Urban crime prevention, surveillance, and restorative justice : effects of social technologies /

Using three topics in criminology, this book describes how to reduce and respond to crime without reliance on the conventional criminal justice practices of police and prisons. It highlights the diffusion of knowledge about crime through media and criminological research; and examination of surveill...

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Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Knepper, Paul, Doak, Jonathan, Shapland, Joanna, 1950-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2009.
Subjects:	Crime prevention. Restorative justice. Electronics in crime prevention. Electronic surveillance > Social aspects. Social control. Criminology. Crime > prevention & control Social Control, Formal Social Control, Informal Criminology Justice réparatrice. Électronique dans la prévention de la criminalité. Surveillance électronique > Aspect social. Contrôle social. Criminologie. Criminalité > Prévention. criminology. crime prevention. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology. Crime prevention Electronic surveillance > Social aspects Electronics in crime prevention Restorative justice Social control Criminaliteit. Preventie. Elektronica. Herstelrecht. Toezicht. Electronic information resources
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Social technology in criminology : the relationship between criminology and social policy
Print culture and the creation of public knowledge about crime in 18th-century London / Robert Shoemaker
Crime prevention and the understanding of repeat victimization : a longitudinal study / Anthony Bottoms and Andrew Costello
In the frame : 20th-century discourses about representations of crime in fictional media / Chas Critcher
Fingerprint and photograph : surveillance technologies in the manufacture of suspect social identities / Paul Knepper and Clive Norris
Electronically monitoring offenders and penal innovation in a telematic society / Mike Nellis
Key elements of restorative justice alongside adult criminal justice / Joanna Shapland
State, community, and transition : restorative youth conferencing in Northern Ireland / Jonathan Doak and David O'Mahony
Restorative justice and antisocial behavior interventions as contractual governance : constructing the citizen consumer / Adam Crawford
Restorative justice : five dangers ahead / Nils Christie.