Where next for criminal justice?

David Faulkner is a senior research associate at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology and was formerly a deputy secretary at the Home Office.Ros Burnett is Reader in Criminology at the University of Oxford's Centre for Criminology and was previously a probation officer.

• Introduction; Social justice, legitimacy and criminal justice; What happened in criminal justice - the 1980s; A change of direction - the 1990s; Crime prevention, civil society and communities; Courts, punishment and sentencing; Police, policing and communities; Community sentences and desistance from crime; Prisons: Security, rehabilitation and humanity; The role of government in criminal justice; Policy, politics and the way forward.

"Where Next for Criminal Justice? ... reviews the policies and the governance of criminal justice over the last thirty years as well as the latest developments and research evidence, and argues for a fundamental reassessment of what criminal justice is for and what it is realistically able to achieve." CrimeTalk.org.uk