Where next for criminal justice?

"The authors have a real feel for the policy issues - this book is essential reading for anyone interested in justice." --Mike Hough, Director, Institute for Criminal Policy Research. "The authors combine long experience of shaping humane criminal justice policies with rare expertise in analysing their complex history and potential for change." --David Downes, London School of Economics. "In this timely volume the authors provide a succinct and penetrating critique of contemporary criminal justice. They set out a series of arguments that will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners and policy makers." --Julian V. Roberts, University of Oxford. "Where Next for Criminal Justice? ... reviews the policies and the governance of criminal justice over the last thirty years as well as the latest developments and research evidence, and argues for a fundamental reassessment of what criminal justice is for and what it is realistically able to achieve." --CrimeTalk.org.uk. "The authors clearly set out their aims and meet them in a very accessible book which covers the broad history of UK criminal justice issues over the last thirty years and indicates a way forward for the current government." --Internet Journal of Criminology. "Between them, Faulkner and Burnett provide wise and incisive observations on crime prevention, policing, courts and sentencing, youth justice, probation and prisons, their chapter focus points. This is a valuable overview of our direction of policy travel over the last 30 years and ... is as valuable an introduction as students are likely to find." British Journal of Criminology "The authors of this book are old-hands in the policy-making and policy-influencing process..Nonetheless, their willingness to..catalogue recent policy developments in criminal justice in such a comprehensive and fine-grained way..for a rational and compassionate criminal justice policy in England and Wales is a commendable service." The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice