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Over the past decades, human rights have gained an increasing significance in law, politics and society, at the national and the international level. According to Louis Henkin, human rights have become ???the paradigm of our time???, thereby displacing previous paradigms such as religion and socialism.

The criminal justice system has not been immune to the rise of human rights over time. Considerable attention is paid to the rules of due process for suspects and offenders, during criminal proceedings and in situations of detention. In recent years, the rights of victims...

In recent years the police have become one of the most watched and most visible organizations, with constant interest across the media. In such a situation the police themselves have been intensely concerned with promoting, projecting and protecting their image.

Background In July of 1992, approximately sixty scholars and researchers met for a week at the "Fritz Erler Akademie" in Freudenstadt, Germany, to participate in a workshop entitled "Cross-National Lon gitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior." The participants represented 15 nations and 45 universities and research centers. Although longitudinal research in criminology has a long history, this workshop represented the first one in the field of criminology in which it was attempted to get together the main scholars in this field from around the world. The largest group of...

This book brings together a selection of papers originally presented and discussed at the fourth international restorative justice conference held at the University of Tubingen. Its contributors include many of the leading authorities in the burgeoning field of restorative justice, and they provide a comprehensive review of international practice and directions and the context in which restorative justice practice is developing. The book moves beyond a focus on restorative justice for juveniles to a broader concern with the application of restorative justice in such areas as corporate crime,...