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The Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: Concepts and an Agenda for an Emerging Field
Author(s) -
TOMCZAK PHILIPPA,
BUCK GILLIAN
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the howard journal of crime and justice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.462
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2059-1101
pISSN - 2059-1098
DOI - 10.1111/hojo.12326
Subject(s) - criminal justice , statutory law , voluntary sector , retributive justice , political science , theory of criminal justice , economic justice , criminology , turnover , public relations , public administration , sociology , law , economics , management
Volunteers and voluntary organisations play significant roles pervading criminal justice. They are key actors, with unrecognised potential to shore up criminal justice and/or collaboratively reshape social justice. Unlike public and for‐profit agents, criminal justice volunteers and voluntary organisations (CJVVOs) have been neglected by scholars. We call for analyses of diverse CJVVOs, in national and comparative contexts. We provide three categories to highlight distinctive organising auspices, which hold across criminal justice: statutory volunteers, quasi‐statutory volunteers, and voluntary organisations. The unknown implications of these different forms of non‐State, non‐profit justice involvement deserve far greater attention from academics, policymakers and practitioners.