Accountability for criminal justice : selected essays /

"Accountability, the idea that people, governments, and business should be held publicly answerable, is a central preoccupation of our time. The criminal justice system, already a system for achieving public accountability for illegal and antisocial activities, has been the focus of much attent...

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Other Authors: Stenning, Philip C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1995.
Toronto Buffalo : [1995]
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Table of Contents:
  • Accountability in social systems : a psychological perspective / Philip Tetlock
  • Accountability in the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada / Philip C. Stenning
  • Counting the coppers : antinomies of accountability in policing / Robert Reiner
  • Getting serious about police brutality / David Bayley
  • Necessary but not sufficient : the role of public complaints procedures in police accountability / Andrew Goldsmith
  • The news media and account ability in criminal justice / Richard V. Ericson
  • Security services, constitutional structure, and varieties of accountability in Canada and Australia / Laurence Lustgarten
  • The noble lie revisited : Parliament's five-year review of the CSIS Act--instrument of change or weak link in the chain of accountability? / Stuart Farson
  • Accountability for corporate crime / Frank Pearce
  • Alternative accountabilities : examples from securities regulation / Mary Condon
  • Canadian public inquiries and accountability / Kent Roach
  • The Office of Attorney General--new levels of public expectations and accountability / John LL. J. Edwards
  • Prosecutorial accountability in Canada / Don Stuart
  • Judicial accountability in Canada / Ian Greene
  • Achieving accountability in sentencing / Anthony N. Doob and Jean-Paul Brodeur
  • Accountability and justice in the English prison system / Rod Morgan and Mike Maguire
  • Accountability and the National Parole Board / Allan Manson
  • Prospects for accountability in Canadian aboriginal justice systems / Roger F. McDonnell.