Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198701993 ISBN 13: 9780198701996

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Based on an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Cambridge in May 2012, Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration brings together internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines including criminology, international relations, sociology, and political science to examine the meaning of legitimacy and advance its theoretical understanding within the context of criminal justice. In policy terms, the conference afforded a timely opportunity for criminal justice senior managers and researchers to discuss the practical applications and implications of legitimacy for policing and prisons. This resulting volume aims to: advance conceptual understanding of legitimacy in the contexts of policing and criminal justice; to develop a better understanding of the implications of analyses of legitimacy for the practical contexts of policing, prisons and criminal justice; and to recognise the growing number of contexts in which criminal justice personnel encounter ethnically and religiously diverse communities, such as the acute dilemmas for legitimate authority posed by perceived terrorist threats. Attention is also devoted to the growing importance of international organisations in relation to legitimacy, both in its international and domestic manifestations.

The volume includes 16 substantial new contributions to this important field from leading political and theoretical scholars in the field, along with the results of several recent empirical studies. Together they constitute an unprecedented synthesis of disparate but leading thinkers in the growing field of legitimacy scholarship and should be of value to social scientists across different disciplines and to criminal justice practitioners.

About this title

About the Author:

Justice Tankebe, Lecturer in Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge,Alison Liebling, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the Prisons Research Centre, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

Justice Tankebe is University Lecturer in Criminology at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology.

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology, and an editor of the Clarendon Studies in Criminology Series.

Review:

"Not only are the authors well-established experts on their topics of the first rank internationally, but the selections have been carefully assembled to constitute a comprehensive theoretical, empirical and policy analysis of the sources and problems of criminal justice legitimacy. The book
will be a major reference point for future discussion."

--Robert Reiner, Emeritus Professor of Criminology, London Schools of Economics

"The authors of the individual papers contributed to this collection are all prominent authorities in their respective fields and the scope of the book is both comprehensive and interesting in that it brings together diverse academic disciplines. I can imagine that this will become an
authoritarian reference for many years to come."

--P.A.J. Waddington, Professor of Social Policy, University of Wolverhampton

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0198701993
• ISBN 13: 9780198701996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Tankebe Justice, Liebling Alison