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Both probation and youth justice have undergone massive changes in
recent years, and continue to face important new challenges. A key
emphasis of new developments has been on developing effective
evidence-based practice and disseminating this throughout the
Probation and Youth Justice services - reviewed in this book.
Both probation and youth justice have undergone massive changes in
recent years, and continue to face important new challenges. A key
emphasis of new developments has been on developing effective
evidence-based practice and disseminating this throughout the
Probation and Youth Justice services. The main aim of this book is
to review developments in evidence-based practice in a number of
different areas, bringing together the findings of research
projects commissioned by the British Home Office, the National
Probation Directorate and the Youth Justice Board. This book will
be essential reading for anyone involved in probation and youth
justice practice, or for those taking courses in these fields.
Successive governments have promised to reform criminal justice in
England and Wales and to make it more efficient and more effective
in preventing and reducing crime. And yet there is still a feeling
that not enough has been achieved and more has to be done - a
feeling that the English riots in August 2011 painfully revived.
Where Next for Criminal Justice? offers a principled framework for
the development of policy, legislation and practice, and argues
with examples for an approach to criminal justice which
acknowledges the limitations on what governments and reforms of
criminal justice can achieve on their own, and where the focus is
on promoting procedural justice and legitimacy; fostering human
decency and civility; and enabling prevention, restoration and
desistance from crime.
Despite several decades of changing government policy to improve
the 'criminal justice system', involving vast expenditure and the
sustained efforts of practitioners in the public, private and
voluntary sectors, there is a sense of poor returns and going round
in circles. The formation of a coalition government, in May 2010
seemed to augur a genuine turning point, but more recent events
have begun to follow the familiar pattern - more legislation, more
reorganisation, more punishment. Where Next for Criminal Justice?
reviews, first, policy shifts during the last thirty years, then
recent developments in sentencing, policing, community sentences,
prisons and governance of criminal justice, and the lessons that
can be learnt from them; and offers a principled framework for the
future development of policy, legislation and practice. It argues,
with examples, for an approach to criminal justice which is focused
first on people and their capacities, situations and relationships,
on treating them with humanity and respect, and only then on
reforming institutions, structures and systems. The inherent
divisiveness in responses to crime has been exacerbated by its use
for political advantage. The authors argue for the different
perspectives to be acknowledged and make suggestions, based on
ideas of procedural justice and legitimacy, for ways in which
reconciliation might more often be achieved.
Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse fills a gap for an
authoritative and considered text focused on false accusations of
recent or historical abuse, both as a miscarriage of justice and as
an ordeal which impairs lives even when it does not result in
criminal charges. It brings together experts from different
disciplinary backgrounds and relevant specialisms to explicate the
context, causes, and processes that foster erroneous or fabricated
allegations and to consider ways of reducing their incidence and
the injustices that follow them. While there has been a welcome
increase in policies which address child abuse, rape and other
sexual offences, these tend to neglect or disavow the diametrical
problem of false allegations of such offences. It is inherent in
the, typically, unwitnessed and physically uncorroborated nature of
these 'hidden' crimes that they are difficult to prosecute; but
also to disprove if no crime has been committed. It is right that
all allegations of abuse are treated as believable and are
rigorously investigated, but it is not in the interest of any
progressive and robust system of justice to convict or malign
innocent people. Approached from this more controversial
perspective, the five parts of this volume chart the life-course of
an untrue allegation. Beginning with the nature, extent and harm of
false abuse allegations, the cultural and political context giving
rise to false allegations, and then the causal and motivational
factors for making them, are explored, before addressing the role
and impact of the criminal justice system when handling such cases.
The final part looks at the ways such concerns might be addressed
whilst remaining mindful of victims of abuse and their suffering.
Tackling an under-researched and under-discussed area, Wrongful
Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse offers thoughtful and
thought-provoking discourses around an understandably difficult and
sensitive area. It will be essential reading for academics and
students of criminology, sociology, criminal justice, criminal law,
socio-legal studies, and psychology, as well as those working with
victims of false allegations, and police and specialist
practitioners dealing with sexual offences and child abuse.
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