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Prisoner resettlement is high on current political and policy
agendas. The high reconviction rates of ex-prisoners have been
acknowledged for many years but the rapidly rising prison
population has meant that more prisoners than ever before are
released. This together with the pressure this puts on to the
infrastructure of the prison estate and the publication of two
influential reports which highlighted the problems faced by
prisoners leaving prison has concentrated attention on attempts to
ensure that prisoners do not return to prison once released. The
resettlement of prisoners is now a priority policy area linked
directly to Government initiatives to reduce reoffending. The
renewed policy interest in prisoners resettlement forms the context
of this volume, which brings together current knowledge and
understanding about prisoners resettlement. The book draws on the
contributors extensive experience as researchers and practitioners
in the field and includes contributions from acknowledged experts.
Prisoner Resettlement provides a comprehensive review and analysis
of resettlement policy and practice in England and Wales in the
early part of the 21st century. In particular it: critically
reviews current policy, theory, practice and research on prisoners
resettlement explores practice issues through case studies of two
resettlement initiatives and an examination of accommodation
provision and voluntary sector involvement in prisoners
resettlement; and examines the particular issues raised by the
resettlement of different groups of prisoners including women,
minority ethnic groups, prolific and priority offenders and
high-risk offenders.
Tracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many
people’s everyday lives. Large sections of the population
voluntarily use devices and apps to track fitness, medical
conditions, sleep, vital signs or their own or others’
whereabouts. Governments, health services, immigration and criminal
justice agencies increasingly rely upon tracking technologies to
monitor individuals’ whereabouts, behaviour, medical conditions
and interventions. Despite the human rights concerns of some
organisations and individuals, most wearers and their significant
others tend to welcome the technologies. This paradox is only one
of the many fascinating challenges raised by the widespread use of
tracking technologies which are explored in this book. This book
critically explores the ethical, legal, social, and technical
issues arising from the current and future use of tracking
technologies. It provides a unique and wide-ranging discussion, via
a cross-disciplinary collection of essays, on issues relating to
technological devices and apps whose use is imposed upon wearers or
suggested by others, whether agencies or individuals, including in
the domains of criminal justice, terrorism, and health and social
care. Contributions from leading academics from across social
sciences, engineering, computer and data science, philosophy, and
health and social care address the diverse uses of tracking
technologies including with individuals with dementia, defendants
and offenders, individuals with mental health conditions and drug
users alongside legal, ethical and normative questions about the
appropriate use of these technologies. Cross-disciplinary themes
emerge focusing on both the benefits of the technologies –
freedom, improved safety, security, well-being and autonomy, and
increased capacity of and efficiencies for public services – and
the challenges – implementation and operational costs, mission
creep, privacy concerns, stigmatisation, whether the technologies
work as expected, and useability and wearability for all wearers.
This book is essential reading for academics and students engaged
in criminology, criminal justice, socio-legal studies, science and
technology studies, medicine, health and social care, psychology,
engineering, computer and data science, philosophy, social policy
and social work and security studies. It will also be of great
interest to policy-makers, regulators, practitioners already
deploying or considering using tracking technologies, and to
current and potential wearers.
Tracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many
people’s everyday lives. Large sections of the population
voluntarily use devices and apps to track fitness, medical
conditions, sleep, vital signs or their own or others’
whereabouts. Governments, health services, immigration and criminal
justice agencies increasingly rely upon tracking technologies to
monitor individuals’ whereabouts, behaviour, medical conditions
and interventions. Despite the human rights concerns of some
organisations and individuals, most wearers and their significant
others tend to welcome the technologies. This paradox is only one
of the many fascinating challenges raised by the widespread use of
tracking technologies which are explored in this book. This book
critically explores the ethical, legal, social, and technical
issues arising from the current and future use of tracking
technologies. It provides a unique and wide-ranging discussion, via
a cross-disciplinary collection of essays, on issues relating to
technological devices and apps whose use is imposed upon wearers or
suggested by others, whether agencies or individuals, including in
the domains of criminal justice, terrorism, and health and social
care. Contributions from leading academics from across social
sciences, engineering, computer and data science, philosophy, and
health and social care address the diverse uses of tracking
technologies including with individuals with dementia, defendants
and offenders, individuals with mental health conditions and drug
users alongside legal, ethical and normative questions about the
appropriate use of these technologies. Cross-disciplinary themes
emerge focusing on both the benefits of the technologies –
freedom, improved safety, security, well-being and autonomy, and
increased capacity of and efficiencies for public services – and
the challenges – implementation and operational costs, mission
creep, privacy concerns, stigmatisation, whether the technologies
work as expected, and useability and wearability for all wearers.
This book is essential reading for academics and students engaged
in criminology, criminal justice, socio-legal studies, science and
technology studies, medicine, health and social care, psychology,
engineering, computer and data science, philosophy, social policy
and social work and security studies. It will also be of great
interest to policy-makers, regulators, practitioners already
deploying or considering using tracking technologies, and to
current and potential wearers.
Questions of legitimacy and issues of compliance lie at the heart
of criminal justice systems and policies. Recent years have seen
greater recognition and awareness of the essential role of
legitimacy, trust and public confidence in underpinning the
effectiveness of criminal justice practices and institutions. As
such, experiences and perceptions of legitimacy have direct
implications for compliance, whilst securing public compliance
remains a pivotal challenge for systems of crime control. Exploring
the hitherto neglected links between legitimacy and compliance
raises crucial questions about the effectiveness of criminal
justice and point to ways in which both elements might be enhanced.
This book brings together leading international scholars to
consider a number of connected themes relating to compliance,
legitimacy and trust in different areas of criminal justice and
social regulation. It presents an inter-disciplinary dialogue and
debate that combines insights from criminology, psychology and
socio-legal studies drawing together conceptual analysis with
empirical research findings in relation to policing, anti-social
behaviour interventions, community penalties, electronic
monitoring, imprisonment and tax avoidance. In so doing, the book
presents advances in theory and conceptual understandings of
compliance and legitimacy within systems of crime control. The
contributors highlight the importance of normative and social
dimensions to compliance as well as the constructive role played by
experiences of procedural fairness and legitimacy in systems of
justice. This cutting-edge collection of essays will be invaluable
reading for all those interested in thinking critically about the
future of criminal justice policies and practices including
academics, researchers and criminal justice practitioners.
Questions of legitimacy and issues of compliance lie at the heart
of criminal justice systems and policies. Recent years have seen
greater recognition and awareness of the essential role of
legitimacy, trust and public confidence in underpinning the
effectiveness of criminal justice practices and institutions. As
such, experiences and perceptions of legitimacy have direct
implications for compliance, whilst securing public compliance
remains a pivotal challenge for systems of crime control. Exploring
the hitherto neglected links between legitimacy and compliance
raises crucial questions about the effectiveness of criminal
justice and point to ways in which both elements might be enhanced.
This book brings together leading international scholars to
consider a number of connected themes relating to compliance,
legitimacy and trust in different areas of criminal justice and
social regulation. It presents an inter-disciplinary dialogue and
debate that combines insights from criminology, psychology and
socio-legal studies drawing together conceptual analysis with
empirical research findings in relation to policing, anti-social
behaviour interventions, community penalties, electronic
monitoring, imprisonment and tax avoidance. In so doing, the book
presents advances in theory and conceptual understandings of
compliance and legitimacy within systems of crime control. The
contributors highlight the importance of normative and social
dimensions to compliance as well as the constructive role played by
experiences of procedural fairness and legitimacy in systems of
justice. This cutting-edge collection of essays will be invaluable
reading for all those interested in thinking critically about the
future of criminal justice policies and practices including
academics, researchers and criminal justice practitioners.
Prisoner resettlement is high on current political and policy
agendas. The high reconviction rates of ex-prisoners have been
acknowledged for many years but the rapidly rising prison
population has meant that more prisoners than ever before are
released. This together with the pressure this puts on to the
infrastructure of the prison estate and the publication of two
influential reports which highlighted the problems faced by
prisoners leaving prison has concentrated attention on attempts to
ensure that prisoners do not return to prison once released. The
resettlement of prisoners is now a priority policy area linked
directly to Government initiatives to reduce reoffending. The
renewed policy interest in prisoners resettlement forms the context
of this volume, which brings together current knowledge and
understanding about prisoners resettlement. The book draws on the
contributors extensive experience as researchers and practitioners
in the field and includes contributions from acknowledged experts.
Prisoner Resettlement provides a comprehensive review and analysis
of resettlement policy and practice in England and Wales in the
early part of the 21st century. In particular it: critically
reviews current policy, theory, practice and research on prisoners
resettlement explores practice issues through case studies of two
resettlement initiatives and an examination of accommodation
provision and voluntary sector involvement in prisoners
resettlement; and examines the particular issues raised by the
resettlement of different groups of prisoners including women,
minority ethnic groups, prolific and priority offenders and
high-risk offenders.
This book brings together a collection of essays by leading
criminologists to explore the relationship between the private
sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an
increasingly important 'partner' in contemporary criminal justice
with the unprecedented growth of public sector 'outsourcing'
arrangements. This has resulted in an increasingly pluralised and
marketised landscape of contemporary criminal justice. This edited
collection examines these developments in different jurisdictions
as well as in a wide range of criminal justice contexts and sectors
including: the private security sector, policing, prisons,
probation and community sanctions, and electronic monitoring. In so
doing, it addresses fundamental normative, ideological and ethical
debates about the role of the private sector within this new and
evolving landscape, as well as descriptive and analytical questions
about how criminal justice structures, agencies and processes
function and with what effect. The Private Sector and Criminal
Justice is essential reading for scholars and students of
criminology, penology, policing, security, criminal justice and
organisational and management studies. It is also an invaluable
resource for criminal justice practitioners.
The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal
justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their
families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together
leading experts to provide critical reflections and cutting edge
research on the contemporary features of voluntary sector work in
criminal justice. At a time when the voluntary sector's role is
being transformed, this book examines the dynamic nature of the
voluntary sector and its responses to current uncertainties, and
some of the conflicting positions with regards to its present and
future role in criminal justice work. It also examines the
potential impact of economic, political and ideological trends on
the role and remit of voluntary sector organisations which
undertake criminal justice work.
Bail is a fundamental human right which measures society's
democratic credentials. Taken alongside an increasing prison
population, there is an urgent need to find alternatives to
custodial remands which do not increase risks to the community.
This important book evaluates a bail support scheme called the
Effective Bail Scheme (EBS), which was the first such scheme
directed at adults, and places its findings in the context of bail
law and practice. Based on up-to-date research, this book will make
a valuable contribution to an under-researched area and provide
useful insights for policy makers and practitioners.
What is the criminal justice system for? How does it operate? How
does it treat victims, suspects, defendants and offenders? Does it
work? Is it fair? Criminal Justice provides a thought-provoking and
critical introduction to the challenges faced by the UK's criminal
justice system including policing, sentencing and punishment at the
beginning of the 21st Century. Expert contributors, including
criminologists and lawyers, provide students with a critical
introduction to issues, institutions and agencies which shape the
operation of the criminal justice system. A fascinating book which
provides students from a range of disciplines including
criminology, law, sociology, psychology and social policy with
knowledge and understanding of the key areas of the subject and an
appreciation of contemporary debates, policies and perspectives.
Each chapter features questions, summaries, tables, diagrams,
annotated further reading and weblinks, to ensure the book is as
accessible and engaging as possible, and provides clear guidance on
further study. An illuminating glossary of key terms is also
included. Online Resource Centre This title is accompanied by an
Online Resource Centre containing an online version of the glossary
of key terms and annotated web links. Adopting lecturers will also
have access to a test bank of multiple choice questions with
answers and feedback.
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