Accountability for criminal justice : selected essay / / edited by Philip C. Stenning

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456519903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1995; ©1995
• ISBN: 1-282-04568-7; 9786612045684; 1-4426-7059-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (545 p.)
• Disciplina: 345.71
• Soggetti: Criminal justice, Administration of - Canada; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Accountability in Social Systems: A Psychological Perspective -- Accountability in the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada -- Counting the Coppers: Antinomies of Accountability in Policing -- Getting Serious about Police Brutality -- Necessary but Not Sufficient: The Role of Public Complaints Procedures in Police Accountability -- The News Media and Account Ability in Criminal Justice -- Security Services, Constitutional Structure, and Varieties of Accountability in Canada and Australia -- The Noble Lie Revisited: Parliament's Five-Year Review of the CSIS Act -- Accountability for Corporate Crime -- Alternative Accountabilities: Examples from Securities Regulation -- Canadian Public Inquiries and Accountability -- The Office of Attorney General – New Levels of Public Expectations and Accountability -- Prosecutorial Accountability in Canada -- Judicial Accountability in Canada -- Achieving Accountability in Sentencing -- Accountability and Justice in the English Prison System -- Accountability and the National Parole Board -- Prospects for Accountability in Canadian Aboriginal Justice Systems -- Cases -- Statutes -- References
• Sommario/riassunto: Accountability, the idea that people, governments, and business should be held publicly accountable, is a central preoccupation of our time. Criminal justice, already a system for achieving public accountability for illegal and antisocial activities, is no exception to this preoccupation, and accountability for criminal justice therefore takes on a special significance. Seventeen original essays, most commissioned for this volume, have been collected to summarize and assess what has been happening in the area of accountability for criminal justice in English-speaking democracies with common-law traditions during the last fifteen years. Looking at the issue from a variety of disciplines, the authors' intent is to explore accountability with respect to all phases of the criminal justice system, from policing to parole.