Suitable for practitioners, criminologists, lawyers, judges, magistrates, social historians, teachers, students, researchers and others who want to know about the bigger picture of criminal justice in the UK, this title covers topics ranging from basic explanations of technical terms to fundamental issues of crime and punishment.

Among many other things it covers:abbreviations, acronyms, approaches, associations, barbarity, brutality, cases, codes, data, dates, debates, definitions, descriptions, developments, drugs, events, evidence, euphemisms, examples, experts, facts, frameworks, general principles, government, groundbreaking advances, groups, guidelines, history, human rights, icons, ideas, initiatives, issues, judges, justice, language, law, law and order, lawbreakers, lawyers, leading-edge matters, legislation, metaphors, media, methods, notorious incidents, offences, offenders, outlaws, parole, people, policing, politicians, popular culture, practitioners, prisons, prisoners, probation, projects, proposals, punishments, questions, references, rules, regulations, restorative justice, sentencing, slang, shifts, statutes, symbols, terms, terminology, texts, thinking, trailblazers, trials, tyrants, understandings, utterences, victims, witnesses and working cultures, - as well as wide-ranging information about the Criminal Justice System.