This title was first published in 2000: This text tackles the issues raised by comparative research into criminal justice on other cultures. How far does criminal justice reflect general culture? Can collaborative research overcome the problem of translating incommensurable concepts? What are the possibilities for "virtual comparisons"? How do we tell difference? The authors, drawn from a range of countries, offer reflections on international differences in the process of trial and punishment.

List of Contributors, Series Preface, PART I: INTRODUCTION, 1. Just Comparing, 2. Virtually There, Researching There, Living There, PART II: VIRTUALLY THERE, 3. Protecting the Innocent Through Criminal Justice: A Case Study from Spain, Virtually Compared to Germany and Japan, 4. Legal Cultures, Political Cultures and Procedural Traditions: Towards a Comparative Interpretation of Covert and Proactive Policing in England and Wales and the Netherlands, 5. Comparing Women's Prisons: Epistemological and Methodological Issues, PART III: RESEARCHING THERE, 6. Comparing Legal Cultures: The Comparativist as Participant Observer, 7. Prosecutor Culture in Japan and the USA, 8. Contrasts in Victim-Offender Mediation and Appeals to Community in France and England, PART IV: LIVING THERE, 9. Telling Difference: Of Crime and Criminal Justice in Italy, 10. Through Other Eyes: On the Limitations and Value of Western Criminology for Teaching and Practice in Trinidad and Tobago, Index