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The Waterside Press A-Z of Criminal Justice (P/back)
~ Bryan Gibson
Pages
Paperback
Due For Publication
01/11/2008
ISBN-10:
1872870104
ISBN-13:
9781872870106
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The Waterside Press A-Z of Criminal Justice (P/back)
Bryan Gibson Editor in Chief Waterside Press
Consultants David Faulkner CB, Deborah Cheney, John Harding CBE and Nick Stevens
The essential guide to crime and punishment tracing developments and placing these in broad context. With over 25,000 ENTRIES and CROSS-REFERENCES spanning the entire realm of crime, justice and penal affairs – together with a CRIMINAL JUSTICE TIMELINE of events, changes, laws, methods, initiatives and trends from 500 AD to date.
· A TOUCHSTONE for practitioners, criminologists, lawyers, judges, magistrates, social historians, teachers, students, researchers and others who want to know about the bigger picture of criminal justice in the UK, that ranges from basic information to detailed analysis and points of reference.
· AN INDISPENSIBLE HANDBOOK and a unique, contemporary, encyclopaedic, historic, practical, scientific and expert fact finder for libraries and readers right across the English-speaking, Common Law world.
· A RESOURCE TO KEEP AT THE READY for those times when access to information is indispensable.
The A to Z ranges across the spectrum, from basic explanations of technical terms to fundamental issues of crime and punishment. Among many other things it covers:
abbreviations, acronyms, approaches, associations, barbarity, brutality, cases, codes, data, dates, debates, definitions, descriptions, developments, drugs, events, evidence, euphemisms, examples, experts, facts, frameworks, general principles, government, groundbreaking advances, groups, guidelines, history, human rights, icons, ideas, initiatives, issues, judges, justice, language, law, law and order, lawbreakers, lawyers, leading-edge matters, legislation, metaphors, media, methods, notorious incidents, offences, offenders, outlaws, parole, people, policing, politicians, popular culture, practitioners, prisons, prisoners, probation, projects, proposals, punishments, questions, references, rules, regulations, restorative justice, sentencing, slang, shifts, statutes, symbols, terms, terminology, texts, thinking, trailblazers, trials, tyrants, understandings, utterences, victims, witnesses and working cultures, - as well as wide-ranging information about the Criminal Justice System.
Over 25,000 entries and cross-references as per the examples below.
A
Accident
Act of God
Amendment
Approaches
Armstrong, Herbert Rouse
Anti-social behaviour (ASB)
B
Bail
Behan, Brendan
Borstal
Bullying
Brixton
Burglary
Bylaw
C
Carousel fraud
Children
Cheating
Con
Costa del crime
Crack
D
Danger
Deception
Decriminalisation
Delay
Deportation
DNA
Drugs
E
E-fit
Eligibility
Euphemism
Europe
Exclusion
F
Fear
Fine
Fingerprint
Folie a deaux
Frolic
G
Game
Glorification
Great train robbery
Green issues
H
Hale, Mathew
Hand held device
Hair
Holocaust
I
Inside Time
Intelligence
Internet
Initiative
Interview
J
Jeffries, George (Judge Jeffreys)
Joyriding
Judge
Judicial
Justice
K
Key performance indicator (KPI)
Ku Klux Klan
L
Last resort
Legal aid
Legislation
Life imprisonment
M
Mafia
Miners strike
Mission creep
Misrepresentation
Morality/Morals
Motive
N
National Criminal Intelligence Agency
N-word
O
Offender
Outside
Outsider
P
Parole
Peterloo massacre
Prison
Prisoner
Probation
Punishment
Q
Qualification
Queen's evidence
R
Radical
Rage
Razor Smith
Rehabilitation
Reintegration
Restorative justice
S
Sentencing
Sexual offences
T
Teacher
Thinking skills
Threat
Three strikes
Tolpuddle martyrs
Transportation
Truancy
U
Underworld
V
Vacquier, John Pierre
W
Women
Writing
X
X-Ray
Y
Young offender
Youth justice
Z
Z-Cars
Zealot
Zero tolerance
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