Comparative Criminal Justice

ISBN-13: 9781138039346 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 276 str.

Francis Pakes

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.