Recent publications

• Coleman, R. and McCahill, M. (2010) Surveillance and Crime, London, Sage.

• Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (2011) The death penalty in Council of Europe member and observer states: a violation of human rights, Doc. 12456,  Strasbourg, Council of Europe.

• Farrall, S., Bottoms, A. and Shapland, J. (2010) ‘Social structures and desistance from crime’, European Journal of Criminology, 7:6, 546-70.

• Kazemian, L. (2010) ‘Assessing the Impact of a Recidivist Sentencing Premium’, in J.V. Roberts and A.von Hirsch (eds) Previous Convictions at Sentencing: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives, Oxford, Hart Publishing,  227-50.

• Ministry of Justice (2010) Compendium of reoffending statistics and analysis, Ministry of Justice Statistics Bulletin, 4 November 2010.

• Ministry of Justice (2011) Breaking the Cycle: Government Response, Cm 8070, London, Ministry of Justice.

• Shapland, J. and Bottoms, A. (2011) ‘Reflections on social values, offending and desistance among young adult recidivists’, Punishment and Society 13:3, 256-82.

• Weatherburn, D. and Moffatt, S. (2011) The Specific Deterrent Effect of Higher Fines on Drink-Driving Offenders’ Br J Criminol5:5,789-803

Cases:

• Brown v Plata   563 US 2011

• Celaire and Poulton [2003] 1 Cr. App. R. (S.) 116

• R v Blackshaw and others [2011] EWCA Crim 2312

• R v Clive Richard Povey and Others [2008] EWCA Crim 1261; [2009] 1 Cr App R (S.) 42.

International comparisons

• Domanick, J. (2004) Cruel Justice: Three strikes and the politics of crime in America's golden state. University of California Press. [This book examines the background to the passage of the Three Strikes legislation in California and the reasons why it has not proved politically possible to amend or repeal this legislation despite the lack of strong evidence for its effectiveness as a deterrent and the existence of evidence about its problems. For a review of this book see J. Randle in Punishment and Society (2006) Vol 8(2).]

Deterrence: CCTV

• Coleman, R. and McCahill, M. (2010) in Surveillance and Crime, Sage, discuss surveillance technologies, including CCTV, in their historical context and explore the relationship between crime, power and the state.

• Martin Gill, Angela Spriggs (2005) Assessing the impact of CCTV. Home Office Research Study 292: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors252.pdf

• Scarman Centre National CCTV Evaluation Team (2003), National evaluation of CCTV: early findings on scheme implementation – effective practice guide. Home Office Development and Practice Report 7: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/dpr7.pdf

• Welsh, Brandon C and Farrington, David P (2002). Crime prevention effects of closed circuit television: a systematic review. Home Office Research Study 252: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors252.pdf
  

Deterrence: Death Penalty

• Unnever, J. and Cullen, F. (2005) 'Executing the Innocent and Support for Capital Punishment: implications for public policy' Criminology and Public Policy Vol 4(1) 3-38. [This is one of several articles on the death penalty in this issue. For abstracts see: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118716566/issue]

• Sarat, A. (2001) When the State Kills: Capital punishment and the American condition. New Jersey, Princeton University Press

General deterrence

• Cuppleditch, L. and Evans, W. (2005) Re-offending of Adults, results from the 2002 cohort, Home Office Statistical Bulletin, London, Home Office.

• Curran,K., Dale, M., Edwards, M., Hough, M., Millie, A. and Wagstaff, M. (2005) Street Crime in London, Deterrence, Disruption and Displacement. Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Kings College London and the Government Office for London, London.

• Home Office (2005) Crime and Justice Survey: for latest reports and progress of the 2005 survey on the prevalence of offending in the general population see: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/offending_survey.html

• Robinson, P. and Darley, J.M. (2004) 'Does Criminal Law Deter? A Behavioural Science Investigation', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol 23(2) 173-206.

• Von Hirsch, A., Bottoms, A., Burney, E. and Wikstrom, P.O. (1999) Criminal Deterrence and Sentencing Severity. Oxford, Hart.

Does prison deter?

• Domanick, J. (2004) Cruel Justice: Three strikes and the politics of crime in America's golden state. University of California Press. [See note above.]

• Windzio, M. (2006) 'Is there a deterrent effect of pains of imprisonment? The impact of 'social costs' of first incarceration on the hazard rate of recidivism', Punishment and Society Vol 8(2) 241-364, [The author reassesses the deterrent impact of imprisonment with reference to juvenile male offenders and focuses on the subjective experience of imprisonment for offenders.]

• The Honourable Sir William Young KNZM, ‘The effects of imprisonment on offending: a judge’s perspective’, Criminal Law Review [2010: 1], 3-18.

'Utilitarian critique'

• Steen, S. and Bandy, R. (2007) 'When the policy becomes the problem: criminal justice in the new millennium' Punishment and Society 9:1 (2007) pp 5-26. [The authors offer a critique of retributivist policies in the United States from the standpoint of utilitarian perspectives, highlighting the differences between the two approaches.]