Full Description
Sanders and Young's "Criminal Justice" integrates traditional legal material and legal analysis with social science research and theory on criminal justice. All the major stages of the pre-trial and trial process are examined in turn. Particular attention is given to police powers; the rights of suspects and remedies for breach of those rights; the Crown Prosecution Service; defence solicitors; barristers; the magistrates' courts and the Crown Court; judges and juries; and appellate processes. Sanders and Young also give attention to other strategies of law enforcement, as seen in the regulation of white collar crimes like fraud, tax evasion and pollution, alternative types of procedure such as restorative justice, and the increasing use of private police forces of various kinds.
Contents
1. The aims and values of 'criminal justice'; 2. Stop and search; 3. Arrest; 4. Detention in the police station; 5. Police questioning; 6. Prosecutions; 7. The mass production of guilty pleas; 8. Summary justice in the magistrates' court; 9. Trial by judge and jury; 10. Appeals against conviction; 11. Remedying police malpractice; 12. Victims, the accused and the future of criminal justice; Bibliography; Index
