Criminal Justice in Scotland

The existence of the separate criminal jurisdiction in Scotland is ignored by most criminological texts purporting to consider crime and criminal justice in ’Britain’ or the ’UK’. This book aims to fill a gap for a text that offers a critically informed analysis and understanding of crime and criminal justice in contemporary Scotland. It considers key areas of criminal justice policy making in Scotland, and in particular seeks to discuss the extent to which criminal justice in Scotland is increasingly divergent from other UK jurisdictions. In doing so, the process of devolution is addressed, as are the wider pressures resulting from globalization, Europeanisation and new patterns of migration.

Hazel Croall is Professor Emeritus at Glasgow Caledonian University where she set up and managed the Criminology degree. She is the author of Crime and Society and co-author of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. She has published extensively in the area of white collar and corporate crime.

Gerry Mooney is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University in Scotland.

Mary Munro runs the www.cjscotland.org.uk web site, does freelance research in criminal justice and has taught criminology at several Scottish universities.