Comparative criminal justice systems
Subtitle: global and local perspectives
By: Shahid Shahidullah
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781449604257
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Comparative criminal justice : theory, methods, and benchmarks of comparison; title: Comparative criminal justice : nature, scope, and research traditions; title: Comparative criminal justice : theoretical perspectives; title: Comparative criminal justice : methodological perspectives; title: Profile of modern criminal justice : the benchmarks of comparison; title: Competing models of criminal justice : profiles of criminal justice across the world's societies; title: Modern systems of criminal justice in the west: North America and the countries of the European Union; title: Emerging trends in law and sentencing in modern criminal justice systems : USA, UK, Canada, and Australia; title: Modernizing systems of criminal justice in Asia, Africa, and Latin America : the first wave of modernization; title: Modernizing systems of criminal justice in Asia, Africa, and Latin America : the second wave of modernization; title: The traditional systems of criminal justice : Islamic jurisprudence and shari'a law; title: Islamic jurisprudence, shari'a law, and criminal justice in Saudi Arabia and Iran; title: Hybrid systems of criminal justice : the case of the People's Republic of China; title: Hybrid systems of criminal justice : the case of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.