Vicky De Mesmaecker

Perceptions of Criminal Justice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415708593
• ISBN-10: 0415708591
• Artikelnr.: 39595574

Autorenporträt

Vicky De Mesmaecker obtained a master's degree in Criminology, a master's degree in International Relations and Conflict Management and a PhD 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Setting the Stage Chapter 1 Introduction: improving understanding of
the lay meaning of procedural justice Chapter 2 Methodology and design of
the empirical study Part II The Perceived Fairness of the Criminal
Proceedings Chapter 3 Perceptions of procedural justice in encounters with
the police Chapter 4 Perceptions of procedural justice in pre-trial
encounters with the judiciary Chapter 5 Perceptions of procedural justice
in encounters with the courts Part III Conclusion: The Meaning of
Procedural Justice Chapter 6 New perspectives on the antecedents of
perceptions of procedural justice.