This fully updated and expanded new edition of Comparative Criminal Justice takes into account the considerable advances in comparative criminal justice research since the first edition in 2004. Each chapter has been thoroughly updated and a completely new chapter on establishing the rate of crime in a comparative context has been added. Developments in international policing and international criminal justice now require an individual chapter devoted to each; and throughout the book, the role of globalisation, changing both the local and the global in criminal justice arrangements, orientations and discourses, has been given the prominence it deserves.
For their part, the white apartheid regime was fearful of what the future held for them and all white people in the country. After all, the ANC had been banned as a terrorist organization, and some of its leaders arrested and convicted ...
Written for students of criminal justice, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: Global and Local Perspectives examines the nature of crime and justice in varying countries and cultures in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin ...
The Seventh Edition updates statistics, changes in law, and modifications of procedures throughout; includes new and updated topic covera≥ enhances and updates popular pedagogical features; and provides a number of important chapter ...
Is globalisation best treated as an inevitable trend or as an interactive process? How can globalisation's effects on space and borders be conceptualised? How does it help to create norms and exceptions?
The book illustrates the different types of law and justice systems while exploring the historical, political, economic, social, and cultural influences on each system.
Students and academics in criminology and criminal justice will find this book an invaluable resource. Compact Criminology is an exciting series that invigorates and challenges the international field of criminology.
COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS is a topical approach to the subject rather than a countryby-country approach. This approach allows the author to explore historical, political, economic, social and cultural influences...
This proven text's unique topical approach examines important aspects of each type of justice system--common law, civil law, socialist law, and sacred (Islamic) law--which gives students a more solid understanding of the similarities and ...
For junior/senior-level courses in Comparative (or International) Criminal Justice Systems, Comparative Criminology, and Comparative Government. Unique in approach, this is the only comparative criminal justice text that follows a natural...
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