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Anthony Bottoms
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 63
Citations - 4533
Anthony Bottoms is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Criminal justice & Prison. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 62 publications receiving 4166 citations. Previous affiliations of Anthony Bottoms include University of Sheffield.
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Beyond Procedural Justice: A Dialogic Approach to Legitimacy in Criminal Justice
Anthony Bottoms,Justice Tankebe +1 more
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Prisons and the problem of order
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a substantial new statement on the character of social life in confinement drawing upon extensive fieldwork in two contrasting English maximum security prisons, including the differing control strategies deployed in each, as seen by both custodians and captives, controllers and controlled.
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Interpersonal Violence and Social Order in Prisons
TL;DR: The incidence of interpersonal violence in prisons is influenced by the characteristics of inmates but also by aspects of the prison environment and by the continual dynamic interaction between prisoners, prison staff, and the physical and social context within which they are placed.
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Towards Desistance: Theoretical Underpinnings for an Empirical Study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the initial theoretical underpinnings for a fresh prospective study of desistance, focused on 20-year-old recidivists, with special reference to their age-transitional status and the relevance of 'community' in their lives.
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Criminal deterrence and sentence severity : an analysis of recent research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the marginal deterrent effects of changing the certainty of punishment, that is, of altering the likelihood of an offender's being apprehended and convicted for a crime.