This is an excellent resource that will become required reading fo law, students, policy analysts, sociologists, Judges and police."--Publisher's description.
Serving as the only New Zealand–specific criminal justice text, this book takes a direct look at what is unique about the country’s criminal justice system and recent crime trends.
In this major new textbook, leading scholars from criminology, history, journalism, law, psychology, sociology and other fields take students and general readers inside New Zealand’s criminal justice system. The authors...
This is no easy task. But it is vital to building a cohesive, inclusive, and fair society. Moreover, restorative practices need not be limited to the criminal justice arena.
Importantly this text locates legal doctrine in the context of the constitutional foundations of the criminal justice system in contemporary Aotearoa, including the collision of two ancient and very different traditions of justice - tikanga ...
This handbook engages key debates in Australian and New Zealand criminology over the last 50 years.
For students and general readers, this book tackles the big questions: How can crime be explained? Is crime rising or falling and if so, why? How do the police operate? How do the courts work? What is the meaning of a "life" sentence?
A former Invercargill skinhead and founding member of a group called the Southern Hammerskins, in 1994, with financial assistance from the Christchurch City Council, Chapman established a group called the New Way Trust.
Practitioners will benefit from this text, which provides guidance on the Acts provisions and machinery, the growing body of case law, and the status of a conceptually criminal regime which engages the civil procedure and civil standard of ...
This third edition discusses developments since the second edition was published in 2016.
This book will be essential reading for undergraduates studying feminist criminology, gender and crime, queer criminology, socio-legal studies, intersectionality, sociology and criminal justice.