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Kriminologi: juridiska aspekter
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In recent decades, research into the legitimacy of criminal justice has convincingly demonstrated the importance of procedural justice to citizens’ sense of trust and confidence in …
This book explores how restorative justice is used and what its potential benefits are in situations where the state has been either explicitly or implicitly involved in human …
Why is punishment not more effective? Why do we have such high re-offending rates? How can we deal with crime and criminals in a more cost-effective way? Over the last decade in …
Restorative justice occupies an important place in criminological literature and criminal justice policies and is about facilitating communication between victims, offenders and …
Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental …
Policing in South Africa has gained notoriety through its extensive history of oppressive law enforcement. In 1994, as the country’s apartheid system was replaced with a democratic …
Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change – and how and why these changes differ in …
Low confidence in the police and the increasing crime rates during the 1990s led to a series of government initiatives directed at changing both the structure and management of the …
Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative …
How can we best help offenders desist from crime, as well as help victims heal? This book engages with this question by offering its readers a comprehensive review of positive …