Crime Control in Britain: A Review of Policy ResearchR. V. G. Clarke, Derek Blaikie Cornish Crime Control in Britain presents the results of the major criminological research carried out over the last 25 years by the Home Office Research Unit, a multidisciplinary body of social scientists located in the central governmental department of Great Britain. Its contents consist of journal articles, extracts from monographs, and original papers, presented in the form of a reader which places the research in the proper historical, theoretical, and policy contexts. |
Contents
1 Research in Criminal Justice | 57 |
2 Prediction Methods in Relation to Borstal Training | 69 |
3 Statistical Methods of Making Prediction Instruments | 101 |
4 Parole in England and Wales | 109 |
An Account of An Experiment at Liverpool | 115 |
6 The Controlled Trial in Institutional ResearchParadigm or Pitfall for Penal Evaluators? | 143 |
A Study of a QuasiFamily Institution | 169 |
8 The Approved School Experience | 187 |
9 Taking Offenders Out of Circulation | 199 |
No Deterrent to Crime? | 215 |
11 Managing With Less Technology | 221 |
12 Crime as Opportunity | 235 |
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