While regulatory institutions and strategies have been the subject of increasing academic attention, there has been limited application of regulatory theories to criminal justice scholarship. This collection of essays from a range of outstanding international scholars adopts a critical, inter-disciplinary approach, providing an innovative application of regulatory theory to the practice of criminal justice and offering suggestions for further research. Part I explores the aims and values of criminal justice and other regulatory networks and the synergies and tensions between these fields; Part II examines criminal justice as a regulatory force to control 'deviant' and anti-social behaviour and Part III examines the regulation and oversight of criminal justice through the operation of prison inspectorates and explores notions of responsive justice.

Hannah Quirk is a Lecturer in Criminal Law and Justice at the University of Manchester, where her research interests include the right of silence and wrongful convictions. She worked previously for the Legal Services Commission and the Criminal Cases Review Commission. She has written about disclosure of unused material in criminal trials, miscarriages of justice and the Royal Prerogative of Mercy. Toby Seddon is Senior Research Fellow in Regulation in the School of Law, University of Manchester, and Director of the Regulation, Security and Justice Research Centre. Graham Smith is a Lecturer in Regulation in the School of Law, University of Manchester, and Deputy Director of the Regulation, Security and Justice Research Centre.