It has been a pleasure working with Thomas Sutton, Senior Editor, Criminology at Routledge. He made the initial approach regarding this project, and he has been helpful and encouraging throughout its development and execution. We are especially grateful for the latitude we have been given in formulating the overall aim and character of the Handbook while also being given valuable guidance. Tom was clear that the Handbook should aim to be more than a compilation and that it should comprise new works. We were urged to think of the Handbook as aiming to develop criminal justice ethics as an area of study, and we appreciate the free hand we have been permitted in that effort.
Others at Routledge, in particular Heidi Lee and Hannah Catterall, have been patient, supportive, responsive … and more patient. We are grateful to them for the numerous ways they have helped at each step of the project.
We are very grateful to the contributors to the volume, especially for their willingness to offer new work. The extra effort required by the commitment to the distinctive character of this project is much appreciated.
Jonathan Jacobs would like to thank the Earhart Foundation for a Fellowship Research Grant, which supported his work on this project, both in regard to my contribution and in regard to work on the project overall. The grant supported research and consultation visits to the UK and supported my editorial collaboration with Jon Jackson. Time spent with scholars at the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge and with Jonathan Jackson has been important to the development of my work on issues at the intersection of Ethics, Politics, and Criminal Justice.
Jonathan Jackson would like to thank Yale School Law, Harvard Kennedy School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice (Department of Psychology) for hosting him while he worked on this project. He is also grateful to the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council for funding that research leave (grant number ES/L011611/1).