The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy

Essays in Honour of Roger Hood
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-926509-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 564 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 760 g

The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy brings together leading international criminologists to examine the link between the fruits of criminological research and the development of criminal justice policy. This volume includes comparative discussions of the United States, Germany, Australia, England, and Wales. It is divided into four parts. Part 1 discusses the theoretical issues surrounding the relationship between public policy and the discipline of criminology. Part 2 consists of three essays exploring historical aspects of that relationship. Part 3 then examines three distinct areas of penal policy: sentencing, policing, and parole, as case studies of the influence of research upon the development of policy. Finally, in Part 4, which is explicitly devoted to international comparisons, there is a consideration of the factors that distinguish research projects that do influence criminal justice policy from those that appear not to.

The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy is a volume in honour of Roger Hood, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminological Research in the University of Oxford.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zedner, Lucia

Ashworth, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Editors' Introduction

- Part 1 The Theoretical Relationships between Research and Policy

- 1: Richard V. Ericson: The Culture and Power of Criminological Research

- 2: Nicola Lacey: Principles, Politics, and Criminal Justice

- 3: Anthony E. Bottoms: Theoretical Reflections on the Evaluation of a Penal Policy Initiative

- Part 2 The Historical Development of Criminology as a Basis for Criminal Justice Policy

- 4: Lucia Zedner: Useful Knowledge? Debating the Role of Criminology in Post-war Britain

- 5: Seán McConville: Hearing not Listening: Penal Policy and the Political Prisoners of 1906-1921

- 6: Lord Windlesham: Ministers and Modernization: Criminal Justice Policy, 1997-2001

- Part 3 Criminological Research and Policy Change: Three Case Studies

- 7: Andrew Ashworth: Sentencing and Sensitivity: A Challenge for Criminological Research

- 8: Richard Young and Andrew Sanders: The Forester's Dilemma: The Influence of Police Research on Police Practice

- 9: Stephen Shute: The Development of Parole and the Role of Research in its Reform

- Part 4 International Comparisons

- 10: Heike Jung: The Renaissance of the Victim in Criminal Policy: A Reconstruction of the German Campaign

- 11: Richard Harding: Influencing Policy: Successes and Failures of Criminological Research in Australia

- 12: Michael Tonry and David A. Green: Criminology and Public Policy in the USA and UK

Über Autor(innen)

Lucia Zedner is Reader in Criminal Justice, Senior Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and an Associate Member of the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford. From 1989-94 she was a lecturer at the London School of Economics, and from 1991-94 she was also assistant Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Andrew Ashworth QC, DCL, FBA is Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford, and has been an Associate of the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford since 1980. He is a member of the Sentencing Advisory Panel and of the Criminal Committee of the Judicial Studies Board.