Revised edition of the author's Comparative criminal justice, 2015. Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-264) and index.
Contents:
International criminal justice : tribunals, statutes and prosecutions -- Conducting comparative research in a globalised world : the aims of comparison -- Comparing crime : finding patterns, uncovering meaning -- Social workers, psychiatrists, torturers, murderers : comparative policing -- Global cops? : transnational and global policing -- Criminal justice actors in prosecution and pre-trial justice -- The day in court : systems of trial -- Peers or patriarchs : criminal justice actors -- Punishment : punitivity, prison, electronic monitoring and control -- The death penalty -- Green criminology and environmental crime -- States, state crimes and genocide -- International criminal justice : tribunals, statutes and prosecutions -- Concluding comments.
Summary:
"This book offers a scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice. It examines and reflects on the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main stages in the criminal justice process, from policing, to systems of trial, to sentencing, and punishment...The new edition has been fully updated to keep abreast with this growing field of study and research, to include a broader coverage of judicial decision makers; a new chapter on the death penalty in comparative perspective; and further coverage of key topics such as global policing and electronic monitoring, and new insights into measuring and understanding crime and punishment globally."-- Provided by publisher.
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