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Book Review: Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process

This is a most welcome addition to the law student's bookshelf, and many lawyers of a certain age will regret that a book of this usefulness has only appeared now. The author has written clear and comprehensive sections on all the main criminal justice agencies and has appended to each section extracts from cases, reports, circulars and the like to illustrate vividly how the process works, how effective it is, and whether such a mixture of loosely interacting components can validly be called a criminal justice system. Thus, there are sections on the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, nonpolice investigations, the judiciary, the magistracy, prisons and sentence management, to name but a few. The reader will learn a great deal from these pages alone, but is directed to further reading in the shape of academic treatises and government reports which will deepen his or her knowledge of a particular aspect of the subject-matter. At various points in the book one follows the life and hard times of a fictional defendant, Gerry Good, who finds himself experiencing the criminal justice process at first hand. Fortunately a comparatively small amount of the text is given over to his plight. Some readers may think that the work is lucid and clear without resorting to a particular example. Nevertheless, on balance, it is likely that those who come to criminal justice with no (or limited) knowledge will find Mr Good's progress helpfully illustrative. This new work will soon establish itself. Although of particular importance to students, it is written in such a way as to be of interest to practitioners and to the general reader who wishes to assess the merits and demerits of our unique approach to crime and criminal justice.