Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice (Cambridge Criminal Justice Series)

209 Pages·2002·1.96 MB·English

by  Anthony Bottoms

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Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice

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Policing, Ethics and Human Rights
Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
Published in association with the Institute of Criminology, University of
Cambridge
Published titles
Community Penalties: change and challenges, edited by Anthony Bottoms,
Loraine Gelsthorpe and Sue Rex
Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice: a symposium in honour of Sir Leon
Radzinowicz, edited by Anthony Bottoms and Michael Tonry
Reform and Punishment: the future of sentencing, edited by Sue Rex and
Michael Tonry

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Contents
Ideology, Crime and Criminal
Justice
A symposium in honour of
Sir Leon Radzinowicz
Edited by
Anthony Bottoms
Michael Tonry

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Policing, Ethics and Human Rights
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Contents
List of contributors vii
Preface ix
Sir Leon Radzinowicz: an appreciation, by Anthony Bottoms xiii
Portrait of Sir Leon Radzinowicz (facing) xiii
Recollections of Sir Leon Radzinowicz, by Roger Hood xix
PART 1 THEORY
1 Ideology and crime: a further chapter 3
David Garland
2 Morality, crime, compliance and public policy 20
Anthony Bottoms

PART 2 HISTORY
3 Gentlemen convicts, Dynamitards and paramilitaries:
the limits of criminal justice 55
Seán McConville
4 The English police: a unique development? 74
Clive Emsley
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PART 3 PRISONS
5 A ‘liberal regime within a secure perimeter’?:
dispersal prisons and penal practice in the late
twentieth century 97
Alison Liebling
PART 4 RESEARCH AND POLICY
6 Criminology and penal policy: the vital role of
empirical research 153
Roger Hood
Sir Leon Radzinowicz: a bibliography 173
Index 179

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List of contributors
List of contributors
Sir Anthony Bottoms, previously Director of the Institute of
Criminology, is Wolfson Professor of Criminology, University of
Cambridge.
Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University.
David Garland is Professor of Law and Sociology at New York
University Law School.
Roger Hood is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for
Criminological Research, University of Oxford.
Dr Alison Liebling is University Lecturer in Criminology, Institute of
Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Director of the Institute’s
Prisons Research Centre.
Seán McConville is Professor of Criminal Justice at Queen Mary and
Westfield College, University of London.

Michael Tonry is Professor of Law and Public Policy and Director of the
Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Sonosky
Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Minnesota.
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Preface
Preface
This volume is offered in tribute to the late Sir Leon Radzinowicz, the
first Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University, and the
founding Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. The main
papers in the volume were all first delivered at the Leon Radzinowicz
Commemorative Symposium convened in Cambridge on 30–31 March
2001 and have now been revised and edited for publication. To them we
have added the obituary notice from The Independent by Anthony
Bottoms, the memorable after-dinner speech at the Commemorative
Symposium delivered by Professor Roger Hood, and a complete
bibliography of Radzinowicz’s published works.
Leon Radzinowicz, who died in December 1999, was a larger than life
figure with enormous energy and drive. His first book, Mesures de Sûreté:
étude de politique criminelle, was published in France in 1928. His final
book, Adventures in Criminology, a major autobiographical work of
intellectual creativity and originality, was published in England in 1999.
Few criminologists have been so prolific, and none have been so
sustained in their scholarly productivity. And to this scholarship one
must add Rad zinowicz’s immense organisational achievement in
founding the Cambridge Institute of Criminology and his many major
contributions to public life in Britain. All this from a man who first came
to Britain in his early thirties as a Polish émigré who spoke fluent French
and Italian, but no English. It is astonishing that within a decade he had
published the first volume of his highly acclaimed five-volume History of
English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750.
Because Radzinowicz is so commanding a figure in the history of
British criminology, the Cambridge Institute of Criminology thought it
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