Ebook: Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice (Cambridge Criminal Justice Series)

This book consists of papers originally presented at the Radzinowicz Commemoration Symposium convened in Cambridge in March 2001. It is offered as a tribute to the founding Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, who was also the first professor of criminology to be appointed in any British university. In wide-ranging chapters, the contributors - all leading scholars of crime and criminal justice - debate some of the central issues of ideology, crime and criminal justice, including morality and policing. Two of the chapters focus on the history of criminal just. Read more... Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Sir Leon Radzinowicz an appreciation; Recollections of Sir Leon Radzinowicz; Part I Theory; 1 Ideology and crime: a further chapter; 2 Morality, crime, compliance and public policy; Part 2 History; 3 Gentlemen convicts, Dynamitards and paramilitaries: the limits of criminal justice; 4 The English police: a unique development?; Part 3 Prisons; 5 A 'liberal regime within a secure perimeter'?: dispersal prisons and penal practice in the later twentieth century; Part 4 Research and Policy. 6 Criminology and penal policy: the vital role of empirical researchSir Leon Radzinowicz: a bibliography; Index