Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
About the Book Series
Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice offers the very best in research on criminal justice systems around the world, offering fresh insights on a range of topics in criminal procedure, including policing, prisons, courts, youth justice, community measures, rehabilitation, victimology and forensics science.
Youth Diversion: Exploring Criminal Justice Perspectives through An Australian Case Study
1st Edition
By Estrella Pearce
November 20, 2025
Using New South Wales as a case example, this book engages with central themes of discretionary decision-making processes regarding youth diversion away from court and the broader political and policy constraints that impact implementation to full potential. Drawing on mixed quantitative and ...
Legal Implications of Taser Use and Prone Position on Excited Delirium Subjects
1st Edition
By Vidisha Barua Worley
November 17, 2025
Using case law, this book explores the controversial issues associated with excited or hyperactive delirium with severe agitation, including the appropriate use of tasers, and the inhumane practice of applying bodyweight pressure on subjects by placing them face down in the prone position, ...
Cross-border Victims in Europe: Legal and Practical Barriers to Free Movement of Victims in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach, Michael Kilchling
October 31, 2025
This book examines how the movement of individuals across European borders affects their ability to effectively exercise their rights as victims in criminal proceedings – and how to improve the most problematic issues in this area. The European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter of ...
Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Mahoney, Rahmanara Chowdhury
October 27, 2025
Offering a range of theoretical and conceptual ideas as well as practical examples, this book provides a detailed insight into holistic opportunities for promoting desistance, reducing reoffending, and supporting (re)settlement and (re)integration. Providing a fresh lens through which to view ...
The Structural Exclusion of Rape Complainants in South Africa’s Criminal Justice System: Justice through Participation
1st Edition
By Jameelah Omar
October 09, 2025
Exploring the intricate dynamics surrounding rape complainants within the South African criminal justice system, this book proposes reforms in the approach to participation of victims with the aim of mitigating the structural barriers imposed by the adversarial process. Broadening the concept of ...
The Use of Algorithms in Criminal Law: A Central European Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Konrad Burdziak, István Ambrus
September 08, 2025
This edited collection provides the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of automated decision-making, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithms, and how they can be used in criminal proceedings. Focusing on the experience in Central and Eastern European countries, the book offers a clear ...
Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks
1st Edition
By A.E. Stearns
August 29, 2025
Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative criminological approach. The book relies on the voices of prison cookbook authors to argue that cookbook narratives are a form of communication with the free world. Further, the ...
Crime Prevention and Treatment Policies: A Biopsychosocial Approach
1st Edition
By Anthony Walsh
August 08, 2025
This book shows how to use biopsychosocial assessment for crime prevention and to achieve more individualized treatment for those who commit crimes. Author Anthony Walsh, a prominent figure in biosocial criminology for more than four decades, examines the treatment policy recommendations of major ...
Education in Youth Detention Homes: An Ethnographic Study of Schooling Against the Odds
1st Edition
By David Wästerfors
July 22, 2025
Drawing upon meticulous ethnographic analysis and unique data sources, this book dissects the multifaceted challenges and occasional victories encountered by both educators and detained youth in Sweden. Originally published in Swedish, this book provides fresh insights into a crucial aspect of ...
The Role of Food in Resettlement and Rehabilitation: Good Food and Good Lives
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Parsons, Kevin Wong
July 16, 2025
Exploring the role of food in enabling people with convictions to live a “good life”, this book examines the tangible ways in which growing food, cooking, and eating together has the potential to be both transformative and small steps incremental in facilitating desistance journeys for people with ...
Restorative Justice at a Crossroads: Dilemmas of Institutionalisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Giuseppe Maglione, Ian D. Marder, Brunilda Pali
June 27, 2025
This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last 20 years and offers a critical analysis of the qualitative consequences generated by such a process on the normative structure of restorative justice, and on its understanding and uses in practice. Bringing together...
Sexual Offences Against Children in India: Understanding the Criminal Justice Responses
1st Edition
By Sonali Swetapadma, Paromita Chattoraj
June 27, 2025
Sexual Offences Against Children in India examines the evolution of the law pertaining to sexual violence against children, the judicial decisions since the inception of the POCSO Act till date with respect to aspects of the POCSO Act and the best practices from other developed jurisdictions for ...