Beschreibung:
This book offers an accessible and scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice, examining the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with its main stages, from policing, to systems of trial, to sentencing, to punishment.
1. Comparative criminal justice: better knowledge, better justice?, 2. Conducting comparative researchin a globalised world: the aims of comparison, 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: criminal justice actors, 9. Punishment: punitivity, prison, electronic monitoring and control, 10. The death penalty, 11. Green criminology and environmental crime, 12. States, state crimes and genocide, 13. International criminal justice: tribunals, cases and prosecutions, 14. Concluding remarks.