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.
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 07, 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 ...
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 ...
The Lived Experiences of Claiming Wrongful Conviction in Prison
1st Edition
By Emma Burtt
May 06, 2025
The Lived Experiences of Claiming Wrongful Conviction in Prison focuses on the lived experience of maintaining innocence in the prison environment and highlights the struggles and pain that such a claim can cause. Using the little utilised means of conducting an interview via a series of letters, ...
Rational Anger: An International Comparison of Legal Systems
1st Edition
By Stina Bergman Blix, Nina Törnqvist
March 25, 2025
Exploring the rationales behind legal anger, its logic and origins, this book builds on the perspectives of judges and prosecutors in Italy, Sweden, the United States, and Scotland. When do judges and prosecutors become angry in court, what do they become angry about, and which other emotions open ...
Criminalising Coercive Control: Challenges for the Implementation of Northern Ireland’s Domestic Abuse Offence
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa Bettinson, Ronagh McQuigg
December 19, 2024
Drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which may be faced in implementing Northern Ireland’s new domestic abuse offence. A specific offence of domestic abuse was introduced in Northern Ireland in ...
European Perspectives on Pre-Trial Detention: A Means of Last Resort?
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Morgenstern, Walter Hammerschick, Mary Rogan
December 18, 2024
High levels of remand or pre-trial detention (PTD) is a matter of growing concern in many countries, and at a European level. Despite being responsible for a significant part of the prison population, PTD practice is rarely the focus of criminological and criminal justice research. This book ...
Narratives on Prison Governmentality: No Longer the Prison of the Past
1st Edition
By Marco Nocente
December 18, 2024
Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners. The collection of testimonies represents the opportunities and difficulties of resisting in a place of power, which, in recent years, has become more sophisticated and effective. In ...