Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g
ISBN: 978-0-582-36955-9
Verlag: Longman
A comprehensive user friendly introduction to the field of British criminal justice, fully revised and updated including original documents and topical accounts.
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Introduction
1 The emergence of the modern penal system
The emergence of a new penal system?
The inter-War years
2 Prisons and imprisonment in post-War Britain
The Criminal Justice Act 1967
Grievances among the incarcerated
The May Report
The prison crisis escalates
Strangeways and the Woolf Report
The response to Woolf
Privatisation and penal policy
The aims of imprisonment?
The 1990s and beyond: the spectre of mass incarceration
3 The new police and the emergence of policing policy
The emergence of the modern police service
The police and policing after the Royal Commission
The Royal Commission on the Police 1960
The Police Act 1964
The introduction of Unit Beat Policing
The uncovering of corruption in the 1970s
A changing political context: policing after 1979
Urban unrest and policing the riots
Policing the miners' strike
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
Police investigation
Police accountability
Police complaints
Financing the police
The spectre of privatisation
Crime prevention and community policing
4 Policing: the 1990s and beyond
The White Paper on police reform
The Sheehy Inquiry
The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice
The Home Office Review of Core and Ancillary Tasks
The Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994
Other aspects of centralisation
Policing under New' Labour'
The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998
