Criminal Justice

by Lucia Zedner

Overview

Criminal Justice challenges conventional understanding of crime, criminal justice and punishment by revealing their meanings to be open to multiple interpretations. It explores the historical contingency and cultural specificity of the institutions and practices of criminal justice. And it considers the many, often conflicting, roles fulfilled by the various players in the criminal process. In so doing, it reveals criminal justice to be more diverse and its purposes more contested than conventional accounts allow. The book concludes by asking whether radical changes in crime control and the pursuit of security, currently the subject of so much academic and political interest, signify the end of criminal justice as we know it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198763666
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/16/2004
Series:	Clarendon Law Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lucia Zedner is Reader in Criminal Justice, Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and an Associate Member of the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

1. Criminal Justice2. Crime and the Criminal Law3. Punishment4. Process5. Court6. Financial and Community Penalties7. Custody8. The end of Criminal Justice?