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The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics

The enormous financial cost of criminal justice has motivated increased scrutiny and recognition of the need for constructive change, but what of the ethical costs of current practices and policies? Moreover, if we seriously value the principles of liberal democracy then there is no question that the ethics of criminal justice are everybodys business, concerns for the entire society. The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics brings together international scholars to explore the most significant ethical issues throughout their many areas of expertise, anchoring their discussions in the empirical realities of the issues faced rather than applying moral theory at a distance. Contributions from philosophers, legal scholars, criminologists and psychologists bring a fresh and interdisciplinary approach to the field.

The Handbook is divided into three parts:

addresses the core issues concerning criminal sanction, the moral and political aspects of the justification of punishment, and the relationship between law and morality.

examines criminalization and criminal liability, and the assumptions and attitudes shaping those aspects of contemporary criminal justice.

evaluates current policies and practices of criminal procedure, exploring the roles of police, prosecutors, judges, and juries and suggesting directions for revising how criminal justice is achieved.

Throughout, scholars seek pathways for change and suggest new solutions to address the central concerns of criminal justice ethics.

This book is an ideal resource for upper-undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in criminal justice ethics, criminology, and criminal justice theory, and also for students of philosophy interested in punishment, law and society, and law and ethics.

Jonathan Jacobs is Professor, Presidential Scholar, Chair of Philosophy, and Director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and editor of the journal, Criminal Justice Ethics.

Jonathan Jackson is Professor of Research Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an editor of the British Journal of Criminology.

The timing could not be more appropriate for a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of ethics in criminal justice. With its stellar line-up of contributors addressing the most pressing normative debates in the field, The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics is easily the decades most important new handbook among an increasingly crowded field in criminal justice research.

Shadd Maruna, Dean and Professor, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University-Newark, USA

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Names: Jacobs, Jonathan A., editor. | Jackson, Jonathan, 1974 editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of criminal justice ethics / edited by Jonathan Jacobs and Jonathan Jackson.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge international handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015046950 | ISBN 9780415708654 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315885933 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Criminal justice, Administration ofMoral and ethical aspects.
Classification: LCC HV7419 .R68 2016 | DDC 174/.9364dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046950

ISBN: 978-0-415-70865-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-88593-3 (ebk)

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Ben Bradford is Departmental Lecturer at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. His research mainly focuses on procedural justice and issues of trust, legitimacy, cooperation and compliance as these pertain particularly in the relationship between the police and the policed.

Leonidas K. Cheliotis is Assistant Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also Book Review Editor of the British Journal of Criminology.

Alexandra Cox is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is a former Gates Cambridge Scholar and Soros Justice Fellow.

Richard Dagger is E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond. His publications in political and legal philosophy include Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal (with Terence Ball), Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism, and the forthcoming Playing Fair: Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment.

Mark R. Fondacaro is a Professor and Director of the Psychology & Law Doctoral Training Area at the CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Indiana UniversityBloomington, his JD from Columbia Law School, and completed postdoctoral studies in social ecology at Stanford Medical School. With Steven Penrod, Cathy Widom, Margaret Kovera and Diana Falkenbach, he serves as a faculty liaison to the Beijing Normal University China-US Center for Forensic Psychology.

Phillip Atiba Goff is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the co-founder and president for research of the Center for Policing Equity. He is an expert in contemporary forms of racial bias and discrimination as well as the intersections of race and gender.

Thomas Douglas is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics. He is dual-trained in medicine (MBChB) and philosophy (DPhil) and works chiefly in normative and medical ethics.

Rachel D. Godsil is Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law. She is the co-founder and director of research for the Perception Institute. She focuses her current scholarship on the application of research on race, gender, and other lines of difference from social psychology to law, policy, institutions, and individual behavior.

Hannah Graham is Lecturer in Criminology in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) at the University of Stirling, Scotland. She is the author of three books published internationally by Routledge: Rehabilitation Work: Supporting Desistance and Recovery