Legitimacy and Compliance in Criminal Justice

Adam Crawford is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Leeds.aTogether with Sam Lewis he is currently engaged in a Nuffield Foundation funded research project exploring the impact of anti-social behaviour interventions with young people in England. He has written about issues of legitimacy and compliance in relation to restorative justice and the civilianisation of policing.a He is interested in the compliance implications for behavioural change of different modes of regulation, particularly with regard to young people. Anthea Hucklesby is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. She has undertaken research and published in a range of areas in the criminal justice process including electronic monitoring, police and court bail, drug misuse in prison, pre-trial drugs intervention, prisoners' resettlement, pre-trial accommodation needs of young people and community sentences. She has completed two research projects on electronic monitoring: (i) examining the 'new uses' of electronic monitoring contained in the Court Services Act 2000 for the Home Office and (ii) exploring compliance with electronic monitoring sponsored by G4S. She has just completed an evaluation of the Yorkshire and Humberside Effective Bail Scheme for the Ministry of Justice. Her recent publications include Prisoners' Resettlement: policy and practice (2007, with Hagley-Dickinson) and Criminal Justice (2009, with Wahidin).