Crime, Justice, and Social Order Essays in Honour of A. E. Bottoms

To honour the extraordinary contribution of Professor Anthony Edward Bottoms to criminology and criminal justice, leading criminologists and penal scholars have been asked to contribute original essays on the wide range of areas in which he has written. The book starts by reflecting on the depth and breadth of Anthony's contribution and his melding of perspectives from moral philosophy, social theory, empirical social science research, and criminal justice. This is no ordinary collection, because it also contains a major essay by Anthony Bottoms, on Criminology and 'positive morality', reflecting on social order and social norms. In similar vein, Jonathan Jacobs approaches criminology from a moral philosophical viewpoint, whilst Ian Loader and Richard Sparks ponder social theory and contemporary criminology. Topically, Peter Neyroud reflects on evidence-based practice and the process of trying to do experiments in relation to policing. In the second section of the book on Crime, Justice, and Communities, Loraine Gelsthorpe reminds us that justice is about people, in considering the treatment of women in community justice. Joanna Shapland draws parallels between the process of desistance from crime and the potential role of restorative justice in affecting offenders' journeys. P.-O. Wikstrom reflects on the social ecology of crime, whilst Antje Du Bois Pedain considers the theoretical and practical challenges of sentencing constructively. Finally, the book turns to Anthony Bottoms' major interest in punishment and penal order. David Garland puts penal populism under the microscope, whilst Alison Liebling explores the empirical evidence for theories of penal legitimacy. Mike Nellis looks back at the use of the creative arts in prisons in Scotland's Barlinnie Unit, whilst Justice Tankebe explores police legitimacy.

1 - Anthony Bottoms: An Appreciation
2 - Reflections on the Life of a British Criminologist
3 - Criminology and 'Positive Morality'
4 - In Dialogue with Philosophy: Recovering the Moral Sciences Through Criminology
5 - Learning to Experiment: The Police, Science, and Evidence-Based Practice
6 - Reasonable Hopes: Social Theory, Critique and Reconstruction in Contemporary Criminology
7 - Keeping a Human Perspective: Some Lessons from Women and Community Justice
8 - Desistance from Crime and the Potential Role of Restorative Justice
9 - Towards a True Social Ecology of Crime: On the Limitations of a Criminology Without People
10 - Constructive Sentencing through Custody-avoiding Sanctions: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Challenges
11 - What is Penal Populism? Public Opinion, Expert Knowledge, and Penal Policy-Formation in Democratic Societies
12 - Penal Legitimacy, Well-Being and Trust: The Role of Empirical Research in 'Morally Serious' Work
13 - Creative Arts, Offender Rehabilitation, and Penal Reform: Remembering the Early Years of the Barlinnie Special Unit
14 - Rightful Authority: Exploring the Structure of Police Self-Legitimacy

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and the Director of the Institute of Criminology's Prisons Research Centre. She has researched prison suicide, conceptualizing and measuring the moral quality of prison life, the management of difficult prisoners, incentives and earned privileges, staff-prisoner relationships, values, practices and outcomes in public and private sector corrections, the changing nature of staff-prisoner and prisoner-prisoner relationships in high security prisons and the changing role of relationships, trust and forms of order in prison. She was awarded an ESRC-funded 'Transforming Social Science' grant in 2012-14 and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018. Joanna Shapland is the Edward Bramley Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Sheffield. She has previously worked at King's College London and Oxford University. She is Chair of the Restorative Justice Forum (Scotland) and Executive Editor of the International Review of Victimology. Awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by the British Society of Criminology, she directed the national evaluation of restorative justice for the Ministry of Justice, as well as being a consultant expert to the Council of Europe and an independent assessor to the Review of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland, following the Good Friday Agreement. Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology at the University of Edinburgh. Amongst many long-standing connections, Richard's first research post was on a project directed by Anthony Bottoms on 'Control Problems and the Long-Term Prisoner', which amongst other things resulted in their book, with Will Hay, Prisons and the Problem of Order by Richard Sparks, Anthony Bottoms and Will Hay. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. He has written and edited several other books including (with Ian Loader) Public Criminology? (Routledge, 2010). Richard is Convenor of Howard League Scotland. Justice Tankebe is a University Lecturer in Criminology and a Fellow at St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. Justice has held postdoctoral research fellowships from the ESRC, the British Academy, and Fitzwilliam College. Prior to his current appointment, he was a teaching associate on the Police Executive Programme at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge. Justice's interests include legitimacy, distributive injustice, police violence, vigilantism, and corruption.