Criminal Justice by Lucia Zedner

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Summary

Criminal Justice is a stimulating reflection upon the core concepts, structures and practices of the criminal justice system. In the tradition of the Clarendon law Series, it is a guide for the uninitiated and a source of provocation for the informed. it explores the meanings of criminal justice, crime, punishment, criminal process, the court, the prison and other penalties.

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Criminal Justice by Lucia Zedner

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.
This is a beautiful book..Zedner writes lucidly, analyses sharply but also summarises complex material in an accessible manner. * D. Downes, British Society of Criminology Newsletter *
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.
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ISBN 13 9780198763666
ISBN 10 0198763662
Title Criminal Justice
Author Lucia Zedner
Series Clarendon Law Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2004-07-08
Number of pages 336
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