Urban crime prevention, surveillance, and restorative justice : effects of social technologies / edited by Paul Knepper, Jonathan Doak, Joanna Shapland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knepper, Paul.

Doak, Jonathan.

Shapland, Joanna, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime prevention.

Restorative justice.

Electronics in crime prevention.

Electronic surveillance--Social aspects.

Electronic surveillance.

Social control.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Crime prevention, surveillance, and restorative justice have transformed the response to crime in recent years. Each has had a significant impact on policy, introducing new concepts and reassessing traditional aims and priorities. While such efforts attract a great deal of criminological interest, they tend to be discussed within separate and discrete literatures, rather than as part of a cohesive and concerted effort. Urban Crime Prevention, Surveillance, and Restorative Justice: Effects of Social Technologies examines these emerging trends which are increasingly being con

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-24992-6

1-281-99409-X

9786611994099

1-4200-8445-3

9780429249921

OCLC:

476268135