Comparative criminal justice / Francis Pakes.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; 1 Comparative criminal justice: better knowledge, better justice?; The utility of the comparative project; The nature of this book; Further reading; Study questions; 2 Conducting comparative research in a globalised world: the aims of comparison; Research orientations; Doing comparative research; Case studies; Focused comparisons; Statistical analysis; Using criminal justice statistics comparatively; Comparative criminal justice and globalisation; Methodological hazards; Conclusion: a cosmopolitan turn?

Further readingStudy questions; 3 Comparing crime: finding patterns, uncovering meaning; Comparing official statistics; The global crime drop; Specialised international statistics; Establishing rates of crime via other means; Establishing the meaning of crime in a comparative context; Further reading; Study questions; 4 Social workers, psychiatrists, torturers, murderers: comparative policing; Police brutality; Police and policing; Police numbers and policing tasks; Policing styles and crime control; Community policing; Zero tolerance policing; Pro-active or targeted policing

Policy transfer and policy diffusionPolicing corruption; The rise of private policing; Conclusion; Further reading; Study questions; 5 Global cops?: Transnational and global policing; Transnational policing; 'High' and 'low' policing; International policing institutions; International policing from a US perspective; Globalisation and international policing; The nature and the policing of borders; The nodal governance of international policing; Security Sector Reform; Conclusion; Further reading; Study questions; 6 Criminal justice actors in prosecution and pre-trial justice; Prosecution

Prosecution in the NetherlandsLay review of prosecution: the American Grand Jury; The core function of a prosecution service; Pre-trial justice: the role of magistrates; Pre-trial custody in law and practice; Diversion; The New Zealand family group conference; 'Mental health' diversion; Conclusion; Further reading; Study questions; 7 The day in court: systems of trial; Families of trial systems; Inquisitorial trials in France; Adversarial trials in Crown Courts in England and Wales; Adversarial and inquisitorial justice in theory and practice; Trials in the Islamic legal tradition

Indigenous courtsCourts in a cold climate: achieving justice in Alaska; Legal pluralism; Conclusion; Further reading; Study questions; 8 Peers or patriarchs: criminal justice actors; Safe pairs of hands: the judiciary; Juries: an endangered species?; 'The lamp that shows freedom lives': the English jury; The American jury; Juries in inquisitorial systems; New jury systems; Conclusion; Further reading; Study questions; 9 Punishment: punitivity, prison, electronic monitoring and control; Fairness and effectiveness; Prisons and their comparative histories; Prisoner numbers