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This book explores the critical questions of how and why criminal
justice policies emerge, and examines how criminal justice policy
is understood and applied by practitioners. It questions whether
diversity in implementation implies policy failure or a sign of
healthy activism among local practitioners.lied by practitioners.
Well-selected and authoritative, Palgrave Core Statutes provide the
key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact
and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams.
Well-selected and authoritative, Macmillan Core Statutes provide
the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear,
compact and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams. A
new edition to the core statutes series. Compiled in response to
student need, Core Statutes on Criminal Justice and Sentencing is
designed to provide the essential statutory material in an easily
navigable format. Undergraduate students taking second or third
year elective courses in Criminal Justice as part of their LLB;
postgraduate students and researchers in Criminal Law
This book analyses, explains, and evaluates the Government's
flagship criminal justice legislation, the Criminal Justice Act
2003. It provides an accessible commentary on the wide ranging and
complex changes introduced by the Act, which will leave few areas
of the criminal justice system untouched. The Act starts with
changes to police powers, bail, cautioning, and pre-trial
disclosure, and moves on to the abolition of committal proceedings
and the introduction of the possibility of trials on indictment
without juries. It then goes on to provide for prosecution appeals
and a broad range of offences where a trial following acquittal can
exceptionally be allowed. The rules on evidence are significantly
reformed providing firstly, a much wider basis on which evidence of
bad character (including previous convictions) can be admitted, and
secondly, for the admissibility of hearsay 'where it is not
contrary to the interests of justice' to admit it. The Act also
provides a major restatement and reform of the sentencing framework
and the provisions for release on licence, and abolishes most of
the categories of exemption from the duty to perform jury service.
Anyone working in the Criminal Justice System or interested in its
operation will welcome this guide, which provides invaluable
insights into the purposes of the Act and a detailed explanation of
its provisions. The book also includes the full text of the Act.
The Oxford Monographs On Criminal Law And Justice series aims to
cover all aspects of criminal law and procedure including criminal
evidence. the scope of the series is wide, encompassing both
practical and theoretical works. Series Editor: Professor Andrew
Ashworth, Vinerian Professor of English Law, All Souls College,
Oxford. This volume is a thematic collection of essays on
sentencing theory by leading writers. The essays fall into three
groups. Part I considers the underlying justifications for the
imposition of punishment by the State, and examines the
relationship between victims, offenders and the State. Part II
addresses a number of areas of sentencing policy that have given
rise to particular difficulty, such as the sentencing of drug
offenders, the rationale for discounting sentences for multiple
offenders, the existence of special sentencing for young offenders,
and cases where the injury done to the victim is of a different
magnitude from what might have been expected. Part III raises
various questions about the unequal impact on offenders of
different sentencing measures, and examines the extent to which
sentences should be adjusted to take account of these different
impacts and of broader social inequalities. This volume is
dedicated to Professor Andrew von Hirsch, whose continuing work on
sentencing theory provided the stimulus for the collection.
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