Comparative Criminal Justice

This book offers a scholarly  introduction to comparative criminal justice. It 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 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
• a  discussion of global trends such as the global drop in crime, the  punitive turn, penal populism, privatization, international policing and  international criminal tribunals 
• an  understanding of the emerging concepts in comparative criminal justice,  such as security, surveillance, crimmigration and penal exceptionalism 
• a global and historical consideration of the death penalty and international criminal justice
• increased attention to environmental crime, genocide and policy brutality.

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 global policing  and electronic monitoring, and new insights into measuring and  understanding crime and punishment globally. 

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.