Criminal Justice

The highly successful first edition of Criminal Justice has provided a comprehensive introductory guide to the criminal justice system and is essential reading for any student or practitioner needing to understand the criminal justice system and the context in which it operates. This new edition retains the existing successful and straightforward structure and approach of the first edition, introducing the agencies that make up the criminal justice system in England and Wales; looking at some of the ideas, theories and principles about how the system operates and provides an overview showing how the different agencies and ideas blend together to form an operating whole. The book is brought up-to-date with the inclusion of the changes enacted by the Criminal Procedure and Investigation Act 1996, Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. At the same time the authors have added: • a new chapter on Responding to Crime, in which they look at policy making and the administration of criminal justice, the influence of Europe, privatisation, co-ordination of the system, monitoring, accountability, complaints procedure, crime prevention and new ideas about restorative justice and zero tolerance of crime; • additional information about new bodies and agencies including the Criminal Cases Review Commission, Youth Justice Board, National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service; • a glossary of terms; • information about websites of interest; • a chronology of key dates; • new exercises to help understanding. Professor Malcolm Davies is Director of the Criminal Justice Centre at Thames Valley University and was a Senior Research Fellow in the California Attorney General's Office and a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at Berkeley; Dr Hazel Croall is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Strathclyde University and author of another Longman title Crime and Society in Britain (1998); Jane Tyrer is Senior Lecturer in Law at Thames Valley University and has had over sixteen years' experience as a lay magistrate.

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