Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Editors and Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Crime Trends in Scotland Since 1950; 3 Crime Statistics and the 'Problem of Crime' in Scotland; 4 Classifying Scottish Criminal Procedure; 5 The Politics of Crime Prevention: The Safer Cities Experiment in Scotland; 6 Situating Scottish Policing; 7 The Prosecution Service: Independence and Accountability; 8 Criminal Justice Responses to Bail Abuse; 9 Courts; 10 Sentencing in Scotland; 11 The Fine as an Auto-Punishment: Power, Money and Discipline
12 Community-based Disposals13 Imprisonment and Other Custodial Sentences; 14 Preventing Offending by Children and Young People in Scotland; 15 Mental Disorder and Criminal Justice; 16 Women and the Scottish Criminal Justice System; 17 Scottish Ethnic Minorities, Crime and the Police; 18 Victims of Crime; 19 Privatisation, Policing and Crime Control: Tracing the Contours of the Public-Private Divide; 20 The Politics of Penality: An Overview of the Development of Penal Policy in Scotland; 21 Bibliography