An Atlas of Crime and Justice
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-84392-023-6 (ISBN)
Description
This atlas on crime and justice in England and Wales provides a graphic illustration of the incidence, distribution and change over time of crime and the response of the criminal justice system. The atlas shows the differences that exist between the 43 different police forces in England and Wales in terms of their policy and practice on such issues as stop and search, caution, arrest, prosecution, influencing the number and type of people who are drawn into the criminal justice system - providing startling evidence of the variations in different police force areas, and the difficulty of talking about anything approaching a single criminal justice system. This atlas goes beyond a concern to map the harm caused by different forms of crime to show the impact of other forms of social harm, such as death and injury at work, on the roads and in people's homes. Drawing on a wide range of the most up-to-date statistical sources, this atlas contains over 200 maps and diagrams, providing a source of information on crime and justice in England and Wales.
It will be an important source of reference for anybody with an academic or professional interest in crime and justice in the UK, including the police, probation, community safety officers in local authorities, those involved in crime prevention partnerships, and local and national policy makers.
It will be an important source of reference for anybody with an academic or professional interest in crime and justice in the UK, including the police, probation, community safety officers in local authorities, those involved in crime prevention partnerships, and local and national policy makers.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cullompton
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
200 maps and diagrams
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 190 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84392-023-6 (9781843920236)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Part 1 Mapping Crime 1 The official geography of crime: total crime, violent crime, property crimes, drug crime, hate crime 2 Crime surveys: victims of violence, victims of property crime 3 Crime erosion: missing crimes, missing violent crimes, missing property crimes Part 2 Mapping Justice 4 Street justice: stop and search: reasons for stop and search, arrests from stop and search, ethnicity and stop and search, arrests from stops and searches; arrests: gender, ethnicity; detections 5 Justice in the police station: length of detention, intimate body searches, cautions: ethnicity; no further action 6 Prosecuting justice: arrests and prosecutions, CPS decisions and outcomes 7 Justice in the courts: case details, all offenders, male offenders, women offenders 8 Punishing offenders: men, women, types of offences, ethnicity and receptions in to prison, age 9 Reconfiguring offenders: re-classification of offenders into sociological aspects of type of offences for which convicted 10 Landscapes of justice: pyramids of outcomes, showing variations in the forms of justice and nature of response and outcome to events defined as criminal 11 Public attitudes to justice: maps a range of public attitudes and the public's responses to crime prevention at police force area, including complaints against police and views from BCS survey Part 3 Mapping Harm 12 Deadly harm: death on the street, deaths at home and work, other deaths 13 Physical harm: series of maps illustrating the distribution of injuries in a range of different contexts, including road accidents, common assault, workplace injuries 14 Financial harm: financial costs of criminal and non-criminal harm 15 Responding to harm: maps different responses to social harm and crime by police force area.