5th Edition

Comparative Criminal Justice

By Francis Pakes Copyright 2024
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

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. This popular bestseller has been fully updated and expanded for the... Read more
  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 comments

Biography

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.