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where Next For Criminal Justice? Considers The Criminal Justice Policies Which Should Be Adopted, How They Should Be Formed, And The Principles And Values Which Should Be Used. Where Next For Criminal Justice?; Contents; About The Authors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Resolving Conflict; Which Way From Here?; Aims And Outline; Main Arguments; 1. Social Justice, Legitimacy And Criminal Justice; Changing Conceptions Of Justice; The Process Of Justice And A Sense Of Legitimacy; The State, Citizenship And Criminal Justice; Conclusion: Towards Reconciliation; 2. What Happened In Criminal Justice: The 1980s; The Changing Scene; The Conservative Government Takes Office; The Reaction Begins; Conclusion: Learning From History; 3. A Change Of Direction: The 1990s The Revival Of Punishmenttaking Up The Baton; Achievements And Disappointments; The Revival Of Rehabilitation; Conclusion: Sadder And Wiser; 4. Crime Prevention, Civil Society And Communities; Preventing And Reducing Crime; Civil Society, Social Capital And Active Communities; Community And Local Justice; The Voluntary And Community Sector; The 'big Society' Or Good Society; 5. Courts, Punishment And Sentencing; Court Proceedings And Legislation; Punishment; Purposes Of Sentencing; Victims And Witnesses; Restorative Justice; Conclusion: Improving The Process 6. Police, Policing And Communitieswhat Police Are For; Police Reforms, 1994-2010; Policing In The Future; 7. Community Sentences And Desistance From Crime; The Way They Were; The Re-formed Probation And Youth Justice Services; Alternative Models For Achieving Rehabilitation; Where Next For Community-based Practice?; Conclusion: Rehabilitation With A Difference; 8. Prisons: Security, Rehabilitation And Humanity; English And Welsh Prisons Today; Life In Prison; Attempts At Prison Reform; Prisoners As People; Conclusion: Reducing The Need For Prisons? 9. The Role Of Government In Criminal Justicefrom 'old' To 'new' Public Administration; Moving On: A New