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The police are viewed as guardians of public safety and enforcers
of the law. How accurate is this? Given endemic police violence
which often aimed at racialised and minoritised groups and the
failure of many attempts at reform, attention has turned to
community-generated models of support. These include defunding the
police and instead funding alternatives to criminalization and
incarceration. This book is the first comprehensive overview of
police divestment, using international examples and case studies to
reimagine community safety beyond policing and imprisonment.
Showcasing a range of practical examples, this topical book will be
relevant for academics, policy makers, activists and all those
interested in the Black Lives Matter movement, protest movements
and the renewed interest in policing and abolitionism more
generally.
The police are viewed as guardians of public safety and enforcers
of the law. How accurate is this? Given endemic police violence
which often aimed at racialised and minoritised groups and the
failure of many attempts at reform, attention has turned to
community-generated models of support. These include defunding the
police and instead funding alternatives to criminalization and
incarceration. This book is the first comprehensive overview of
police divestment, using international examples and case studies to
reimagine community safety beyond policing and imprisonment.
Showcasing a range of practical examples, this topical book will be
relevant for academics, policy makers, activists and all those
interested in the Black Lives Matter movement, protest movements
and the renewed interest in policing and abolitionism more
generally.
Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and
this edited collection examines their influence on systems of
policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the
Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social
harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental
degradation and the criminalization of protest. The book asks how
current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose
interests they continue to serve through vivid international case
studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse
of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on
the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach
can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.
This book represents the first major analysis of Anglo-Australian
youth justice and penality to be published and it makes significant
theoretical and empirical contributions to the wider field of
comparative criminology. By exploring trends in law, policy and
practice over a forty-year period, the book critically surveys the
'moving images' of youth justice regimes and penal cultures, the
principal drivers of reform, the core outcomes of such processes
and the overall implications for theory building. It addresses a
wide range of questions including: How has the temporal and spatial
patterning of youth justice and penality evolved since the early
1980s to the present time? What impacts have legislative and policy
reforms imposed upon processes of criminalisation, sentencing
practices and the use of penal detention for children and young
people? How do we comprehend both the diverse ways in which public
representations of 'young offenders' are shaped, structured and
disseminated and the varied, conflicting and contradictory effects
of such representations? To what extent do international human
rights standards influence law, policy and practice in the realms
of youth justice and penality? To what extent are youth justice
systems implicated in the production and reproduction of social
injustices? How, and to what degree, are youth justice systems and
penal cultures internationalised, nationalised, regionalised or
localised? The book is essential reading for researchers, students
and tutors in criminology, criminal justice, law, social policy,
sociology and youth studies.
This book represents the first major analysis of Anglo-Australian
youth justice and penality to be published and it makes significant
theoretical and empirical contributions to the wider field of
comparative criminology. By exploring trends in law, policy and
practice over a forty-year period, the book critically surveys the
'moving images' of youth justice regimes and penal cultures, the
principal drivers of reform, the core outcomes of such processes
and the overall implications for theory building. It addresses a
wide range of questions including: How has the temporal and spatial
patterning of youth justice and penality evolved since the early
1980s to the present time? What impacts have legislative and policy
reforms imposed upon processes of criminalisation, sentencing
practices and the use of penal detention for children and young
people? How do we comprehend both the diverse ways in which public
representations of 'young offenders' are shaped, structured and
disseminated and the varied, conflicting and contradictory effects
of such representations? To what extent do international human
rights standards influence law, policy and practice in the realms
of youth justice and penality? To what extent are youth justice
systems implicated in the production and reproduction of social
injustices? How, and to what degree, are youth justice systems and
penal cultures internationalised, nationalised, regionalised or
localised? The book is essential reading for researchers, students
and tutors in criminology, criminal justice, law, social policy,
sociology and youth studies.
Rethinking Community Sanctions: Social Justice and Penal Control
redresses the invisibility of community sanctions in a popular
imaginary dominated by the prison, resulting in their being seen as
‘not prison’, ‘not punishment’, a ‘let off’, or
expression of mercy. Based on insights from interviews with key
participants in 3 Australian jurisdictions, case studies of
selected programmes and policies, and the international literature,
the authors focus on the effects of community sanctions among
groups vulnerable to penal control: First Nations peoples, women,
and those with disabilities, along with those at the intersections
of these groups. Arguing that developing a better, more democratic
politics around community sanctions requires coming to terms with
the wider carceral web in which vulnerable groups are ensnared,
they demonstrate the importance of connecting criminal legal system
struggles with broader movements for community control,
self-determination, and sovereignty.
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in
late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and
use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the
re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual
and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book
analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment.
Authored by some of Australia's leading penal theorists, the book
examines the historical and contemporary influences on the use of
the prison, with analyses of colonialism, post colonialism, race,
and what they term the 'penal/colonial complex,' in the
construction of imprisonment rates and on the development of the
phenomenon of hyperincarceration. The authors develop penal culture
as an explanatory framework for continuity, change and difference
in prisons and the nature of contested penal expansionism. The
influence of transformative concepts such as 'risk management',
'the therapeutic prison', and 'preventative detention' are explored
as aspects of penal culture. Processes of normalization,
transmission and reproduction of penal culture are seen throughout
the social realm. Comparative, contemporary and historical in its
approach, the book provides a new analysis of penality in the 21st
century.
Aboriginal people are grossly over-represented before the courts
and in our gaols. Despite numerous inquiries, State and Federal,
and the considerable funds spent trying to understand this
phenomenon, nothing has changed. Indigenous people continue to be
apprehended, sentenced, incarcerated and die in gaols. One part of
this depressing and seemingly inexorable process is the behaviour
of police. Drawing on research from across Australia, Chris Cunneen
focuses on how police and Aboriginal people interact in urban and
rural environments. He explores police history and police culture,
the nature of Aboriginal offending and the prevalence of
over-policing, the use of police discretion, the particular
circumstances of Aboriginal youth and Aboriginal women, the
experience of community policing and the key police responses to
Aboriginal issues. He traces the pressures on both sides of the
equation brought by new political demands. In exploring these
issues, Conflict, Politics and Crime argues that changing the
nature of contemporary relations between Aboriginal people and the
police is a key to altering Aboriginal over-representation in the
criminal justice system, and a step towards the advancement of
human rights.
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in
late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and
use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the
re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual
and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book
analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment.
Authored by some of Australia's leading penal theorists, the book
examines the historical and contemporary influences on the use of
the prison, with analyses of colonialism, post colonialism, race,
and what they term the 'penal/colonial complex,' in the
construction of imprisonment rates and on the development of the
phenomenon of hyperincarceration. The authors develop penal culture
as an explanatory framework for continuity, change and difference
in prisons and the nature of contested penal expansionism. The
influence of transformative concepts such as 'risk management',
'the therapeutic prison', and 'preventative detention' are explored
as aspects of penal culture. Processes of normalization,
transmission and reproduction of penal culture are seen throughout
the social realm. Comparative, contemporary and historical in its
approach, the book provides a new analysis of penality in the 21st
century.
Aboriginal people are grossly over-represented before the courts
and in our gaols. Despite numerous inquiries, State and Federal,
and the considerable funds spent trying to understand this
phenomenon, nothing has changed. Indigenous people continue to be
apprehended, sentenced, incarcerated and die in gaols. One part of
this depressing and seemingly inexorable process is the behaviour
of police. Drawing on research from across Australia, Chris Cunneen
focuses on how police and Aboriginal people interact in urban and
rural environments. He explores police history and police culture,
the nature of Aboriginal offending and the prevalence of
over-policing, the use of police discretion, the particular
circumstances of Aboriginal youth and Aboriginal women, the
experience of community policing and the key police responses to
Aboriginal issues. He traces the pressures on both sides of the
equation brought by new political demands.In exploring these
issues, Conflict, Politics and Crime argues that changing the
nature of contemporary relations between Aboriginal people and the
police is a key to altering Aboriginal over-representation in the
criminal justice system, and a step towards the advancement of
human rights.
Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore
Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a
contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative
Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New
Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical underpinnings to the
development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the
broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice.
Written by leading criminologists specialising in Indigenous
justice issues, the book argues for the importance of Indigenous
knowledges and methodologies to criminology, and suggests that
colonialism needs to be a fundamental concept to criminology in
order to understand contemporary problems such as deaths in
custody, high imprisonment rates, police brutality and the high
levels of violence in some Indigenous communities. Prioritising the
voices of Indigenous peoples, the work will make a significant
contribution to the development of a decolonising criminology and
will be of wide interest.
Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore
Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a
contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative
Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New
Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical underpinnings to the
development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the
broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice.
Written by leading criminologists specialising in Indigenous
justice issues, the book argues for the importance of Indigenous
knowledges and methodologies to criminology, and suggests that
colonialism needs to be a fundamental concept to criminology in
order to understand contemporary problems such as deaths in
custody, high imprisonment rates, police brutality and the high
levels of violence in some Indigenous communities. Prioritising the
voices of Indigenous peoples, the work will make a significant
contribution to the development of a decolonising criminology and
will be of wide interest.
Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass
incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003.
This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its
potential as a mechanism for winding back imprisonment rates, and
its portability to Australia, the United Kingdom and beyond. The
authors analyze the principles and processes of justice
reinvestment, including the early neighborhood focus on 'million
dollar blocks'. They further scrutinize the claims of
evidence-based and data-driven policy, which have been used in the
practical implementation strategies featured in bipartisan
legislative criminal justice system reforms. This book takes a
comparative approach to justice reinvestment by examining the
differences in political, legal and cultural contexts between the
United States and Australia in particular. It argues for a
community-driven approach, originating in vulnerable Indigenous
communities with high imprisonment rates, as part of a more general
movement for Indigenous democracy. While supporting a social
justice approach, the book confronts significantly the problematic
features of the politics of locality and community, the process of
criminal justice policy transfer, and rationalist conceptions of
policy. It will be essential reading for scholars, students and
practitioners of criminal justice and criminal law.
Crime, Deviance and Society: An Introduction to Sociological
Criminology offers a comprehensive introduction to criminological
theory. The book introduces readers to key sociological theories,
such as anomie and strain, and examines how traditional approaches
have influenced the ways in which crime and deviance are
constructed. It provides a nuanced account of contemporary theories
and debates, and includes chapters covering feminist criminology,
critical masculinities, cultural criminology, green criminology,
and postcolonial theory, among others. Case studies in each chapter
demonstrate how sociological theories can manifest within and
influence the criminal justice system and social policy. Each
chapter also features margin definitions and timelines of
contributions to key theories, reflection questions and
end-of-chapter questions that prompt students reflection. Written
by an expert team of academics from Australia, New Zealand and the
United Kingdom, Crime, Deviance and Society is a highly engaging
and accessible introduction to the field for students of
criminology and criminal justice.
Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia (fifth edition) is
about youth and crime in Australia, and the institutions and
agencies associated with the administration of juvenile justice. It
provides an accessible overview to the main concepts and issues of
Juvenile Justice and critically analyses the associated principles,
policies and practices. The fifth edition presents students with
clear information across a broad range of areas, examining
historical and theoretical developments, social dynamics, and the
systems in which juvenile justice operates. Each section raises key
issues and perspectives necessary to gaining a critical
understanding of young people, crime and justice.
Debating Law is a new, exciting series that gives scholarly experts
the opportunity to offer contrasting perspectives on significant
topics of contemporary, general interest. In this first volume of
the series Carolyn Hoyle argues that communities and the state
should be more restorative in responding to harms caused by crimes,
antisocial behaviour and other incivilities. She supports the
exclusive use of restorative justice for many non-serious offences,
and favours approaches that, by integrating restorative and
retributive philosophies, take restorative practices into the 'deep
end' of criminal justice. While acknowledging that restorative
justice appears to have much to offer in terms of criminal justice
reform, Chris Cunneen offers a different account, contending that
the theoretical cogency of restorative ideas is limited by their
lack of a coherent analysis of social and political power. He goes
on to argue that after several decades of experimentation,
restorative justice has not produced significant change in the
criminal justice system and that the attempt to establish it as a
feasible alternative to dominant practices of criminal justice has
failed. This lively and valuable debate will be of great interest
to everyone interested in the criminal justice system.
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