Contemporary Issues in Criminology

Distributed for University of Wales Press
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Introduction Michael Levi, Mike Maguire and Lesley Noaks, University of Wales, Cardiff.
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Comparative research in criminal justice Lucia Zedner, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
In search of a Third World criminology, Ian Clegg and Jim Whetton, University of Wales, Swansea
Policing apartheid + the discourses of the South African Police Mike Brogden, Queen’s University of Belfast
Labouring, loving and living: on the policing of culture in Trinidad and Tobago Maureen Cain, University of the West Indies
POLICING AND PROSECUTION
The end of public policing? Police reform and `the new managerialism’ Eugene McLoughlin, Open University and Karim Murji, Roehampton Institute, London
Revising `police powers’: legal theories and policing practices in historical and contemporary contexts David Dixon, University of New South Wales
Political autonomy, accountability and efficiency in the prosecution of serious fraud Michael Levi University of Wales, Cardiff
The Case for the Prosecution and administrative criminology (Authors meet critics 1) Mike McConville, University of Warwick and Andrew Sanders, Pembroke College, Oxford
Pessimism or professionalism? Legal regulation of investigations after PACE (Authors meet critics 2) Roger Leng, University of Warwick
New left pessimism (Authors meet critics 3) David Dixon, University of New South Wales
Authors meet critics: The Case for the Prosecution (Authors meet critics 4) Rod Morgan, University of Bristol
The Case for the Prosecution: police suspects and the construction of criminality (Authors meet critics 5) Robert Reiner, London School of Economics.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE ISSUES
The supervision of offenders + what works? Christopher Trotter, Monash University
Specialist activities in probation: `confusion worse confounded’? George Mair, Liverpool John Moores University
Criminal justice cultures: negotiating bail and remand Fiona Paterson, Scottish Office and Claire Whittaker, Home Office
Politics and prison management: the Northern Ireland experience Brian Gormally, NIACRO and Kieran McEvoy, Queen’s University of Belfast
Pre-court diversion and youth justice Maggy Lee, Birkbeck College, University of London.
CRIME, JUSTICE AND THE UNDERCLASS
The politics of youth crime prevention: developments in Australia and England and Wales John Muncie, Open University, Garry Coventry, La Trobe University, and Reece Walters, University of Wellington
Criminal Justice Act 1991 + management of the underclass and the potentiality of community Simon Gardiner, Anglia Polytechnic University
Critical criminology and the free market: theoretical and practical issues in everyday social life and everyday crime Ian Taylor University of Salford
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