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Comparative Criminal Justice Making Sense of Difference

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ISBN-10: 1847879373

ISBN-13: 9781847879370

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Nelken

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The increasingly important topic of comparative criminal justice is examined from an original and insightful perspective by one of the top scholars in the field. Addressing the need for a globalized criminology, David Nelken looks at why we should study crime and criminal justice in a comparative and international context, and the difficulties we encounter when we do.Evaluating 'global' trends in crime, risk and security, the book explores:" to what extent criminal justice systems are, or should be, similar" how to understand the social and political sources of national criminal justice practices" how to learn from ideas and practices in other jurisdictions" theoretical and methodological…    
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 4/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.90" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Changing Paradigms
Why Compare?
Just Comparison
Ways of Making Sense
Explaining Too Much?
The Challenge of the Global
Whose Sense?