Crime, Justice, and Social Order: Essays in Honour of A. E. Bottoms

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To honour the extraordinary contribution of Professor Anthony Bottoms to criminology and criminal justice, leading criminologists and penal scholars have been asked to contribute original essays on the wide range of areas in which he has written. The book also contains a major essay by Anthony Botto...

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Main Author: Liebling, Alison (Author)
Contributors: Shapland, Joanna (Contributor) ; Sparks, Richard (Contributor) ; Tankebe, Justice (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press USA - OSO 2022
In:Year: 2022
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Keywords:
Crime-Sociological aspects
Criminal justice, Administration of
Criminology
Electronic books
Festschrift
Aufsatzsammlung
Kriminologie > Moral > Norm > Wert > Polizei > Verbrechen > Gerechtigkeit > Gesellschaft > Rehabilitation > Strafe
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:To honour the extraordinary contribution of Professor Anthony Bottoms to criminology and criminal justice, leading criminologists and penal scholars have been asked to contribute original essays on the wide range of areas in which he has written. The book also contains a major essay by Anthony Bottoms, on Criminology and 'positive morality'.
Cover -- Series -- Crime, Justice, and Social Order -- Copyright -- Dedication -- General Editors' Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Part I INTRODUCTION -- 1. Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms, Citizen Scholar: An Appreciation -- Biographical note -- Tony's criminology -- Tony's Christianity and public service -- Conclusion, and introduction to the volume -- 2. Reflections on the Life of a British Criminologist: Tony Bottoms in Conversation -- Part II SOCIAL ORDER AND THE CRIMINOLOGICAL ENTERPRISE -- 3. Criminology and 'Positive Morality' -- Approaching 'positive morality' -- Empirical studies I: Studies relating to moral rules -- Human agency within social science -- Empirical studies II: Shifting values-​desistance from crime -- Empirical studies III: Prison social order -- Conclusion -- 4. In Dialogue with Philosophy: Recovering the Moral Sciences through Criminology -- Introduction -- Some basic issues concerning theory, observation, and explanation -- Causes and agents -- Facts and values -- Conclusion -- 5. Learning to Experiment: The Police, Science, and Evidence-​Based Practice -- Introduction: From Diamond to evidence-​based practice -- The Diamond Initiative: A failure of field testing -- Educating police leaders -- Researching police experiments -- Experimenting in policing -- The experiments in policing -- Operation Turning Point: A case study in learning from testing -- Towards a discipline of learning from testing -- 6. Reasonable Hopes: Social Theory, Critique, and Reconstruction in Contemporary Criminology -- Introduction -- The poverty and promises of theory -- Paradise postponed: Criminologies of disappointment -- Resources of hope: Legitimacy, pragmatism, democracy.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (449 pages)
ISBN:9780192675743