Summary
The papers in this volume discuss how to reduce and respond to crime without reliance on the conventional criminal justice practices of police and prisons. These topics are analyzed within the broader framework of what the editors call "social technologies". The editors ask "What is the interaction between knowledge, planning, and social repercussions?" The answer forms a basis from which they evaluate proposals for social improvements related to crime. The volume highlights the diffusion of knowledge about crime through media and criminological research; examination of surveillance technologies and the effect on crime; and restorative justice and its relationship to social regulations in general.
Contents
1. Print culture and the creation of public knowledge about crime in eighteenth-century London / Robert Shoemaker -- 2. Repeat burglary victimization in a major city: long-term patterns / Anthony Bottoms & Andrew Costello -- 3. In the frame: twentieth century discourses about representations of crime in fictional media / Chas Critcher -- 4. Fingerprint and photograph: surveillance technologies in the manufacture of suspect social identities / Paul Knepper & Clive Norris -- 5. Electronically monitoring offenders and penal innovation in a telematic society / Mike Nellis -- 6. Key elements of restorative justice alongside adult criminal justice / Joanna Shapland -- 7. State, community and transition: restorative youth conferencing in Northern Ireland / Jonathan Doak & David O'Mahony -- 8. Restorative justice and anti-social behavior interventions as contractual governance: constructing the citizen consumer / Adam Crawford -- 9. Restorative justice: five dangers ahead / Nils Christie.