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Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: Global and Local Perspectives

Shahid M. Shahidullah

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ISBN: 9781449604257
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Modernization and globalization are spreading many homogenizing sets of institutions and cultural codes across the world’s societies in almost all domains of life including law and justice. As a result of modernization and globalization, there has been emerging a global perspective on organizing the world’s polities and shaping the nature of their law, justice, and governance. Similar visions are emerging across the world’s societies for developing a system of criminal justice that is compatible with modernity. The progress of modernization, however, is creating many cultural debates and disputes with respect to the definition of crime and criminal law, the rights of criminal offenders, the process of trial and adjudications, the nature of punishment, and transparency and accountability in the delivery of justice. Written for the undergraduate comparative criminal justice course, Comparative Criminal Justice: Global and Local Perspectives combines theoretical and methodological issues of comparison with historical and cultural analysis of crime and criminal justice in varying countries and cultures. Using a topical approach, it compares different systems of crime and justice in terms of their differences from and similarities to the laws and institutions of modern criminal justice, focusing on the United States as a standard of comparison. By examining different criminal justice systems in terms of their local peculiarities and understanding their change and continuity through the eyes of modernity, students will gain a well-rounded international perspective of the world's varying systems of criminal justice. Key Features: -Explores the rise of modern criminology and the criminal justice system in the nineteenth century. It is critical for students to understand the history of modern systems to fully comprehend the varying nature of today's main legal systems, focusing on the United States as a standard of comparison. -Employs a topical approach to examine the criminal justice systems in varying countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, including comparative views on law enforcement, judicial systems, corrections, due process of law, and search and seizures. -Includes discussions on comparative processes of criminalization and decriminalization on such issues as domestic violence, child abuse, homosexuality, and sexual harassment. -Discusses new global crimes and their impact on modern and traditional criminal justice systems, including human smuggling, global sex trade, global illegal drug trade, illegal trafficking of conventional military weapons, money laundering, cybercrime, and global terrorism. -Every chapter opens with learning goals and objectives and concludes with a summary, discussion questions, and case studies, ensuring that student's grasp the core theoretical concepts. -Instructor resources include a Test Bank and PowerPoint Lecture Outlines.
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    Chapter 1 Comparative Criminal Justice: Theory, Methods,
    and Benchmarks Comparison
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    Chapter 2 Comparative Criminal Justice: Nature, Scope,
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    Chapter 3 Comparative Criminal Justice: Theoretical
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    Chapter 4 Profile of Modern Criminal Justice: The
    Benchmarks of Comparison
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    Chapter 5 Modern Systems of Criminal Justice in the
    West: North America and the Countries of
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    Chapter 6 Emerging Trends in Law and Sentencing in
    Modern Criminal Justice Systems: USA, UK,
    Canada, and Australia
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    Chapter 7 Modernizing Systems of Criminal Justice
    in Asia, Africa, and Latin America: The
    First Wave of Modernization
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    Chapter 8 Modernizing Systems of Criminal Justice
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    Second Wave of Modernization
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    Chapter 9 The Traditional Systems of Criminal Justice:
    Islamic Jurisprudence and Shari'a Law
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    Chapter 10 Islamic Jurisprudence, Shari'a Law, and
    Criminal Justice in Saudi Arabia and Iran
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    Chapter 11 Hybrid Systems of Criminal Justice: The
    Case of the People's Republic of China
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    Chapter 12 Hybrid Systems of Criminal Justice: The
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