Anthony Bottoms
Biographic Data
| ID | 254181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Bottoms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Bottoms |
| SIGNATURE | BOTTOMS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Shifting logics in criminal justice’: Introduction to the special issue
In this piece, we introduce a special issue celebrating Professor Joanna Shapland’s 40-year contribution to criminology and criminal justice. It is derived from an international conference hosted by the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Sheffield on ‘Shifting Logics in Criminal Justice’, which took place on 12–14 April 2023. In the introduction, we reflect on Joanna Shapland’s contributions to the fields of victims, restorat…
Exploring an Institutionalist and Post-Desert Theoretical Approach to Multiple-Offense Sentencing
This chapter begins with a discussion of Neil MacCormick’s institutionalist approach to legal phenomena, and argues that this theoretical framework has value as a way to study multiple offense sentencing (MOS). The most thorough completed empirical research into MOS, by Austin Lovegrove in Victoria, Australia, is then considered, alongside the leading Victorian case of Azzopardi v. R . Congruently with the expectations of institutionalism, this a…
Global Perspectives on Desistance: Reviewing What We Know and Looking to the Future
Alternatives to Prison
In march 2003, the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation announced the establishment of an Independent Inquiry into Alternatives to Prison, chaired by Lord Coulsfield, a recently retired Scottish appeal judge. This chapter discusses the use of prison. Simultaneously with the Coulsfield Inquiry’s deliberations, the think-tank CIVITAS published a report arguing that the rise in the prison population in England and Wales was probably causally linked to the rec…
Community Penalties
Learning from Odysseus
Young Adult Offenders
1. Introduction 2. Young Adult Offenders in Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems in Europe 3. Youth, Alcohol, and Aggression 4. Childhood Risk Factors for Young Adult Offending: Onset and Persistence 5. Young Adult Offenders in Custodial Institutions: Vulnerability, Relationships and Risks 6. What Works in Correctional Treatment and Rehabilitation for Young Adults? 7. Young Women in Transition: from Offending to Desistance 8. Perceptions of the …
Reflections on social values, offending and desistance among young adult recidivists
Within the human life-span, the decade of the 20s (age 20—29) is known to manifest the fastest deceleration of offending. This article reports findings concerning the social and moral values of a sample of recidivist offenders at the start of this age-range. Most reported surprisingly conformist values, for example with regard to future aspirations (employment, housing, etc.) and to the importance of staying within legal boundaries. Nevertheless,…
Social structures and desistance from crime
Desistance studies have routinely focused on issues such as family links, employment prospects and moving away from criminal friends, but they have said less about the meso- and macro-level structural issues that might facilitate or impede the transition of ex-offenders to the status of more mainstream members of civil society.Yet, in view of the necessary interaction between agency and structure in producing processes of desistance, a considerat…
Disorder, order and control signals
Robert Sampson has placed us all in his debt by his immensely stimulating British Journal of Sociology lecture. Emulating the spirit of confession apparent in his third footnote (Sampson 2009: 27) I candidly admit that, while in theory recognizing the distinction between actual disorder and perceived disorder, in my own writings I have not always adequately differentiated between these two things. It is a mistake that, following Sampson's detaile…
The Community Dimension of Community Penalties
The recent history of probation supervision in England and Wales has seen a significant reduction in its links to residential communities; but, by contrast, visible ‘Community Payback’ is now a key feature of unpaid work penalties. This article considers why these contrasting developments are occurring simultaneously. It argues that the dominant reason for the evolution of the ‘Community Payback’ scheme is governmental preference for aspects of t…
The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms and Development
Integration of disciplines, theories and research orientations has assumed a central role in criminological discourse yet it remains difficult to identify any concrete discoveries or significant breakthroughs for which integration has been responsible. Concentrating on three key concepts: context, mechanisms, and development, this volume aims to advance integrated scientific knowledge on crime causation by bringing together different scholarly ap…
Towards Desistance: Theoretical Underpinnings for an Empirical Study
This article presents the initial theoretical underpinnings for a fresh prospective study of desistance, focused on 20‐year‐old recidivists. It is argued that significant crime‐free gaps appropriately form part of the subject matter of desistance. An interactive theoretical framework is presented, involving ‘programmed potential’, ‘social context’ (structures, culture, situations) and ‘agency’. It is argued that agency, while rightly attracting i…
Youth Justice in Great Britain
The English and Scottish youth justice systems share a commitment to preventive as opposed to retributive goals, but pursue them in sharply contrasting ways. In Scotland, a unified welfare-based system, committed to the prevention of harm to children, encompasses children who offend and children in social jeopardy. It uniquely and radically separates functions between the courts as factual and legal arbiters and children's hearings as treatment t…
Ideology, crime and criminal justice: A symposium in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz
Sir Leon Radzinowicz: an appreciation, by Anthony Bottoms. Recollections of Sir Leon Radzinowicz, by Roger Hood Part 1: Theory 1. Ideology and crime - a further chapter, by David Garland 2. Morality, crime, compliance and public policy, by Anthony Bottoms Part 2: History 3. Gentlemen convicts, dynamitards and paramilitaries: the limits of criminal justice, by Sean McConville 4. The English police: a unique development?, by Clive Emsley Part 3: Pr…
Interpersonal Violence and Social Order in Prisons
The incidence of acts 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. Enhanced physical restrictions can often reduce levels of violence due to restrictions on opportunity but may also sometimes lead to a loss of legitimacy tha…
Changing Prison Life
Prisons and the Problem of Order
This book presents a substantial revolution on the character of confined social life. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in two contrasting English maximum security prisons, the authors systematically compare their institutional order, including the differing control strategies deployed in each, as seen by both custodians and captives, controllers and controlled. The authors discuss the insinuations of their research for the tradition of sociologic…
The Philosophy and Politics of Punishment and Sentencing
The preliminary information brochure for the Colston International Sentencing Symposium set out very succinctly some key features of the context in which the Symposium was held: All of the factors listed in this quotation have been influential, to a greater or lesser extent, in most Western countries at some point during the last three decades. However, as the various national case-studies prepared for the Colston Symposium very well illustrate, …
Legitimacy and Order in Prisons
L'A. s'efforce d'elaborer une theorie concernant la legitimite en systeme carceral et cela a la lumiere des contributions de D. Beetham et T.R. Tyler. L'A. affirme que l'on n'a pas pose le probleme de la legitimation par rapport au fonctionnement des prisons. Il etudie certains etablissements penitentiaires de securite maximale. Il examine les circonstances, le contexte au cours desquels les detenus vont accorder une certaine legitimite aux respo…
Crime prevention facing the 1990s∗
Crime prevention projects assumed an enhanced importance during the 1980s in a number of countries. This paper assesses the experience of crime prevention projects to date, and argues for a mixed strategy of situational, social and developmental crime prevention for the future. Additionally, potential problems in inter‐agency co‐operation in local crime prevention projects need to be more honestly faced, and evolving policies in the crime prevent…
Problems of Long Term Imprisonment
Limiting Prison Use: Experience in England and Wales1
This paper reviews policies adopted in England and Wales, especially since 1965, in attempts to limit the prison population. It is shown that measures designed as ‘alternatives to custody’ have had little success in reducing the prison population. Measures designed to shorten the length of custodial sentences have had more impact on the size of the population, but at the cost of several anomalies. It is suggested that few outside observers see in…
A Localised Crime Survey in Contrasting Areas of a City
A crime survey was conducted in seven small residential areas (pop. 2000–3000) in the city of Sheffield, varying in their housing type and offcial crime rates. Within each housing type, the suruey found that official crime statistics were valid indicators of area crime-rate differences. However, the two high-rise housing areas appeartd as more problematic in the crime survey than in oficial data, with a particularly high ratio of survey offeness …
Housing Tenure and Residential Community Crime Careers in Britain
The notion of a "criminal career," though generally used in reference to individuals, can be applied also to residential communities. The key to understanding community criminal careers in Britain lies within the operation of the housing market. The urban geography of most large British cities has resulted from historical developments unique to housing tenure in Britain. The tenure picture is unlike that portrayed in the Chicago model of concentr…
Legitimacy and Order in Prisons
L'A. s'efforce d'elaborer une theorie concernant la legitimite en systeme carceral et cela a la lumiere des contributions de D. Beetham et T.R. Tyler. L'A. affirme que l'on n'a pas pose le probleme de la legitimation par rapport au fonctionnement des prisons. Il etudie certains etablissements penitentiaires de securite maximale. Il examine les circonstances, le contexte au cours desquels les detenus vont accorder une certaine legitimite aux respo…
Interpersonal Violence and Social Order in Prisons
The incidence of acts 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. Enhanced physical restrictions can often reduce levels of violence due to restrictions on opportunity but may also sometimes lead to a loss of legitimacy tha…
Reflections on social values, offending and desistance among young adult recidivists
Within the human life-span, the decade of the 20s (age 20—29) is known to manifest the fastest deceleration of offending. This article reports findings concerning the social and moral values of a sample of recidivist offenders at the start of this age-range. Most reported surprisingly conformist values, for example with regard to future aspirations (employment, housing, etc.) and to the importance of staying within legal boundaries. Nevertheless,…
Crime prevention facing the 1990s∗
Crime prevention projects assumed an enhanced importance during the 1980s in a number of countries. This paper assesses the experience of crime prevention projects to date, and argues for a mixed strategy of situational, social and developmental crime prevention for the future. Additionally, potential problems in inter‐agency co‐operation in local crime prevention projects need to be more honestly faced, and evolving policies in the crime prevent…
Delinquency amongst Immigrants
Disorder, order and control signals
Robert Sampson has placed us all in his debt by his immensely stimulating British Journal of Sociology lecture. Emulating the spirit of confession apparent in his third footnote (Sampson 2009: 27) I candidly admit that, while in theory recognizing the distinction between actual disorder and perceived disorder, in my own writings I have not always adequately differentiated between these two things. It is a mistake that, following Sampson's detaile…
The Suspended Sentence in England, 1967–1978
Journal Article THE SUSPENDED SENTENCE IN ENGLAND, 1967–1978 A. E. BOTTOMS A. E. BOTTOMS Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 1981, Pages 1–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047193 Published: 01 January 1981
Housing Tenure and Residential Community Crime Careers in Britain
The notion of a "criminal career," though generally used in reference to individuals, can be applied also to residential communities. The key to understanding community criminal careers in Britain lies within the operation of the housing market. The urban geography of most large British cities has resulted from historical developments unique to housing tenure in Britain. The tenure picture is unlike that portrayed in the Chicago model of concentr…
Youth Justice in Great Britain
The English and Scottish youth justice systems share a commitment to preventive as opposed to retributive goals, but pursue them in sharply contrasting ways. In Scotland, a unified welfare-based system, committed to the prevention of harm to children, encompasses children who offend and children in social jeopardy. It uniquely and radically separates functions between the courts as factual and legal arbiters and children's hearings as treatment t…
The Dangerousness Debate After the Floud Report
A. E. BOTTOMS, ROGER BROWNSWORD; THE DANGEROUSNESS DEBATE AFTER THE FLOUD REPORT, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 22, Issue 3, 1 July 1982, Page
A Localised Crime Survey in Contrasting Areas of a City
A crime survey was conducted in seven small residential areas (pop. 2000–3000) in the city of Sheffield, varying in their housing type and offcial crime rates. Within each housing type, the suruey found that official crime statistics were valid indicators of area crime-rate differences. However, the two high-rise housing areas appeartd as more problematic in the crime survey than in oficial data, with a particularly high ratio of survey offeness …
Criminals Coming of Age
Delinquency Amongst Immigrants: A Further Note
Delinquency amongst Immigrants
Research and Methodology Current Criminological Research
Criminals Coming of Age
Defendants in the Criminal Process
Reflections on the Renaissance of Dangerousness
Youth Custody and Supervision: A New Sentence
Journal Article YOUTH CUSTODY AND SUPERVISION: A NEW SENTENCE: Comments on the Green Paper on Young Adult Offenders Get access A. E. BOTTOMS A. E. BOTTOMS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 19, Issue 3, July 1979, Pages 257–262, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047006 Published: 01 July 1979
The Suspended Sentence in England, 1967–1978
Journal Article THE SUSPENDED SENTENCE IN ENGLAND, 1967–1978 A. E. BOTTOMS A. E. BOTTOMS Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 1981, Pages 1–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047193 Published: 01 January 1981
The Coming Penal Crisis: A Criminological and Theological Exploration
The Dangerousness Debate After the Floud Report
A. E. BOTTOMS, ROGER BROWNSWORD; THE DANGEROUSNESS DEBATE AFTER THE FLOUD REPORT, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 22, Issue 3, 1 July 1982, Page
The Coming Penal Crisis: A Criminological and Theological Exploration
Housing Tenure and Residential Community Crime Careers in Britain
The notion of a "criminal career," though generally used in reference to individuals, can be applied also to residential communities. The key to understanding community criminal careers in Britain lies within the operation of the housing market. The urban geography of most large British cities has resulted from historical developments unique to housing tenure in Britain. The tenure picture is unlike that portrayed in the Chicago model of concentr…
Limiting Prison Use: Experience in England and Wales1
This paper reviews policies adopted in England and Wales, especially since 1965, in attempts to limit the prison population. It is shown that measures designed as ‘alternatives to custody’ have had little success in reducing the prison population. Measures designed to shorten the length of custodial sentences have had more impact on the size of the population, but at the cost of several anomalies. It is suggested that few outside observers see in…
A Localised Crime Survey in Contrasting Areas of a City
A crime survey was conducted in seven small residential areas (pop. 2000–3000) in the city of Sheffield, varying in their housing type and offcial crime rates. Within each housing type, the suruey found that official crime statistics were valid indicators of area crime-rate differences. However, the two high-rise housing areas appeartd as more problematic in the crime survey than in oficial data, with a particularly high ratio of survey offeness …
Problems of Long Term Imprisonment
Crime prevention facing the 1990s∗
Crime prevention projects assumed an enhanced importance during the 1980s in a number of countries. This paper assesses the experience of crime prevention projects to date, and argues for a mixed strategy of situational, social and developmental crime prevention for the future. Additionally, potential problems in inter‐agency co‐operation in local crime prevention projects need to be more honestly faced, and evolving policies in the crime prevent…
The Philosophy and Politics of Punishment and Sentencing
The preliminary information brochure for the Colston International Sentencing Symposium set out very succinctly some key features of the context in which the Symposium was held: All of the factors listed in this quotation have been influential, to a greater or lesser extent, in most Western countries at some point during the last three decades. However, as the various national case-studies prepared for the Colston Symposium very well illustrate, …
Legitimacy and Order in Prisons
L'A. s'efforce d'elaborer une theorie concernant la legitimite en systeme carceral et cela a la lumiere des contributions de D. Beetham et T.R. Tyler. L'A. affirme que l'on n'a pas pose le probleme de la legitimation par rapport au fonctionnement des prisons. Il etudie certains etablissements penitentiaires de securite maximale. Il examine les circonstances, le contexte au cours desquels les detenus vont accorder une certaine legitimite aux respo…
Prisons and the Problem of Order
This book presents a substantial revolution on the character of confined social life. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in two contrasting English maximum security prisons, the authors systematically compare their institutional order, including the differing control strategies deployed in each, as seen by both custodians and captives, controllers and controlled. The authors discuss the insinuations of their research for the tradition of sociologic…
Changing Prison Life
Interpersonal Violence and Social Order in Prisons
The incidence of acts 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. Enhanced physical restrictions can often reduce levels of violence due to restrictions on opportunity but may also sometimes lead to a loss of legitimacy tha…
Ideology, crime and criminal justice: A symposium in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz
Sir Leon Radzinowicz: an appreciation, by Anthony Bottoms. Recollections of Sir Leon Radzinowicz, by Roger Hood Part 1: Theory 1. Ideology and crime - a further chapter, by David Garland 2. Morality, crime, compliance and public policy, by Anthony Bottoms Part 2: History 3. Gentlemen convicts, dynamitards and paramilitaries: the limits of criminal justice, by Sean McConville 4. The English police: a unique development?, by Clive Emsley Part 3: Pr…
Towards Desistance: Theoretical Underpinnings for an Empirical Study
This article presents the initial theoretical underpinnings for a fresh prospective study of desistance, focused on 20‐year‐old recidivists. It is argued that significant crime‐free gaps appropriately form part of the subject matter of desistance. An interactive theoretical framework is presented, involving ‘programmed potential’, ‘social context’ (structures, culture, situations) and ‘agency’. It is argued that agency, while rightly attracting i…
Youth Justice in Great Britain
The English and Scottish youth justice systems share a commitment to preventive as opposed to retributive goals, but pursue them in sharply contrasting ways. In Scotland, a unified welfare-based system, committed to the prevention of harm to children, encompasses children who offend and children in social jeopardy. It uniquely and radically separates functions between the courts as factual and legal arbiters and children's hearings as treatment t…
The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms and Development
Integration of disciplines, theories and research orientations has assumed a central role in criminological discourse yet it remains difficult to identify any concrete discoveries or significant breakthroughs for which integration has been responsible. Concentrating on three key concepts: context, mechanisms, and development, this volume aims to advance integrated scientific knowledge on crime causation by bringing together different scholarly ap…
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