Jane Donoghue

Transforming Criminal Justice?

Problem-Solving and Court Specialisation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through examination of original data gathered from detailed interviews, as well as analysis of legislative and policy interventions, this book discusses the impact of the creation and development of court specialization and problem-solving justice. It also identifies the political dimensions and recurrent inadequacies in law and public policy in this area and examines the prospects for problem-solving justice and court specialization in an age of austerity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415819718
• ISBN-10: 0415819717
• Artikelnr.: 39595364

Autorenporträt

Jane Donoghue is Reader in Law at the University of Lancaster. She has previously worked at the University of Oxford's Centre for Criminology and the School of Law at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are multi-disciplinary and span criminology, criminal justice and criminal law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Situating Problem-Solving, Punitivism and Punishment 3.
Specialist and Problem-Solving Courts 4. Drug Courts and Domestic Violence
Courts 5. Community Courts and Mental Health Courts 6. Neighbourhood
Justice Panels 7. Problem-Solving and Court Specialization: Prospects and
Pitfalls.