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This is cutting edge work, which addresses current debates in the fields of criminology, victimology and social psychology. A must-read for anyone interested in justice issues.

Jo-Anne Wemmers, Professor, School of Criminology, Universit de Montral, Canada

Using detailed, open-ended interviews with victims and offenders, this book expands the widely used but conceptually limited framework within which researchers have explored procedural justice issues. It reinvigorates the field with a new and broader conceptual framework through which to understand how fairness is defined by those involved in the criminal justice system.

Tom R. Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Law School, Yale University, USA

The insights of procedural justice research are of crucial importance for most fields of law, yet they are hardly integrated into current legal discourse and practice. In order to make procedural justice operational, we need to know what people experience as fair or unfair in a wide range of different circumstances. It is therefore my sincere hope that this book will set a trend of qualitative research in the field of procedural justice.

Eva Brems, Professor, Law School, Ghent University, Belgium

This illuminating volume contains important messages for all those involved in procedural justice research. Interviews with defendants and victims within the Belgian criminal justice system demonstrate the complex, multi-dimensional nature of peoples justice judgements, and underline the need for a more detailed conceptual and empirical understanding of the idea of procedural justice. Everyone interested in moving this exciting area of research forward should read this book.

Ben Bradford, Departmental Lecturer in Criminology, University of Oxford, UK

Perceptions of Criminal Justice

In recent decades, research into the legitimacy of criminal justice has convincingly demonstrated the importance of procedural justice to citizens sense of trust and confidence in legal authorities and their resulting willingness to conform to the law and cooperate with the legal authorities. Reversing the age-old question why do people break the law?, theories of procedural justice have provided insight into the factors that encourage people to abide by the law, suggesting that experiences of procedural fairness are crucial to achieving compliance with the law and to enhancing the legitimacy of criminal justice.

While these studies are important in showing that legal authorities need to pay attention to the fairness judgements of the people involved in legal procedures, the focus on showing the importance of procedural justice has had the ironic consequence of distracting researchers from studying the equally important question of what fairness means to the people involved in legal proceedings.

In one of the first studies on procedural justice to use a qualitative research design, the author provides the reader with detailed and insightful descriptions of the elements that determine how victims and defendants assess the fairness of their contact with the police and the courts. Focusing on both the pre-trial and the post-trial phases, this book will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of the psychology of law, procedural justice and the legitimacy of criminal justice.

Vicky De Mesmaecker obtained a masters degree in Criminology, a masters degree in International Relations and Conflict Management and a Ph.D. in Criminology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She worked as a doctoral researcher, postdoctoral researcher and affiliated researcher at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (University of Leuven, Belgium) and has been a visiting researcher at Yale University in the United States and at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement in the Netherlands. Her main fields of study include theories of procedural justice, the legitimacy of criminal justice and legal authorities, victimology and restorative justice.

Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?
Theory, policy and practice explored
Edited by Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe and John Deering

Building Justice in Post-Transition Europe
Processes of criminalisation within Central and Eastern European societies
Edited by Kay Goodall, Margaret Malloch and Bill Munro

Technocrime, Policing and Surveillance
Edited by Stphane Leman-Langlois

Youth Justice in Context
Community, compliance and young people
Mairad Seymour

Women, Punishment and Social Justice
Human rights and penal practices
Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor

Handbook of Policing, Ethics and Professional Standards
Edited by Allyson MacVean, Peter Spindler and Charlotte Solf

Contrasts in Punishment
An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism
John Pratt and Anna Eriksson

Victims of Environmental Harm
Rights, recognition and redress under national and international law
Matthew Hall

Doing Probation Work
Identity in a criminal justice occupation
Rob C. Mawby and Anne Worrall

Justice Reinvestment
Can the criminal justice system deliver more for less?
Chris Fox, Kevin Albertson and Kevin Wong

Epidemiological Criminology
Theory to practice Edited by Eve Waltermaurer and Timothy A. Akers

Policing Cities
Urban securitization and regulation in a 21st century world
Edited by Randy K. Lippert and Kevin Walby

Restorative Justice in Transition
Kerry Clamp

International Perspectives on Police Education and Training
Edited by Perry Stanislas

Understanding Penal Practice
Edited by Ioan Durnescu and Fergus McNeill

Perceptions of Criminal Justice
Vicky De Mesmaecker

Perceptions of Criminal Justice

Vicky De Mesmaecker

First published 2014
by Routledge
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2014 Vicky De Mesmaecker

The right of Vicky De Mesmaecker to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Mesmaecker, Vicky De, author.
Perceptions of criminal justice / Vicky De Mesmaecker. First Edition.
pages cm. (Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 16)
1. Criminal justice, Administration ofUnited StatesPublic opinion.
I. Title.
KF9223.M47 2014
345.73'05dc23
2013036195

ISBN: 978-0-415-70859-3 (hbk)

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