Synopsis
Bryan Gibson Editor in Chief Waterside PressConsultants David Faulkner CB, Deborah Cheney, John Harding CBE and Nick Stevens
The essential guide to crime, punishment and criminal justice. With over 25,000 ENTRIES and CROSS-REFERENCES spanning the entire realm of crime, justice and penal affairs – plus 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.
- A UNIQUE HANDBOOK that is encyclopaedic, contemporary, historical, practical, scientific and expert. An ideal fact-finder for libraries and readers right across the English-speaking, and Common Law worlds.
- A WORK THAT RANGES ACROSS THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SPECTRUM from basic explanations of technical terms to fundamental issues of crime and punishment.
A wealth of information which among other things covers: abbreviations, acronyms, approaches, associations, barbarity, brutality, cases, codes, commentators, cultures, data, dates, debates, definitions, descriptions, developments, drugs, events, evidence, euphemisms, examples, experts, facts, frameworks, general principles, government departments, ground breaking advances, groups, guidelines, history, human rights, icons, ideas, initiatives, issues, judges, justice, juveniles, language, law, law and order, lawbreakers, lawyers, legislation, metaphors, media, methods, notoriety, offences, offenders, organized crime, outlaws, parole, policing, politicians, popular culture, practitioners, prisons, prisoners, probation, projects, proposals, punishments, questions, references, rules, regulations, restorative justice, sentencing, slang, shifts, statutes, symbols, systems, terms, terminology, texts, thinking, trailblazers, trials, tyrants, utterances, vice, victims, views and opinions, witnesses, working together, young offenders, youths, z-cars, zealots, and zero-tolerance.
