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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to criminal justice theory, examining the theoretical foundations of criminal justice in the modern era, while considering the areas of legal philosophy and ethics, explaining criminal behaviour (criminological theory), policing, the court process and punishment or penology, and discusses these in the context of socio-economic debates about the risk and surveillance state. The constituent parts are linked by a guiding left realist theoretical thread which provides a hybrid of the social progress, conflict and carceral models of criminal justice but which recognises our interest and collusion in the creation of the increasingly pervasive socio-control matrix which characterises contemporary society. These complex theoretical issues are nevertheless addressed in an accessible student-friendly style in a text which is relevant for students studying a wide range of undergraduate criminal justice modules and for those commencing postgraduate studies in the disciplines of criminal justice, criminology and law.

Introduction: modernity and criminal justice	p. 1
The European Enlightenment and the rise of the modern age	p. 1
Criminal justice in the pre modern era	p. 3
Social contract theory and utilitarianism	p. 6
Modern societies	p. 10
Four models of criminal justice development	p. 11
The structure of this book	p. 26
Explaining crime and criminal behaviour	p.... MORE 29
The rational actor model	p. 29
The predestined actor model	p. 33
The victimised actor model	p. 47
Integrated theories	p. 51
Postscript	p. 56
The philosophy of law and legal ethics	p. 58
Analytic jurisprudence	p. 59
Normative jurisprudence	p. 69
Critical legal theory	p. 74
Islamic jurisprudence and Sharia law	p. 77
Policing modern society	p. 84
A brief history of the police	p. 85
Policing and social context since the Second World War	p. 95
Policing contemporary society	p. 98
Policing and the four models of criminal justice development	p. 107
The legal process in modern society	p. 111
Criminal justice agencies	p. 113
Criminal justice 'system' or 'process'	p. 116
The criminal justice process in context	p. 117
Adversarial and inquisitorial criminal justice processes	p. 119
Models of the criminal justice process	p. 121
International law	p. 133
International human rights law	p. 141
Punishment in modern society	p. 144
The purpose of punishment	p. 145
Utilitarianism	p. 148
Deterrence	p. 150
Incapacitation	p. 155
Determinism	p. 158
Rehabilitation	p. 159
Retribution	p. 164
Just deserts	p. 165
Reparation	p. 169
Restitution	p. 169
The politics of punishment	p. 170
Youth justice in modern society	p. 172
Young people, discipline, control	p. 173
From justice to welfarism	p. 176
Youth justice and populist Conservatism	p. 182
Youth justice and New Labour	p. 187
Reflections on the management of contemporary youth crime	p. 190
Conclusions	p. 192
Conclusions: the future of criminal justice	p. 194
Criminal justice in an age of moral uncertainty	p. 198
The schizophrenia of crime	p. 199
Crime as normal and non pathological	p. 200
New modes of governance	p. 201
Crime and the risk society	p. 202
Loi'c Wacquant and the government of insecurity	p. 205
Racial inequality and imprisonment in contemporary USA	p. 206
Four peculiar institutions	p. 207
Carceral recruitment and authority	p. 209
Conclusions: living in penal society	p. 211
Notes	p. 215
References	p. 222
Author index	p. 249
Subject index	p. 256
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Roger Hopkins Burke is Criminology Subject Leader at Nottingham Trent University where he teaches criminological theory and juvenile justice to both undergraduates and postgraduates. His numerous publications include Zero Tolerance Policing (Perpetuity Press, 1998), and Hard Cop/Soft Cop (Willan Press, 2004), People, Crime and Justice (Willan Press, 2008) and An Introduction to Criminological Theory (2001, 20005, 2009).

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