NCJ Number
166936
Editor(s)
P C Stenning
Date Published
1995
Length
543 pages
Annotation
Eighteen original essays, most commissioned for this volume, summarize and assess what has been happening during the past 15 years in the area of accountability for criminal justice in English-speaking democracies with common law traditions.
Abstract
Some of the essays address areas not traditionally included under the rubric of criminal justice. One essay, for example, explores aspects of the psychology of accountability that have been almost completely neglected in the various literatures on accountability for criminal justice. Another essay focuses on the role of the media in providing accountability for criminal justice, since the media are the main purveyors of public information about the criminal justice system. Other essays address accountability for specific agencies, organizations, and offices that form essential parts of the criminal justice system. One essay considers mechanisms of accountability in the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada. Three essays examine aspects of accountability in policing, and two essays analyze accountability for national security services in Canada and Australia. Another essay identifies how persons and corporations are held accountable for corporate crime, and an essay focuses on alternative accountabilities by using examples from securities regulation. How public inquiries serve the interests of accountability in Canada is addressed in another essay, followed by essays on accountability for the prosecution and judicial functions, including sentencing. The remaining three essays discuss accountability in the English prison system, accountability mechanisms for Canada's National Parole Board, and prospects for accountability in Canadian Aboriginal justice systems. For individual essays, see NCJ-166937-52. Tables of cases and statutes and 903 references