International and Comparative Criminal Justice and Urban Governance Convergence and Divergence in Global, National and Local Settings
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 International and comparative criminal justice and urban governance
- PART 1 International criminal justice
- PART 2 Comparative penal policies
- PART 3 Comparative crime control and urban governance
- 15 Victimhood of the national? Denationalising sovereignty in crime control
- 16 Cosmopolitan liberty in the age of terrorism
- 17 Restorative justice and states' uneasy relationship with their publics
- 18 Governing nodal governance: the ‘anchoring’ of local security networks
- 19 From the shopping mall to the street corner: dynamics of exclusion in the governance of public space
- 20 Gating as governance: the boundaries spectrum in social and situational crime prevention
- 21 French perspectives on threats to peace and local social order
- 22 The question of scale in urban criminology
- Index
- References
17 - Restorative justice and states' uneasy relationship with their publics
from PART 3 - Comparative crime control and urban governance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2011
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 International and comparative criminal justice and urban governance
- PART 1 International criminal justice
- PART 2 Comparative penal policies
- PART 3 Comparative crime control and urban governance
- 15 Victimhood of the national? Denationalising sovereignty in crime control
- 16 Cosmopolitan liberty in the age of terrorism
- 17 Restorative justice and states' uneasy relationship with their publics
- 18 Governing nodal governance: the ‘anchoring’ of local security networks
- 19 From the shopping mall to the street corner: dynamics of exclusion in the governance of public space
- 20 Gating as governance: the boundaries spectrum in social and situational crime prevention
- 21 French perspectives on threats to peace and local social order
- 22 The question of scale in urban criminology
- Index
- References
Summary
Over the last ten to twenty years, nation states in Western Europe and North America have become somewhat concerned about their publics' reaction to criminal justice (Hough and Roberts 1998; Mattinson and Mirrlees-Black 2000; Judicature 1997). Recent interest in measuring confidence in criminal justice and indeed in developing measures for confidence cross-nationally is a testimony to that concern. Public views on the quality, trustworthiness and legitimacy of criminal justice institutions are newly important, and to be sought, even though governments of nation states vary as to whether they feel that popular views should be mirrored by policy changes.
Several trends have contributed to the perceived need of states to consider public reactions in relation to criminal justice. One is the increasing salience of crime and insecurity politically. Though criminal justice responses to crime are almost certainly now a minor part of states' responses, with crime prevention, controlling social disorder in neighbourhoods and homeland security being dominant trends, criminal justice responses are still seen as a state responsibility and have symbolic importance. Where criminal justice is seen to fail, for example related to major cases such as the Dutroucx case in Belgium, overall citizens' perceptions of government efficacy fall.
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