Comparative Criminal Justice

by Francis Pakes (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2019

  $143.11

  This book offers an accessible and scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice 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, to 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;
  • an understanding of the emerging concepts in comparative criminal justice, such as security, surveillance, retribution and rehabilitation;
  • a discussion of global trends such as the global drop in crime, the punitive turn, penal populism, privatization, international policing and international criminal tribunals.

  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 wildlife crime, justice reinvestment, border policing and the detention of migrants, private prisons, and key recent judgements in the international criminal court.

  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.