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This book offers an assessment of Barbara Wootton's legacy as a pioneering public criminologist.

This book offers an assessment of Barbara Wootton¿s legacy as a pioneering public criminologist.

Originally published in 1983 Approaches to Welfare provides a unique introduction to the study of social welfare in Britain.

Criminal Justice and Privatisation works to examine the impact of privatisation on the criminal justice system, and to explore the potential effects of privatising other areas including the police and the security industry.

Criminal Justice and Privatisation works to examine the impact of privatisation on the criminal justice system, and to explore the potential effects of privatising other areas including the police and the security industry.

Originally published in 1989. Lost Children of the Empire tells the remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust, set up in 1987, to trace families and to help those involved to come to terms with what has happened.

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Originally published in 1983 Approaches to Welfare provides a unique introduction to the study of social welfare in Britain.

Originally published in 1989. Lost Children of the Empire tells the remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust, set up in 1987, to trace families and to help those involved to come to terms with what has happened.

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This four-volume collection deals with the causes and prevention of crime as well as the treatment and punishment of its perpetrators. While taking a sociological approach to the subject, the articles gathered in this collection reflect the diversity of related fields and theoretical traditions which inform the study of crime - including economics, history, psychology and anthropology. The set provides an historical overview of the development...

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A high proportion of crimes committed in Britain are drugs-related, with many offenders having a documented history of drug use. However, the direct link between drugs and crime is often less clear than is supposed and this text attempts to achieve a better understanding of these and surrounding issues that have been marred by misunderstanding and a lack of consensus amongst experts. This text offers a major contribution to existing debates an...

Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem. Finding ways of dealing with this problem is a major platform of government policy and a great deal has been made of the impact of treatment on drug users. Drug Treatment: What Works? is a cutting edge survey of the latest developments in these treatments, and it sets out to ask some of the crucial questions in the treatment of drug abusers, including: * Which treatments work...

This text offers an authoritative and much-needed overview of the range of issues associated with drugs-related crime. The new edition has been fully updated to include the latest data and recent developments in policy.

A great deal has been written about the decarceration movement which involves the transfer of mental patients from the mental hospital to the community. Here the authors look at the impact of that process as it affects patients and staff alike once the patients leave the hospital. The book deals with a number of matters raised by decarceration, not the least about the types of care to be experienced by the patients and the likelihood of offeri...

Volume 2 continues the dialogue about crime, considering more fully the relationship to psychopathy, deviance and mental health, which concept, as well as that of sin, is well explored. In this context, Wootton discusses ethics, honesty, sex and the law, murder and capital punishment, and her own invaluable and fascinating study of diminished responsibility in 73 cases of murder is reproduced.