Criminal Justice

The second edition of Criminal Justice sets out to show the wider, socio-legal context of criminal law by explaining all parts of the criminal justice system.

• Provides detailed coverage of the institutions, the procedures and the decision-making processes which make up the criminal justice system
• Offers an overview of the police, the prosecution and court processes, and the prison system
• Analyses proposals for the reorganisation of the criminal courts, changes in sentencing policy and reform of the youth justice system
• Considers the formal framework of rules and procedures

• A system for criminal justice
• The police - organisation and control
• The police - crime and investigation
• The investigation of crime
• The prosecution process
• Courts and trials
• Preparing for a trial
• Evidence, witnesses and the course of a trial
• Issues in sentencing
• The prison system of England and Wales
• Youth Justice