cjm 49: Public Perceptions and Participation
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Full list of articles in print version of cjm 49
- EDITORIAL
Rob Allen puts this issue on Public Perceptions and Participation into perspective. - POPULISM AND PUNITIVE PENAL POLICY
Professor Mike Hough describes the trend towards simple and tough `solutions' to crime. - WHAT DOES THE PUBLIC THINK ABOUT PRISON?
Rob Allen reviews the evidence about what the people really think about prison as a solution to crime. - MEDIA AND THE SHAPING OF PUBLIC ATTITUDES
Marie Gillespie and Eugene McLaughlin summarise their research into how the public's knowledge and attitudes are determined by the media's treatment of criminal justice. - CREATING PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS
Marion Janner identifies the strategies needed to change public attitudes towards punishment. - A SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE
Neil Chakraborti and Jon Garland assess minority ethnic communities' views towards crime and criminal justice. - INDEPENDENT ADVISORY GROUP
Rosemary Drewery describes the purpose and guidelines of the independent groups that advise the Metropolitan Police. - MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Fear of crime reaches even to areas of the country with comparatively low crime rates. Steve Taylor surveyed the attitudes of the inhabitants of Stratford upon Avon. - PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Laura Edwards of IPPR argues that the criminal justice system should think imaginatively about increasing public confidence and promoting involvement. - BETWEEN RECONCILIATION AND REJECTION: CONTEMPORARY PENAL DILEMNAS THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILDREN
In their interviews with children, Richard Sparks, Evi Girling and Marion Smith revealed some commonly held notions about punishment. - REDUCING PRISON NUMBERS: DOES MARKETING HOLD THE KEY?
Gerard Hastings, Martine Stead and Lynne MacFadyean argue the benefits of using a marketing approach to `sell' a less punitive attitude towards criminal justice. - INSPECTING THE CPS
Andrew Billington describes his experience as a lay inspector for the Crown Prosecution Service. - A LIGHT ON THE LAY MAGISTRACY
Trevor Grove illuminates the role of the 30,000 volunteers who preside in magistrates' courts. - IS ANYONE THERE?
Lou Lockhart-Mummery gives a personal view of membership of a Board of Visitors. - REFERRAL ORDERS - MORE THAN THE SUM OF THEIR PARTICIPANTS
Rod Earle surveyed the members of Youth Offender Panels to see how these volunteers `at the gateway' administer justice. - VICTIM PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Andrew Sanders explains how victims are still excluded from decision making. - SO HOW HELPFUL WAS I?
Lesley Simmonds evaluates Victim Support volunteers' perceptions of their contribution to helping victims. - PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF PROBATION
Michael Teague evaluates the National Probation Service's contribution to the criminal justice system, and considers how public perceptions of community sentencing are constructed. - INDEPENDENTS AND THE PAROLE BOARD
Jo Dobry looks back at government and police responses to hate crime over the past two decades and sees many changes, but little improvement. - ISOLATED BUT NOT EXCLUDED: CAN PRISONERS BE PARTICIPANTS?
The Prison Reform Trust recently published Barred Citizens, the first national study of volunteering and active citizenship by prisoners. Authors Finola Farrant and Joe Levenson report on its findings. - WORKING IN PRISONS
Baronness Vivien Stern spoke to the Making It Happen Conference on 25 June 2002 organised by HM Prison Service and CLINKS. This is an edited version of her speech. - SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM PREVENTION: FOLLOWING RELEASE FROM PRISON
Claire McCarthy, Policy Officer at the Howard League for Penal Reform summarises a recent report into suicide after release from prison. - CJM UPDATE
Una Padel surveys recent developments in criminal justice. - BOOK REVIEWS
Andrew Sanders reviews `Ad Ius Criminale Humanius' - Essays in Criminology, Criminal Justice and Public Policy by Inkeri Anttila.Martin Wright reviews Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation by John Braithwaite.Jackie King reviews Captive Audience: Media, masculinity and power in prisons by XXXXXX.