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Coping with Overloaded Criminal Justice Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Coping with Overloaded Criminal Justice Systems

  • Categories: Law

This book describes the results of a six-nation study of how criminal justice agencies in England and Wales, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden have reacted to high crime rates and punitiveness. The book details how various solutions have been adopted, involving diversion of cases from courts, increases in financial penalties imposed by police or prosecutors without full court hearings and the introduction in some countries of "administrative offences".

The Prosecutor in Transnational Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

The Prosecutor in Transnational Perspective

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-27
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In this book, Erik Luna and Marianne Wade examine the considerable powers of the American prosecutor and look abroad in order to learn valuable lessons from a transnational examination of prosecutorial authority. They explore parallels and distinctions in the processes available to and decisions made by prosecutors in the United States and Europe. Through the varied topics covered by the contributors on both sides of the Atlantic, they demonstrate how the enhanced role of the prosecutor represents a crossroads for criminal justice with weighty legal and socio-economic consequences.

Crime and Public Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 658

Crime and Public Policy

  • Categories: Law

Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other aspects to crime control. Yet the latest research is rarely heard in public discussions and is often missing from the desks of policymakers. This book accessibly summarizes the latest scientific information on the causes of crime and evidence about what does and does not work to control it.Thoroughly revised and updated, this new version of Crime and Public Policy will include twenty chapters and five new ...

Sentencing Fragments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

Sentencing Fragments

  • Categories: Law

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Sentencing Matters -- 2. Sentencing Fragments -- 3. Federal Sentencing -- 4. Sentencing Theories -- 5. Sentencing Principles -- 6. Sentencing Futures -- References -- Index.

Global Organized Crime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

Global Organized Crime

In the current processes of political, economic and cultural changes serious cross-border forms of organized crime receive unprecedented attention as spectacular global media events, as 'threats' of all sorts, and as priority targets of criminal policy and political agendas. Most books on 'global organized crime' focus on one particular region, topic or event, and are written from one specific theoretical and disciplinary framework. The renowned scholars who have contributed to this volume present up-to-date expertise on regions as distant and different as Russia, Colombia, the Netherlands, Israel, Peru and Britain. They tackle phenomena such as international drug trafficking, alien and women smuggling, terrorism, East European organized crime and financial crimes. They show not only how these issues are interrelated, but also the way in which they interact with social, economic and political legitimate structures. The contributors critically question the policies and strategies currently pursued. They explore different theoretical arguments from the perspective of their own disciplines, which include economics, criminology, political science and anthropology.

Assessing the Harms of Crime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Assessing the Harms of Crime

  • Categories: Law

This book examines the principle of 'harm' as a basis for crime-control policy and the prioritization of criminalized activities, as well as providing a systematic, evidence-based framework to assess the harms of crime, to improve the allocation of resources to crime prevention and law enforcement.

The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 653

The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution

  • Categories: Law

This book brings together the work of legal scholars, sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and law reformers to better understand a pivotal actor in the criminal legal systems all around the world: the prosecutor. Scholarship focusing on prosecutors in particular has begun to emerge as its own sub-discipline within criminal law, and this book surveys the many different strands of that work, underscoring the diversity among prosecutors around the world. The chapters reveal the ordinary conduct of the prosecutor at various stages of criminal proceedings, the various interactions of prosecutors with local communities and other governmental actors, and the distinctive habits and concerns that arise for prosecutors in specialized settings such as juvenile justice and immigration.

Prosecutors and Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Prosecutors and Democracy

  • Categories: Law

The first sustained, scholarly examination of the relationship between prosecutors and democracy from a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective. Written by a team of internationally distingushed contributors, this is an ideal resource for legal scholars and reformers, political philosophers, and social scientists.

The New European Criminology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 539

The New European Criminology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-09-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The New European Criminology gathers together leading criminologists from all over Europe to consider crime and responses to crime within and across national borders. For the first time it allows students to experience the most exciting work in European criminology and to compare approaches to crime in different parts of Europe. The five sections of the book look at: * the effects of European harmonisation on crime * criminal justice, law enforcement and penal reform * organised crime, from the Mafia in Italy to drug running in the Balkans * local crime in international contexts * possible future directions for criminology and some suggestions for a new criminology of war.

EU Criminal Justice and the Challenges of Diversity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

EU Criminal Justice and the Challenges of Diversity

  • Categories: Law

The volume examines how diversity in Member States' legal cultures is being addressed in the development of EU criminal justice.