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Italy’s ‘circle of legality’: The confiscation and social use of assets in the fight against the mafia (2023)
Book Chapter
Phillips, A., & Di Buccio, S. (2023). Italy’s ‘circle of legality’: The confiscation and social use of assets in the fight against the mafia. In D. Jasinski, A. Phillips, & E. Johnston (Eds.), Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Concepts and Challenges. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In Italy the term ‘mafia’ is used to refer to a number of different criminal organisations, including (but not limited to): Sicily’s cosa nostra; the camorra (from the region of Campania); the Calabrian ’ndrangheta; and Puglia’s Sacra Corona Unita, a... Read More about Italy’s ‘circle of legality’: The confiscation and social use of assets in the fight against the mafia.

Italy’s other ‘other mafia’: Remediation and representations of the ’ndrangheta (2023)
Book Chapter
Phillips, A. (2023). Italy’s other ‘other mafia’: Remediation and representations of the ’ndrangheta. In D. Jasinski, A. Phillips, & E. Johnston (Eds.), Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Concepts and Challenges. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

It is generally agreed that public perceptions of organised crime are profoundly impacted by the mass media and popular culture, and that cultural representations play a major role in constructing dominant narratives. Furthermore, many scholars have... Read More about Italy’s other ‘other mafia’: Remediation and representations of the ’ndrangheta.

Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Concepts and Challenges (2023)
Book
Jasinski, D., Phillips, A., & Johnston, E. (Eds.). (2023). Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Concepts and Challenges. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Organised crime and financial crime are pressing global problems, increasingly recognised as policy priorities both by national governments and international bodies and corporations. This proudly interdisciplinary collection is built on the premise t... Read More about Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Concepts and Challenges.

‘Through the back door' Defence perspectives on the rise of managerialism at the expense of adversarial justice (2023)
Book Chapter
Smith, T., & Johnston, E. (2023). ‘Through the back door' Defence perspectives on the rise of managerialism at the expense of adversarial justice. In E. Johnston, & A. Pivaty (Eds.), Efficiency and Bureaucratisation of Criminal Justice Global Trends. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003207818

This chapter charts the evolution of managerialism in England and Wales through the lens of defence lawyers. Drawn from two PhD studies, the chapter advances empirical evidence of the implicit rise of managerialism in England and Wales. The chapter a... Read More about ‘Through the back door' Defence perspectives on the rise of managerialism at the expense of adversarial justice.

Contemporary Issues in Global Criminal Justice (2022)
Book
Blázquez, R. B., Burić, Z., Carr, T., Chowdhury, M., Doughty, F., Hester, R., …Pivaty, A. (2022). E. Johnston, & S. Marsh (Eds.). Contemporary Issues in Global Criminal Justice. Lexington Books

Contemporary Issues in Global Criminal Justice provides a holistic analysis of modern criminal justice issues, encompassing the pre-trial, investigative, and post-conviction stages of criminal justice in legal settings across the world. The contribut... Read More about Contemporary Issues in Global Criminal Justice.

Prisoners' human rights in England & Wales: Zigzags, flatlines and missed opportunities (2022)
Book Chapter
Karamalidou, A. (2022). Prisoners' human rights in England & Wales: Zigzags, flatlines and missed opportunities. In E. Johnston (Ed.), Challenges in Criminal Justice (180-196). (1). London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003143321-11

The chapter presents and critically reviews the prison policy in England and Wales from 2013 to the present day against the backdrop of the legalisation of prisoners’ human rights and the incorporation of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR... Read More about Prisoners' human rights in England & Wales: Zigzags, flatlines and missed opportunities.

Challenges in Criminal Justice (2022)
Book
Johnston, E. (Ed.). (2022). Challenges in Criminal Justice. Routledge

This collection examines contemporary challenges to the criminal justice system in England and Wales. The chapters, written by established academics, rising stars and practising lawyers, seek not only to highlight these challenges but to offer sol... Read More about Challenges in Criminal Justice.

Released under investigation: High time to bail out (2022)
Journal Article
Sosabowski, M. H., & Johnston, E. (2023). Released under investigation: High time to bail out. Journal of Criminal Law, 87(4), 266-280. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220183221078935

Prior to the Policing and Crime Act 2017, the provision of bail was set out by the Bail Act and refined by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE). Bail provisions changed under the Policing and Crime Act 2017, which created a presumption ag... Read More about Released under investigation: High time to bail out.

Criminology and Law (2021)
Book
Johnston, E., & Marsh, S. (2021). Criminology and Law. Hall and Stott Publishing

The Role of the Defense Lawyer: Conceptions and Perceptions within a Changing System (2021)
Book
Johnston, E. (2021). The Role of the Defense Lawyer: Conceptions and Perceptions within a Changing System. Lexington Books

The culture of defense work has undergone significant change over the course of the last twenty years. These changes may have generated confusion and uncertainty concerning the role of the defense lawyer in the modern era. If the lawyer is confused... Read More about The Role of the Defense Lawyer: Conceptions and Perceptions within a Changing System.

The pre-trial process of England and Wales (2020)
Book Chapter
Johnston, E., & Jasinski, D. (2020). The pre-trial process of England and Wales. In E. Johnston, R. Erbaş, & D. Jasınskı (Eds.), A comparative analysis of pre-trial procedure in Europe: The search for an ideal model: England and Wales. Istanbul University Press. https://doi.org/10.26650/B/SS26.2020.014

This chapter analyses the core functions of the adversarial pre-trial process of England and Wales. The chapter takes a chronological approach to the how the operation of the process. Here we examine the role of the custody officer, the regulation of... Read More about The pre-trial process of England and Wales.