Table of Contents

Lucia Zedner and Andrew Ashworth: Editors' Introduction
Part 1 The Theoretical Relationships between Research and Policy
1: Richard V. Ericson: The Culture and Power of Criminological Research
2: Nicola Lacey: Principles, Politics, and Criminal Justice
3: Anthony E. Bottoms: Theoretical Reflections on the Evaluation of a Penal Policy Initiative
Part 2 The Historical Development of Criminology as a Basis for Criminal Justice Policy
4: Lucia Zedner: Useful Knowledge? Debating the Role of Criminology in Post-war Britain
5: Seán McConville: Hearing not Listening: Penal Policy and the Political Prisoners of 1906-1921
6: Lord Windlesham: Ministers and Modernization: Criminal Justice Policy, 1997-2001
Part 3 Criminological Research and Policy Change: Three Case Studies
7: Andrew Ashworth: Sentencing and Sensitivity: A Challenge for Criminological Research
8: Richard Young and Andrew Sanders: The Forester's Dilemma: The Influence of Police Research on Police Practice
9: Stephen Shute: The Development of Parole and the Role of Research in its Reform
Part 4 International Comparisons
10: Heike Jung: The Renaissance of the Victim in Criminal Policy: A Reconstruction of the German Campaign
11: Richard Harding: Influencing Policy: Successes and Failures of Criminological Research in Australia
12: Michael Tonry and David A. Green: Criminology and Public Policy in the USA and UK

About the Author

Lucia Zedner is Reader in Criminal Justice, Senior Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and an Associate Member of the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford. From 1989-94 she was a lecturer at the London School of Economics, and from 1991-94 she was also assistant Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice. Andrew Ashworth QC, DCL, FBA is Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford, and
has been an Associate of the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford since 1980. He is a member of the Sentencing Advisory Panel and of the Criminal Committee of the Judicial
Studies Board.

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