Urban crime prevention, surveillance, and restorative justice : effects of social technologies / edited by Paul Knepper, Jonathan Doak, Joanna Shapland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Social technology in criminology : the relationship between criminology and social policy -- Print culture and the creation of public knowledge about crime in 18th-century London / Robert Shoemaker -- Crime prevention and the understanding of repeat victimization : a longitudinal study / Anthony Bottoms and Andrew Costello -- In the frame : 20th-century discourses about representations of crime in fictional media / Chas Critcher -- Fingerprint and photograph : surveillance technologies in the manufacture of suspect social identities / Paul Knepper and Clive Norris -- Electronically monitoring offenders and penal innovation in a telematic society / Mike Nellis -- Key elements of restorative justice alongside adult criminal justice / Joanna Shapland -- State, community, and transition : restorative youth conferencing in Northern Ireland / Jonathan Doak and David O'Mahony -- Restorative justice and antisocial behavior interventions as contractual governance : constructing the citizen consumer / Adam Crawford -- Restorative justice : five dangers ahead / Nils Christie.

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Using three topics in criminology, this book describes how to reduce and respond to crime without reliance on the conventional criminal justice practices of police and prisons. It highlights the diffusion of knowledge about crime through media and criminological research; and examination of surveillance technologies and the effect on crime.

English.

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