Organised Crime and the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010

Criminal justice responses to drug related crime in Scotland.

This article examines contemporary developments in criminal justice responses to drug related crime. Drawing on evaluations of initiatives which have been introduced in Scotland along with published statistical data, it considers the expansion of drug treatment through the criminal justice system and the implications this has for increasing access to services. Importantly, it considers the pote...

Crime, Criminal Justice, and Criminology in the Netherlands

Families, Crime and Criminal Justice: Charting the Linkages

Crime, punishment, and the American criminal justice system.

When the law gets something wrong, it can do so in a way that adversely affects many lives, often profoundly. Specifically, to society’s great detriment, the corrections arm of the American criminal justice system appears to have the distribution and administration of punishment exactly backward. We typically sentence young men who have committed their first violent felony—that group of offende...

Schizophrenia: Causes, Crime, and Implications for Criminology and Criminal Justice

This paper is aimed at criminologists and criminal justicians seeking to understand their role in educating law enforcement and correctional personnel who must deal with the mentally ill. It is motivated by William Johnson’s (2011) recent call for rethinking the interface between mental illness, criminal justice, and academia, and his call for advocacy. We concur with his concerns, and insist t...