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Title

Accountability for criminal justice : selected essays / edited by Philip C. Stenning.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Stenning, Philip C.

Description

xiii, 530 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Accountability, the idea that people, governments, and business should be held publicly answerable, is a central preoccupation of our time. The criminal justice system, already a system for achieving public accountability for illegal and antisocial activities, has been the focus of much attention, and accountability for criminal justice therefore takes on a special significance. These eighteen original essays, most commissioned for this volume, summarize and assess what has been happening during the past fifteen years in the area of accountability for criminal justice in English-speaking democracies with common law traditions. Looking at the issue from a variety of disciplines, the authors explore accountability with respect to all phases of the criminal justice system, from policing to parole."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Criminal justice, Administration of > Canada
• Liability (Law) > Canada
• Justice pénale > Administration > Canada
• Responsabilité (Droit) > Canada
• Liability (Law)
• Criminal justice, Administration of
• Verantwoordingsplicht
• Politie
• Opsporingsonderzoek
• Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-530).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Accountability in social systems : a psychological perspective / Philip Tetlock -- Accountability in the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada / Philip C. Stenning -- Counting the coppers : antinomies of accountability in policing / Robert Reiner -- Getting serious about police brutality / David Bayley -- Necessary but not sufficient : the role of public complaints procedures in police accountability / Andrew Goldsmith -- The news media and account ability in criminal justice / Richard V. Ericson -- Security services, constitutional structure, and varieties of accountability in Canada and Australia / Laurence Lustgarten -- The noble lie revisited : Parliament's five-year review of the CSIS Act--instrument of change or weak link in the chain of accountability? / Stuart Farson -- Accountability for corporate crime / Frank Pearce -- Alternative accountabilities : examples from securities regulation / Mary Condon -- Canadian public inquiries and accountability / Kent Roach -- The Office of Attorney General--new levels of public expectations and accountability / John LL. J. Edwards -- Prosecutorial accountability in Canada / Don Stuart -- Judicial accountability in Canada / Ian Greene -- Achieving accountability in sentencing / Anthony N. Doob and Jean-Paul Brodeur -- Accountability and justice in the English prison system / Rod Morgan and Mike Maguire -- Accountability and the National Parole Board / Allan Manson -- Prospects for accountability in Canadian aboriginal justice systems / Roger F. McDonnell.

ISBN

• 0802006477
• 9780802006479
• 0802076017
• 9780802076014

LCCN

96130575

OCLC

• 35620480
• SCSB-10246908

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library