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Comparative Criminal Justice Systems

ISBN: 9780130809087 | 013080908X
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Pub. Date: 11/1/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
Discussing how various countries around the world have organized their police, courts, and corrections agencies, this insightful text provides the rationale for studying cross-national issues in criminal justice by giving students a knowledge base for understanding and appreciating the different ways justice is conceived and achieved around the world.
Chapter 1 Taking an International Perspective
1(25)
Why Study the Legal System of Other Countries?
3(3)
Approaches to a... MORE
6(4)
Strategies Under the Descriptive Approach
10(6)
Comparison through Classification
16(6)
The Structure of this Book
22(2)
Summary
24(1)
Suggested Reading
25(3)
Chapter 2 Crime On The World Scene
26(28)
The Crime Problem
27(6)
Comparing Crime Rates
33(9)
Crime Trends and Crime Theories
42(11)
Summary
53(1)
Suggested Reading
53(1)
Chapter 3 An American Perspective on Criminal Law
54(25)
Essential Ingredients of Justice Systems
55(22)
Summary
77(1)
Suggested Reading
78(1)
Chapter 4 Legal Traditions
79(44)
Today's Four Legal Traditions
84(25)
Comparing the Legal Traditions
109(12)
Summary
121(1)
Suggested Reading
121(2)
Chapter 5 Substantive Law and Procedural Law in the Four Legal Traditions
123(37)
Substantive Criminal Law
124(14)
Procedural Criminal Law
138(20)
Summary
158(1)
Suggested Reading
159(1)
Chapter 6 An International View of Policing
160(40)
Classifying Police Structures
162(29)
Policing Issues: Police Misconduct
191(2)
Policing Issues: Global Cooperation
193(5)
Summary
198(1)
Suggested Reading
198(2)
Chapter 7 An International Perspective on Courts
200(52)
Professional Actors in the Judiciary
202(15)
The Adjudicators
217(16)
Variation in Court Organization
233(18)
Summary
251(1)
Suggested Reading
251(1)
Chapter 8 An International Perspective On Corrections
252(41)
Variability in Justification
255(1)
Imprisonment as Punishment
256(5)
Corrections in Australia
261(16)
Corrections in Poland
277(9)
Corrections in Japan
286(6)
Summary
292(1)
Suggested Reading
292(1)
Chapter 9 An International Perspective on Juvenile Justice
293(28)
Delinquency as a Worldwide Problem
295(3)
Models of Juvenile Justice
298(20)
Summary
318(2)
Suggested Reading
320(1)
Chapter 10 Japan: Examples of Effectiveness and Borrowing
321(48)
Why Study Japan?
322(5)
Japanese Cultural Traits
327(9)
Criminal Law
336(4)
Policing
340(4)
Judiciary
344(12)
Corrections
356(7)
Coming Full-Circle
363(1)
What Might Work?
364(3)
Summary
367(1)
Suggested Reading
368(1)
References369(24)
Name Index393(5)
Subject Index398

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