4th Edition
by Francis Pakes (Author)
This book offers a scholarly
introduction to comparative criminal justice. It examines and reflects
on the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main
stages in the criminal justice process, from policing, to systems of
trial, to sentencing, and punishment. This popular bestseller has been
fully updated and expanded for the fourth edition.
This textbook provides the reader with:
- a comparative perspective on criminal justice and its main components
- a knowledge of methodology for comparative research and analysis
- a
discussion of global trends such as the global drop in crime, the
punitive turn, penal populism, privatization, international policing and
international criminal tribunals
- an
understanding of the emerging concepts in comparative criminal justice,
such as security, surveillance, crimmigration and penal exceptionalism
- a global and historical consideration of the death penalty and international criminal justice
- increased attention to environmental crime, genocide and policy 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 judicial
decision makers; a new chapter on the death penalty in comparative
perspective; and further coverage of key topics such as global policing
and electronic monitoring, and new insights into measuring and
understanding crime and punishment globally.
In this
book, lists of further reading, study questions and boxed case studies
help bring comparative criminal justice alive 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.