Legitimacy and Criminal Justice

An International Exploration

Edited by Justice Tankebe and Alison Liebling

A landmark work presenting comprehensive theoretical, empirical and political analysis of the sources and problems of criminal justice legitimacy
Features contributions by leading political theorists and criminologists, plus unique, comparative insights from scholars around the world
Addresses the reality of an increasingly globalised world, including dealings with ethnically and religiously diverse communities and dilemmas posed by perceived terrorist threats
Explores the growing importance of international organisations in relation to legitimacy, both in international and domestic manifestations

Legitimacy and Criminal Justice

An International Exploration

Edited by Justice Tankebe and Alison Liebling

Description

Based on an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Cambridge in May 2012, Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration brings together internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines including criminology, international relations, sociology, and political science to examine the meaning of legitimacy and advance its theoretical understanding within the context of criminal justice. In policy terms, the conference afforded a timely opportunity for criminal justice senior managers and researchers to discuss the practical applications and implications of legitimacy for policing and prisons. This resulting volume aims to: advance conceptual understanding of legitimacy in the contexts of policing and criminal justice; to develop a better understanding of the implications of analyses of legitimacy for the practical contexts of policing, prisons and criminal justice; and to recognise the growing number of contexts in which criminal justice personnel encounter ethnically and religiously diverse communities, such as the acute dilemmas for legitimate authority posed by perceived terrorist threats. Attention is also devoted to the growing importance of international organisations in relation to legitimacy, both in its international and domestic manifestations.

The volume includes 16 substantial new contributions to this important field from leading political and theoretical scholars in the field, along with the results of several recent empirical studies. Together they constitute an unprecedented synthesis of disparate but leading thinkers in the growing field of legitimacy scholarship and should be of value to social scientists across different disciplines and to criminal justice practitioners.

Legitimacy and Criminal Justice

An International Exploration

Edited by Justice Tankebe and Alison Liebling

PART 1. POLITICAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON LEGITIMACY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
1. Legitimacy and Democracy in the World Today, John Dunn
2. Revisiting Legitimacy, Twenty Years on, David Beetham
3. Crime, Justice and Legitimacy: A Brief Theoretical Inquiry, Jean-Marc Coicaud
PART 2: LEGITIMACY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
4. "A Voice Within": Power-holders' Perspectives on Authority and Legitimacy, Anthony Bottoms and Justice Tankebe
5. Future Challenges in the Study of Legitimacy and Criminal Justice, Tom Tyler and Jon Jackson
6. Unfinished Business: Legitimacy, Crime Control and Democratic Politics, Ian Loader and Richard Sparks
7. Trusting Authorities: Legitimacy, Trust and Collaboration in Non-Democratic Regimes, Susanne Karstedt
PART 3: SEEKING LEGITIMACY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE CONTEXTS
8. Legitimacy, Crimes and Compliance in 'the City': de maximis non curat lex?, Michael Levi
9. Legitimacy and State Responses to Terrorism, Jacqueline Hodgson
10. "Legitimacy Under Pressure" in High Security Prisons, Alison Liebling
11. An Unenviable Task: How Federal Courts Legitimized Mass Incarceration, Jonathan Simon
12. The Situated Production of Legitimacy: Perspectives from the Global South, Andrew Jefferson
13. Legitimacy and the Development of International Standards for Punishment, Dirk van Zyl Smit
14. Dialogue and Dialectic: Police Legitimacy and the New Professionalism, Peter Neyroud and Lawrence Sherman
PART 4: LEGITIMACY AND CRIME
15. Does Low Legitimacy Cause Crime? A Review of the Evidence, Manuel Eisner and Amy Nivette
16. Legitimacy, Trust and Compliance: An Empirical Test of Procedural Justice Theory Using the European Social Survey, Mike Hough, Jon Jackson and Ben Bradford

Legitimacy and Criminal Justice

An International Exploration

Edited by Justice Tankebe and Alison Liebling

Author Information

Justice Tankebe, Lecturer in Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge,Alison Liebling, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the Prisons Research Centre, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

Justice Tankebe is University Lecturer in Criminology at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology.

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology, and an editor of the Clarendon Studies in Criminology Series.

Contributors:

Professor David Beetham, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds, UK
Professor Anthony Bottoms, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Ben Bradford, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Jean-Marc Coicaud, Rutgers University, USA
Professor John Dunn, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Manuel Eisner, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Jacqueline Hodgson, University of Warwick, UK
Professor Mike Hough, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Dr Jon Jackson, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Dr Andrew Jefferson, DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture, Copenhagen, Denmark
Professor Susanne Karstedt, University of Leeds, UK
Professor Michael Levi, Cardiff University, UK
Professor Alison Liebling, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Ian Loader, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK
Peter Neyroud, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Amy Nivette, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Lawrence Sherman, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Jonathan Simon, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Professor Richard Sparks, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Justice Tankebe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Tom Tyler, Yale University, USA
Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham, UK