Comparative Criminal Justice

This book offers a scholarly and lively introduction to comparative criminal justice. It considers the state of crime globally and 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.

Autorentext

Francis Pakes is Professor in Criminology at Portsmouth University, UK. He has published extensively on comparative criminal justice, criminal justice in the Netherlands, punishment in the Nordic countries, and is currently engaged in an in-depth study of imprisonment in Iceland.

Inhalt

1. Comparative criminal justice: between horror and hope 2.Conducting comparative research in a globalised world 3.Comparing crime: finding patterns, uncovering meaning 4.Social workers, psychiatrists, torturers, murderers: comparative policing 5.Global cops: transnational and global policing 6.Criminal justice actors in prosecution and pre-trial justice 7.The day in court: systems of trial 8.Peers or patriarchs: judicial decision makers 9.Punishment: punitivity, prison, and electronic monitoring 10.Cruel and (increasingly) unusual: the death penalty 11.Green criminology and environmental crime 12.Comparative criminology and climate change 13.States, state crimes, and genocide 14.International criminal justice: tribunals, statutes and convictions 15.Players or spectators: victims in a comparative perspective 16.Concluding comments