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.