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New Zealand Police Rule of Law Reform Efforts in the Solomon Islands
The case study in this chapter outlines the origins and outcomes of the conflict in the Solomon Islands, the efforts to resolve the conflict, and...
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Gender-Based Abuse Online: An Assessment of Law, Policy and Reform in England and Wales
The current United Kingdom Government approach falls short of addressing online harms in a comprehensive and holistic manner. In particular, it...
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The Role of the New Zealand Police in Police Reform and International Peacekee** in Afghanistan
This chapter examines in detail the role that the New Zealand Police has played in peacekee** and police reform in Afghanistan. It will...
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France: Executive Managerialism, Frantic Law Reform, but Desistance Culture
By confusing legal frameworks with rehabilitation outcomes, French reformers have created an extremely complex legal system bordering on the...
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Electronic Monitoring as an Alternative to Incarceration as Part of Criminal Justice Reform
Prisons in the United States are full; however, crime continues to occur. Alternatives to incarceration are gaining traction with the push to cut...
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Cannabis and international criminology: tolerance, aversion, and legal technical assistance
For decades, develo** countries have faced international pressure to adopt the techniques and tactics consistent with the drug war. These have had...
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A Manifesto for Ombudsman Reform
This book seeks to persuade policy-makers and legislators of the need for legislative reform of the ombudsman sector, and to evidence the ways in...
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Policy distraction: sentencing reform adoption as a diversion from rising social inequality
Since the mid-1970s, more than two-thirds of U.S. states adopted some combination of sentencing reforms. This paper assessed the possibility that...
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“Dancing and Discipline, Frolics and Felonies, Punch and Punishment, Rum and Reform”: Queen Victoria’s Birthday Party, Norfolk Island Penal Station, 25 May 1840
In 1840, Alexander Maconochie was appointed as the superintendent of Norfolk Island, a penal settlement 1,400 kilometres east of colonial New South...
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Provós, Representantes, Agentes: The Evolution of Prison Governance Arrangements in the Dominican Republic’s Prison Reform Process
This chapter explores the evolution and variety of social order and governance arrangements in prisons in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican...
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Reform Measures: The Devil Is in the Detail
As someone who has been actively involved in law reform for over two decades, the following parental experience reveals the problems faced by law...
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Criminal procedure reform and the impact on homicide: evidence from Mexico
While significant efforts have been made to reform the criminal justice system across Latin America, we do not know the conditions under which reform...
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Conclusion: Why to Reform? What to Stress? How to Improve?
The final chapter scrutinizes the three major controversies on police oversight we addressed in the first chapter again (Professionalism,...
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Reconsidering Penal Stability in Canada Through a New Sentencing Severity Index
Changes to criminal sentencing practices are often multifaceted and complex to interpret. This article proposes the development of a new sentencing...
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The Punitive Moment: Recent Transformations in Uruguayan Policing
This chapter analyzes the discursive and material changes within Uruguay’s police during the country’s fifteen years of social democratic government...
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Anthony V. Bouza and the Founding of Evidence-Based Policing
Anthony V. Bouza (1928–2023) was a founding father of evidence-based policing. The first police chief to authorize a randomized controlled trial...
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Bail Reform in Context
Many progressive reforms and initiatives are happening in criminal courts at a time when the imprisonment rate is rising. This chapter locates these...
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Restricting Arranged Marriage Opportunities for Danish Minority Youth: Implications for Criminal Convictions
ObjectivesTo measure the effect of arranged marriages on criminal convictions among male ethnic minority youth in Denmark.
MethodsTo identify the...
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Restorative Justice (XIU-FU-SHI-SI-FA) in Taiwan: Traditional Practices and Modern Developments
“Restorative Justice,” firstly a research concept and later a criminal justice practice, was introduced into Taiwan at the beginning of the...
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The Prisoners’ Rights Organisation and Penal Reform in the Republic of Ireland
The 1970s and 1980s were troubled times in Irish prisons. Conditions were poor, prison rules were outdated, penal reform was not a political or...