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Book SynopsisTo honour the extraordinary contribution of Professor Anthony Bottoms to criminology and criminal justice, leading criminologists and penal scholars have been asked to contribute original essays on the wide range of areas in which he has written. The book also contains a major essay by Anthony Bottoms, on Criminology and 'positive morality'.
Trade Reviewinteresting and instructive * John S Davison, The Law Society Gazette *
Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction 1: The Editors: Anthony Bottoms: An Appreciation 2: Richard Sparks and Caroline Lanskey: Reflections on the Life of a British Criminologist Part 2: Social Order and the Criminological Enterprise 3: Professor Anthony Bottoms: Criminology and 'Positive Morality' 4: Professor Jonathan Jacobs: In Dialogue with Philosophy: Recovering the Moral Sciences Through Criminology 5: Dr Peter Neyroud: Learning to Experiment: The Police, Science, and Evidence-Based Practice 6: Professor Ian Loader and Professor Richard Sparks: Reasonable Hopes: Social Theory, Critique and Reconstruction in Contemporary Criminology Part 3: Crime, Justice, and Communities 7: Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe: Keeping a Human Perspective: Some Lessons from Women and Community Justice 8: Professor Joanna Shapland: Desistance from Crime and the Potential Role of Restorative Justice 9: Professor Per-Olof Wikström: Towards a True Social Ecology of Crime: On the Limitations of a Criminology Without People 10: Dr Antje du Bois-Pedain: Constructive Sentencing through Custody-avoiding Sanctions: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Challenges Part 4: Punishment and Penal Order 11: Professor David Garland: What is Penal Populism? Public Opinion, Expert Knowledge, and Penal Policy-Formation in Democratic Societies 12: Professor Alison Liebling: Penal Legitimacy, Well-Being and Trust: The Role of Empirical Research in 'Morally Serious' Work 13: Professor Mike Nellis: Creative Arts, Offender Rehabilitation, and Penal Reform: Remembering the Early Years of the Barlinnie Special Unit 14: Dr Justice Tankebe: Rightful Authority: Exploring the Structure of Police Self-Legitimacy
