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Comparative Criminal Justice Systems : A Topical Approach

ISBN: 9780131131590 | 0131131591
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
For courses in Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, Comparative Criminology, and Comparative Government. Unique in its topical approach, this best-selling text examines systems of law, police, courts, and corrections by using more than 30 different countries to show the various ways policing, adjudication, and corrections systems can be organized and operated. The book's topical approach allows instructors to cover the material in a familiar format (law, police, courts and corrections) and helps students understand the variety of criminal just... MORE
Prefacexiii
An International Perspective
1(32)
Why Study the Legal System of Other Countries?
3(10)
... MORE
Provincial Benefits of an International Perspective
4(2)
Universal Benefits of an International Perspective
6(7)
Approaches to an International Perspective
13(4)
Historical Approach
13(2)
Political Approach
15(1)
Descriptive Approach
16(1)
Strategies under the Descriptive Approach
17(6)
The Functions/Procedures Strategy
17(2)
The Institutions/Actors Strategy
19(4)
Comparison Through Classification
23(5)
The Need for Classification
23(1)
Classification Strategies
24(3)
The Role of Classification in This Book
27(1)
The Structure of This Book
28(3)
Summary
31(1)
Suggested Readings
31(2)
Crime, Transnational Crime, and Justice
33(39)
Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice
34(13)
Comparative Criminology Looks at Crime as a Social Phenomenon
35(10)
Comparative Criminology Looks at Crime as Social Behavior
45(2)
Transnational Crime
47(15)
Transnational Crime Types
48(7)
Terrorism
55(7)
Response to Transnational Crime
62(8)
National Efforts
62(4)
Regional Efforts
66(1)
International Efforts
67(3)
Summary
70(1)
Suggested Readings
71(1)
An American Perspective on Criminal Law
72(32)
Essential Ingredients of Justice Systems
73(21)
Substantive Criminal Law
75(8)
Procedural Criminal Law
83(11)
Liberty, Safety, and Fighting Terrorism
94(8)
The USA Patriot Act---Substantive Law Issues
94(2)
Due Process and Terrorist Suspect---Procedural Law Issues
96(5)
Is America's Reaction That Different?
101(1)
Summary
102(1)
Suggested Readings
103(1)
Legal Traditions
104(45)
Legal Systems and Legal Traditions
105(4)
Today's Four Legal Traditions
109(27)
Common Legal Traditions
111(6)
Civil Legal Tradition
117(6)
Socialist Legal Tradition
123(6)
Islamic (Religious/Philosophical) Legal Tradition
129(7)
Comparison of the Legal Traditions
136(11)
Cultural Component
137(4)
Substantive Component
141(2)
Procedural Component
143(4)
Summary
147(1)
Suggested Readings
148(1)
Substantive Law and Procedural Law in the Four Legal Traditions
149(40)
Substantive Criminal Law
150(14)
General Characteristics and Major Principles
150(4)
Substantive Law in the Common Legal Tradition
154(2)
Substantive Law in the Civil Legal Tradition
156(3)
Substantive Law in the Socialist Legal Tradition
159(2)
Substantive Law in the Islamic Legal Tradition
161(3)
Procedural Criminal Law
164(23)
Adjudicatory Processes
166(9)
Judicial Review
175(12)
Summary
187(1)
Suggested Readings
188(1)
An International Perspective on Policing
189(42)
Classification of Police Structures
191(29)
Centralized Single Systems: Nigeria
193(3)
Decentralized Single Systems: Japan
196(4)
Centralized Multiple Coordinated Systems: France
200(7)
Decentralized Multiple Coordinated Systems: Germany
207(4)
Centralized Multiple Uncoordinated Systems: Spain
211(4)
Decentralized Multiple Uncoordinated Systems: Mexico
215(5)
Policing Issues: Police Misconduct
220(3)
Policing Issues: Global Cooperation
223(6)
International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO)---Interpol
223(3)
Europol
226(1)
Examples of Harmonization and Approximation in the European Union
227(2)
Summary
229(1)
Suggested Readings
230(1)
An International Perspective on Courts
231(53)
Professional Actors in the Judiciary
233(14)
Variation in Legal Training
233(3)
Variation in Prosecution
236(8)
Variation in Defense
244(3)
The Adjudicators
247(17)
Presumption of Innocence
250(1)
Professional Judges
251(3)
Lay Judges and Jurors
254(3)
Examples along the Adjudication Continuum
257(7)
Variation in Court Organization
264(18)
France
266(4)
England
270(3)
Nigeria
273(3)
China
276(4)
Saudi Arabia
280(2)
Summary
282(1)
Suggested Readings
283(1)
An International Perspective on Corrections
284(45)
Sentencing Options
285(6)
Justifications for Punishment
287(1)
Overview of Typical Options
288(1)
International Standards for Corrections
289(2)
Financial Penalties
291(5)
Fines
291(3)
Compensation of Victims and Community
294(2)
Corporal and Capital Punishment
296(10)
International Standards
296(1)
Corporal Punishment
297(3)
Capital Punishment
300(6)
Noncustodial Sanctions
306(6)
International Standards
306(1)
Community Corrections
307(1)
Probation
308(4)
Custodial Sanctions
312(16)
International Standards
312(2)
Prison Populations
314(2)
Prison Systems
316(4)
Women in Prison
320(4)
Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Prison
324(4)
Summary
328(1)
Suggested Readings
328(1)
An International Perspective on Juvenile Justice
329(29)
Delinquency as a Worldwide Pattern
331(5)
Setting International Standards
333(1)
Determining Who Are Juveniles
334(1)
Determining the Process
335(1)
Models of Juvenile Justice
336(20)
Welfare Model
337(5)
Legalistic Model
342(3)
Corporatist Model
345(6)
Participatory Model
351(5)
Summary
356(1)
Suggested Readings
357(1)
Japan: Examples of Effectiveness and Borrowing
358(47)
Why Study Japan?
360(4)
Japan's Effective Criminal Justice System
360(1)
Borrowing in a Cross-Cultural Context
361(3)
Japanese Cultural Patterns
364(5)
Homogeneity
365(1)
Contextualism and Harmony
366(1)
Collectivism
366(1)
Hierarchies and Order
367(2)
Criminal Law
369(4)
Law by Bureaucratic Informalism
372(1)
Policing
373(5)
Why Are the Japanese Police Effective?
Judiciary
378(16)
Pretrial Activities
383(4)
Defense Attorney Role
387(1)
Trial Options
388(5)
Judgments
393(1)
Corrections
394(5)
History
394(1)
Community Corrections
395(4)
Coming Full Circle
399(1)
What Might Work
400(3)
Summary
403(1)
Suggested Readings
404(1)
References405(26)
Index431

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