Criminal Justice provides a thorough, thought-provoking and critical introduction to the challenges faced by the UK's criminal justice system. A team of high-profile contributors each present a concise overview of their particular field of expertise, detailing key procedures and challenging students to engage with current and topical debates.

• Introduction


• 1: Loraine Gelsthorpe: Criminal Justice: the policy landscape


• 2: Mike Rowe: The Police


• 3: Graham Ellison: Policing: Context and practice


• 4: Anthea Hucklesby: The prosecution process


• 5: Stephen Cammiss: Courts and the trial process


• 6: David Scott: Justifications of punishment and questions of penal legitimacy


• 7: Gavin Dingwall: Sentencing


• 8: George Mair: Community sentences


• 9: Azrini Wahidin: The prison enterprise


• 10: Matthew Hall: Victims in the criminal justice process


• 11: Anna Souhami: Youth justice


• 12: Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor: Gender and criminal justice


• 13: Alpa Parmar: Race and ethnicity in the criminal justice process


• 14: Joanna Adler: Psychology and criminal justice


• 15: Paul Roberts: Forensic science and criminal justice

Anthea Hucklesby is Professor of Criminal Justice and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law, University of Leeds.
Azrini Wahidin is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Nottingham Trent University.