Davies, Croall & Tyrer's Criminal Justice, 6th edition, offers a comprehensive introduction to the criminal justice system in England and Wales. The perfect companion for anyone studying criminal justice as part of a Law or Criminology degree, this resource is designed to ensure that you understand:

• The criminal justice process, institutions, personnel and agencies which work within it;
• The purpose and role of the criminal justice system in the 21st century;
• The different models of criminal justice and the underlying theories and perspectives that underpin them;
• The current criminal justice laws and policies.

This new updated edition has been fully revised to cover important topics including policing priorities, hate crimes, ethnicity, victims, cultural complexities, resource constraints, domestic and international crime, court delays, the Sentencing Bill 2025 and a potential paradigm shift in sentencing away from the use of imprisonment towards community sentences. Also new to this edition is a ninth model of justice the asymmetric model.