Criminal Justice and Social Policy
Criminal Justice and Social Policy
This chapter provides an overview of major ways of thinking about criminal justice policy that seek to locate it within a broader policy landscape. It takes as its starting point the perspective that criminal justice policy should not be treated as distinct or separate from other social policy realms. Instead, criminal justice policy and wider social policy should be approached as interrelated aspects of public policy that can be applied interchangeably to regulate behaviour. It discusses the claims that the recent tendency to separate the two removes the understanding of crime from its social context, and legitimises policies that promote the incursion of traditional criminal justice agencies into ever- widening circles of social activity.
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Social Policy, Public Policy, Policy Making, Public Sphere, Mass Media, Lobby Groups, Politics, Legislative Process
46-70
Hamerton, Christopher
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Hobbs, Suzanne
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22 April 2014
Hamerton, Christopher
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Hobbs, Suzanne
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Hamerton, Christopher and Hobbs, Suzanne
(2014)
Criminal Justice and Social Policy.
In,
The Making of Criminal Justice Policy.
Abingdon.
Routledge, .
(doi:10.4324/9781315798080).
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This chapter provides an overview of major ways of thinking about criminal justice policy that seek to locate it within a broader policy landscape. It takes as its starting point the perspective that criminal justice policy should not be treated as distinct or separate from other social policy realms. Instead, criminal justice policy and wider social policy should be approached as interrelated aspects of public policy that can be applied interchangeably to regulate behaviour. It discusses the claims that the recent tendency to separate the two removes the understanding of crime from its social context, and legitimises policies that promote the incursion of traditional criminal justice agencies into ever- widening circles of social activity.
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Published date: 22 April 2014
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Criminology, Criminal Justice, Social Policy, Public Policy, Policy Making, Public Sphere, Mass Media, Lobby Groups, Politics, Legislative Process
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