This innovative and pioneering new book sets out to establish the links between crime reduction and the law, uniquely providing a detailed analysis of how specific legislation and performance targets aid or undermine attempts at crime reduction.

Bringing together several perpectives from a number of distinguished academic lawyers, criminologists, psychologists and psychiatrists, this book addresses the important issues which lie at the forefront of decision making and policy in criminal...

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to international criminology. It provides a genuinely international view of the discipline, drawing on important schools of thought, examples and analyses from the UK, EU, USA, Canada and Australia.

The focus of this book is on the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last twenty-five years. It draws on primary research carried out by the author, who combines and synthesizes different forms of...