Comparative Criminal Justice
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-48766-3 (ISBN)
A comparative perspective on criminal justice and its main components
Insight into methods for comparative research and analysis
A discussion of global trends such as the global drop in crime, the punitive turn, penal populism, privatisation, international policing, and international criminal tribunals
An understanding of the emerging concepts in comparative criminal justice such as security, surveillance, crimmigration, and penal exceptionalism
Global and historical consideration of the death penalty and international criminal justice
Increased attention to environmental crime, climate change, genocide, and police brutality
The new edition has been fully updated to keep abreast with this growing field of study and research, to include a broader coverage of the global south, and new chapters on criminology and climate change, and on victimology.
In this book, lists of further reading, study questions, and boxed case studies help bring comparative criminal justice to life for students and instructors alike. This book is perfect reading for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in comparative criminal justice and those who are engaged in the study of global responses to crime.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.07.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 14 Tables, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 610 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-48766-6 / 1032487666 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-48766-3 / 9781032487663 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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