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.
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.
Lucia Zedner and Andrew Ashworth: 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
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.
`An excellent collection from highly distinguished
contributors.'
Denis Jones, Youth Justice
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