Released in1999 Scottish criminal law and treatment are extremely various from their counterparts elsewhere in the United Kingdom. This book is the first socio-legal account of the Scottish criminal justice process and its constituent institutions. Its aims are: to discuss the operation of the numerous aspects which make up the ‘system’; to sum up the substantial volume of appropriate Scottish research study; and to find this knowledge within modern theorising about criminal justice. To this end, the editors commissioned a group of professionals to write chapters on the different phases of institutions of the Scottish criminal justice process. Provided Scotland’s broad social and cultural resemblances to the remainder of the United Kingdom, the book likewise offers a beneficial comparative perspective which needs to assist to dissuade the tendency towards overly ethnocentric theorising south of the border.
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