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| List of tables | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Making sense of local and global criminal justice arrangements | |
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| Why study criminal justice comparatively? | |
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| What this book is about | |
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| Conducting comparative criminological research | |
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| The aims of comparison | |
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| Research orientations: ethnography and positivism | |
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| Doing comparative research | |
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| Using criminal justice statistics comparatively | |
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| Comparative criminal justice and globalisation | |
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| Methodological hazards | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Comparing crime | |
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| Comparing official statistics | |
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| International victimisation surveys | |
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| Specialised international statistics | |
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| Establishing rates of crime via other means | |
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| Establishing the meaning of crime in a comparative context | |
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| Policing through a comparative lens | |
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| Police and policing | |
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| Police numbers and policing tasks | |
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| Policing styles and crime control | |
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| Community policing | |
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| Zero tolerance policing | |
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| Zero tolerance policing in Australia | |
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| Policy transfer and policy diffusion | |
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| Policing corruption | |
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| The rise of private policing | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Prosecution and pre-trial justice | |
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| Prosecution | |
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| Pre-trial justice: the role of magistrates | |
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| Diversion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Systems of trial | |
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| Families of trial systems | |
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| Inquisitorial trials in France | |
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| Adversarial trials in Crown Courts in England and Wales | |
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| Adversarial and inquisitorial justice in theory and practice | |
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| The status of the dossier in inquisitorial trials | |
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| Trials in the Islamic legal tradition | |
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| Indigenous courts | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Judicial decision-makers | |
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| Safe pair of hands: the judiciary | |
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| Juries: an endangered species? | |
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| 'The lamp that shows freedom lives': the English jury | |
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| The American jury | |
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| Juries in inquisitorial systems | |
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| New jury systems | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Punishment | |
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| Fairness and effectiveness | |
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| Prisons and their comparative histories | |
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| Prisoner numbers | |
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| Comparing prison rates | |
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| The death penalty | |
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| Abolitionist and retentionist countries | |
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| The death penalty in the US | |
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| How the death penalty (just about) disappeared from Europe | |
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| What works? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| International policing | |
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| Transnational policing | |
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| Globalisation and international policing | |
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| 'High' and 'low' policing | |
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| International policing institutions | |
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| International policing from a US perspective | |
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| The nature and the policing of borders | |
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| The Great Firewall of China | |
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| The nodal governance of international policing | |
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| Security sector reform | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| International criminal justice | |
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| Universal human rights | |
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| War crimes tribunals | |
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| Military tribunals after the Second World War | |
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| The Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals | |
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| The ICTY in action | |
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| The International Criminal Court | |
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| The International Court of Justice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Concluding comments | |
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| The evolution of criminal justice systems: convergence and divergence | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |