Full Description
Davies, Croall & Tyrer's Criminal Justice, 6th edition, offers a comprehensive introduction to the criminal justice system in England and Wales. The perfect companion for anyone studying criminal justice as part of a Law or Criminology degree, this resource is designed to ensure that you understand:
The criminal justice process, institutions, personnel and agencies which work within it;
The purpose and role of the criminal justice system in the 21st century;
The different models of criminal justice and the underlying theories and perspectives that underpin them;
The current criminal justice laws and policies.
This new updated edition has been fully revised to cover important topics including policing priorities, hate crimes, ethnicity, victims, cultural complexities, resource constraints, domestic and international crime, court delays, the Sentencing Bill 2025 and a potential paradigm shift in sentencing away from the use of imprisonment towards community sentences. Also new to this edition is a ninth model of justice - the asymmetric model.
Contents
1: What is criminal justice?
2: What is crime?
3: Victims and the impact of crime
4: Governmental, political and administrative context of criminal justice in England and Wales
5: Crime prevention and reduction
6: The police
7: Prosecution, caution and diversion
8: Youth justice
9: Criminal courts, judiciary and pre-trial procedures
10: The trial and establishing guilt
11: Sentencing aims and process
12: Punishment philosophies and penal paradigms
13: Prisons
14: Probation Service and community penalties
15: Conclusion
