Comparative Criminal Justice Systems

Offering a comprehensive analysis, bestselling COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS, 5e compares the various criminal justice systems throughout the world using six model countries: China, England, France, Germany, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. The book illustrates the different types of law and justice systems while exploring the historical, political, economic, social, and cultural influences on each system. It examines important aspects of each type of justice system--common law, civil law, socialist law, and sacred (Islamic) law--to highlight the similarities and differences of each. Completely up to date, it provides expanded coverage of such high-profile topics as human trafficking, Internet pornography, identity theft, transnational policing, terrorism and more.

• Terrorism and Homeland Security
• World Criminal Justice Systems
• The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Criminal Justice Organizations: Administration and Management
• Serial Murderers and their Victims
• Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations
• America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System
• Basics of Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology
• Juvenile Justice: A Guide to Theory, Policy, and Practice
• Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues