Research Catalog

Title

The handbook of the criminal justice process / edited by Mike McConville and Geoffrey Wilson.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• McConville, Michael
• Wilson, Geoffrey Philip.

Description

xxii, 581 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

This work is a new and authoritative account of the criminal justice system in England and Wales that engages with the central issues common to any major criminal justice system.

Subject

• Criminal justice, Administration of > Great Britain
• Criminal procedure > Great Britain
• Criminal law > Great Britain

Genre/Form

Textbooks (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Mike McConville -- The structure and organization of criminal justice in England and Wales: an overview / Robin C.A. White -- The organization and accountability of the police / Robert Reiner -- Police investigative powers / Satnam Choongh -- Covert surveillance and the use of informants / Sybil Sharpe -- Regulating the police station: the case of the police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 / Mike Maguire -- Assisting and advising defendants before trial / Ed Cape -- Bail in criminal cases / Anthea Hucklesby -- The right to representation and legal aid / Lee Bridges -- Prosecutions systems / Andrew Sanders -- Alternatives to prosecution / Rob Allen -- Evidence in criminal cases / Sir John Smith, QC -- The exchange of information and disclosure / Roger Leng -- Publicity surrounding the trial / John Sprack -- Special measures for witnesses and victims / Jenny McEwan -- Science, experts, and criminal justice / Paul Roberts -- Magistrates / Penny Darbyshire -- The role of the advocate / Stephen Solley -- The role of the judge in criminal cases / Sir Philip Otton -- The adversary trial and trial by judge alone / John Jackson -- Plea bargaining / Mike McConville -- Trial by jury / Sean Doran -- Juvenile justice / Nicola Padfield -- Economic crime / Mike Levi -- Mentally abnormal offenders: disposal and criminal responsibility issues / Ronnie MacKay -- The sentencing process / David Thomas, QC -- Criminal appeals: the purpose of criminal appeals / Rosemary Pattenden -- Miscarriages of justice and the correction of error / Clive Walker -- Restorative justice: assessing the prospects and pitfalls / Carolyn Hoyle & Richard Young -- Monitoring and understanding criminal justice: statistics, research, and evaluation / A. Keith Bottomley.

ISBN

• 0199254605 (hbk.)
• 0199253951 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002029797

OCLC

• 49640243
• SCSB-9925272

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library