point. Using real-life examples and an interpretative approach, the book explores the connections between victims, perpetrators and the community. The text articulates challenges for the justice system and offers new insights into punishment and retribution.
Author: Aaron Pycroft Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1529203570 Category : Criminal justice, Administration of Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Challenging concepts and practices of rehabilitation, this text draws on criminology, philosophy and theology to develop a theory of 'redemptive criminology' that could revolutionise the rehabilitation system. It offers new insights into punishment and retribution and explores the connections between victims, perpetrators and the community.
Author: McClanahan, Bill Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1529207479 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 190
Book Description
From fine art to popular digital culture, criminologists are increasingly engaged in the processes of the visual. In this pioneering work, Bill McClanahan provides a concise and lively overview of the origins and contemporary role of visual criminology. Detailing and employing the most prominent approaches at work in visual criminology, this book explores the visual perspective in relation to prisons, police, the environment, and drugs, while noting the complex social and ethical implications embedded in visual research. This original book broadens the horizons of criminological engagement and reveals how visual criminology offers new and critical ways to understand and theorize crime and harm.
Author: Millie, Andrew Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1529207428 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
At a time when criminal justice systems appear to be in a permanent state of crisis, leading scholars from criminology and theology come together to challenge criminal justice orthodoxy by questioning the dominance of retributive punishment. This timely and unique contribution considers alternatives that draw on Christian ideas of hope, mercy and restoration. Promoting cross-disciplinary learning, the book will be of interest to academics and students of criminology, socio-legal studies, legal philosophy, public theology and religious studies, as well as practitioners and policy makers.
Author: Aaron Doyle Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 0774818360 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
This book presents the work of a new generation of critical criminologists who explore the geographical, institutional, and political contexts of the discipline in Canada. Breaking away from mainstream criminology and law-and-order discourses, the authors offer a spectrum of theoretical approaches to criminal justice -- from governmentality to feminist criminology, from critical realism to anarchism � and they propose novel approaches to topics ranging from genocide to white-collar crime. By posing crucial questions and attempting to define what criminology should be, this book will shape debates about crime, policing, and punishment for years to come.
Author: Arrigo, Bruce Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1529205263 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 534
Book Description
We now live in a pre-crime society, in which information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization. However, such securitization comes at a cost – the criminalization of everyday life is guaranteed, justice functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered through dataveillance regimes. This pioneering book explores relevant theories, developing technologies and institutional practices and explains how the pre-crime society operates in the ‘ultramodern’ age of digital reality construction. Reviewing pre-crime's cultural and political effects, the authors propose new directions in crime control policy.
Author: Jennifer Furio Publisher: Algora Publishing ISBN: 0875861768 Category : Corrections Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
America keeps expanding its prisons - despite the lack of any credible evidence to show that this punitive view of justice provides safer communities and reduces crime. But how is this justice system serving us? This book is an introduction to the concept and practice of restorative justice, by Jennifer Furio, who captured America's heart with her letter exchanges with murderers.
Author: Gennaro F. Vito Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers ISBN: 1284090922 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 453
Book Description
The fourth edition of best-selling Criminology: Theory, Research, and Policy discusses criminal behavior and explores the factors that contribute to crime as well as the social reactions to crime. The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
Author: Murray Lee Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317311086 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 494
Book Description
The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime brings together original and international state of the art contributions of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of perceptions of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk. This is timely as fear of crime has now been a focus of scholarly and policy interest for some fifty years and shows little sign of abating. Research on fear of crime is demonstrative of the inter-disciplinarity of criminology, drawing in the disciplines of sociology, psychology, political science, history, cultural studies, gender studies, planning and architecture, philosophy and human geography. This collection draws in many of these interdisciplinary themes. This collections also extends the boundaries of fear of crime research. It does this both methodologically and conceptually, but perhaps more importantly it moves us beyond some of the often repeated debates in this field to focus on novel topics from unique perspectives. The book begins by plotting the history of fear of crime’s development, then moves on to investigate the methodological and theoretical debates that have ensued and the policy transfer that occurred across jurisdictions. Key elements in debates and research on fear of crime concerning gender, race and ethnicity are covered, as are contemporary themes in fear of crime research, such as regulation, security, risk and the fear of terrorism, the mapping of fear of crime and fear of crime beyond urban landscapes. The final sections of the book explore geographies of fear and future and unique directions for this research.
Author: Pycroft, Aaron
Author: Aaron Pycroft
Author: McClanahan, Bill
Author: Millie, Andrew
Author: Aaron Doyle
Author: Arrigo, Bruce
Author: Jennifer Furio
Author: John Lewis Gillin
Author: Gennaro F. Vito
Author: Murray Lee