A Dictionary of Criminal Justice

Absolute Discharge

Accountability

Accredited Programmes

Actuarial Assessment

Administrative Law

Adversarial Justice

Anti-social Behaviour Orders (asbos)

Appellate Court

Assessment Tool

Association of Chief Police Officers (acpo)

Attorney General

Attrition

Audit Commission

Bail

Barristers

Basic Command Units (bcus)

Best Value

Bifurcation

Binding over

Boot Camps

Bourbon System of Policing

Bow Street Runners

British Association for Women in Policing

British Crime Survey

‘broken Windows'

Cautioning (formal)

Charge Reduction (‘downgrading')

Civil Justice Council

Cognitive Behavioural Programmes

Cold Case Review

Committal Proceedings

Common Law

Community Order

Community Safety

Comprehensive Area Assessments

Comprehensive Spending Review

Concurrent Sentence

Conditional Caution

Conditional Discharge

Consecutive Sentence

Constabulary Independence

Consultation

Contestability

Control Orders

Coroners

Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (cdrps)

Crime Prevention

Crime Statistics

Criminal Court System England and Wales

Criminal Court System Scotland

Criminal Record

Crown Prosecution Service (cps)

Cuffing

Custodial Sentence

Dark Figure of Crime

Deferred Sentence

Delegated Legislation

Derogation

Desistance

Detection Rates

Deterrence

Diplock Courts

Discretion

Displacement of Crime

District Policing Partnership (northern Ireland)

Dixon of Dock Green

Doli Incapax

Domestic Violence

Double Jeopardy

Electronic Monitoring (‘tagging')

Empowerment

Equity

Eurojust

European Arrest Warrant

European Convention on Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights (echr)

European Court of Justice (ecj)

Europol (the European Police Office)

Evaluation

Examining Magistrates

Expert Witness

Field Research

Fines

Fire Brigade Policing

General Council of the bar (bar Council)

Green Paper

Habeas Corpus

Hate Crime

Her Majesty's Courts Service

Home Detention Curfew (hdc)

Home Office

Home Office Circular

Human Rights

Incapacitation

Indictable Offence

Informants (grasses/supergrasses)

Inquisitorial Justice

Institutional Racism

International Court of Justice (icj)

International Criminal Court (icc)

International Law Commission

Internment

Interpol (international Criminal Police Organization)

Joined-up Government

Judges

Judges' Rules

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Judicial Review

Jury System

Justice and Home Affairs (jha) Council

Law Commission

Law-making Process

Law Society

Law (sources Of)

Legal Aid

Legal Profession England and Wales

Legal Services Board

Lex Talionis

Magistrates

Mandatory Sentence

Megan's Law

Military Assistance to the Civilian Authorities (maca)

Ministry of Justice

Miscarriage of Justice

Moral Panic

Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements (mappas)

Mutual Aid

Narrowing the Justice Gap

National Black Police Association

National Crime Reporting Standard

National Dna Database (ndnad)

National Offender Management Service (noms)

National Police Improvement Agency (npia)

Neighbourhood Management

Neighbourhood Policing

Net Widening

New Policing System (development in Nineteenth Century)

New Public Management

Non-custodial Sentences

Offender Assessment System (oasys)

Office of Legal Complaints

Old Policing System

out of Court Disposals

Pace Codes of Practice

Panopticon

Paramilitary Policing

Parole Board for England and Wales

Penalty Notices for Disorder (pnds)

Penology

Plea Bargaining

Police Authority

Police Community Support Officer (pcso)

Police Federation of England and Wales

Police Property

Police Service England and Wales

Police Service Northern Ireland

Police Service Scotland

Police Staff Associations

Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales

Policing by Consent (development in Nineteenth Century)

Policing Performance Assessment Framework

Policy Transfer

Political Oversight of the Criminal Justice System

Pre-sentence Report

Prisons

Probation Service

Punishment (aims Of)

Purposeful Activities

Queen's Counsel

Queen's Evidence

Reassurance Policing

Re-balancing The Criminal Justice System

Recidivism

Reductivism

Regulatory Supervision

Rehabilitation

Remand in Custody

Reprimands (juvenile Justice)

Resettlement

Restorative Justice

Retributivism

Right to Silence

Royal Prerogative of Mercy

Rule of Law

Rules of Evidence

Sarah's Law

Schengen Information System (sis)

Schengen Initiatives

Security Service (mi5)

Self-policing Society

Self-report Studies

Sentencers

Sentences of the Criminal Courts

Sentencing Advisory Panel (sap)

Sentencing Guidelines Council (sgc)

Sentencing Tariff

Separation of Powers

Serious Organized Crime Agency (soca)

Similar Fact Evidence

Solicitors

Solicitors' Regulation Authority

Soundings

Special Constabulary (‘the Specials')

Summary Justice

Summary Offences

Supergrass

Surveillance

Suspended Sentence

Thief Takers

Third Sector

Triable Either Way Offences

Tripartite System of Police Governance

Uk Border Agency

Verballing

Victim-blaming

Victimization Surveys

Victimology

Vigilante Justice

Violent and Sex Offenders Register (visor)

Voir Dire

Voluntary Bill of Indictment

Warnings (juvenile Justice)

What Works?

White Paper

Women's Police Department

World Court

Youth Justice System

Youth Offender Panel (yop)

Youth Offending Team (yot)

Zero Tolerance

The Penitentiary Acts (1779 and 1794)

The Vagrancy Act (1824)

The Metropolitan Police Act (1829)

The County and Borough Police Act (1856)

The Prison Act (1878)

The Prison Act (1898)

The Probation of Offenders Act (1907)

Murder (abolition of the Death Penalty) Act (1965)

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1984)

The Prosecution of Offences Act (1985)

The Police and Magistrates' Courts Act (1994)

The Crime and Disorder Act (1998)

The Human Rights Act (1998)

The Police Reform Act (2002)

The Criminal Justice Act (2003)

The Constitutional Reform Act (2005)

The Private Security Industry Act (2005)