Crime Justice and Society in Scotland

<p><em>Crime Justice and Society in Scotland</em> is an edited collection of chapters from leading experts that builds and expands upon the success of the 2010 publication <i>Criminal Justice in Scotland</i> to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of Scottish criminal justice and its relation to wider social inequalities and social justice. </p><p>This new volume considers criminal justice in the context of the Scottish politics and the recent referendum on independence and it includes a discussion of the complex relationships between criminal justice and devolution nationalism and nation building. There are new chapters on research and policy sectarianism gangs victims and justice organised crime and crimes of the powerful in Scotland as well as chapters reflecting on the use of electronic monitoring desistance and practice and major changes in the structure of Scottish policing. </p><p>Comprehensive and topical this book is essential reading for academics and students in the fields of criminal justice criminology law social science and social policy. It will also be of interest to practitioners researchers policymakers civil servants and politicians.</p>