Francis Pakes

Comparative Criminal Justice (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a scholarly and lively introduction to comparative criminal justice. It considers the state of crime globally and 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040090107
• Artikelnr.: 70764331

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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
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